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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 22, 2007
Registration Nos. 333-                    
333-106040
333-106040-01
333-106040-02
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
     
American International Group, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I    
AIG Capital Trust II   AIG Program Funding, Inc.
(Exact name of registrants as specified in their charters)   (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware    
Delaware    
Delaware   Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)   (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
     
13-2592361    
16-6543022  
16-6543023   20-8873613
(IRS Employer Identification Number)   (IRS Employer Identification Number)
70 Pine Street   70 Pine Street
New York, New York 10270   New York, New York 10270
(212) 770-7000   (212) 770-7000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including   (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)   area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Kathleen E. Shannon, Esq.
Senior Vice President, Secretary and Deputy General Counsel
American International Group, Inc.
70 Pine Street
New York, New York 10270
(212) 770-7000
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
Copies to:
Robert W. Reeder III
Ann Bailen Fisher
Robert S. Risoleo
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
125 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004
(212) 558-4000
 
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:
From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
     If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o
     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, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. þ
     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. o
     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. o
     If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. o
     If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. o
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
                                             
 
                            Proposed maximum        
              Proposed maximum     aggregate     Amount of  
  Title of each class of securities     Amount to be     offering price     offering price     registration  
  to be registered     registered (1)(2)(3)(4)     per unit (6)(7)(8)     (6)(7)(8)     fee (9)(10)  
 
Debt Securities of American International Group, Inc. (“AIG”) and AIG Program Funding, Inc. (“AIGPF”) (5)
                                         
 
Warrants of AIG and AIGPF
                                         
 
Purchase Contracts of AIG and AIGPF
                                         
 
Units of AIG and AIGPF (11)
                                         
 
Junior Subordinated Debentures of AIG
                                         
 
Preferred Stock of AIG, par value $5.00 per share
                                       
 
Depositary Shares of AIG (12)
                                         
 
Common Stock of AIG, par value $2.50 per share (“common stock”)(13)
                                         
 
AIG Capital Trust I Capital Securities
                                         
 
AIG Capital Trust II Capital Securities
                                         
 
Guarantees of Securities by AIG
                                         
 
Total
    $22,000,000,000           100%       $ 22,000,000,000       $ 675,400    
 
(1)   An indeterminate aggregate initial offering price or number of the securities is being registered as may from time to time be issued at indeterminate prices, with an aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $22,000,000,000 or the equivalent thereof in one or more other currencies, currency units or composite currencies (or $16,459,681,000 with respect to common stock).
 
(2)   This registration statement also covers an undeterminable amount of the registered securities that may be reoffered and resold on an ongoing basis after their initial sale in market-making transactions by subsidiaries of AIG.
 
(3)   This registration statement also includes such indeterminate amounts of debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, units, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock and depositary shares (as well as common stock in an amount of up to $16,459,681,000) as may be issued upon exercise, conversion or exchange of any securities that provide for that issuance; such indeterminate amounts of debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures and preferred stock (as well as common stock in an amount of up to $16,459,681,000) as may be issued in units; such indeterminate amount of preferred stock as may be represented by depositary shares; and such indeterminate amount of debt securities as may be issued and sold by AIG to either of AIG Capital Trust I or AIG Capital Trust II (together, the “Trusts”) in connection with the issuance of capital securities, which may later be distributed for no additional consideration to the holders of the capital securities of such Trusts upon a dissolution of such Trusts and the distribution of the assets thereof.
 
(4)   Pursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act, the prospectus filed as part of this Registration Statement also relates to (a) $16,459,681,000 aggregate initial offering price of AIG’s debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, units, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock, depositary shares and common stock and the Trusts’ capital securities that were previously registered pursuant to Registration Statement Nos. 333-106040, 333-106040-01 and 333-106040-02 and have not yet been issued and sold and (b) an undeterminable amount of AIG’s medium-term notes and debt securities that were previously registered and may be reoffered or resold on an ongoing basis after their initial sale in market-making transactions by subsidiaries of AIG. The securities described in (b) include those described in (a) as well as others that have already been issued and sold pursuant to Registration Statement Nos. 333-106040, 333-106040-01 and 333-106040-02 and other Registration Statements, relating to securities that have been issued and sold. A filing fee of $2,949,808 was paid with respect to the $25,139,770,000 aggregate initial offering price of debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, units, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock, depositary shares, common stock and capital securities registered pursuant to Registration Statement Nos. 333-106040, 333-106040-01 and 333-106040-02.
 
(5)   If any debt securities are issued at a discount, such greater amount as shall result in aggregate net proceeds not in excess of $22,000,000,000 or the equivalent thereof in one or more other currencies, currency units or composite currencies.
 
(6)   Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.
 
(7)   No separate consideration will be received for the guarantees.
 
(8)   Separate consideration may not be received for registered securities that are issuable on exercise, conversion or exchange of other securities.
 
(9)   Pursuant to Rule 457(n), no fee is payable with respect to the guarantees.
 
(10)   A registration fee of $2,949,808 was previously paid on June 12, 2003 and December 7, 2004 in connection with the registration of $25,139,770,000 in aggregate initial offering price of securities. Of that amount, $8,680,089,000 in aggregate initial offering price of securities were sold to the public, leaving a balance of unsold securities of $16,459,681,000. As a result, a filing fee of $170,088 will be due to register the additional $5,540,319,000 of debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, units, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock, depositary shares and capital securities.
 
(11)   Each Unit will be issued under a unit agreement or an indenture and will represent an interest in two or more debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, preferred shares or common shares, which may or may not be separable from one another.
 
(12)   Each depositary share will be issued under a deposit agreement, will represent an interest in a fractional share or multiple shares of preferred stock and will be evidenced by a depositary receipt.
 
(13)   Of the $22,000,000,000 total amount of securities registered pursuant to this Registration Statement, only $16,459,681,000 may be issued as common stock.
This Registration Statement, which is a new Registration Statement, also constitutes Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement Nos. 333-106040, 333-106040-01 and 333-106040-02, which was declared effective on December 9, 2004 and amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, which was declared effective on July 24, 2006. Such Post-Effective Amendment shall hereafter become effective concurrently with the effectiveness of this Registration Statement and in accordance with Section 8(c) of the Securities Act.
Upon effectiveness of this Registration Statement, all of the securities that may be offered pursuant to the prospectus contained in this Registration Statement and that have not previously been sold may be offered as debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, units, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock, depositary shares or capital securities.
 
The Registrants hereby amend this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrants 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 this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
 
 


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EXPLANATORY NOTE
 
This registration statement contains:
 
  •  a prospectus to be used in connection with offerings on a continuous or delayed basis of (i) debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts and units of AIG or AIGPF and (ii) guarantees, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock, depositary shares and common stock of AIG; and
 
  •  a prospectus to be used in connection with offerings of:
 
  —  the capital securities of AIG Capital Trust I and AIG Capital Trust II;
 
  —  the junior subordinated debentures of AIG; and
 
  —  the guarantees by AIG of the capital securities,
 
each on a continuous basis.
 
THE FIRST PROSPECTUS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATES TO MARKET-MAKING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING ONE OR MORE OF THE SUBSIDIARIES OF AIG THAT MAY OCCUR ON A CONTINUOUS OR DELAYED BASIS IN THE SECURITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE, AFTER THEY ARE INITIALLY OFFERED AND SOLD. WHEN THE PROSPECTUS IS DELIVERED TO AN INVESTOR IN THE INITIAL OFFERING DESCRIBED ABOVE, THE INVESTOR WILL BE INFORMED OF THAT FACT IN THE CONFIRMATION OF SALE. WHEN THE PROSPECTUS IS DELIVERED TO AN INVESTOR WHO IS NOT SO INFORMED, IT IS DELIVERED IN A MARKET-MAKING TRANSACTION INVOLVING ONE OF OR MORE OF OUR SUBSIDIARIES.


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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
 
PROSPECTUS
$22,000,000,000
 
American International Group, Inc.
 
Debt Securities
Warrants
Purchase Contracts
Units
Junior Subordinated Debentures
Preferred Stock
Depositary Shares
Guarantees of Securities
 
Common Stock
(up to $16,459,681,000)
 
 
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
 
Debt Securities
Warrants
Purchase Contracts
Units
 
Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by
American International Group, Inc.
 
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) may offer to sell debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock, either separately or represented by depositary shares, and common stock, either individually or in units. The debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts and preferred stock may be convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for common or preferred stock or other securities of AIG or debt or equity securities of one or more other entities. These debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures and preferred stock will have an initial public offering price or purchase price of up to $22,000,000,000, or will have the foreign currency or composite currency equivalent of such amount, and the common stock will have an initial public offering price of up to $16,459,681,000, although we may increase these amounts in the future. AIG’s common stock is listed on the NYSE and trades under the symbol “AIG”.
 
AIG Program Funding, Inc. (AIGPF) may offer to sell debt securities as well as warrants and purchase contracts, either individually or in units. The debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts may be convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for debt or equity securities of one or more other entities. These securities will have an initial public offering price or purchase price of up to $22,000,000,000 or will have the foreign currency or composite currency equivalent of this amount although we may increase this amount in the future. All amounts payable under these securities will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by American International Group, Inc. AIG is AIGPF’s ultimate parent corporation.
 
AIG and AIGPF may issue all or a portion of these securities in the form of one or more permanent global certificates.
 
This prospectus describes some of the general terms that may apply to these securities and the general manner in which they may be offered. The specific terms of any securities to be offered, and the specific manner in which they may be offered, will be described in a supplement to this prospectus.
 
Investing in the securities involves certain risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 88 to read about certain factors you should consider before buying the securities.
 
 
 
NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR DETERMINED IF THIS PROSPECTUS IS TRUTHFUL OR COMPLETE. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
 
 
 
 
AIG and AIGPF may offer and sell these securities to or through one or more underwriters, dealers and agents, or directly to purchasers, on a continuous or delayed basis.
 
AIG and AIGPF may use this prospectus in the initial sale of these securities. In addition, AIG’s subsidiaries may use this prospectus in a market-making transaction involving any of these or similar securities after the initial sale. UNLESS WE OR OUR AGENT INFORM THE PURCHASER OTHERWISE IN THE CONFIRMATION OF SALE, THIS PROSPECTUS IS BEING USED IN A MARKET-MAKING TRANSACTION.
 
AIG FINANCIAL SECURITIES CORP.
 
The date of this prospectus is          , 2007.


 

 
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 EX-1.2: FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
 EX-3.I.E: CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 EX-3.II.B: BY-LAWS
 EX-4.1: INDENTURE
 EX-4.4: FORM OF SUBORDINATED JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT INDENTURE
 EX-4.6: FORM OF INDENTURE
 EX-4.7: FORM OF WARRANT INDENTURE
 EX-5.1: VALIDITY OPINION OF SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP
 EX-5.2: OPINION OF RICHARDS, LAYTON & FINGER, P.A.
 EX-23.1: CONSENT OF PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP
 EX-25.1: FORM T-1
 EX-25.2: FORM T-1
 EX-25.3: FORM T-1
 EX-25.4: FORM T-1
 EX-25.5: FORM T-1
 EX-25.6: FORM T-1
 EX-25.7: FORM T-1
 EX-25.8: FORM T-1
 EX-25.9: FORM T-1
 EX-25.10: FORM T-1
 EX-25.11: FORM T-1
 
 
You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement or information contained in documents which you are referred to by this prospectus or any prospectus supplement. Neither AIG nor AIGPF has authorized anyone to provide you with information different from that contained in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement. AIG and AIGPF are offering to sell the securities only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information contained in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement is accurate only as of the date on the front of those documents, regardless of the time of delivery of the documents or any sale of the securities.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
 
References to “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means American International Group, Inc., and/or AIG Program Funding, Inc., as applicable, as Issuers. This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission utilizing a shelf registration process. Under this shelf process, we may sell the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings up to a total dollar amount of $22,000,000,000 (with the limitation that we may only sell common stock in an amount up to $16,459,681,000). This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer.
 
Each time we sell securities, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and any prospectus supplement together with additional information described in the section entitled “Where You Can Find More Information.”
 
To see more detail, you should read our registration statement and the exhibits filed with our registration statement.
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Issuer and Guarantor)
 
AIG, a Delaware corporation, is a holding company which, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in a broad range of insurance and insurance-related activities in the United States and abroad. AIG’s principal executive offices are located at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, and its main telephone number is (212) 770-7000. The Internet address for AIG’s corporate website is www.aigcorporate.com. Except for the documents referred to under “Where You Can Find More Information” which are specifically incorporated by reference into this prospectus, information contained on AIG’s website or that can be accessed through its website does not constitute a part of this prospectus. AIG has included its website address only as an inactive textual reference and does not intend it to be an active link to its website.
 
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
(Issuer)
 
AIGPF is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of AIG. AIGPF was incorporated as a Delaware corporation on February 14, 2007. AIGPF has not conducted any operations to date and was established for the purpose of issuing securities (including bonds, notes, debentures, warrants, purchase contracts and units) and other instruments. AIGPF’s by-laws do not contain any restrictions on the business activities which it may carry on in the future. AIGPF is not required to, and does not intend to, publish audited financial statements.
 
AIGPF’s principal executive offices are located at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York, 10270, and its telephone number is (212) 770-7000.
 
The Securities We Are Offering
 
AIG may offer any of the following securities from time to time:
 
  •  debt securities;
 
  •  warrants;
 
  •  purchase contracts;
 
  •  junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  preferred stock, either directly or represented by depositary shares;
 
  •  common stock; and
 
  •  units, comprised of two or more of the following in any combination: debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock or common stock.


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AIGPF may offer any of the following securities from time to time:
 
  •  debt securities;
 
  •  warrants;
 
  •  purchase contracts; and
 
  •  units, comprised of two or more of the following in any combination: debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts.
 
When we use the term “securities” in this prospectus, we mean any of the securities we may offer with this prospectus, unless we say otherwise. This prospectus, including the following summary, describes the general terms that may apply to the securities; the specific terms of any particular securities that we may offer will be described in a separate supplement to this prospectus.
 
The Guarantees
 
AIG, as Guarantor, will fully and unconditionally guarantee AIGPF’s payment obligations under the securities issued by AIGPF. In the event of a default in payment by AIGPF, holders may institute legal proceedings directly against the Guarantor to enforce its obligations without first proceeding against AIGPF. The Guarantees will constitute unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Guarantor ranking pari passu in right of payment with all of the Guarantor’s senior debt currently outstanding. You should note, however, that to the extent the Guarantor is required to satisfy any of its obligations under the Guarantees through the sale of insurance assets, such sale may require the consent of regulatory authorities. The specific terms of the Guarantees will be more fully described in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
Debt Securities
 
We may issue several different types of debt securities. For any particular debt securities we offer, the applicable prospectus supplement will describe the terms of the debt securities, and will include for each series of debt securities the initial public offering price, designation, aggregate principal amount (including whether determined by reference to an index), currency, denomination, premium, maturity, interest rate (whether fixed or floating), time of payment of any interest, any terms for mandatory or optional redemption, any terms on which the debt securities may be convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for common stock or other securities of another entity and any other specific terms. AIG will issue the senior and subordinated debt securities under separate debt indentures, between AIG and The Bank of New York, as trustee. AIGPF will issue the debt securities under an indenture, among AIGPF, as Issuer, AIG, as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.
 
Warrants
 
We may offer two types of warrants:
 
  •  warrants to purchase our debt securities; and
 
  •  warrants to purchase or sell, or whose cash value is determined by reference to the performance, level or value of, one or more of the following:
 
  —  securities of one or more issuers, including AIG’s common or preferred stock or other securities described in this prospectus or debt or equity securities of third parties;
 
  —  one or more currencies;
 
  —  one or more commodities;
 
  —  any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance; and
 
  —  one or more indices or baskets of the items described above.


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For any particular warrants we offer, the applicable prospectus supplement will describe the underlying property; the expiration date; the exercise price or the manner of determining the exercise price; the amount and kind, or the manner of determining the amount and kind, of property to be delivered by you or us upon exercise; and any other specific terms. AIG may issue the warrants under the warrant indenture between AIG, as Issuer, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, or under warrant agreements between AIG and one or more warrant agents. AIGPF may issue the warrants under the warrant indenture among AIGPF, as Issuer, AIG, as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, or under warrant agreements among AIGPF, as Issuer, AIG, as Guarantor, and one or more warrant agents.
 
Purchase Contracts
 
We may offer purchase contracts for the purchase or sale of, or whose cash value is determined by reference to the performance, level or value of, one or more of the following:
 
  •  securities of one or more issuers, including AIG’s common or preferred stock or other securities described in this prospectus or debt or equity securities of third parties;
 
  •  one or more currencies;
 
  •  one or more commodities;
 
  •  any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including, the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance; and
 
  •  one or more indices or baskets of the items described above.
 
For any particular purchase contracts we offer, the applicable prospectus supplement will describe the underlying property; the settlement date; the purchase price or manner of determining the purchase price and whether it must be paid when the purchase contract is issued or at a later date; the amount and kind, or the manner of determining the amount and kind, of property to be delivered at settlement; whether the holder will pledge property to secure the performance of any obligations the holder may have under the purchase contract; and any other specific terms. We may issue purchase contracts under an indenture described above or a unit agreement described below.
 
Junior Subordinated Debentures
 
AIG may offer junior subordinated debentures pursuant to a junior subordinated indenture or a subordinated junior subordinated indenture, each between AIG and The Bank of New York, as trustee. For any particular junior subordinated debentures AIG offers, the applicable prospectus supplement will describe the terms of the junior subordinated debentures, and will include for each series of junior subordinated debentures the title, initial public offering price, aggregate principal amount, denomination, premium, maturity, seniority, interest rate (whether fixed or floating), time of payment of any interest, interest deferral provisions, any mandatory or optional sinking funds, any terms for mandatory or optional redemption, any terms on which the junior subordinated debentures may be convertible or exchangeable into other securities, any modifications, additions or deletions to the events of default under the applicable indenture, applicability of defeasance provisions and any other specific terms.
 
Units
 
AIG may offer units, comprised of two or more of its debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock and common stock in any combination. AIGPF may offer units, comprised of two or more of its debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts, in any combination. For any particular units we offer, the applicable prospectus supplement will describe the particular securities comprising each unit; the terms on which those securities will be separable, if any; whether the holder will pledge property to secure the performance of any obligations the holder may have under the unit; and any other specific terms of the units. AIG may issue the units under unit agreements between AIG, as Issuer, and one or more unit agents. AIGPF may issue the units under unit agreements among AIGPF, as Issuer, AIG, as Guarantor, and one or more unit agents.


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Preferred Stock and Depositary Shares
 
AIG may offer its preferred stock in one or more series. For any particular series AIG offers, your prospectus supplement will describe the specific designation; the aggregate number of shares offered; the rate and periods, or manner of calculating the rate and periods, for dividends, if any; the stated value and liquidation preference amount, if any; the voting rights, if any; the terms on which the series will be convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for AIG’s common stock, preferred stock of another series or other securities described in this prospectus or the debt or equity securities of third parties or property, if any; the redemption terms, if any; and any other specific terms. AIG may also offer depositary shares, each of which would represent an interest in a fractional share or multiple shares of preferred stock. AIG may issue the depositary shares under deposit agreements between AIG and one or more depositaries.
 
Common Stock
 
AIG may also issue its common stock.
 
Listing
 
If any securities are to be listed or quoted on a securities exchange or quotation system, the applicable prospectus supplement will say so. AIG’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol “AIG.”
 
Manner of Offering
 
The securities will be offered when they are first issued and sold and after that in market-making transactions involving one or more of our subsidiaries.
 
When we issue new securities, we may offer them for sale to or through underwriters, dealers and agents, including subsidiaries of AIG, or directly to purchasers. The applicable prospectus supplement will include any required information about the firms we use and the discounts or commissions we may pay them for their services.


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USE OF PROCEEDS
 
Unless otherwise indicated in any prospectus supplement, AIG intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of securities for general corporate purposes and AIGPF intends to loan the net proceeds from the sale of securities to AIG, its direct parent, or certain of AIG’s subsidiaries, for application to general corporate purposes.
 
CONSOLIDATED RATIOS OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
 
The following table sets forth the historical ratios of earnings to fixed charges of AIG and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods indicated. For more information on AIG’s consolidated ratios of earnings to fixed charges, see AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2007, each of which is incorporated by reference into this prospectus as described under “Where You Can Find More Information.”
 
                     
Quarter Ended
  Year Ended December 31,
March 31, 2007
 
2006
 
2005
 
2004
 
2003
 
2002
 
3.29
  3.37   3.01   3.42   3.03   2.55
 
Earnings represent:
 
  •  Income from operations before income taxes and adjustments for minority interest;
 
plus
 
  •  Fixed charges other than capitalized interest
 
  •  Amortization of capitalized interest
 
  •  The distributed income of equity investees
 
less
 
  •  The minority interest in pre-tax income of subsidiaries that do not have fixed charges.
 
Fixed charges include:
 
  •  Interest, whether expensed or capitalized
 
  •  Amortization of debt issuance costs
 
  •  The proportion of rental expense deemed representative of the interest factor by the management of AIG.
 
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DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES AIG MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIG,” “us,” “we” or “our” in this section means American International Group, Inc., and does not include the subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own debt securities registered in their own names, on the books that we or the applicable trustee maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in debt securities registered in street name or in debt securities issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this prospectus, we mean all purchasers of the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in the debt securities should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Debt Securities May Be Senior or Subordinated
 
We may issue senior or subordinated debt securities. Neither the senior debt securities nor the subordinated debt securities will be secured by any of our property or assets or the property or assets of our subsidiaries. Thus, by owning a debt security, you are one of our unsecured creditors.
 
The senior debt securities and, in the case of senior debt securities in bearer form, any related interest coupons, will be issued under our senior debt indenture described below and will rank equally with all of our other unsecured and unsubordinated debt.
 
The subordinated debt securities and, in the case of subordinated debt securities in bearer form, any related interest coupons, will be issued under our subordinated debt indenture described below and will be subordinate in right of payment to all of our “senior indebtedness,” as defined in the subordinated debt indenture. Neither indenture limits our ability to incur additional unsecured indebtedness.
 
When we refer to “debt securities” in this prospectus, we mean both the senior debt securities and the subordinated debt securities.
 
The Senior and Subordinated Debt Indentures
 
The senior debt securities and the subordinated debt securities are each governed by a document called an indenture — the senior debt indenture, in the case of the senior debt securities, and the subordinated debt indenture, in the case of the subordinated debt securities. Each indenture is a contract between AIG and The Bank of New York, which acts as trustee. The indentures are substantially identical, except for the provisions relating to subordination, which are included only in the subordinated debt indenture.
 
Reference to the indenture or the trustee with respect to any debt securities, means the indenture under which those debt securities are issued and the trustee under that indenture.
 
The trustee has two main roles:
 
1. The trustee can enforce the rights of holders against us if we default on our obligations under the terms of the indenture or the debt securities. There are some limitations on the extent to which the trustee acts on behalf of holders, described below under “— Events of Default — Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.”
 
2. The trustee performs administrative duties for us, such as sending interest payments and notices to holders, and transferring a holder’s debt securities to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
The indenture and its associated documents contain the full legal text of the matters described in this section. The indenture and the debt securities are governed by New York law. A copy of each indenture is an exhibit to our registration statement. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy.
 
General
 
We may issue as many distinct series of debt securities under any of the indentures as we wish. The provisions of the senior debt indenture and the subordinated debt indentures allow us not only to issue debt securities with terms different from those previously issued under the applicable indenture, but also to “reopen” a previous issue of


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a series of debt securities and issue additional debt securities of that series. We may issue debt securities in amounts that exceed the total amount specified on the cover of your prospectus supplement at any time without your consent and without notifying you. In addition we may offer debt securities, together with other debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock or common stock in the form of units, as described below under “Description of Units AIG May Offer.”
 
This section summarizes the material terms of the debt securities that are common to all series, although the prospectus supplement which describes the terms of each series of debt securities may also describe differences from the material terms summarized here.
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the debt securities. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the indenture, including definitions of certain terms used in the indenture. In this summary, we describe the meaning of only some of the more important terms. For your convenience, we also include references in parentheses to certain sections of the indenture. Whenever we refer to particular sections or defined terms of the indenture in this prospectus or in the prospectus supplement, such sections or defined terms are incorporated by reference here or in the prospectus supplement. You must look to the indenture for the most complete description of what we describe in summary form in this prospectus.
 
This summary also is subject to and qualified by reference to the description of the particular terms of your series described in the prospectus supplement. Those terms may vary from the terms described in this prospectus. The prospectus supplement relating to each series of debt securities will be attached to the front of this prospectus. There may also be a further prospectus supplement, known as a pricing supplement, which contains the precise terms of debt securities you are offered.
 
We may issue the debt securities as original issue discount securities, which will be offered and sold at a substantial discount below their stated principal amount. (Section 101) The prospectus supplement relating to the original issue discount securities will describe federal income tax consequences and other special considerations applicable to them. The debt securities may also be issued as indexed securities or securities denominated in foreign currencies or currency units, as described in more detail in the prospectus supplement relating to any of the particular debt securities. Some of the risks associated with such debt securities issued are described below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.” The prospectus supplement relating to specific debt securities will also describe certain additional tax considerations applicable to such debt securities.
 
In addition, the specific financial, legal and other terms particular to a series of debt securities will be described in the prospectus supplement and, if applicable, a pricing supplement relating to the series. The prospectus supplement relating to a series of debt securities will describe the following terms of the series:
 
  •  the title of the series of debt securities;
 
  •  whether it is a series of senior debt securities or a series of subordinated debt securities;
 
  •  any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the series of debt securities;
 
  •  the person to whom interest on a debt security is payable, if other than the holder on the regular record date;
 
  •  the date or dates on which the series of debt securities will mature;
 
  •  the rate or rates, which may be fixed or variable per annum, at which the series of debt securities will bear interest, if any, and the date or dates from which that interest, if any, will accrue;
 
  •  the place or places where the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the debt securities is payable;
 
  •  the dates on which interest, if any, on the series of debt securities will be payable and the regular record dates for the interest payment dates;
 
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  •  the date, if any, after which and the price or prices at which the series of debt securities may, in accordance with any optional or mandatory redemption provisions, be redeemed and the other detailed terms and provisions of those optional or mandatory redemption provisions, if any;
 
  •  if the debt securities may be converted into or exercised or exchanged for our common stock or preferred stock or other of our securities or the debt or equity securities of third parties, the terms on which conversion, exercise or exchange may occur, including whether conversion, exercise or exchange is mandatory, at the option of the holder or at our option, the period during which conversion, exercise or exchange may occur, the initial conversion, exercise or exchange price or rate and the circumstances or manner in which the amount of common stock or preferred stock or other securities or the debt or equity securities of third parties issuable upon conversion, exercise or exchange may be adjusted;
 
  •  if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiples thereof, the denominations in which the series of debt securities will be issuable;
 
  •  the currency of payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on debt securities of the series;
 
  •  if the currency of payment for principal, premium, if any, and interest on the series of debt securities is subject to our election or that of a holder, the currency or currencies in which payment can be made and the period within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, the election can be made;
 
  •  any index used to determine the amount of payment of principal or premium, if any, or interest on the series of debt securities;
 
  •  the applicability of the provisions described under “— Defeasance” below;
 
  •  any event of default under the series of debt securities if different from those described under “— Events of Default” below;
 
  •  if the debt securities will be issued in bearer form, any special provisions relating to bearer securities that are not addressed in this prospectus;
 
  •  if the series of debt securities will be issuable only in the form of a global security, the depositary or its nominee with respect to the series of debt securities and the circumstances under which the global security may be registered for transfer or exchange in the name of a person other than the depositary or the nominee; and
 
  •  any other special feature of the series of debt securities.
 
An investment in debt securities may involve special risks, including risks associated with indexed securities and currency-related risks if the debt security is linked to an index or is payable in or otherwise linked to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of our subsidiaries may purchase and resell debt securities in market-making transactions after their initial issuance. We discuss these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries of AIG.” We may also purchase debt securities in the open market or in private transactions to be held by us or cancelled.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Additional Mechanics relevant to the debt securities under normal circumstances, such as how holders transfer ownership and where we make payments;
 
  •  Holders’ rights in several Special Situations, such as if we merge with another company or if we want to change a term of the debt securities;


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  •  Subordination Provisions in the subordinated debt indenture that may prohibit us from making payment on those securities;
 
  •  Our right to release ourselves from all or some of our obligations under the debt securities and the indenture by a process called Defeasance; and
 
  •  Holders’ rights if we Default or experience other financial difficulties.
 
Additional Mechanics
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless we specify otherwise in the prospectus supplement, the debt securities will be issued:
 
  •  only in fully registered form;
 
  •  without interest coupons; and
 
  •  in denominations that are even multiples of $1,000. (Section 302)
 
If we issue a debt security in bearer form, the provisions described below under “Considerations Relating to Securities Issued in Bearer Form” would apply to that security. Some of the features of the debt securities that we describe in this prospectus may not apply to bearer debt securities.
 
If a debt security is issued as a registered global debt security, only the depositary — e.g., DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, each as defined below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance” — will be entitled to transfer and exchange the debt security as described in this subsection, since the depositary will be the sole holder of the debt security. Those who own beneficial interests in a global security do so through participants in the depositary’s securities clearance system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry procedures below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Holders may have their debt securities broken into more debt securities of smaller denominations of not less than $1,000 or combined into fewer debt securities of larger denominations, as long as the total principal amount is not changed. (Section 305) This is called an exchange.
 
Holders may exchange or transfer debt securities at the office of the trustee. They may also replace lost, stolen or mutilated debt securities at that office. The trustee acts as our agent for registering debt securities in the names of holders and transferring debt securities. We may change this appointment to another entity or perform it ourselves. The entity performing the role of maintaining the list of registered holders is called the security registrar. It will also perform transfers. (Section 305) The trustee’s agent may require an indemnity before replacing any debt securities.
 
Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange debt securities, but holders may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the exchange or transfer. The transfer or exchange will only be made if the security registrar is satisfied with your proof of ownership.
 
If we designate additional transfer agents, they will be named in the prospectus supplement. We may cancel the designation of any particular transfer agent. We may also approve a change in the office through which any transfer agent acts. (Section 1002)
 
If the debt securities are redeemable and we redeem less than all of the debt securities of a particular series, we may block the transfer or exchange of debt securities during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of redemption and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers or exchanges of debt securities selected for redemption, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unredeemed portion of any debt security being partially redeemed. (Section 305)
 
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security, such as one that we have not issued, or for other property, the rules governing that type of conversion, exercise or exchange will be described in the prospectus supplement.
 
Payment and Paying Agents
 
We will pay interest to the person listed in the trustee’s records at the close of business on a particular day in advance of each due date for interest, even if that person no longer owns the debt security on the interest due date. That particular day, usually about two weeks in advance of the interest due date, is called the regular record date and will be stated in the prospectus supplement. (Section 307) Holders buying and selling debt securities must work out between them how to compensate for the fact that we will pay all the interest for an interest period to the one who is the registered holder on the regular record date. The most common manner is to adjust the sale price of the securities to pro-rate interest fairly between buyer and seller. This prorated interest amount is called accrued interest.
 
We will pay interest, principal and any other money due on the debt securities at the corporate trust office of the trustee in New York City. That office is currently located at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286. Holders must make arrangements to have their payments picked up at or wired from that office. We may also choose to pay interest by mailing checks.
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW THEY WILL RECEIVE PAYMENTS.
 
We may also arrange for additional payment offices and may cancel or change these offices, including our use of the trustee’s corporate trust office. These offices are called paying agents. We may also choose to act as our own paying agent or choose one of our subsidiaries to do so. We must notify holders of changes in the paying agents for any particular series of debt securities. (Section 1002)
 
Notices
 
We and the trustee will send notices regarding the debt securities only to holders, using their addresses as listed in the trustee’s records. (Sections 101 and 106) With respect to who is a legal “holder” for this purpose, see “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Regardless of who acts as paying agent, all money paid by us to a paying agent that remains unclaimed at the end of two years after the amount is due to holders will be repaid to us. After that two-year period, holders may look to us for payment and not to the trustee or any other paying agent. (Section 1003)
 
Special Situations
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
We are generally permitted to consolidate or merge with another company or firm. We are also permitted to sell or lease substantially all of our assets to another company or firm. However, we may not take any of these actions unless all the following conditions are met:
 
  •  When we merge out of existence or sell or lease substantially all of our assets, the other firm may not be organized under a foreign country’s laws, that is, it must be a corporation, partnership or trust organized under the laws of a state of the United States or the District of Columbia or under federal law, and it must agree to be legally responsible for the debt securities.
 
  •  The merger, sale of assets or other transaction must not cause a default on the debt securities, and we must not already be in default (unless the merger or other transaction would cure the default). For purposes of this no-default test, a default would include an event of default that has occurred and not been cured. A default for this purpose would also include any event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or our default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.


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If the conditions described above are satisfied with respect to any series of debt securities, we will not need to obtain the approval of the holders of those debt securities in order to merge or consolidate or to sell our assets. Also, these conditions will apply only if we wish to merge or consolidate with another entity or sell substantially all of our assets to another entity. We will not need to satisfy these conditions if we enter into other types of transactions, including any transaction in which we acquire the stock or assets of another entity, any transaction that involves a change of control but in which we do not merge or consolidate and any transaction in which we sell less than substantially all of our assets. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in our credit rating, may reduce our operating results or may impair our financial condition. Holders of our debt securities, however, will have no approval right with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
Modification and Waiver of the Debt Securities
 
There are four types of changes we can make to either indenture and the debt securities issued under that indenture.
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders.  First, there are changes that cannot be made to the indenture or the debt securities without specific approval of each holder of a debt security affected in any material respect by the change under a particular debt indenture. Affected debt securities may be all or less than all of the debt securities issued under that debt indenture or all or less than all of the debt securities of a series. Following is a list of those types of changes:
 
  •  change the stated maturity of the principal or interest on a debt security;
 
  •  reduce any amounts due on a debt security;
 
  •  reduce the amount of principal payable upon acceleration of the maturity of a debt security (including the amount payable on an original issue discount debt security) following a default;
 
  •  change the currency of payment on a debt security;
 
  •  impair a holder’s right to sue for payment;
 
  •  impair any right that a holder of a debt security may have to exchange or convert the debt security for or into other property;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of debt securities whose consent is needed to modify or amend the indenture;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of debt securities whose consent is needed to waive compliance with certain provisions of the indenture or to waive certain defaults; or
 
  •  modify any other aspect of the provisions dealing with modification and waiver of the indenture. (Section 902)
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  The second type of change to the indenture and the debt securities is the kind that requires a vote in favor by holders of debt securities owning not less than a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular debt securities affected thereby. Most changes fall into this category, except for clarifying changes and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the debt securities. (Section 901) We may also obtain a waiver of a past default from the holders of debt securities owning a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected. However, we cannot obtain a waiver of a payment default or any other aspect of the indenture or the debt securities listed in the first category described above under “— Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders” unless we obtain the individual consent of each holder to the waiver. (Section 513)
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  The third type of change to the indenture and the debt securities does not require any vote by holders of debt securities. This type is limited to clarifications and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the debt securities. (Section 901)


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We may also make changes or obtain waivers that do not adversely affect in any material respect a particular debt security, even if they affect other debt securities. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that debt security; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected debt securities.
 
Modification of Subordination Provisions.  We may not modify the subordination provisions of the subordinated debt indenture in a manner that would adversely affect in any material respect the outstanding subordinated debt securities without the consent of the holders of a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular subordinated debt securities affected thereby. Also, we may not modify the subordination provisions of any outstanding subordinated debt securities without the consent of each holder of our senior indebtedness that would be adversely affected thereby. The term “senior indebtedness” is defined below under “Subordination Provisions.”
 
Further Details Concerning Voting.  When taking a vote, we will use the following rules to decide how much principal amount to attribute to a debt security:
 
  •  For original issue discount securities, we will use the principal amount that would be due and payable on the voting date if the maturity of the debt securities were accelerated to that date because of a default.
 
  •  For debt securities whose principal amount is not known (for example, because it is based on an index), we will use a special rule for that debt security described in the prospectus supplement.
 
  •  For debt securities denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units, we will use the U.S. dollar equivalent.
 
Debt securities will not be considered outstanding, and therefore not eligible to vote, if we have given a notice of redemption and deposited or set aside in trust for the holders money for the payment or redemption of the debt securities. Debt securities will also not be eligible to vote if they have been fully defeased as described below under “— Defeasance — Full Defeasance.” (Section 1302)
 
We will generally be entitled to set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the holders of outstanding debt securities that are entitled to vote or take other action under the indenture. In certain limited circumstances, the trustee will be entitled to set a record date for action by holders. If we or the trustee set a record date for a vote or other action to be taken by holders of a particular series, that vote or action may be taken only by persons who are holders of outstanding securities of that series on the record date. We or the trustee, as applicable, may shorten or lengthen this period from time to time. (Section 104)
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW APPROVAL MAY BE GRANTED OR DENIED IF WE SEEK TO CHANGE THE INDENTURE OR THE DEBT SECURITIES OR REQUEST A WAIVER.
 
Subordination Provisions
 
Holders of subordinated debt securities should recognize that contractual provisions in the subordinated debt indenture may prohibit us from making payments on those securities. Subordinated debt securities are subordinate and junior in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner stated in the subordinated debt indenture, to all of our senior indebtedness, as defined in the subordinated debt indenture, including all debt securities we have issued and will issue under the senior debt indenture.
 
The subordinated debt indenture defines “senior indebtedness” as all indebtedness and obligations of, or guaranteed or assumed by, us for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, whether existing now or in the future, and all amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of any indebtedness or obligations of that kind. Senior debt excludes the subordinated debt securities


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and any other indebtedness or obligations that would otherwise constitute indebtedness if it is specifically designated as being subordinate, or not superior, in right of payment to the subordinated debt securities.
 
The subordinated debt indenture provides that, unless all principal of and any premium or interest on the senior indebtedness has been paid in full, no payment or other distribution may be made in respect of any subordinated debt securities in the following circumstances:
 
  •  in the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization, assignment for creditors or other similar proceedings or events involving us or our assets;
 
  •  (a) in the event and during the continuation of any default in the payment of principal, premium or interest on any senior indebtedness beyond any applicable grace period, (b) in the event that any event of default with respect to any senior indebtedness has occurred and is continuing, permitting the holders of that senior indebtedness (or a trustee) to accelerate the maturity of that senior indebtedness, whether or not the maturity is in fact accelerated (unless, in the case of (a) or (b), the payment default or event of default has been cured or waived or ceases to exist and any related acceleration has been rescinded) or (c) in the event that any judicial proceeding is pending with respect to a payment default or event of default described in (a) or (b); or
 
  •  in the event that any subordinated debt securities have been declared due and payable before their stated maturity.
 
If the trustee under the subordinated debt indenture or any holders of the subordinated debt securities receive any payment or distribution that is prohibited under the subordination provisions, then the trustee or the holders will have to repay that money to the holders of the senior indebtedness.
 
Even if the subordination provisions prevent us from making any payment when due on the subordinated debt securities of any series, we will be in default on our obligations under that series if we do not make the payment when due. This means that the trustee under the subordinated debt indenture and the holders of that series can take action against us, but they will not receive any money until the claims of the holders of senior indebtedness have been fully satisfied.
 
The subordinated debt indenture allows the holders of senior indebtedness to obtain a court order requiring us and any holder of subordinated debt securities to comply with the subordination provisions.
 
Defeasance
 
The following discussion of full defeasance and covenant defeasance will be applicable to each series of debt securities that is denominated in U.S. dollars and has a fixed rate of interest and will apply to other series of debt securities if we so specify in the prospectus supplement. (Section 1301)
 
Full Defeasance
 
If there is a change in U.S. federal tax law, as described below, we can legally release ourselves from any payment or other obligations on the debt securities, called full defeasance, if we put in place the following other arrangements for holders to be repaid:
 
  •  We must deposit in trust for the benefit of all holders of the debt securities a combination of money and notes or bonds of the U.S. government or a U.S. government agency or U.S. government-sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the debt securities on their various due dates.
 
  •  There must be a change in current U.S. federal tax law or an IRS ruling that lets us make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the debt securities any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the debt securities ourselves. (Under current federal tax law, the deposit and our legal release from the obligations pursuant to the debt securities would be treated as though we took back


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  your debt securities and gave you your share of the cash and notes or bonds deposited in trust. In that event, you could recognize gain or loss on the debt securities you give back to us.)
 
  •  We must deliver to the trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming the tax law change described above. (Sections 1302 and 1304)
 
  •  In the case of the subordinated debt securities, the following requirement must also be met:
 
  —  No event or condition may exist that, under the provisions described under “— Subordination Provisions” above, would prevent us from making payments of principal, premium or interest on those subordinated debt securities on the date of the deposit referred to above or during the 90 days after that date.
 
If we ever did accomplish full defeasance, as described above, you would have to rely solely on the trust deposit for repayment on the debt securities. You could not look to us for repayment in the unlikely event of any shortfall.
 
Covenant Defeasance
 
Under current U.S. federal tax law, we can make the same type of deposit as described above and we will be released from the restrictive covenants under the debt securities that may be described in the prospectus supplement. This is called covenant defeasance. In that event, you would lose the protection of these covenants but would gain the protection of having money and U.S. government or U.S. government agency notes or bonds set aside in trust to repay the debt securities. In order to achieve covenant defeasance, we must do the following:
 
  •  We must deposit in trust for the benefit of all holders of the debt securities a combination of money and notes or bonds of the U.S. government or a U.S. government agency or U.S. government sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the debt securities on their various due dates.
 
  •  We must deliver to the trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming that under current U.S. federal income tax law we may make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the debt securities any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the debt securities ourselves.
 
If we accomplish covenant defeasance, certain provisions of the indenture and the debt securities would no longer apply:
 
  •  Covenants applicable to the series of debt securities and described in the prospectus supplement.
 
  •  Any events of default relating to breach of those covenants.
 
If we accomplish covenant defeasance, you can still look to us for repayment of the debt securities if there were a shortfall in the trust deposit. In fact, if one of the remaining events of default occurred (such as a bankruptcy) and the debt securities become immediately due and payable, there may be such a shortfall. (Sections 1303 and 1304)
 
Events of Default
 
You will have special rights if an event of default occurs and is not cured, as described later in this subsection.
 
What Is An Event of Default?   The term “Event of Default” means any of the following:
 
  •  We do not pay the principal of or any premium on a debt security within 5 days of its due date.
 
  •  We do not pay interest on a debt security within 30 days of its due date.
 
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  •  We remain in breach of any covenant or warranty of the indenture for 60 days after we receive a notice of default stating we are in breach. The notice must be sent by either the trustee or holders of 25% of the principal amount of debt securities of the affected series.
 
  •  We file for bankruptcy or certain other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occur.
 
  •  Any other event of default described in the prospectus supplement occurs. (Section 501)
 
Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.  If you are the holder of a subordinated debt security, all remedies available upon the occurrence of an event of default under the subordinated debt indenture will be subject to the restrictions on the subordinated debt securities described above under “— Subordination Provisions.” If an event of default occurs, the trustee will have special duties. In that situation, the trustee will be obligated to use those of its rights and powers under the indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in doing so, that a prudent person would use in that situation in conducting his or her own affairs. If an event of default has occurred and has not been cured, the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the debt securities of the affected series may declare the entire principal amount (or, in the case of original issue discount securities, the portion of the principal amount that is specified in the terms of the affected debt security) of all the debt securities of that series to be due and immediately payable. This is called a declaration of acceleration of maturity. However, a declaration of acceleration of maturity may be cancelled, but only before a judgment or decree based on the acceleration has been obtained, by the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the debt securities of the affected series. (Section 502)
 
You should read carefully the prospectus supplement relating to any series of debt securities which are original issue discount securities for the particular provisions relating to acceleration of the maturity of a portion of the principal amount of original issue discount securities upon the occurrence of an event of default and its continuation.
 
Except in cases of default, where the trustee has the special duties described above, the trustee is not required to take any action under the indenture at the request of any holders unless the holders offer the trustee reasonable protection from expenses and liability called an indemnity. (Section 603) If indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee is provided, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding securities of the relevant series may direct the time, method and place of conducting any lawsuit or other formal legal action seeking any remedy available to the trustee. These majority holders may also direct the trustee in performing any other action under the applicable indenture with respect to the debt securities of that series. (Section 512)
 
Before you bypass the trustee and bring your own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce your rights or protect your interests relating to the debt securities the following must occur:
 
  •  The holder of the debt security must give the trustee written notice that an event of default has occurred and remains uncured;
 
  •  The holders of 25% in principal amount of all outstanding securities of the relevant series must make a written request that the trustee take action because of the default, and they must offer reasonable indemnity to the trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities of taking that action; and
 
  •  The trustee must have not taken action for 60 days after receipt of the above notice and offer of indemnity. (Section 507)
 
However, you are entitled at any time to bring a lawsuit for the payment of money due on your debt security on or after its due date. (Section 508)
 
 
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We will give to the trustee every year a written statement of certain of our officers certifying that to their knowledge we are in compliance with the applicable indenture and the debt securities issued under it, or else specifying any default. (Section 1004)
 
Our Relationship with the Trustee
 
The Bank of New York is one of our lenders and from time to time provides other banking services to us and our subsidiaries.
 
The Bank of New York is initially serving as the trustee for our senior debt securities, our subordinated debt securities and the warrants issued under our warrant indenture, as well as the trustee under any amended and restated trust agreement and capital securities subordinated guarantee that we enter into in connection with the issuance of capital securities. Consequently, if an actual or potential event of default occurs with respect to any of these securities, trust agreements or subordinated guarantees, the trustee may be considered to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. In that case, the trustee may be required to resign under one or more of the indentures, trust agreements or subordinated guarantees and we would be required to appoint a successor trustee. For this purpose, a “potential” event of default means an event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or for the default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.


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DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS AIG MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIG,” “us,” “we” or “our” in this section mean American International Group, Inc., and do not include the subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own warrants registered in their own names, on the books that we or the applicable trustee or warrant agent maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in warrants registered in street name or in warrants issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean all purchasers of warrants being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those warrants. Owners of beneficial interests in the warrants should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Warrants May Be Debt Warrants or Universal Warrants
 
We may issue warrants that are debt warrants or universal warrants. We may offer warrants separately or together with our debt securities. We may also offer warrants together with other warrants, purchase contracts, debt securities, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock or common stock in the form of units, as summarized under “Description of Units AIG May Offer.”
 
We will issue the warrants under either a warrant indenture or a warrant agreement. The warrant indenture, the warrant agreement and their associated documents contain the full legal text of the matters described in this section. The warrant indenture and the warrant agreement and the warrants issued thereunder are governed by New York law.
 
Warrant Indenture
 
The warrants may be governed by a document called an indenture. The warrant indenture is a contract between AIG and The Bank of New York, which acts as trustee. See “Description of Debt Securities AIG May Offer — Our Relationship with the Trustee” above for more information about the trustee.
 
Reference to the warrant indenture or the trustee with respect to any warrants, means the indenture under which those warrants are issued and the trustee under that indenture.
 
The trustee has two main roles:
 
1. The trustee can enforce the rights of holders against us if we default on our obligations under the terms of the warrant indenture or the warrants. There are some limitations on the extent to which the trustee acts on behalf of holders, described below under “— Events of Default — Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.”
 
2. The trustee performs administrative duties for us, such as sending payments to holders and notices, and transferring a holder’s warrants to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
Warrant Agreement
 
A warrant agreement is a contract between us and a bank, trust company or other financial institution, as warrant agent. References to a warrant agreement or warrant agent with respect to any warrants, means the warrant agreement under which those warrants are issued and the warrant agent under that warrant agreement.
 
The warrant agent is our agent and, unlike a trustee, has no obligations to holders of the warrants issued under the warrant agreement. The main role of the warrant agent is to perform administrative duties for us, such as sending payments and notices to holders and transferring a holder’s warrants to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
General
 
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This section summarizes terms of the warrant indenture and warrant agreements and terms of the warrants that apply generally to the warrants, although the prospectus supplement which describes the terms of the warrants may also describe differences from the material terms summarized here.
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the warrants. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the warrant indenture and warrant agreement, including definitions of certain terms used in the warrant indenture and warrant agreement. In this summary, we describe the meaning of only some of the more important terms. Whenever we refer to particular sections or defined terms of the warrant indenture or warrant agreement in this prospectus or in the prospectus supplement, such sections or defined terms are incorporated by reference here or in the prospectus supplement. You must look to the warrant indenture or warrant agreement for the most complete description of what we describe in summary form in this prospectus.
 
This summary also is subject to and qualified by reference to the description of the particular terms of your warrants described in the prospectus supplement. As you read this section, please remember that the specific terms of your warrant as described in your prospectus supplement will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms described in this section. If there are differences between your prospectus supplement and this prospectus, your prospectus supplement will control. Thus, the statements we make in this section may not apply to your warrant.
 
When we refer to a series of warrants, we mean all warrants issued as part of the same series under the applicable warrant indenture or warrant agreement. When we refer to your prospectus supplement, we mean the prospectus supplement describing the specific terms of the warrant you purchase. The terms used in your prospectus supplement will have the meanings described in this prospectus, unless otherwise specified.
 
In addition, the specific financial, legal and other specific terms of your warrant will be described in the prospectus supplement relating to the warrants. The prospectus supplement relating to the warrants may contain, where applicable, the following information about your warrants:
 
  •  the specific designation and aggregate number of, and the price at which we will issue, the warrants;
 
  •  the currency with which the warrants may be purchased;
 
  •  the warrant indenture or warrant agreement under which we will issue the warrants;
 
  •  the date on which the right to exercise the warrants will begin and the date on which that right will expire or, if you may not continuously exercise the warrants throughout that period, the specific date or dates on which you may exercise the warrants;
 
  •  whether the warrants will be redeemable by us before their expiration date, and any applicable redemption dates or periods and the related redemption prices;
 
  •  whether the warrants will be issued in fully registered form or bearer form, in global or non-global form or in any combination of these forms, although, in any case, the form of a warrant included in a unit will correspond to the form of the unit and of any debt security or purchase contract included in that unit;
 
  •  the identities of the trustee or warrant agent, any depositaries and any paying, transfer, calculation or other agents for the warrants;
 
  •  any securities exchange or quotation system on which the warrants or any securities deliverable upon exercise of the warrants may be listed;
 
  •  whether the warrants are to be sold separately or with other securities, as part of units or otherwise; and
 
  •  any other terms of the warrants.
 
If we issue warrants as part of a unit, your prospectus supplement will specify whether the warrants will be separable from the other securities in the unit before the warrants’ expiration date.
 
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An investment in a warrant may involve special risks, including risks associated with indexed securities and currency-related risks if the warrant or the warrant property is linked to an index or is payable in or otherwise linked to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Debt Warrants
 
We may issue warrants for the purchase of our debt securities on terms to be determined at the time of sale. We refer to this type of warrant as a “debt warrant.”
 
If you purchase debt warrants, your prospectus supplement may contain, where applicable, the following additional information about your debt warrants:
 
  •  the designation, aggregate principal amount, currency and terms of the debt securities that may be purchased upon exercise of the debt warrants;
 
  •  the exercise price and whether the exercise price may be paid in cash, by the exchange of any debt warrants or other securities or both and the method of exercising the debt warrants; and
 
  •  the designation, terms and amount of debt securities, if any, to be issued together with each of the debt warrants and the date, if any, after which the debt warrants and debt securities will be separately transferable.
 
Universal Warrants
 
We may also issue warrants, on terms to be determined at the time of sale, for the purchase or sale of, or whose cash value is determined by reference to the performance, level or value of, one or more of the following:
 
  •  securities of one or more issuers, including our common or preferred stock or other securities described in this prospectus or debt or equity securities of third parties;
 
  •  one or more currencies;
 
  •  one or more commodities;
 
  •  any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance; and
 
  •  one or more indices or baskets of the items described above.
 
We refer to this type of warrant as a “universal warrant.” We refer to each property described above as a “warrant property.”
 
We may satisfy our obligations, if any, and the holder of a universal warrant may satisfy its obligations, if any, with respect to any universal warrants by delivering:
 
  •  the warrant property;
 
  •  the cash value of the warrant property; or
 
  •  the cash value of the warrants determined by reference to the performance, level or value of the warrant property.
 
Your prospectus supplement will describe what we may deliver to satisfy our obligations, if any, and what the holder of a universal warrant may deliver to satisfy its obligations, if any, with respect to any universal warrants.
 
If you purchase universal warrants, your prospectus supplement may contain, where applicable, the following additional information about your universal warrants:
 
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  •  the money or warrant property, and the amount or method of determining the amount of money or warrant property, payable or deliverable upon exercise of each universal warrant;
 
  •  the price at which and the currency with which the warrant property may be purchased or sold by or on behalf of the holder of each universal warrant upon the exercise of that warrant, or the method of determining that price;
 
  •  whether the exercise price may be paid in cash, by the exchange of any universal warrants or other securities or both, and the method of exercising the universal warrants; and
 
  •  whether the exercise of the universal warrants is to be settled in cash or by delivery of the warrant property or both, whether the election of the form of settlement will be at the option of the holder or of us and whether settlement will occur on a net basis or a gross basis.
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of our subsidiaries may resell warrants in market-making transactions after their initial issuance. We discuss these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries.” We may also purchase, in our discretion, warrants to be held, resold or canceled.
 
General Provisions of the Warrant Indenture
 
We may issue as many distinct series of warrants under the warrant indenture as we wish, in such amounts as we wish. The provisions of the warrant indenture allow us not only to issue warrants with terms different from those of warrants previously issued under the warrant indenture, but also to “reopen” a previous issue of a series of warrants and issue additional warrants of that series. We may issue warrants in amounts that exceed the total amount specified on the cover of your prospectus supplement at any time without your consent and without notifying you.
 
The warrant indenture and the warrants do not limit our ability to incur other contractual obligations or indebtedness or to issue other securities. Also, the terms of the warrants do not impose financial or similar restrictions on us.
 
Warrants will not be secured by any property or our assets or the assets of our subsidiaries. Thus, by owning a warrant issued under the warrant indenture, you hold one of our unsecured obligations.
 
The warrants issued under the warrant indenture will be our contractual obligations and will rank equally with all of our other unsecured contractual obligations and unsecured and unsubordinated debt. The warrant indenture does not limit our ability to incur additional contractual obligations or debt.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Additional Terms relevant to the warrants under normal circumstances, such as how holders transfer warrants, and the expiration and payment and delivery mechanics relating to warrants;
 
  •  Holders’ rights in several Special Situations, such as if we merge with another company or if we want to change a term of the warrants; and
 
  •  Holders’ rights if we Default or experience other financial difficulties.
 
Additional Mechanics
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer of Warrants
 
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registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the warrants represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in a global warrant will do so through participants in the depositary’s system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
If a warrant is issued as a registered global warrant, only the depositary — e.g., DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream — will be entitled to transfer and exchange the warrant as described in this subsection, since the depositary will be the sole holder of the warrant.
 
If any warrants cease to be issued in registered global form, they will be issued:
 
  •  only in fully registered form; and
 
  •  only in the denominations specified in your prospectus supplement.
 
Holders may exchange their warrants for certificates representing a smaller or larger number of warrants, as long as the total number of warrants is not changed.
 
Holders may exchange or transfer their warrants at the office of the trustee. They may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated warrants at that office. We have appointed the trustee to act as our agent for registering warrants in the names of holders and transferring and replacing warrants. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their warrants, but they may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may require an indemnity before replacing any warrants.
 
If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any warrants before their expiration, and we exercise our right as to less than all those warrants, we may block the transfer or exchange of those warrants during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing or during any other period specified in the prospectus supplement, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or to exchange any warrant selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any warrant being partially settled.
 
If we have designated additional transfer agents for your warrant, they will be named in your prospectus supplement. We may appoint additional transfer agents or cancel the appointment of any particular transfer agent. We may also approve a change in the office through which any transfer agent acts.
 
The rules for exchange described above apply to exchange of warrants for other warrants of the same series and kind. If a warrant is exercisable for a different kind of security, such as one that we have not issued, or for other property, the rules governing that type of exercise will be described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Expiration Date and Payment or Settlement Date
 
The term “expiration date” with respect to any warrant means the date on which the right to exercise the warrant expires. The term “payment or settlement date” with respect to any warrant means the date when any money or warrant property with respect to that warrant becomes payable or deliverable upon exercise or redemption of that warrant in accordance with its terms.
 
Currency of Warrants
 
Amounts that become due and payable on your warrant may be payable in a currency, composite currency, basket of currencies or currency unit or units specified in your prospectus supplement. We refer to this currency, composite currency, basket of currencies or currency unit or units as a “specified currency.” The specified currency for your warrant will be U.S. dollars, unless your prospectus supplement states otherwise. You will have to pay for your warrant by delivering the requisite amount of the specified currency to a firm that we name in your


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prospectus supplement, unless other arrangements have been made between you and us or you and that firm. We will make payments on your warrants in the specified currency, except as described in your prospectus supplement. See “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities” below for more information about risks of investing in warrants of this kind.
 
Redemption
 
We will not be entitled to redeem your warrant before its expiration date unless your prospectus supplement specifies a redemption commencement date.
 
If your prospectus supplement specifies a redemption commencement date, it will also specify one or more redemption prices. It may also specify one or more redemption periods during which the redemption prices relating to a redemption of warrants during those periods will apply.
 
If your prospectus supplement specifies a redemption commencement date, your warrant will be redeemable at our option at any time on or after that date or at a specified time or times. If we redeem your warrant, we will do so at the specified redemption price. If different prices are specified for different redemption periods, the price we pay will be the price that applies to the redemption period during which your warrant is redeemed.
 
If we exercise an option to redeem any warrant, we will give the holder written notice of the redemption price of the warrant to be redeemed, not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days before the applicable redemption date or within any other period before the applicable redemption date specified in your prospectus supplement. We will give the notice in the manner described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Special Situations
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
We are generally permitted to consolidate or merge with another corporation or firm. We are also permitted to sell substantially all of our assets to another firm, or to buy or lease substantially all of the assets of another firm. With regard to any warrant, however, we may not take any of these actions unless all the following conditions are met:
 
  •  When we merge out of existence or sell or lease substantially all of our assets, the other firm may not be organized under a foreign country’s laws, that is, it must be a corporation, partnership or trust organized under the laws of a state of the United States or the District of Columbia or under federal law, and it must agree to be legally responsible for our obligations under that warrant and the warrant indenture, as applicable.
 
  •  The merger, sale of assets or other transaction must not cause a default under the warrant, and we must not already be in default (unless the merger or other transaction would cure the default). For purposes of this no-default test, a default under the warrant would include an event of default with respect to that warrant or any event that would be an event of default with respect to that warrant if the requirements for giving us default notice and for our default having to continue for a specific period of time were disregarded. We describe these matters below under “— Events of Default.”
 
If the conditions described above are satisfied with respect to any warrant, we will not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that warrant in order to merge or consolidate or to sell our assets. Also, these conditions will apply only if we wish to merge or consolidate with another entity or sell substantially all of our assets to another entity. We will not need to satisfy these conditions if we enter into other types of transactions, including any transaction in which we acquire the stock or assets of another entity, any transaction that involves a change of control but in which we do not merge or consolidate and any transaction in which we sell less than substantially all of our assets. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in our credit rating, may reduce our operating results or may impair our financial condition. Holders of our warrants, however, will have no approval right with respect to any transaction of this type.


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Modification and Waiver of the Warrants
 
There are three types of changes we can make to the warrant indenture and the warrants issued under that warrant indenture.
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders.  First, there are changes that cannot be made to the warrant indenture or the warrants issued under that warrant indenture without the approval of each holder of a warrant affected by the change. Affected warrants may be all or less than all of the warrants issued under that warrant indenture or all or less than all of the warrants of a series. Here is a list of those types of changes:
 
  •  change the exercise price of the warrant;
 
  •  change the terms of any warrant with respect to the expiration date or the payment or settlement date of the warrant;
 
  •  reduce the amount of money payable or reduce the amount or change the kind of warrant property deliverable upon the exercise of the warrant or any premium payable upon redemption of the warrant;
 
  •  change the currency of any payment on a warrant;
 
  •  change the place of payment on a warrant;
 
  •  permit redemption of a warrant if not previously permitted;
 
  •  impair a holder’s right to exercise its warrant, or sue for payment of any money payable or delivery of any warrant property deliverable with respect to its warrant on or after the payment or settlement date or, in the case of redemption, the redemption date;
 
  •  if any warrant provides that the holder may require us to repurchase the warrant, impair the holder’s right to require repurchase of the warrant;
 
  •  reduce the percentage in number of the warrants of any one or more affected series, taken separately or together, as applicable, whose consent is needed to modify or amend the warrant indenture or those warrants;
 
  •  reduce the percentage in number of the warrants of any one or more affected series, taken separately or together, as applicable, whose consent is needed to waive compliance with the warrant indenture or to waive defaults; or
 
  •  modify any other aspect of the provisions dealing with modification and waiver of the warrant indenture, except to increase any required percentage referred to above or add to the provisions that cannot be changed or waived without approval of the holder of the affected warrants.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  The second type of change to the warrant indenture and the warrants is the kind that requires a vote in favor by holders of warrants owning not less than a majority of the amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular warrants affected thereby. If the change affects the warrants of more than one series issued under the warrant indenture, it must be approved by the holders of a majority in number of all series affected by the change, with the warrants of all the affected series voting together as one class for this purpose.
 
Most changes fall into this category, except for clarifying changes and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the warrants. However, we cannot obtain a waiver of a payment default or any other aspect of the warrant indenture or the warrants listed in the first category described above under “— Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders” unless we obtain the individual consent of each holder to the waiver.
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  The third type of change to the warrant indenture and the warrants does not require any approval by holders of the warrants. These changes are limited to clarifications and changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect the holders of the warrants. Nor do we need any approval to make changes that affect only warrants to be issued under the warrant indenture after the changes take effect.


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We may also make changes or obtain waivers that do not adversely affect a particular warrant, even if they affect other warrants. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that warrant; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected warrants.
 
Further Details Concerning Voting.  We will generally be entitled to set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the holders that are entitled to take action under the warrant indenture. In certain limited circumstances, only the trustee will be entitled to set a record date for action by holders. If we or the trustee set a record date for an approval or other action to be taken by holders, that vote or action may be taken only by persons or entities who are holders on the record date and must be taken during the period that we specify for this purpose, or that the trustee specifies if it sets the record date. We or the trustee, as applicable, may shorten or lengthen this period from time to time. In addition, record dates for any global warrant may be set in accordance with procedures established by the depositary from time to time. Accordingly, record dates for global warrants may differ from those for other warrants.
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT OWNERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW APPROVAL MAY BE GRANTED OR DENIED IF WE SEEK TO CHANGE THE WARRANT INDENTURE OR ANY WARRANTS OR REQUEST A WAIVER.
 
Events of Default
 
You will have special rights if an event of default with respect to your warrant occurs and is continuing, as described in this subsection.
 
What is an Event of Default?  Unless your prospectus supplement says otherwise, when we refer to an event of default with respect to any warrant, we mean that, upon satisfaction by the holder of the warrant of all conditions precedent to our relevant obligation or covenant to be satisfied by the holder, any of the following occurs:
 
  •  We do not pay any money or deliver any warrant property with respect to that warrant within 5 days of the payment or settlement date in accordance with the terms of that warrant.
 
  •  We remain in breach of any covenant and warranty we make in the warrant indenture for the benefit of the holder of that warrant for 60 days after we receive a notice of default stating that we are in breach and requiring us to remedy the breach. The notice must be sent by the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in number of the relevant series of warrants.
 
  •  We file for bankruptcy or other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occur with respect to us.
 
  •  Any other event of default described in the prospectus supplement occurs.
 
If we do not pay any money or deliver any warrant property when due with respect to a particular warrant of a series, as described in the first bullet point above, that failure to make a payment or delivery will not constitute an event of default with respect to any other warrant of the same series or any other series.
 
Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.  If an event of default occurs, the trustee will have special duties. In that situation, the trustee will be obligated to use those of its rights and powers under the warrant indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in doing so, that a prudent person would use in that situation in conducting his or her own affairs.
 
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that series. These majority holders may also direct the trustee in performing any other action under the warrant indenture with respect to the warrants of that series.
 
Before you bypass the trustee and bring your own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce your rights or protect your interests relating to any warrant, all of the following must occur:
 
  •  The holder of your warrant must give the trustee written notice that an event of default has occurred, and the event of default must not have been cured or waived;
 
  •  The holders of not less than 25% in number of all warrants of your series must make a written request that the trustee take action because of the default, and they must offer reasonable indemnity to the trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities of taking that action; and
 
  •  The trustee must not have taken action for 60 days after the above steps have been taken.
 
However, you are entitled at any time to bring a lawsuit for the payment of any money or delivery of any warrant property due on your warrant on or after its payment or settlement date.
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO GIVE NOTICE OR DIRECTION TO OR MAKE A REQUEST OF THE TRUSTEE AND TO MAKE OR CANCEL A DECLARATION OF ACCELERATION.
 
 
We will give to the trustee every year a written statement of certain of our officers certifying that to their knowledge we are in compliance with the warrant indenture and the warrants issued under it, or else specifying any default.
 
General Provisions of Warrant Agreements
 
We may issue debt warrants and universal warrants in one or more series under one or more warrant agreements, each to be entered into between us and a bank, trust company or other financial institution as warrant agent. We may add, replace or terminate warrant agents from time to time. We may also choose to act as our own warrant agent or may choose one of our subsidiaries to do so.
 
We will describe the warrant agreement under which we issue any warrants in your prospectus supplement. Each warrant agreement and any warrants issued under the warrant agreements will be governed by New York law. We will file that agreement with the SEC, either as an exhibit to an amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part or as an exhibit to a current report on Form 8-K. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy of a warrant agreement when it is filed.
 
We may also issue warrants under the warrant indenture. For these warrants, the applicable provisions of the warrant indenture described above would apply instead of the provisions described in this section.
 
Warrant Agreement Will Not Be Qualified under Trust Indenture Act
 
No warrant agreement will be qualified as an indenture, and no warrant agent will be required to qualify as a trustee, under the Trust Indenture Act. Therefore, holders of warrants issued under a warrant agreement will not have the protection of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to their warrants.
 
Enforcement of Rights
 
The warrant agent under a warrant agreement will act solely as our agent in connection with the warrants issued under that agreement. The warrant agent will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders of those warrants. Any holder of warrants may, without the consent of any other person, enforce by appropriate legal action, on its own behalf, its right to exercise those warrants in accordance with their terms. Until the warrant is properly exercised, no holder of any warrant will be entitled to any rights of a holder of the warrant property purchasable upon exercise of the warrant.


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Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless we specify otherwise in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each warrant in global — i.e., book-entry — form only. Warrants in book-entry form will be represented by a global security registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the warrants represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in a global warrant will do so through participants in the depositary’s system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
In addition, we will issue each warrant in registered form, unless we say otherwise in your prospectus supplement. Bearer warrants would be subject to special provisions, as we describe below under “Considerations Relating to Securities Issued in Bearer Form.”
 
If any warrants are issued in non-global form, the terms described below will apply to them:
 
  •  The warrants will be issued in fully registered form. Holders may exchange their warrants for certificates representing a smaller or larger number of warrants, as long as the total number of warrants is not changed.
 
  •  Holders may exchange or transfer their warrants at the office of the warrant agent. They may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated warrants at that office. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
  •  Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their warrants, but they may be required to pay any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may also require an indemnity before replacing any warrants.
 
  •  If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any warrants before their expiration, and we exercise our right as to less than all those warrants, we may block the transfer or exchange of those warrants during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or exchange any warrant selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any warrant being partially settled.
 
Only the depositary will be entitled to transfer or exchange a warrant in global form, because it will be the sole holder of the warrant.
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
The warrant agreements and any warrants issued under the warrant agreements will not restrict our ability to merge or consolidate with, or sell our assets to, another corporation or other entity or to engage in any other transactions. If at any time we merge or consolidate with, or sell substantially all of our assets to, another corporation or other entity, the successor entity will succeed to and assume our obligations under the warrants and warrant agreements. We will then be relieved of any further obligation under the warrants and warrant agreements. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in our credit rating, may reduce our operating results or may impair our financial condition. Holders of our warrants, however, will have no right to vote with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
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Modification of the Warrant Agreement
 
There are three types of amendments that we and the applicable warrant agent may make to any warrant agreement or warrants issued under that warrant agreement:
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders.  First, we may not amend any particular warrant or a warrant agreement with respect to any particular warrant unless we obtain the consent of the holder of that warrant, if the amendment would:
 
  •  change the exercise price of the warrant;
 
  •  change the kind or reduce the amount of the warrant property or other consideration receivable upon exercise, cancellation or expiration of the warrant;
 
  •  shorten, advance or defer the period of time during which the holder may exercise the warrant or otherwise impair the holder’s right to exercise the warrant; or
 
  •  reduce the percentage of outstanding, unexpired warrants of any series or class the consent of whose holders is required to amend the series or class, or the applicable warrant agreement with regard to that series or class, as described below.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  Second, any other change to a particular warrant agreement and the warrants issued under that agreement would require the following approval:
 
  •  If the change affects only the warrants of a particular series issued under that warrant agreement, the change must be approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding, unexpired warrants of that series.
 
  •  If the change affects the warrants of more than one series issued under that warrant agreement, the change must be approved by the holders of a majority of all outstanding, unexpired warrants of all series affected by the change, with the warrants of all the affected series voting together as one class for this purpose.
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  Third, we and the applicable warrant agent may amend any warrant or warrant agreement without the consent of any holder:
 
  •  to cure any ambiguity;
 
  •  to cure, correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision; or
 
  •  to make any other change that we believe is necessary or desirable and will not adversely affect the interests of the affected holders in any material respect.
 
We do not need any approval to make changes that affect only warrants to be issued after the changes take effect. We may also make changes that do not adversely affect a particular warrant in any material respect, even if they adversely affect other warrants in a material respect. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of the unaffected warrant; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected warrants.
 
Payments and Notices
 
We will describe the plan we will use to make payments and give notices with respect to our warrants issued under the warrant indenture or warrant agreements in a separate supplement to this prospectus.
 
Calculation Agent
 
Calculations relating to warrants will be made by the calculation agent, an institution that we appoint as our agent for this purpose. That institution may be a subsidiary of ours. The prospectus supplement for a particular warrant will name the institution that we have appointed to act as the calculation agent for that warrant as of its original issue date. We may appoint a different institution to serve as calculation agent from time to time after the original issue date of the warrant without your consent and without notifying you of the change.
 
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DESCRIPTION OF PURCHASE CONTRACTS AIG MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIG,” “us,” “we” or “our” in this section mean American International Group, Inc., and do not include the subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own purchase contracts registered in their own names, on the books that we or our agent maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in purchase contracts registered in street name or in purchase contracts issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean those who invest in the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in the purchase contracts should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
General
 
We may issue purchase contracts in such amounts and in as many distinct series as we wish. In addition, we may issue a purchase contract separately or as part of a unit, as described below under “Description of Units AIG May Offer.”
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the purchase contracts. In this summary, we describe the meaning of only some of the more important terms.
 
As you read this section, please remember that the specific terms of your purchase contract as described in your prospectus supplement will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms described in this section. If there are differences between your prospectus supplement and this prospectus, your prospectus supplement will control. Thus, the statements we make in this section may not apply to your purchase contract.
 
When we refer to a series of purchase contracts, we mean all the purchase contracts issued as part of the same series under the applicable governing instrument. The purchase contracts and any governing documents will be governed by New York law. When we refer to your prospectus supplement, we mean the prospectus supplement describing the specific terms of the purchase contract you purchase. The terms used in your prospectus supplement will have the meanings described in this prospectus, unless otherwise specified.
 
Prepaid Purchase Contracts; Applicability of Debt Indenture
 
Some purchase contracts may require the holders to satisfy their obligations under the contracts at the time the contracts are issued. We refer to those contracts as “prepaid purchase contracts.” Our obligation to settle a prepaid purchase contract on the relevant settlement date will be subject to the holder’s delivery of one of our senior or subordinated debt securities, which are described above under “Description of Debt Securities AIG May Offer.” Prepaid purchase contracts will be issued under the senior or subordinated debt indenture, and the provisions of the applicable indenture will govern those contracts.
 
Non-Prepaid Purchase Contracts; No Trust Indenture Act Protection
 
Some purchase contracts do not require the holders to satisfy their obligations under the contracts until settlement. We refer to those contracts as “non-prepaid purchase contracts.” The holder of a non-prepaid purchase contract may remain obligated to perform under the contract for a substantial period of time.
 
Non-prepaid purchase contracts will be issued under a unit agreement, if they are issued in units, or under some other document, if they are not. For example, we may issue non-prepaid purchase contracts under which the holder has multiple obligations to purchase or sell, some of which are prepaid and some of which are not, under one of our indentures. We describe unit agreements generally under “Description of Units AIG May Offer” below. We will describe the particular governing document that applies to your non-prepaid purchase contracts in your prospectus supplement.


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Non-prepaid purchase contracts will not be senior debt securities or subordinated debt securities and will not be issued under an indenture, unless we say otherwise in your prospectus supplement. Consequently, no governing documents for non-prepaid purchase contracts will be qualified as indentures, and no third party will be required to qualify as a trustee with regard to those contracts, under the Trust Indenture Act. Holders of non-prepaid purchase contracts will not have the protection of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to those contracts.
 
Principal Purchase Contract Terms
 
We may issue purchase contracts for the purchase or sale of, or whose cash value is determined by reference or linked to the performance, level or value of, one or more of the following:
 
  •  securities of one or more issuers, including our common or preferred stock or other securities described in this prospectus or debt or equity securities of third parties;
 
  •  one or more currencies;
 
  •  one or more commodities;
 
  •  any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance; and
 
  •  one or more indices or baskets of the items described above.
 
We refer to each property described above as a “purchase contract property.” Each purchase contract will obligate:
 
  •  the holder to purchase or sell, and obligate us to sell or purchase, on specified dates, one or more purchase contract properties at a specified price or prices; or
 
  •  the holder or us to settle the purchase contract by reference to the value, performance or level of one or more purchase contract properties, on specified dates and at a specified price or prices.
 
Some purchase contracts may include multiple obligations to purchase or sell different purchase contract properties, and both we and the holder may be sellers or buyers under the same purchase contract. Until a purchase contract is properly exercised, no holder of a purchase contract will have any rights of a holder of the purchase contract property purchasable under the contract.
 
An investment in purchase contracts may involve special risks, including risks associated with indexed securities and currency-related risks if the purchase contract or purchase contract property is linked to an index or is payable in or otherwise linked to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Your prospectus supplement may contain, where applicable, the following information about your purchase contract:
 
  •  whether the purchase contract obligates the holder to purchase or sell, or both purchase and sell, one or more purchase contract properties and the nature and amount of each of those properties, or the method of determining those amounts;
 
  •  whether the purchase contract is to be prepaid or not and the governing document for the contract;
 
  •  whether the purchase contract is to be settled by delivery, or by reference or linkage to the value, performance or level of, the purchase contract properties;
 
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  •  whether the purchase contract will be issued as part of a unit and, if so, the other securities comprising the unit and whether any unit securities will be subject to a security interest in our favor as described below; and
 
  •  whether the purchase contract will be issued in fully registered or bearer form and in global or non-global form.
 
If we issue a purchase contract as part of a unit, your prospectus supplement will state whether the contract will be separable from the other securities in the unit before the contract settlement date.
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of our subsidiaries may resell purchase contracts after their initial issuance in market-making transactions. We describe these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries.” We may also purchase, in our discretion, purchase contracts to be held, resold or canceled.
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless we specify otherwise in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each purchase contract in global — i.e., book-entry — form only. Purchase contracts in book-entry form will be represented by a global security registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the purchase contracts represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in a purchase contract will do so through participants in the depositary’s system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
In addition, we will issue each purchase contract in registered form, unless we say otherwise in your prospectus supplement.
 
If any purchase contracts are issued in non-global form, the following will apply to them:
 
  •  The purchase contracts will be issued in fully registered form. Holders may exchange their purchase contracts for contracts of smaller or larger number as long as the total number of contracts is not changed.
 
  •  Holders may exchange or transfer their purchase contracts at the office of the trustee, unit agent or other agent we name in the prospectus supplement. Holders may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated purchase contracts at that office. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
  •  Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their purchase contracts, but they may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may also require an indemnity before replacing any purchase contracts.
 
  •  If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any purchase contracts before their maturity, and we exercise our right as to less than all those purchase contracts, we may block the transfer or exchange of those purchase contracts during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or exchange any purchase contract selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any purchase contract being partially settled.
 
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Additional Terms of Non-Prepaid Purchase Contracts
 
In addition to the general terms described above, a non-prepaid purchase contract may include the following additional terms described below.
 
Pledge by Holders to Secure Performance
 
If we specify in your prospectus supplement, the holder’s obligations under the purchase contract and governing document will be secured by collateral. In that case, the holder, acting through the unit agent as its attorney-in-fact, if applicable, will pledge the items described below to a collateral agent named in the prospectus supplement, which will hold them, for our benefit, as collateral to secure the holder’s obligations. We refer to this as the “pledge” and all the items described below as the “pledged items.” The pledge will create in our favor a security interest in the holder’s entire interest in and to:
 
  •  any other securities included in the unit, if the purchase contract is part of a unit, or any other property specified in the prospectus supplement;
 
  •  all additions to and substitutions for the pledged items;
 
  •  all income, proceeds and collections received in respect of the pledged items; and
 
  •  all powers and rights owned or acquired later with respect to the pledged items.
 
The collateral agent will forward all payments from the pledged items to us, unless the payments have been released from the pledge in accordance with the purchase contract and the governing document. We will use the payments from the pledged items to satisfy the holder’s obligations under the purchase contract.
 
Settlement of Purchase Contracts that are Part of Units
 
The following will apply to a non-prepaid purchase contract that is issued together with any of our debt securities as part of a unit. If the holder fails to satisfy its obligations under the purchase contract, the unit agent may apply the principal payments on the debt securities to satisfy those obligations as provided in the governing document. If the holder is permitted to settle its obligations by cash payment, the holder may be permitted to do so by delivering the debt securities in the unit to the unit agent as provided in the governing document.
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT OWNERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO SETTLE THEIR PURCHASE CONTRACTS.
 
Failure of Holder to Perform Obligations under a Non-Prepaid Purchase Contract
 
If the holder fails to settle its obligations under a non-prepaid purchase contract as required, the holder will not receive the purchase contract property or other consideration to be delivered at settlement. Holders that fail to make timely settlement may also be obligated to pay interest or other amounts.
 
Assumption of Obligations by Transferee
 
When the holder of a non-prepaid purchase contract transfers the purchase contract to a new holder, the new holder will assume the obligations of the prior holder with respect to the purchase contract, and the prior holder will be released from those obligations. Under the non-prepaid purchase contract, we will consent to the transfer of the purchase contract, to the assumption of those obligations by the new holder and to the release of the prior holder, if the transfer is made in accordance with the provisions of the purchase contract.


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Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
Purchase contracts that are not prepaid will not restrict our ability to merge or consolidate with, or sell our assets to, another corporation or firm or to engage in any other transactions. If at any time we merge or consolidate with, or sell substantially all of our assets to, another corporation or firm, the successor corporation or firm will succeed to and assume our obligations, under these purchase contracts. We will then be relieved of any further obligation under these purchase contracts. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in our credit rating, may reduce our operating results or may impair our financial condition. Holders of our purchase contracts, however, will have no right to vote with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
No Events of Default
 
Purchase contracts that are not prepaid will not provide for any specific events of default.
 
Payments and Notices
 
We will describe the plan that we will use to make payments and give notices with respect to purchase contracts in a separate supplement to this prospectus.
 
Calculation Agent
 
Calculations relating to purchase contracts will be made by the calculation agent, an institution that we appoint as our agent for this purpose. That institution may be a subsidiary of ours. The prospectus supplement for a particular purchase contract will name the institution that we have appointed to act as the calculation agent for that purchase contract as of its original issue date. We may appoint a different institution to serve as calculation agent from time to time after the original issue date of the purchase contract without your consent and without notifying you of the change.
 
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DESCRIPTION OF UNITS AIG MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIG,” “us,” “we” or “our” in this section mean American International Group, Inc., and do not include the subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own units registered in their own names, on the books that we or our agent maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in units registered in street name or in units issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean those who invest in the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in the units should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
General
 
We may issue units comprised of any combination of our debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures, preferred stock and common stock. Each unit will be issued so that the holder of the unit is also the holder of each security included in the unit. Thus, the holder of a unit will have the rights and obligations of a holder of each included security. The unit agreement under which a unit is issued may provide that the securities included in the unit may not be held or transferred separately, at any time or at any time before a specified date.
 
We may issue units in such amounts and in as many distinct series as we wish. This section summarizes terms of the units that apply generally to all series. We describe most of the financial and other specific terms of your series in the prospectus supplement accompanying this prospectus. Those terms may vary from the terms described here.
 
As you read this section, please remember that the specific terms of your unit as described in your prospectus supplement will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms described in this section. If there are differences between your prospectus supplement and this prospectus, your prospectus supplement will control. Thus, the statements we make in this section may not apply to your unit.
 
When we refer to a series of units, we mean all units issued as part of the same series under the applicable unit agreement. We will identify the series of which your units are a part in your prospectus supplement. When we refer to your prospectus supplement, we mean the prospectus supplement describing the specific terms of the units you purchase. The terms used in your prospectus supplement will have the meanings described in this prospectus, unless otherwise specified.
 
The applicable prospectus supplement may describe:
 
  •  the designation and terms of the units and of the securities comprising the units, including whether and under what circumstances those securities may be held or transferred separately;
 
  •  any provisions of the governing unit agreement that differ from those described below; and
 
  •  any provisions for the issuance, payment, settlement, transfer or exchange of the units or of the securities comprising the units.
 
The applicable provisions described in this section, as well as those described under “Description of Debt Securities AIG May Offer,” “Description of Warrants AIG May Offer,” “Description of Purchase Contracts AIG May Offer,” “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures AIG May Offer,” “Description of Preferred Stock AIG May Offer” and “Description of Common Stock AIG May Offer,” will apply to each unit and to each security included in each unit, respectively.
 
Unit Agreements Will Not Be Qualified under Trust Indenture Act
 
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linked to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of our subsidiaries may purchase and resell units after their initial issuance in market-making transactions. We discuss these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries.”
 
Unit Agreements: Prepaid, Non-Prepaid and Other
 
We will issue the units under one or more unit agreements to be entered into between us and a bank or other financial institution, as unit agent. We may add, replace or terminate unit agents from time to time. We may also choose to act as our own unit agent or may appoint one of our subsidiaries to do so. We will identify the unit agreement under which your units will be issued and the unit agent under that agreement in your prospectus supplement.
 
If a unit includes one or more purchase contracts and all those purchase contracts are prepaid purchase contracts, we will issue the unit under a “prepaid unit agreement.” Prepaid unit agreements will reflect the fact that the holders of the related units have no further obligations under the purchase contracts included in their units. If a unit includes one or more non-prepaid purchase contracts, we will issue the unit under a “non-prepaid unit agreement.” Non-prepaid unit agreements will reflect the fact that the holders have payment or other obligations under one or more of the purchase contracts comprising their units. We may also issue units under other kinds of unit agreements, which we will describe in your prospectus supplement. In some cases, we may issue units under one of our indentures.
 
A unit agreement may also serve as the governing document for a security included in a unit. For example, a non-prepaid purchase contract that is part of a unit may be issued under and governed by the relevant unit agreement.
 
In this prospectus, we refer to prepaid unit agreements, non-prepaid unit agreements and other unit agreements, generally, as “unit agreements.” The unit agreements and the units will be governed by New York law. The unit agreement under which we issue your units will be filed with the SEC, either as an exhibit to an amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part or as an exhibit to a current report on Form 8-K. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy of a unit agreement when it is filed.
 
Principal Unit Agreement Terms
 
The following provisions will generally apply to all unit agreements unless otherwise stated in your prospectus supplement.
 
Enforcement of Rights
 
The unit agent under a unit agreement will act solely as our agent in connection with the units issued under that agreement. The unit agent will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders of those units or of the securities comprising those units. The unit agent will not be obligated to take any action on behalf of those holders to enforce or protect their rights under the units or the included securities.
 
Except as described in the next paragraph, a holder of a unit may, without the consent of the unit agent or any other holder, enforce its rights as holder under any security included in the unit, in accordance with the terms of that security and the indenture, warrant agreement or purchase contract under which that security is issued. Those terms are described elsewhere in this prospectus under the sections relating to debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts.
 
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units or any securities, other than debt securities, prepaid purchase contracts or warrants issued under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, that are included in those units. Limitations of this kind will be described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless otherwise stated in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each unit in global — i.e., book-entry — form only. Units in book-entry form will be represented by a global security registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the units represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in a unit will do so through participants in the depositary’s system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
In addition, we will issue each unit in registered form, unless we say otherwise in the prospectus supplement. Each unit and all securities comprising the unit will be issued in the same form. If we issue any units in registered, non-global form, the following will apply to them:
 
  •  The units will be issued in fully registered form. Holders may exchange their units for units of smaller or larger number, as long as the total number of units is not changed.
 
  •  Holders may exchange or transfer their units at the office of the unit agent. Holders may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated units at that office. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
  •  Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their units, but they may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may also require an indemnity before replacing any units.
 
  •  If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any units before their maturity, and we exercise our right as to less than all those units or other securities, we may block the exchange or transfer of those units during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or to exchange any unit selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any unit being partially settled. We may also block the transfer or exchange of any unit in this manner if the unit includes securities that are or may be selected for early settlement.
 
Only the depositary will be entitled to transfer or exchange a unit in global form, since it will be the sole holder of the unit.
 
Modification and Waiver of the Units
 
There are three types of changes we can make to the unit agreement and the units issued under that unit agreement:
 
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  •  reduce the percentage of outstanding units of any series or class the consent of whose holders is required to amend that series or class, or the applicable unit agreement with respect to that series or class, as described below.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  Second, any other change to a particular unit agreement and the units issued under that agreement would require the following approval:
 
  •  If the change affects only the units of a particular series, it must be approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding units of that series.
 
  •  If the change affects the units of more than one series issued under that agreement, it must be approved by the holders of a majority of all outstanding units of all series affected by the change, with the units of all the affected series voting together as one class for this purpose.
 
These provisions regarding changes with majority approval apply to changes affecting any securities issued under a unit agreement, as the governing document.
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  Third, we and the applicable unit agent may amend any unit or unit agreement without the consent of any holder:
 
  •  to cure any ambiguity;
 
  •  to correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision; or
 
  •  to make any other change that we believe is necessary or desirable and will not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the affected holders.
 
We do not need any approval to make changes that affect only units to be issued after the changes take effect. We may also make changes that do not adversely affect in any material respect a particular unit, even if they adversely affect in any material respect other units. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of the unaffected unit; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected units.
 
The foregoing applies also to any security issued under a unit agreement, as the governing document.
 
Additional Provisions of a Non-Prepaid Unit Agreement
 
In addition to the provisions described above, a non-prepaid unit agreement will include the provisions described below:
 
Obligations of Unit Holder
 
Each holder of units issued under a non-prepaid unit agreement will:
 
  •  be bound by the terms of each non-prepaid purchase contract included in the holder’s units and by the terms of the unit agreement with respect to those contracts; and
 
  •  appoint the unit agent as its authorized agent to execute, deliver and perform on the holder’s behalf each non-prepaid purchase contract included in the holder’s units.
 
The unit agreement for a unit that includes a non-prepaid purchase contract will also include provisions regarding the holder’s pledge of collateral and special settlement provisions. These are described above under “Description of Purchase Contracts AIG May Offer — Additional Terms of Non-Prepaid Purchase Contracts.”
 
Failure of Holder to Perform Obligations
 
If the holder fails to settle its obligations under a non-prepaid purchase contract included in a unit as required, the holder will not receive the purchase contract property or other consideration to be delivered at settlement of the purchase contract. Holders that fail to make timely settlement may also be obligated to pay interest or other amounts.


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Assumption of Obligations by Transferee
 
When the holder of a unit issued under a non-prepaid unit agreement transfers the unit to a new holder, the new holder will assume the obligations of the prior holder with respect to each purchase contract included in the unit, and the prior holder will be released from those obligations. Under the non-prepaid unit agreement, we will consent to the transfer of the unit, to the assumption of those obligations by the new holder and to the release of the prior holder, if the transfer is made in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
The non-prepaid unit agreements will not restrict our ability to merge or consolidate with, or sell our assets to, another corporation or firm or to engage in any other transactions. If at any time we merge or consolidate with, or sell substantially all of our assets to, another corporation or firm, the successor corporation or firm will succeed to and assume our obligations under the unit agreements. We will then be relieved of any further obligation under the units and the unit agreements. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in our credit rating, may reduce our operating results or may impair our financial condition. Holders of units will have no right to vote with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
No Events of Default
 
The non-prepaid unit agreements will not provide for any specific events of default.
 
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DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED STOCK AIG MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIG,” “us,” “we” or “our” in this section mean American International Group, Inc., and do not include the subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own shares of preferred stock or depositary shares, as the case may be, registered in their own names, on the books that the registrar or we maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in shares registered in street name or in shares issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean all purchasers of the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in shares of preferred stock or depositary shares should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
General
 
We may issue preferred stock in one or more series. We may also “reopen” a previously issued series of preferred stock and issue additional preferred stock of that series. In addition, we may issue preferred stock together with other preferred stock, debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts and common stock in the form of units as described above under “Description of Units AIG May Offer.” This section summarizes terms of the preferred stock that apply generally to all series. The description of most of the financial and other specific terms of your series will be in your prospectus supplement. Those terms may vary from the terms described here.
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the preferred stock and any related depositary shares. As you read this section, please remember that the specific terms of your series of preferred stock and any related depositary shares as described in your prospectus supplement will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms described in this section. If there are differences between your prospectus supplement and this prospectus, your prospectus supplement will control. Thus, the statements we make in this section may not apply to your series of preferred stock or any related depositary shares.
 
Reference to a series of preferred stock means all of the shares of preferred stock issued as part of the same series under a certificate of designations filed as part of our restated certificate of incorporation. Reference to your prospectus supplement means the prospectus supplement describing the specific terms of the preferred stock and any related depositary shares you purchase. The terms used in your prospectus supplement will have the meanings described in this prospectus, unless otherwise specified.
 
Our authorized capital stock includes 6,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $5.00 per share. The preferred stock will be governed by Delaware law. We do not have any preferred stock outstanding as of the date of this prospectus. The prospectus supplement with respect to any offered preferred stock will describe any preferred stock that may be outstanding as of the date of the prospectus supplement.
 
Preferred Stock Issued in Separate Series
 
The authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock are available for issuance from time to time at the discretion of our board of directors without shareholder approval. Our board of directors is authorized to divide the preferred stock into series and, with respect to each series, to determine the designations, the powers, preferences and rights and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of the series, including:
 
  •  dividend rights;
 
  •  conversion or exchange rights;
 
  •  voting rights;
 
  •  redemption rights and terms;
 
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  •  the serial designation of the series; and
 
  •  the number of shares constituting the series.
 
In addition, as described below under “— Fractional or Multiple Shares of Preferred Stock Issued as Depositary Shares”, we may, at our option, instead of offering whole individual shares of any series of preferred stock, offer depositary shares evidenced by depositary receipts, each representing a fraction of a share or some multiple of shares of the particular series of preferred stock issued and deposited with a depositary. The fraction of a share or multiple of shares of preferred stock which each depositary share represents will be stated in the prospectus supplement relating to any series of preferred stock offered through depositary shares.
 
The rights of holders of preferred stock may be adversely affected by the rights of holders of preferred stock that may be issued in the future. Our board of directors may cause shares of preferred stock to be issued in public or private transactions for any proper corporate purpose. Examples of proper corporate purposes include issuances to obtain additional financing for acquisitions and issuances to officers, directors and employees under their respective benefit plans. Our issuance of shares of preferred stock may have the effect of discouraging or making more difficult an acquisition.
 
Preferred stock will be fully paid and nonassessable when issued, which means that our holders will have paid their purchase price in full and that we may not ask them to surrender additional funds. Unless otherwise provided in your prospectus supplement, holders of preferred stock will not have preemptive or subscription rights to acquire more stock of AIG.
 
The transfer agent, registrar, dividend disbursing agent and redemption agent for shares of each series of preferred stock will be named in the prospectus supplement relating to that series.
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of our subsidiaries may purchase and resell preferred stock and depositary shares after their initial issuance in market-making transactions. We describe these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries.” We may also purchase, in our discretion, preferred stock and depositary shares to be held, resold or canceled.
 
Form of Preferred Stock and Depositary Shares
 
We may issue preferred stock in book-entry form. Preferred stock in book-entry form will be represented by a global security registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the shares of preferred stock represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in shares of preferred stock will do so through participants in the depositary’s system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. However, beneficial owners of any preferred stock in book-entry form will have the right to obtain their shares in non-global form. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.” All preferred stock will be issued in registered form.
 
We will issue depositary shares in book-entry form, to the same extent as we describe above for preferred stock. All depositary shares will be issued in registered form.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Preferred Stockholders’ Rights relative to common stockholders, such as the right of preferred stockholders to receive dividends and amounts on our liquidation, dissolution or winding-up before any such amounts may be paid to our common shareholders;
 
  •  Our ability to issue Fractional or Multiple Shares of Preferred Stock in the Form of Depositary Shares; and
 
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Preferred Stockholders’ Rights
 
Rank
 
Shares of each series of preferred stock will rank senior to our common stock with respect to dividends and distributions of assets. However, we will generally be able to pay dividends and distributions of assets to holders of our preferred stock only if we have satisfied our obligations on our indebtedness then due and payable.
 
Dividends
 
Holders of each series of preferred stock will be entitled to receive cash dividends when, as and if declared by our board of directors, from funds legally available for the payment of dividends. The rates and dates of payment of dividends for each series of preferred stock will be stated in your prospectus supplement. Dividends will be payable to holders of record of preferred stock as they appear on our books on the record dates fixed by our board of directors. Dividends on any series of preferred stock may be cumulative or noncumulative, as set forth in the prospectus supplement.
 
Redemption
 
If specified in your prospectus supplement, a series of preferred stock may be redeemable at any time, in whole or in part, at our option or the holder’s, and may be redeemed mandatorily.
 
Any restriction on the repurchase or redemption by us of our preferred stock while there is an arrearage in the payment of dividends will be described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Any partial redemptions of preferred stock will be made in a way that our board of directors decides is equitable.
 
Unless we default in the payment of the redemption price, dividends will cease to accrue after the redemption date on shares of preferred stock called for redemption and all rights of holders of these shares, including voting rights, will terminate except for the right to receive the redemption price.
 
Conversion or Exchange Rights
 
Our prospectus supplement relating to any series of preferred stock that is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable will state the terms on which shares of that series are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of common stock, another series of preferred stock or other securities or debt or equity securities of third parties.
 
Liquidation Preference
 
Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of AIG, holders of each series of preferred stock will be entitled to receive distributions upon liquidation in the amount described in your prospectus supplement, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid dividends. These distributions will be made before any distribution is made on our common stock. If the liquidation amounts payable relating to the preferred stock of any series and any other parity securities ranking on a parity regarding liquidation rights are not paid in full, the holders of the preferred stock of that series and the other parity securities will share in any distribution of our available assets on a ratable basis in proportion to the full liquidation preferences of each security. Holders of our preferred stock will not be entitled to any other amounts from us after they have received their full liquidation preference and accrued and unpaid dividends.
 
Voting Rights
 
The holders of preferred stock of each series will have no voting rights, except:
 
  •  as stated in the prospectus supplement and in the certificate of designations establishing the series; or
 
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Limitations on Rights
 
We have previously issued junior subordinated debentures that contain provisions that restrict our activities with respect to our preferred stock. Specifically, the issued debentures provide that if an event of default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the issued debentures or we have given notice of our election to defer interest payments on the issued debentures but the related deferral period has not yet commenced or a deferral period is continuing, then we will not, and will not permit any of our subsidiaries to: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of our capital stock, (b) make any payment of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, or repay, purchase or redeem any of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with or junior to the issued debentures or (c) make any guarantee payments with respect to any of our guarantees of the securities of any subsidiary if such guarantee ranks pari passu with, or junior in interest to, the issued debentures. However, these limitations do not apply to:
 
  •  purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of our capital stock in connection with (a) any employment benefit plan or other compensatory contract or arrangement; or the Assurance Agreement, dated as of June 27, 2005, by AIG in favor of eligible employees and relating to specified obligations of Starr International Company, Inc. (as such agreement may be amended, supplemented, extended, modified or replaced from time to time); or (b) a dividend reinvestment, stock purchase plan or other similar plan;
 
  •  any exchange or conversion of any class or series of our capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of AIG) for any class or series of our capital stock or of any class or series of our indebtedness for any class or series of our capital stock; or
 
  •  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in accordance with the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged; or
 
  •  any declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, equity securities or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights in accordance with any stockholders’ rights plan; or
 
  •  any dividend in the form of equity securities, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks on a parity with or junior to such equity securities; or
 
  •  any payment during a deferral period of current or deferred interest in respect of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with the issued debentures that is made pro rata to the amounts due on such pari passu securities and on the issued debentures, provided that such payments are made in accordance with certain limitations requiring pro rata distributions while certain market disruption events are ongoing, and any payments of deferred interest on pari passu securities that, if not made, would cause us to breach the terms of the instrument governing such pari passu securities; or
 
  •  any payment of principal in respect of pari passu securities having an earlier scheduled maturity date than the issued debentures, as required under a provision of such pari passu securities that have similar repayment of principal provisions as the issued debentures, or any such payment in respect of pari passu securities having the same scheduled maturity date as the issued debentures that is made on a pro rata basis among one or more series of such securities and the issued debentures; or
 
  •  any repayment or redemption of a security necessary to avoid a breach of the instrument governing the same.
 
In addition, if any deferral period for the issued debentures lasts longer than one year, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries will be permitted to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any securities ranking junior to or pari passu with any common stock, certain qualifying warrants and certain qualifying non-cumulative preferred stock, the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant deferral period until the first anniversary of the date on which all deferred interest has been paid, subject to the exceptions listed above. However, if we are involved in a business combination where immediately after its consummation more than 50% of the surviving or resulting entity’s voting stock is owned by the shareholders of the other party to the business combination or continuing directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the surviving or resulting


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entity’s board of directors, then the one-year restriction on repurchases described in the previous sentence will not apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next interest payment date following the date of consummation of the business combination.
 
Fractional or Multiple Shares of Preferred Stock Issued as Depositary Shares
 
We may choose to offer fractional shares or some multiple of shares of our preferred stock, rather than whole individual shares. If we decide to do so, we will issue the preferred stock in the form of depositary shares. Each depositary share would represent a fraction or multiple of a share of the preferred stock and would be evidenced by a depositary receipt.
 
Deposit Agreement
 
We will deposit the shares of preferred stock to be represented by depositary shares under a deposit agreement. The parties to the deposit agreement will be:
 
  •  AIG;
 
  •  a bank or other financial institutional selected by us and named in the prospectus supplement, as preferred stock depositary; and
 
  •  the holders from time to time of depositary receipts issued under that deposit agreement.
 
Each holder of a depositary share will be entitled to all the rights and preferences of the underlying preferred stock, including, where applicable, dividend, voting, redemption, conversion and liquidation rights, in proportion to the applicable fraction or multiple of a share of preferred stock represented by the depositary share. The depositary shares will be evidenced by depositary receipts issued under the deposit agreement. The depositary receipts will be distributed to those persons purchasing the fractional or multiple shares of preferred stock. A depositary receipt may evidence any number of whole depositary shares.
 
We will file the deposit agreement, including the form of depositary receipt, with the SEC, either as an exhibit to an amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part or as an exhibit to a current report on Form 8-K. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy of the form of deposit agreement.
 
Dividends and Other Distributions
 
The preferred stock depositary will distribute any cash dividends or other cash distributions received in respect of the deposited preferred stock to the record holders of depositary shares relating to the underlying preferred stock in proportion to the number of depositary shares owned by the holders. The preferred stock depositary will distribute any property received by it other than cash to the record holders of depositary shares entitled to those distributions, unless it determines that the distribution cannot be made proportionally among those holders or that it is not feasible to make a distribution. In that event, the preferred stock depositary may, with our approval, sell the property and distribute the net proceeds from the sale to the holders of the depositary shares in proportion to the number of depositary shares they own.
 
The amounts distributed to holders of depositary shares will be reduced by any amounts required to be withheld by the preferred stock depositary or by us on account of taxes or other governmental charges.
 
Redemption of Preferred Stock
 
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of preferred stock. If fewer than all the depositary shares are to be redeemed, the preferred stock depositary will select the depositary shares to be redeemed by lot or ratably or by any other equitable method it chooses.
 
After the date fixed for redemption, the depositary shares called for redemption will no longer be deemed to be outstanding, and all rights of the holders of those shares will cease, including voting rights, except the right to receive the amount payable and any other property to which the holders were entitled upon the redemption. To receive this amount or other property, the holders must surrender the depositary receipts evidencing their depositary shares to the preferred stock depositary. Any funds that we deposit with the preferred stock depositary for any depositary shares that the holders fail to redeem will be returned to us after a period of two years from the date we deposit the funds.
 
Withdrawal of Preferred Stock
 
Unless the related depositary shares have previously been called for redemption, any holder of depositary shares may receive the number of whole shares of the related series of preferred stock and any money or other property represented by those depositary receipts after surrendering the depositary receipts at the corporate trust office of the preferred stock depositary, paying any taxes, charges and fees provided for in the deposit agreement and complying with any other requirement of the deposit agreement. Holders of depositary shares making these withdrawals will be entitled to receive whole shares of preferred stock, but holders of whole shares of preferred stock will not be entitled to deposit that preferred stock under the deposit agreement or to receive depositary receipts for that preferred stock after withdrawal. If the depositary shares surrendered by the holder in connection with withdrawal exceed the number of depositary shares that represent the number of whole shares of preferred stock to be withdrawn, the preferred stock depositary will deliver to that holder at the same time a new depositary receipt evidencing the excess number of depositary shares.
 
Voting Deposited Preferred Stock
 
When the preferred stock depositary receives notice of any meeting at which the holders of any series of deposited preferred stock are entitled to vote, the preferred stock depositary will mail the information contained in the notice to the record holders of the depositary shares relating to the applicable series of preferred stock. Each record holder of the depositary shares on the record date, which will be the same date as the record date for the preferred stock, may instruct the preferred stock depositary to vote the amount of the preferred stock represented by the holder’s depositary shares. To the extent possible, the preferred stock depositary will vote the amount of the series of preferred stock represented by depositary shares in accordance with the instructions it receives. We will agree to take all reasonable actions that the preferred stock depositary determines are necessary to enable the preferred stock depositary to vote as instructed. If the preferred stock depositary does not receive specific instructions from the holders of any depositary shares representing a series of preferred stock, the preferred stock depositary will vote all shares of that series in proportion to the instructions received.
 
Conversion of Preferred Stock
 
If our prospectus supplement relating to the depositary shares says that the deposited preferred stock is convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for common stock, preferred stock of another series or other securities, or debt or equity securities of one or more third parties, our depositary shares, as such, will not be convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for any securities. Rather, any holder of the depositary shares may surrender the related depositary receipts to the preferred stock depositary with written instructions to instruct us to cause conversion, exercise or exchange of our preferred stock represented by the depositary shares into or for whole shares of common stock, shares of another series of preferred stock or other securities or debt or equity securities of the relevant third party, as applicable. Upon receipt of those instructions and any amounts payable by the holder in connection with the conversion, exercise or exchange, we will cause the conversion, exercise or exchange using the same procedures as those provided for conversion, exercise or exchange of the deposited preferred stock. If only some of the depositary shares are to be converted, exercised or exchanged, a new depositary receipt or receipts will be issued for any depositary shares not to be converted, exercised or exchanged.


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Amendment and Termination of the Deposit Agreement
 
We may amend the form of depositary receipt evidencing the depositary shares and any provision of the deposit agreement at any time and from time to time by agreement with the preferred stock depositary.
 
However, any amendment that imposes additional charges or materially and adversely alters any substantial existing right of the holders of depositary shares will not be effective unless the holders of at least a majority of the affected depositary shares then outstanding approve the amendment. We will make no amendment that impairs the right of any holder of depositary shares, as described above under “— Withdrawal of Preferred Stock,” to receive shares of the related series of preferred stock and any money or other property represented by those depositary shares, except in order to comply with mandatory provisions of applicable law. Holders who retain or acquire their depositary receipts after an amendment becomes effective will be deemed to have agreed to the amendment and will be bound by the amended deposit agreement.
 
The deposit agreement will automatically terminate if:
 
  •  all outstanding depositary shares have been redeemed or converted or exchanged for any other securities into which they or the underlying preferred stock are convertible or exchangeable; or
 
  •  a final distribution in respect of our preferred stock has been made to the holders of depositary shares in connection with any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of AIG.
 
We may terminate the deposit agreement at any time, and the preferred stock depositary will give notice of that termination to the recordholders of all outstanding depositary receipts not less than 30 days before the termination date. In that event, the preferred stock depositary will deliver or make available for delivery to holders of depositary shares, upon surrender of the depositary receipt evidencing the depositary shares, the number of whole or fractional shares of the related series of preferred stock as are represented by those depositary shares.
 
Charges of Preferred Stock Depositary; Taxes and Other Governmental Charges
 
We will pay the fees, charges and expenses of our preferred stock depositary provided in the deposit agreement. Holders of depositary receipts will pay any taxes and governmental charges and any charges provided in the deposit agreement to be payable by them, including a fee for the withdrawal of shares of preferred stock upon surrender of depositary receipts. If the preferred stock depositary incurs fees, charges or expenses for which it is not otherwise liable at the election of a holder of a depositary receipt or other person, that holder or other person will be liable for those fees, charges and expenses.
 
Resignation and Removal of Depositary
 
The preferred stock depositary may resign at any time by giving us notice, and we may remove or replace the preferred stock depositary at any time.
 
Reports to Holders
 
We will deliver all required reports and communications to holders of the preferred stock to the preferred stock depositary, who will forward those reports and communications to the holders of depositary shares.
 
Limitation on Liability of the Preferred Stock Depositary
 
The preferred stock depositary will not be liable if we are prevented or delayed by law or any circumstances beyond our control in performing our obligations under the deposit agreement. The obligations of the preferred stock depositary under the deposit agreement will be limited to performance in good faith of its duties under the agreement, and the preferred stock depositary will not be obligated to prosecute or defend any legal proceeding in respect of any depositary shares, depositary receipts or shares of preferred stock unless satisfactory and reasonable protection from expenses and liability is furnished. This is called an indemnity. The preferred stock depositary may rely upon written advice of counsel or accountants, upon information provided by holders of depositary receipts or other persons believed to be competent and upon documents believed to be genuine.


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DESCRIPTION OF COMMON STOCK AIG MAY OFFER
 
AIG’s authorized capital stock includes 5,000,000,000 shares of common stock (par value $2.50 per share). As of April 30, 2007, there were 2,594,237,019 shares of common stock outstanding.
 
General
 
All of the outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and nonassessable. Subject to the prior rights of the holders of shares of preferred stock that may be issued and outstanding, none of which are currently outstanding, the holders of common stock are entitled to receive:
 
  •  dividends when, as and if declared by our board of directors out of funds legally available for the payment of dividends (there are restrictions that apply under applicable insurance laws, however, to the payment of dividends to AIG by its insurance subsidiaries); and
 
  •  in the event of dissolution of AIG, to share ratably in all assets remaining after payment of liabilities and satisfaction of the liquidation preferences, if any, of then outstanding shares of preferred stock, as provided in AIG’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation.
 
Each holder of common stock is entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters presented to a vote at a shareholders meeting, including the election of directors. Holders of common stock have no cumulative voting rights or preemptive rights to purchase or subscribe for any additional shares of common stock or other securities and there are no conversion rights or redemption or sinking fund provisions with respect to the common stock. Additional authorized shares of common stock may be issued without shareholder approval.
 
Impact of Other Securities
 
We have previously issued junior subordinated debentures that contain provisions that restrict our activities with respect to our common stock. Specifically, the issued debentures provide that if an event of default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the issued debentures or we have given notice of our election to defer interest payments on the issued debentures but the related deferral period has not yet commenced or a deferral period is continuing, then we will not, and will not permit any of our subsidiaries to: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of our capital stock, (b) make any payment of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, or repay, purchase or redeem any of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with or junior to the issued debentures or (c) make any guarantee payments with respect to any of our guarantees of the securities of any subsidiary if such guarantee ranks pari passu with, or junior in interest to, the issued debentures. However, these limitations do not apply to:
 
  •  purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of our capital stock in connection with (a) any employment benefit plan or other compensatory contract or arrangement; or the Assurance Agreement, dated as of June 27, 2005, by AIG in favor of eligible employees and relating to specified obligations of Starr International Company, Inc. (as such agreement may be amended, supplemented, extended, modified or replaced from time to time); or (b) a dividend reinvestment, stock purchase plan or other similar plan;
 
  •  any exchange or conversion of any class or series of our capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of AIG) for any class or series of our capital stock or of any class or series of our indebtedness for any class or series of our capital stock; or
 
  •  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in accordance with the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged; or
 
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  •  any dividend in the form of equity securities, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks on a parity with or junior to such equity securities; or
 
  •  any payment during a deferral period of current or deferred interest in respect of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with the issued debentures that is made pro rata to the amounts due on such pari passu securities and on the issued debentures, provided that such payments are made in accordance with certain limitations requiring pro rata distributions while certain market disruption events are ongoing, and any payments of deferred interest on pari passu securities that, if not made, would cause us to breach the terms of the instrument governing such pari passu securities; or
 
  •  any payment of principal in respect of pari passu securities having an earlier scheduled maturity date than the issued debentures, as required under a provision of such pari passu securities that have similar repayment of principal provisions as the issued debentures, or any such payment in respect of pari passu securities having the same scheduled maturity date as the issued debentures that is made on a pro rata basis among one or more series of such securities and the issued debentures; or
 
  •  any repayment or redemption of a security necessary to avoid a breach of the instrument governing the same.
 
In addition, if any deferral period for the issued debentures lasts longer than one year, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries will be permitted to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any securities ranking junior to or pari passu with any common stock, certain qualifying warrants and certain qualifying non-cumulative preferred stock, the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant deferral period until the first anniversary of the date on which all deferred interest has been paid, subject to the exceptions listed above. However, if we are involved in a business combination where immediately after its consummation more than 50% of the surviving or resulting entity’s voting stock is owned by the shareholders of the other party to the business combination or continuing directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the surviving or resulting entity’s board of directors, then the one-year restriction on repurchases described in the previous sentence will not apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next interest payment date following the date of consummation of the business combination.
 
Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
 
Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law applies to AIG. In general, Section 203 prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. A “business combination” includes a merger, asset sale or a transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. An “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns (or, in certain cases, within the preceding three years, did own) 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock. Under Section 203, a business combination between us and an interested stockholder is prohibited unless it satisfies one of the following conditions:
 
  •  before the stockholder became an interested stockholder, AIG’s board of directors must have approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;
 
  •  on consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of our voting stock outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding, for purposes of determining the number of shares outstanding, shares owned by persons who are directors and officers; or
 
  •  the business combination is approved by AIG’s board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of the stockholders by the affirmative vote of at least 662/3% of the outstanding voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder.


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MARKET PRICE AND DIVIDEND INFORMATION
 
The table below sets forth, for the calendar quarters indicated, the high and low closing sales prices per share of common stock of AIG as reported on the New York Stock Exchange and the dividends per share of common stock declared by AIG during those periods.
 
Shares of common stock of AIG are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trade under the symbol “AIG.”
 
                         
    Common Stock  
    High     Low     Dividends  
 
2004:
                       
First Quarter
    75.12       66.79       0.065  
Second Quarter
    76.77       69.39       0.065  
Third Quarter
    72.66       66.48       0.075  
Fourth Quarter
    68.72       54.70       0.075  
2005:
                       
First Quarter
    73.12       55.41       0.125  
Second Quarter
    58.48       50.35       0.125  
Third Quarter
    62.67       58.61       0.150  
Fourth Quarter
    69.10       59.33       0.150  
2006:
                       
First Quarter
    70.83       65.35       0.150  
Second Quarter
    66.71       58.54       0.165  
Third Quarter
    66.48       57.76       0.165  
Fourth Quarter
    72.81       66.49       0.165  
2007:
                       
First Quarter
    72.15       66.77       0.165  
Second Quarter (through June 21, 2007)
    72.65       66.49       0.20  
 
As of March 23, 2007, there were approximately 57,500 holders of record of AIG’s common stock.
 
Subject to the dividend preference of any of our preferred stock that may be outstanding, the holders of common stock will be entitled to receive dividends that may be declared by our board of directors from funds legally available for the payment of dividends. There are restrictions that apply under applicable insurance laws, however, to the payment of dividends to us by our insurance subsidiaries.


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DESCRIPTION OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES AIG MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIG,” “us,” “we” or “our” in this section mean American International Group, Inc., and do not include the subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own junior subordinated debentures registered in their own names, on the books that we or our agent maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in junior subordinated debentures registered in street name or in junior subordinated debentures issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean those who invest in the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in the junior subordinated debentures should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
The junior subordinated debentures will be governed by a junior subordinated indenture or by a subordinated junior subordinated indenture, as supplemented for the particular series, and will be a contract between us and the indenture trustee, which will initially be The Bank of New York. We refer to our junior subordinated indenture or subordinated junior subordinated indenture, as applicable, as the “junior debt indenture” in this prospectus. The indenture trustee has two main roles:
 
  •  The indenture trustee can enforce the rights of holders against us if we default on our obligations under the terms of the junior debt indenture or the junior subordinated debentures. There are some limitations on the extent to which the indenture trustee acts on behalf of holders, described below under “— Events of Default — Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.”
 
  •  The indenture trustee performs administrative duties for us, such as sending interest payments to holders and notices, and transferring a holder’s junior subordinated debentures to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
The junior debt indenture and its associated documents contain the full legal text of the matters described in this section. The junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures are governed by New York law. Copies of our junior debt indentures are exhibits to our registration statement. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy.
 
General
 
We may issue as many distinct series of junior subordinated debentures under the junior debt indenture as we wish. The provisions of the junior debt indenture allow us not only to issue junior subordinated debentures with terms different from those previously issued, but also to “reopen” a previous issue of a series of junior subordinated debentures and issue additional junior subordinated debentures of that series.
 
This section summarizes the material terms of the junior subordinated debentures that are common to all series, although the prospectus supplement may also describe differences from the material terms summarized here.
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the junior subordinated debentures. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the junior debt indenture, including definitions of certain terms used in the junior debt indenture. In this summary, we describe the meaning of only some of the more important terms. You must look to the junior debt indenture for the most complete description of what we describe in summary form in this prospectus.
 
The prospectus supplement relating to any offered junior subordinated debentures will describe the following terms of the series:
 
  •  the title of the series of the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  the date or dates on which the junior subordinated debentures will mature;
 
  •  the rate or rates, which may be fixed or variable per annum, at which the junior subordinated debentures will bear interest, if any, and the date or dates from which that interest, if any, will accrue;


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  •  the dates on which interest, if any, on the junior subordinated debentures will be payable and the regular record dates for the interest payment dates;
 
  •  our right, if any, to defer or extend an interest payment date;
 
  •  any mandatory or optional sinking funds or similar provisions;
 
  •  any additions, modifications or deletions in the events of default under the junior debt indenture or covenants of AIG specified in the junior debt indenture with respect to the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  the date, if any, after which and the price or prices at which the junior subordinated debentures may, in accordance with any optional or mandatory redemption provisions, be redeemed and the other detailed terms and provisions of those optional or mandatory redemption provisions, if any;
 
  •  if other than denominations of $25 and any of its integral multiples, the denominations in which the junior subordinated debentures will be issuable; the currency of payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  the applicability of the provisions described under “— Defeasance” below;
 
  •  any event of default under the junior subordinated debentures if different from those described under “— Events of Default” below;
 
  •  any index or indices used to determine the amount of payments of principal of and premium, if any, on the junior subordinated debentures and the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
 
  •  the terms and conditions of any obligation or right of us or a holder to convert or exchange the junior subordinated debentures into other securities;
 
  •  the relative degree, if any, to which such junior subordinated debentures of the series will be senior to or be subordinated to other series of such junior subordinated debentures or other indebtedness of AIG in right of payment, whether such other series of junior subordinated debentures or other indebtedness are outstanding or not; and
 
  •  any other special feature of the junior subordinated debentures.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Additional Mechanics relevant to the junior subordinated debentures under normal circumstances, such as how holders transfer ownership and where we make payments;
 
  •  Our Option to Defer Interest Payments on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Our right to Redeem the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Holders’ rights in several Special Situations, such as if we merge with another company or if we want to change a term of the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Subordination Provisions that may prohibit us from making payment on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Our right to release ourselves from all or some of our obligations under the junior subordinated debentures and the junior debt indenture by a process called Defeasance;
 
  •  Holders’ rights if we Default or experience other financial difficulties;
 
  •  Our ability to Convert or Exchange junior subordinated debentures into junior subordinated debentures of another series or other securities; and
 
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Additional Mechanics
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless we specify otherwise in the prospectus supplement, the junior subordinated debentures will be issued:
 
  •  only in fully registered form; and
 
  •  in denominations that are even multiples of $25.
 
If a junior subordinated debenture is issued as a global junior subordinated debenture, only the depositary — e.g., DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, each as defined below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance” — will be entitled to transfer and exchange the junior subordinated debenture as described in this subsection, since the depositary will be the sole holder of that junior subordinated debenture. Those who own beneficial interests in a global security do so through participants in the depositary’s securities clearance system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry procedures below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Holders may have their junior subordinated debentures broken into more junior subordinated debentures of smaller denominations of not less than $25 or combined into fewer junior subordinated debentures of larger denominations, as long as the total principal amount is not changed. This is called an exchange.
 
Subject to the restrictions relating to junior subordinated debentures represented by global securities, holders may exchange or transfer junior subordinated debentures at the office of the indenture trustee. They may also replace lost, stolen or mutilated junior subordinated debentures at that office. The indenture trustee acts as our agent for registering junior subordinated debentures in the names of holders and transferring junior subordinated debentures. We may change this appointment to another entity or perform it ourselves. The entity performing the role of maintaining the list of registered holders is called the security registrar. It will also perform transfers. The indenture trustee’s agent may require an indemnity before replacing any junior subordinated debentures.
 
Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange junior subordinated debentures, but holders may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the exchange or transfer. The transfer or exchange will only be made if the security registrar is satisfied with your proof of ownership.
 
If we designate additional transfer agents, they will be named in the prospectus supplement. We may cancel the designation of any particular transfer agent. We may also approve a change in the office through which any transfer agent acts.
 
In the event of any redemption, neither we nor the indenture trustee will be required to:
 
  •  issue, register the transfer of or exchange junior subordinated debentures of any series during the period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of junior subordinated debentures of that series and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; and
 
  •  transfer or exchange any junior subordinated debentures so selected for redemption, except, in the case of any junior subordinated debentures being redeemed in part, any portion thereof not being redeemed.
 
Payment and Paying Agents
 
Your prospectus supplement will specify the manner in which payments will be made. The paying agent for the junior subordinated debentures will initially be the indenture trustee.
 
Notices
 
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Option to Defer Interest Payments
 
If provided in your prospectus supplement, so long as no event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures has occurred and is continuing as a result of any failure by us to pay any amounts with respect to the junior subordinated debentures, we will have the right at any time and from time to time during the term of any series of junior subordinated debentures to defer payment of interest for an extension period of up to the number of consecutive interest payment periods specified in your prospectus supplement. The extension period is subject to the terms, conditions and covenants, if any, specified in your prospectus supplement. U.S. federal income tax consequences and other special considerations applicable to any such junior subordinated debentures will be described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, during any applicable extension period, we may not:
 
  •  declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of our capital stock; or
 
  •  make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any of our debt securities that rank on a parity in all respects with or junior in interest to the junior subordinated debentures other than:
 
  —  repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of our capital stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of our capital stock (or securities convertible into or exercisable for our capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction or business combination;
 
  —  as a result of any exchange or conversion of any class or series of our capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of AIG) for any class or series of our capital stock or of any class or series of our indebtedness for any class or series of our capital stock;
 
  —  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in accordance with the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged;
 
  —  any declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights in accordance with any stockholders’ rights plan; or
 
  —  any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks on a parity with or junior to such stock.
 
Prior to the termination of any applicable extension period, we may further defer the payment of interest.
 
Redemption
 
Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we may, at our option redeem the junior subordinated debentures of any series in whole at any time or in part from time to time. If the junior subordinated debentures of any series are redeemable only on or after a specified date or upon the satisfaction of additional conditions, the applicable prospectus supplement will specify this date or describe these conditions. Unless otherwise indicated in the form of security for such series, junior subordinated debentures in denominations larger than $25 may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $25. Except as otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the redemption price for any junior subordinated debenture will equal any accrued and unpaid interest, including additional interest, to the redemption date, plus 100% of the principal amount.


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Except as otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, if a tax event of the kind described below or an additional event described in the applicable prospectus supplement with respect to a series of junior subordinated debentures has occurred and is continuing, we may, at our option redeem that series of junior subordinated debentures in whole, but not in part, at any time within 90 days following the occurrence of the tax event, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures then outstanding plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption.
 
Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, a “tax event” means the receipt by us of an opinion of independent counsel, experienced in tax matters, to the effect that, as a result of any tax change, there is more than an insubstantial risk that any of the following will occur:
 
  •  AIG is, or will be within 90 days after the date of the opinion of counsel, subject to U.S. federal income tax on income received or accrued on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  interest payable by us on the junior subordinated debentures is not, or within 90 days after the opinion of counsel will not be, deductible by us, in whole or in part, for U.S. federal income tax purposes; or
 
  •  AIG is, or will be within 90 days after the date of the opinion of counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges.
 
As used above, the term “tax change” means any of the following:
 
  •  any amendment to or change, including any announced prospective change, in the laws or any regulations under the laws of the U.S. or of any political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the U.S., if the amendment or change is enacted, promulgated or announced on or after the date the junior subordinated debentures are issued; or
 
  •  any official administrative pronouncement, including any private letter ruling, technical advice memorandum, field service advice, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement, including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt any procedures or regulations, or any judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, whether or not the pronouncement or decision is issued to or in connection with a proceeding involving us or is subject to review or appeal, if the pronouncement or decision is enacted, promulgated or announced on or after the date of the issuance of the junior subordinated debentures.
 
Notice of any redemption will be mailed at least 45 days but not more than 75 days before the redemption date to each holder of junior subordinated debentures to be redeemed at its registered address. Unless we default in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the junior subordinated debentures or portions thereof called for redemption.
 
Special Situations
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
We are generally permitted to consolidate or merge with another company or firm. We are also permitted to sell or lease substantially all of our assets to another firm, or to buy or lease substantially all of the assets of another firm. However, we may not take any of these actions unless all the following conditions are met:
 
  •  When we merge or consolidate out of existence or sell or lease substantially all of our assets, the other firm may not be organized under a foreign country’s laws, that is, it must be a corporation, partnership or trust organized under the laws of a state of the U.S. or the District of Columbia or under federal law, and it must agree to be legally responsible for the junior subordinated debentures.
 
  •  The merger, sale of assets or other transaction must not cause a default on the junior subordinated debentures, and we must not already be in default (unless the merger or other transaction would cure the default). For purposes of this no-default test, a default would include an event of default that has occurred and not been cured. A default for this purpose would also include any event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or our default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.


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If the conditions described above are satisfied with respect to any series of junior subordinated debentures, we will not need to obtain the approval of the holders of those junior subordinated debentures in order to merge or consolidate or to sell our assets. Also, these conditions will apply only if we wish to merge or consolidate with another entity or sell our assets substantially as an entirety to another entity. We will not need to satisfy these conditions if we enter into other types of transactions, including any transaction in which we acquire the stock or assets of another entity, any transaction that involves a change of control but in which we do not merge or consolidate and any transaction in which we sell less than substantially all of our assets. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in our credit rating or may reduce our operating results or impair our financial condition. Holders of our junior subordinated debentures, however, will have no approval right with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
Modification and Waiver of the Junior Subordinated Debentures
 
There are four types of changes we can make to the junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures issued under that indenture.
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders.  First, there are changes that cannot be made to the junior subordinated debentures without specific approval of each holder of a junior subordinated debenture affected by the change. Affected junior subordinated debentures may be all or less than all of the junior subordinated debentures issued under that junior debt indenture or all or less than all of the junior subordinated debentures of a series. Following is a list of those types of changes:
 
  •  change the stated maturity of the principal or interest on a junior subordinated debenture;
 
  •  reduce any amounts due on a junior subordinated debenture;
 
  •  reduce the amount of principal payable upon acceleration of the maturity of a junior subordinated debenture (including the amount payable on an original issue discount security) following a default;
 
  •  change the currency of payment on a junior subordinated debenture;
 
  •  impair a holder’s right to sue for payment;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of junior subordinated debentures whose consent is needed to modify or amend the junior debt indenture;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of junior subordinated debentures whose consent is needed to waive compliance with certain provisions of the junior debt indenture or to waive certain defaults;
 
  •  modify any other aspect of the provisions dealing with modification and waiver of the junior debt indenture.
 
We may, with the indenture trustee’s consent, execute, without the consent of any holder of junior subordinated debentures, any supplemental indenture for the purpose of creating any new series of junior subordinated debentures.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  The second type of change to the junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures is the kind that requires a vote in favor by holders of junior subordinated debentures owning a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular junior subordinated debentures affected thereby. Most changes fall into this category, except for clarifying changes and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the junior subordinated debentures. We may also obtain a waiver of a past default from the holders of junior subordinated debentures owning a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected. However, we cannot obtain a waiver of a payment default or any other aspect of the junior debt indenture or the junior subordinated debentures listed in the first category described above under “— Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders” unless we obtain the individual consent of each holder to the waiver.
 
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We may also make changes or obtain waivers that do not adversely affect in any material respect a particular junior subordinated debenture, even if they affect other junior subordinated debentures. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that junior subordinated debenture; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected junior subordinated debentures.
 
Modification of Subordination Provisions.  We may not modify the subordination provisions of the junior debt indenture in a manner that would adversely affect in any material respect the outstanding junior subordinated debentures, without the consent of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular junior subordinated debentures affected thereby. Also, we may not modify the subordination provisions of any outstanding junior subordinated debentures without the consent of each holder of our senior indebtedness that would be adversely affected thereby. The term “senior indebtedness” is defined below under “Subordination Provisions”.
 
Subordination Provisions
 
Holders of junior subordinated debentures should recognize that contractual provisions in the junior subordinated debenture may prohibit us from making payments on those debentures. Junior subordinated debentures are subordinate and junior in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner stated in the junior debt indenture, to all of our senior indebtedness, as defined in the junior debt indenture.
 
The junior debt indenture defines “senior indebtedness” as all indebtedness and obligations of, or guaranteed or assumed by, us for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, whether existing now or in the future, and all amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of any indebtedness or obligations of that kind. Senior debt excludes the junior subordinated debentures and any other indebtedness or obligations that would otherwise constitute indebtedness if it is specifically designated as being subordinate, or not superior, in right of payment to the subordinated junior subordinated debentures.
 
The junior debt indenture provides that, unless all principal of and any premium or interest on the senior indebtedness has been paid in full, no payment or other distribution may be made with respect to any junior subordinated debentures in the following circumstances:
 
  •  in the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization, assignment for creditors or other similar proceedings or events involving us or our assets;
 
  •  (a) in the event and during the continuation of any default in the payment of principal, premium or interest on any senior indebtedness beyond any applicable grace period or (b) in the event that any event of default with respect to any senior indebtedness has occurred and is continuing, permitting the holders of that senior indebtedness (or a trustee) to accelerate the maturity of that senior indebtedness, whether or not the maturity is in fact accelerated (unless, in the case of (a) or (b), the payment default or event of default has been cured or waived or ceased to exist and any related acceleration has been rescinded) or (c) in the event that any judicial proceeding is pending with respect to a payment default or event of default described in (a) or (b);
 
  •  or in the event that any junior subordinated debentures have been declared due and payable before their stated maturity.
 
If the indenture trustee under the junior debt indenture or any holders of the junior subordinated debentures receive any payment or distribution that is prohibited under the subordination provisions, then the indenture trustee or the holders will have to repay that money to the holders of the senior indebtedness.
 
Even if the subordination provisions prevent us from making any payment when due on the junior subordinated debentures of any series, we will be in default on our obligations under that series if we do not make the payment when due. This means that the indenture trustee under the junior subordinated debenture and the holders of that series can take action against us, but they will not receive any money until the claims of the holders of senior indebtedness have been fully satisfied. The junior debt indenture allows the holders of senior indebtedness to obtain a court order requiring us and any holder of junior subordinated debentures to comply with the subordination provisions.


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Defeasance
 
The following discussion of full defeasance and covenant defeasance will be applicable to each series of junior subordinated debentures that is denominated in U.S. dollars and has a fixed rate of interest and will apply to other series of junior subordinated debentures if we so specify in the prospectus supplement.
 
Full Defeasance
 
If there is a change in U.S. federal tax law, as described below, we can legally release ourselves from any payment or other obligations on the junior subordinated debentures, called full defeasance, if we put in place the following other arrangements for holders to be repaid:
 
  •  We must deposit in trust for the benefit of all holders of the junior subordinated debentures a combination of money and notes or bonds of the U.S. government or a U.S. government agency or U.S. government-sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the junior subordinated debentures on their various due dates.
 
  •  There must be a change in current U.S. federal tax law or an IRS ruling that lets us make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the junior subordinated debentures any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the junior subordinated debentures ourselves. Under current federal tax law, the deposit and our legal release from the obligations pursuant to the junior subordinated debentures would be treated as though we took back your junior subordinated debentures and gave you your share of the cash and notes or bonds deposited in trust. In that event, you could recognize gain or loss on the junior subordinated debentures you give back to us.
 
  •  We must deliver to the indenture trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming the tax law change described above.
 
  •  No event or condition may exist that, under the provisions described above under “— Subordination Provisions” above, would prevent us from making payments of principal, premium or interest on those junior subordinated debentures on the date of the deposit referred to above or during the 90 days after that date.
 
If we ever did accomplish full defeasance, as described above, you would have to rely solely on the trust deposit for repayment on the junior subordinated debentures. You could not look to us for repayment in the unlikely event of any shortfall.
 
Covenant Defeasance
 
Under current U.S. federal tax law, we can make the same type of deposit as described above and we will be released from some of the restrictive covenants under the junior subordinated debentures that may be described in the prospectus supplement. This is called covenant defeasance. In that event, you would lose the protection of these covenants but would gain the protection of having money and U.S. government or U.S. government agency notes or bonds set aside in trust to repay the junior subordinated debentures. In order to achieve covenant defeasance, we must do the following:
 
  •  We must deposit in trust for the benefit of all holders of the junior subordinated debentures a combination of money and notes or bonds of the U.S. government or a U.S. government agency or U.S. government-sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the junior subordinated debentures on their various due dates.
 
  •  We must deliver to the indenture trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming that under current U.S. federal income tax law we may make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the junior subordinated debentures any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the junior subordinated debentures ourselves.


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If we accomplish covenant defeasance, the following provisions of the junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures would no longer apply:
 
  •  Covenants applicable to the series of junior subordinated debentures and described in the prospectus supplement.
 
  •  Events of default described in the prospectus supplement.
 
If we accomplish covenant defeasance, you can still look to us for repayment of the junior subordinated debentures if there were a shortfall in the trust deposit. In fact, if one of the remaining events of default occurred (such as a bankruptcy) and the junior subordinated debentures become immediately due and payable, there may be such a shortfall.
 
Events of Default
 
Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, holders will have special rights if an event of default occurs and is not cured, as described later in this subsection or in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
What Is An Event of Default?  Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, the term “Event of Default” means any of the following:
 
  •  We do not pay the principal of or any premium on a junior subordinated debenture within 5 days of its due date.
 
  •  We do not pay interest on a junior subordinated debenture within 30 days of its due date.
 
  •  We remain in breach of any other covenant or warranty of the junior debt indenture for 60 days after we receive a notice of default stating we are in breach. The notice must be sent by either the indenture trustee or holders of 25% of the principal amount of junior subordinated debentures of the affected series.
 
  •  We file for bankruptcy or certain other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occur with respect to us.
 
  •  Any other event of default described in the prospectus supplement occurs.
 
Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.  If you are the holder of a junior subordinated debenture, all remedies available upon the occurrence of an event of default under the junior debt indenture will be subject to the restrictions on the junior subordinated debentures described above under “— Subordination Provisions.” If an event of default occurs, the indenture trustee will have special duties. In that situation, the indenture trustee will be obligated to use its rights and powers under the junior debt indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in doing so, that a prudent person would use in that situation in conducting his or her own affairs. If an event of default has occurred and has not been cured, the indenture trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures of the affected series may declare the entire principal amount of all the junior subordinated debentures of that series to be due and immediately payable. This is called a declaration of acceleration of maturity. The property trustee may annul the declaration and waive the default, provided all defaults have been cured and all payment obligations have been made current. In the event of our bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, junior subordinated debentures holders’ claims would fall under the broad equity power of a federal bankruptcy court, and to that court’s determination of the nature of those holders’ rights.
 
The holders of a majority in aggregate outstanding principal amount of each series of junior subordinated debentures affected may, on behalf of the holders of all the junior subordinated debentures of that series, waive any default, except a default in the payment of principal or interest, including any additional interest (unless the default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest, including any additional interest, and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the indenture trustee) or a default with respect to a covenant or provision which under the junior debt indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding junior subordinated debenture of that series.
 
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holders offer the indenture trustee reasonable protection from expenses and liability called an indemnity. If indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the trustee is provided, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding junior subordinated debentures of the relevant series may direct the time, method and place of conducting any lawsuit or other formal legal action seeking any remedy available to the indenture trustee. These majority holders may also direct the indenture trustee in performing any other action under the junior debt indenture with respect to the junior subordinated debentures of that series.
 
Before you bypass the indenture trustee and bring your own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce your rights or protect your interests relating to the junior subordinated debentures the following must occur:
 
  •  The holder of the junior subordinated debenture must give the indenture trustee written notice that an event of default has occurred and remains uncured;
 
  •  The holders of 25% in principal amount of all junior subordinated debentures of the relevant series must make a written request that the indenture trustee take action because of the default, and they must offer reasonable indemnity to the indenture trustee against the cost, expenses and liabilities of taking that action; and
 
  •  The indenture trustee must have not taken action for 60 days after receipt of the above notice and offer of indemnity.
 
We will give to the indenture trustee every year a written statement of certain of our officers certifying that to their knowledge we are in compliance with the applicable indenture and the junior subordinated debentures issued under it, or else specifying any default.
 
Conversion or Exchange
 
If indicated in your prospectus supplement, a series of junior subordinated debentures may be convertible or exchangeable into junior subordinated debentures of another series or other securities. The specific terms on which series may be converted or exchanged will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement. These terms may include provisions for conversion or exchange, whether mandatory, at the holder’s option, or at our option, in which case the number or amount of junior subordinated debentures or other securities the junior subordinated debenture holder would receive would be calculated at the time and manner described in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
Impact of Other Securities
 
We have previously issued junior subordinated debentures that contain provisions that restrict our activities with respect to our common stock. Specifically, the issued debentures provide that if an event of default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the issued debentures or we have given notice of our election to defer interest payments on the issued debentures but the related deferral period has not yet commenced or a deferral period is continuing, then we will not, and will not permit any of our subsidiaries to: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of our capital stock, (b) make any payment of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, or repay, purchase or redeem any of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with or junior to the issued debentures or (c) make any guarantee payments with respect to any of our guarantees of the securities of any subsidiary if such guarantee ranks pari passu with, or junior in interest to, the issued debentures. However, these limitations do not apply to:
 
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  •  any exchange or conversion of any class or series of our capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of AIG) for any class or series of our capital stock or of any class or series of our indebtedness for any class or series of our capital stock; or
 
  •  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in accordance with the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged; or
 
  •  any declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, equity securities or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights in accordance with any stockholders’ rights plan; or
 
  •  any dividend in the form of equity securities, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks on a parity with or junior to such equity securities; or
 
  •  any payment during a deferral period of current or deferred interest in respect of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with the issued debentures that is made pro rata to the amounts due on such pari passu securities and on the issued debentures, provided that such payments are made in accordance with certain limitations requiring pro rata distributions while certain market disruption events are ongoing, and any payments of deferred interest on pari passu securities that, if not made, would cause us to breach the terms of the instrument governing such pari passu securities; or
 
  •  any payment of principal in respect of pari passu securities having an earlier scheduled maturity date than the issued debentures, as required under a provision of such pari passu securities that have similar repayment of principal provisions as the issued debentures, or any such payment in respect of pari passu securities having the same scheduled maturity date as the issued debentures that is made on a pro rata basis among one or more series of such securities and the issued debentures; or
 
  •  any repayment or redemption of a security necessary to avoid a breach of the instrument governing the same.
 
In addition, if any deferral period for the issued debentures lasts longer than one year, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries will be permitted to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any securities ranking junior to or pari passu with any common stock, certain qualifying warrants and certain qualifying non-cumulative preferred stock, the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant deferral period until the first anniversary of the date on which all deferred interest has been paid, subject to the exceptions listed above. However, if we are involved in a business combination where immediately after its consummation more than 50% of the surviving or resulting entity’s voting stock is owned by the shareholders of the other party to the business combination or continuing directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the surviving or resulting entity’s board of directors, then the one-year restriction on repurchases described in the previous sentence will not apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next interest payment date following the date of consummation of the business combination.
 
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DESCRIPTION OF AIG GUARANTEES
 
AIG, as Guarantor, will fully and unconditionally guarantee AIGPF’s payment obligations under the debt securities issued by AIGPF. In the event of a default in payment by AIGPF, holders may institute legal proceedings directly against the Guarantor to enforce its obligations without first proceeding against AIGPF. The Guarantees will constitute unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Guarantor ranking pari passu in right of payment with all of the Guarantor’s senior debt currently outstanding. You should note, however, that to the extent the Guarantor is required to satisfy any of its obligations under the Guarantees through the sale of insurance assets, such sale may require the consent of regulatory authorities. The specific terms of the Guarantees will be more fully described in the applicable prospectus supplement.


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DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES AIGPF MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIGPF”, “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means AIG Program Funding, Inc., as Issuer. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own debt securities registered in their own names, on the books that we or the applicable trustee maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in debt securities registered in street name or in debt securities issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this prospectus, we mean those who invest in the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in the debt securities should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
We may issue as many distinct series of debt securities as we wish. The provisions of the indenture described below allow us not only to issue debt securities with terms different from those previously issued under the indenture, but also to “reopen” a previous issue of a series of debt securities and issue additional debt securities of that series. We may issue debt securities in amounts that exceed the total amount specified on the cover of your prospectus supplement at any time without your consent and without notifying you. In addition we may offer debt securities, together with other debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts in the form of units, as described below under “Description Of Units AIGPF May Offer.”
 
Our payment obligations under the debt securities will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by American International Group, Inc., as discussed earlier under “Description of AIG Guarantees.” As required by federal law for all bonds and notes of companies that are publicly offered, the debt securities are governed by a document called an indenture. The indenture is a contract among us as Issuer, AIG, as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.
 
The trustee has two main roles:
 
1. The trustee can enforce the rights of holders against us if we default on our obligations under the terms of the indenture or the debt securities. There are some limitations on the extent to which the trustee acts on behalf of holders, described below under “Events of Default — Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.”
 
2. The trustee performs administrative duties for us, such as sending interest payments to holders and notices, and transferring a holder’s debt securities to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
The indenture and its associated documents contain the full legal text of the matters described in this section. The indenture and the debt securities are governed by New York law. A copy of the indenture is an exhibit to our registration statement. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy.
 
General
 
This section summarizes the material terms of the debt securities that are common to all series, although the prospectus supplement which describes the terms of each series of debt securities may also describe differences with the material terms summarized here.
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the debt securities. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the indenture, including definitions of certain terms used in the indenture. In this summary, we describe the meaning for only some of the more important terms. For your convenience, we also include references in parentheses to certain sections of the indenture. Whenever we refer to particular sections or defined terms of the indenture in this prospectus or in the prospectus supplement, such sections or defined terms are incorporated by reference here or in the prospectus supplement. You must look to the indenture for the most complete description of what we describe in summary form in this prospectus.
 
This summary also is subject to and qualified by reference to the description of the particular terms of your series described in the prospectus supplement. Those terms may vary from the terms described in this prospectus. The prospectus supplement relating to each series of debt securities will be attached to the front of this prospectus.


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There may also be a further prospectus supplement, known as a pricing supplement, which contains the precise terms of debt securities you are offered.
 
We may issue the debt securities as original issue discount securities, which will be offered and sold at a substantial discount below their stated principal amount. (Section 101) The prospectus supplement relating to the original issue discount securities will describe federal income tax consequences and other special considerations applicable to them. The debt securities may also be issued as indexed securities or securities denominated in foreign currencies or currency units, as described in more detail in the prospectus supplement relating to any of the particular debt securities. Some of the risks associated with such debt securities issued are described below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and under “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.” The prospectus supplement relating to specific debt securities will also describe certain additional tax considerations applicable to such debt securities.
 
In addition, the specific financial, legal and other terms particular to a series of debt securities will be described in the prospectus supplement and, if applicable, the pricing supplement relating to the series. The prospectus supplement relating to a series of debt securities will describe the following terms of the series:
 
  •  the title of the series of debt securities;
 
  •  any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the series of debt securities;
 
  •  the person to whom interest on a debt security is payable, if other than the holder on the regular record date;
 
  •  the date or dates on which the series of debt securities will mature;
 
  •  the rate or rates, which may be fixed or variable per annum, at which the series of debt securities will bear interest, if any, and the date or dates from which that interest, if any, will accrue;
 
  •  the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the debt securities is payable;
 
  •  the dates on which interest, if any, on the series of debt securities will be payable and the regular record dates for the interest payment dates;
 
  •  any mandatory or optional sinking funds or similar provisions or provisions for redemption at the option of the issuer;
 
  •  the date, if any, after which and the price or prices at which the series of debt securities may, in accordance with any optional or mandatory redemption provisions, be redeemed and the other detailed terms and provisions of those optional or mandatory redemption provisions, if any;
 
  •  if the debt securities may be converted into or exercised or exchanged for the debt or equity securities of third parties, the terms on which conversion, exercise or exchange may occur, including whether conversion, exercise or exchange is mandatory, at the option of the holder or at our option, the period during which conversion, exercise or exchange may occur, the initial conversion, exercise or exchange price or rate and the circumstances or manner in which the amount of common stock or preferred stock or other securities or the debt or equity securities of third parties issuable upon conversion, exercise or exchange may be adjusted;
 
  •  if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiples thereof, the denominations in which the series of debt securities will be issuable;
 
  •  the currency of payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on debt securities of the series;
 
  •  if the currency of payment for principal, premium, if any, and interest on the series of debt securities is subject to our election or that of a holder, the currency or currencies in which payment can be made and the period within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, the election can be made;
 
  •  any index used to determine the amount of payment of principal or premium, if any, or interest on the series of debt securities;
 
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  •  if the debt securities will be issued in bearer form, any special provisions relating to bearer securities that are not addressed in this prospectus;
 
  •  if the series of debt securities will be issuable only in the form of a global security, the depository or its nominee with respect to the series of debt securities and the circumstances under which the global security may be registered for transfer or exchange in the name of a person other than the depositary or the nominee; and
 
  •  any other special feature of the series of debt securities.
 
An investment in debt securities may involve special risks, including risks associated with indexed securities and currency-related risks if the debt security is linked to an index or is payable in or otherwise linked to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of AIG’s subsidiaries may purchase and resell debt securities in market-making transactions after their initial issuance. We discuss these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries of AIG.” We may also purchase debt securities in the open market or in private transactions to be held by us or cancelled.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Additional Mechanics relevant to the debt securities under normal circumstances, such as how holders transfer ownership and where we make payments;
 
  •  Holders’ rights in several Special Situations, such as if we or the Guarantor merge with another company or if we want to change a term of the debt securities;
 
  •  Our right to release ourselves from all or some of our obligations under the debt securities and the indenture by a process called Defeasance; and
 
  •  Holders’ rights if we Default or experience other financial difficulties.
 
Additional Mechanics
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless we specify otherwise in the prospectus supplement, the debt securities will be issued:
 
  •  only in fully registered form;
 
  •  without interest coupons; and
 
  •  in denominations that are even multiples of $1,000. (Section 302)
 
If we issue a debt security in bearer form, the provisions described below under “Considerations Relating To Securities Issued In Bearer Form” would apply to that security. Some of the features of the debt securities that we describe in this prospectus may not apply to bearer debt securities.
 
If a debt security is issued as a global debt security, only the depositary — e.g., DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, each as defined below — will be entitled to transfer and exchange the debt security as described in this subsection, since the depositary will be the sole holder of the debt security. Those who own beneficial interests in a global security do so through participants in the depositary’s securities clearance system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry procedures below under “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”


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Holders may have their debt securities broken into more debt securities of smaller denominations of not less than $1,000 or combined into fewer debt securities of larger denominations, as long as the total principal amount is not changed. (Section 305) This is called an exchange.
 
Holders may exchange or transfer debt securities at the office of the trustee. They may also replace lost, stolen or mutilated debt securities at that office. The trustee acts as our agent for registering debt securities in the names of holders and transferring debt securities. We may change this appointment to another entity or perform it ourselves. The entity performing the role of maintaining the list of registered holders is called the security registrar. It will also perform transfers. (Section 305) The trustee’s agent may require an indemnity before replacing any debt securities.
 
Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange debt securities, but holders may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the exchange or transfer. The transfer or exchange will only be made if the security registrar is satisfied with your proof of ownership.
 
If we designate additional transfer agents, they will be named in the prospectus supplement. We may cancel the designation of any particular transfer agent. We may also approve a change in the office through which any transfer agent acts. (Section 1002)
 
If the debt securities are redeemable and we redeem less than all of the debt securities of a particular series, we may block the transfer or exchange of debt securities during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of redemption and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers or exchanges of debt securities selected for redemption, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unredeemed portion of any debt security being partially redeemed. (Section 305)
 
The rules for exchange described above apply to exchange of debt securities for other debt securities of the same series and kind. If a debt security is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable into or for a different kind of security, such as one that we have not issued, or for other property, the rules governing that type of conversion, exercise or exchange will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
Payment and Paying Agents
 
We will pay interest to the person listed in the trustee’s records at the close of business on a particular day in advance of each due date for interest, even if that person no longer owns the debt security on the interest due date. That particular day, usually about two weeks in advance of the interest due date, is called the regular record date and is stated in the prospectus supplement. (Section 307) Holders buying and selling debt securities must work out between them how to compensate for the fact that we will pay all the interest for an interest period to the one who is the registered holder on the regular record date. The most common manner is to adjust the sale price of the securities to pro rate interest fairly between buyer and seller. This pro rated interest amount is called accrued interest.
 
We will pay interest, principal and any other money due on the debt securities at the corporate trust office of the trustee in New York City. That office is currently located at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286. Holders must make arrangements to have their payments picked up at or wired from that office. We may also choose to pay interest by mailing checks.
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW THEY WILL RECEIVE PAYMENTS.
 
 
We may also arrange for additional payment offices and may cancel or change these offices, including our use of the trustee’s corporate trust office. These offices are called paying agents. We may also choose to act as our own paying agent or choose one of AIG’s subsidiaries to do so. We must notify holders of changes in the paying agents for any particular series of debt securities. (Section 1002)


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Notices
 
We and the trustee will send notices regarding the debt securities only to holders, using their addresses as listed in the trustee’s records. (Sections 101 and 106) With respect to who is a legal “holder” for this purpose, see “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Regardless of whom acts as paying agent, all money paid by us to a paying agent that remains unclaimed at the end of two years after the amount is due to holders will be repaid to us. After that two-year period, holders may look to us for payment and not to the trustee or any other paying agent. (Section 1003)
 
Special Situations
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
We and the Guarantor are generally permitted to consolidate or merge with another company or firm. We are also permitted to sell or lease substantially all of our assets to another firm, or to buy or lease substantially all of the assets of another firm. However, we may not take any of these actions unless all the following conditions are met:
 
  •  When we or the Guarantor merge out of existence or sell or lease our assets, the other firm may not be organized under a foreign country’s laws, that is, it must be a corporation, partnership or trust organized under the laws of a state of the United States or the District of Columbia or under federal law, and it must agree to be legally responsible for the debt securities or guarantees, as applicable.
 
  •  The merger, sale of assets or other transaction must not cause a default on the debt securities, and we must not already be in default (unless the merger or other transaction would cure the default). For purposes of this no-default test, a default would include an event of default that has occurred and not been cured. A default for this purpose would also include any event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or our default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.
 
If the conditions described above are satisfied with respect to any series of debt securities, we and the Guarantor will not need to obtain the approval of the holders of those debt securities in order to merge or consolidate or to sell our assets. Also, these conditions will apply only if we or the Guarantor wish to merge or consolidate with another entity or sell substantially all of our assets to another entity. We and the Guarantor will not need to satisfy these conditions if we enter into other types of transactions, including any transaction in which we acquire the stock or assets of another entity, any transaction that involves a change of control but in which we do not merge or consolidate and any transaction in which we sell less than substantially all of our assets. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in AIG’s credit rating, may reduce our or AIG’s operating results or may impair our or AIG’s financial condition. Holders of our debt securities, however, will have no approval right with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
Modification and Waiver of the Debt Securities
 
There are three types of changes we can make to the indenture and the debt securities issued under that indenture.
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders.  First, there are changes that cannot be made to the indenture or the debt securities without specific approval of each holder of a debt security affected in any material respect by the change under the indenture. Affected debt securities may be all or less than all of the debt securities issued under the indenture or all or less than all of the debt securities of a series. Following is a list of those types of changes:
 
  •  change the stated maturity of the principal or interest on a debt security;
 
  •  reduce any amounts due on a debt security;
 
  •  reduce the amount of principal payable upon acceleration of the maturity of a debt security (including the amount payable on an original issue discount security) following a default;
 
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  •  impair a holder’s right to sue for payment;
 
  •  impair any right that a holder of a debt security may have to exchange or convert the debt security for or into other property;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of debt securities whose consent is needed to modify or amend the indenture;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of debt securities whose consent is needed to waive compliance with certain provisions of the indenture or to waive certain defaults;
 
  •  change any of the terms of the AIG Guarantees in a manner adverse to the holders of the debt securities; and
 
  •  modify any other aspect of the provisions dealing with modification and waiver of the indenture. (Section 902)
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  The second type of change to the indenture and the debt securities is the kind that requires a vote in favor by holders of debt securities owning not less than a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular debt securities affected thereby. Most changes fall into this category, except for clarifying changes and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the debt securities. (Section 901) We may also obtain a waiver of a past default from the holders of debt securities owning a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected. However, we cannot obtain a waiver of a payment default or any other aspect of the indenture or the debt securities listed in the first category described above under “— Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders” unless we obtain the individual consent of each holder to the waiver. (Section 513)
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  The third type of change to the indenture and the debt securities does not require any vote by holders of debt securities. This type is limited to clarifications and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the debt securities. (Section 901)
 
We may also make changes or obtain waivers that do not adversely affect in any material respect a particular debt security, even if they affect other debt securities. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that debt security; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected debt securities.
 
Further Details Concerning Voting.  When taking a vote, we will use the following rules to decide how much principal amount to attribute to a debt security:
 
  •  For original issue discount securities, we will use the principal amount that would be due and payable on the voting date if the maturity of the debt securities were accelerated to that date because of a default.
 
  •  For debt securities whose principal amount is not known (for example, because it is based on an index), we will use a special rule for that debt security described in the prospectus supplement.
 
  •  For debt securities denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units, we will use the U.S. dollar equivalent.
 
Debt securities will not be considered outstanding, and therefore not eligible to vote, if we have given a notice of redemption and deposited or set aside in trust for the holders money for the payment or redemption of the debt securities. Debt securities will also not be eligible to vote if they have been fully defeased as described below under “— Defeasance — Full Defeasance.” (Section 1302)
 
We will generally be entitled to set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the holders of outstanding debt securities that are entitled to vote or take other action under the indenture. In certain limited circumstances, the trustee will be entitled to set a record date for action by holders. If we or the trustee set a record date for a vote or other action to be taken by holders of a particular series, that vote or action may be taken only by persons who are holders of outstanding securities of that series on the record date. We or the trustee, as applicable, may shorten or lengthen this period from time to time. (Section 104)
 


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BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW APPROVAL MAY BE GRANTED OR DENIED IF WE SEEK TO CHANGE THE INDENTURE OR THE DEBT SECURITIES OR REQUEST A WAIVER.
 
 
Defeasance
 
The following discussion of full defeasance and covenant defeasance will be applicable to each series of debt securities that is denominated in U.S. dollars and has a fixed rate of interest and will apply to other series of debt securities if we so specify in the prospectus supplement. (Section 1301)
 
Full Defeasance.  If there is a change in U.S. federal tax law, as described below, we can legally release ourselves from any payment or other obligations on the debt securities, called full defeasance, if we put in place the following other arrangements for holders to be repaid:
 
  •  We must deposit in trust for the benefit of all holders of the debt securities a combination of money and notes or bonds of the U.S. government or a U.S. government agency or U.S. government-sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the debt securities on their various due dates.
 
  •  There must be a change in current U.S. federal tax law or an IRS ruling that lets us make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the debt securities any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the debt securities ourselves. (Under current federal tax law, the deposit and our legal release from the obligations pursuant to the debt securities would be treated as though we took back your debt securities and gave you your share of the cash and notes or bonds deposited in trust. In that event, you could recognize gain or loss on the debt securities you give back to us.)
 
  •  We must deliver to the trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming the tax law change described above. (Sections 1302 and 1304)
 
If we ever did accomplish full defeasance, as described above, you would have to rely solely on the trust deposit for repayment on the debt securities. You could not look to us for repayment in the unlikely event of any shortfall.
 
Covenant Defeasance.  Under current U.S. federal tax law, we can make the same type of deposit as described above and we and AIG will be released from the restrictive covenants under the debt securities that may be described in the prospectus supplement. This is called covenant defeasance. In that event, you would lose the protection of these restrictive covenants but would gain the protection of having money and U.S. government or U.S. government agency notes or bonds set aside in trust to repay the debt securities. In order to achieve covenant defeasance, we must do the following:
 
  •  We must deposit in trust for the benefit of all holders of the debt securities a combination of money and notes or bonds of the U.S. government or a U.S. government agency or U.S. government sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the debt securities on their various due dates.
 
  •  We must deliver to the trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming that under current U.S. federal income tax law we may make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the debt securities any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the debt securities ourselves.
 
If we accomplish covenant defeasance, certain provisions of the indenture and the debt securities would no longer apply:
 
  •  Covenants applicable to the series of debt securities and described in the prospectus supplement.
 
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If we accomplish covenant defeasance, you can still look to us for repayment of the debt securities if there were a shortfall in the trust deposit. In fact, if one of the remaining events of default occurred (such as a bankruptcy) and the debt securities become immediately due and payable, there may be such a shortfall. (Sections 1303 and 1304)
 
Events of Default
 
You will have special rights if an event of default occurs and is not cured, as described later in this subsection.
 
What Is An Event of Default?  The term “Event of Default” means any of the following:
 
  •  We do not pay the principal or any premium on a debt security within 5 days of its due date.
 
  •  We do not pay interest on a debt security within 30 days of its due date.
 
  •  We do not deposit money in a separate account, known as a sinking fund, within 5 days of its due date.
 
  •  The AIG Guarantee ceases to be a valid and enforceable obligation of AIG.
 
  •  We remain in breach of any covenant or warranty of the indenture for 60 days after we receive a notice of default stating we are in breach. The notice must be sent by either the trustee or holders of 25% of the principal amount of debt securities of the affected series.
 
  •  We or AIG file for bankruptcy or certain other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occur with respect to either of us.
 
  •  Any other event of default described in the prospectus supplement occurs. (Section 501)
 
Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.  If an event of default occurs, the trustee will have special duties. In that situation, the trustee will be obligated to use those of its rights and powers under the indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in doing so, that a prudent person would use in that situation in conducting his or her own affairs. If an event of default has occurred and has not been cured, the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the debt securities of the affected series may declare the entire principal amount (or, in the case of original issue discount securities, the portion of the principal amount that is specified in the terms of the affected debt security) of all the debt securities of that series to be due and immediately payable. This is called a declaration of acceleration of maturity. However, a declaration of acceleration of maturity may be cancelled, but only before a judgment or decree based on the acceleration has been obtained, by the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the debt securities of the affected series. (Section 502)
 
You should read carefully the prospectus supplement relating to any series of debt securities which are original issue discount securities for the particular provisions relating to acceleration of the maturity of a portion of the principal amount of original issue discount securities upon the occurrence of an event of default and its continuation.
 
Except in cases of default, where the trustee has the special duties described above, the trustee is not required to take any action under the indenture at the request of any holders unless the holders offer the trustee reasonable protection from expenses and liability called an indemnity. (Section 603) If indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the trustee is provided, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding securities of the relevant series may direct the time, method and place of conducting any lawsuit or other formal legal action seeking any remedy available to the trustee. These majority holders may also direct the trustee in performing any other action under the indenture. (Section 512)
 
Before you bypass the trustee and bring your own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce your rights or protect your interests relating to the debt securities or the guarantees the following must occur:
 
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  •  The holders of 25% in principal amount of all outstanding securities of the relevant series must make a written request that the trustee take action because of the default, and they must offer reasonable indemnity to the trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities of taking that action; and
 
  •  The trustee must have not taken action for 60 days after receipt of the above notice and offer of indemnity. (Section 507)
 
However, you are entitled at any time to bring a lawsuit for the payment of money due on your debt security on or after its due date. (Section 508)
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO GIVE NOTICE OR DIRECTION TO OR MAKE A REQUEST OF THE TRUSTEE AND TO MAKE OR CANCEL A DECLARATION OF ACCELERATION.
 
 
We will give to the trustee every year a written statement of certain of our officers certifying that to their knowledge we are in compliance with the indenture and the debt securities, or else specifying any default. (Section 1004)
 
Our Relationship with the Trustee
 
The Bank of New York is one of AIG’s lenders and from time to time provides other banking services to AIG and its subsidiaries.
 
The Bank of New York is initially serving as the trustee for our debt securities and the warrants issued under our warrant indenture. Consequently, if an actual or potential event of default occurs with respect to any of these securities, the trustee may be considered to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. In that case, the trustee may be required to resign under one or more of the indentures, and we would be required to appoint a successor trustee. For this purpose, a “potential” event of default means an event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or for the default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.


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DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS AIGPF MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIGPF”, “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means AIG Program Funding, Inc., as Issuer. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own warrants registered in their own names, on the books that we or the applicable trustee or warrant agent maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in warrants registered in street name or in warrants issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean all purchasers of warrants, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those warrants. Owners of beneficial interests in the warrants should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Warrants May Be Debt Warrants or Universal Warrants
 
We may issue warrants that are debt warrants or universal warrants. We may offer warrants separately or together with our debt securities. We may also offer warrants together with other warrants, purchase contracts and debt securities in the form of units, as summarized under “Description of Units AIGPF May Offer.”
 
We will issue the warrants under either a warrant indenture or a warrant agreement. The warrant indenture, the warrant agreement and their associated documents contain the full legal text of the matters described in this section. The warrant indenture and the warrant agreement and the warrants issued thereunder are governed by New York law.
 
Warrant Indenture
 
The warrants may be governed by a document called an indenture. The warrant indenture is a contract among us, as Issuer and AIG, as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, which will initially act as trustee. See “Description of Debt Securities AIGPF May Offer — Our Relationship with the Trustee” above for more information about the trustee.
 
Reference to the warrant indenture or the trustee, with respect to any warrants, means the indenture under which those warrants are issued and the trustee under that indenture.
 
The trustee has two main roles:
 
1. The trustee can enforce the rights of holders against us if we default on our obligations under the terms of the warrant indenture or the warrants. There are some limitations on the extent to which the trustee acts on behalf of holders, described below under “— Events of Default — Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.”
 
2. The trustee performs administrative duties for us, such as sending payments to holders and notices, and transferring a holder’s warrants to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
Warrant Agreement
 
A warrant agreement is a contract between us and a bank, trust company or other financial institution, as warrant agent. References to a warrant agreement or warrant agent, with respect to any warrants, means the warrant agreement under which those warrants are issued and the warrant agent under that warrant agreement.
 
The warrant agent is our agent and, unlike a trustee, has no obligations to holders of the warrants issued under the warrant agreement. The main role of the warrant agent is to perform administrative duties for us, such as sending payments and notices to holders and transferring a holder’s warrants to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
General
 
We may issue as many distinct series of warrants as we wish.
 
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Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the warrants. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the warrant indenture and warrant agreement, including definitions of certain terms used in the warrant indenture and warrant agreement. In this summary, we describe the meaning of only some of the more important terms. Whenever we refer to particular sections or defined terms of the warrant indenture or warrant agreement in this prospectus or in the prospectus supplement, such sections or defined terms are incorporated by reference here or in the prospectus supplement. You must look to the warrant indenture or warrant agreement for the most complete description of what we describe in summary form in this prospectus.
 
This summary also is subject to and qualified by reference to the description of the particular terms of your warrants described in the prospectus supplement. As you read this section, please remember that the specific terms of your warrant as described in your prospectus supplement will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms described in this section. If there are differences between your prospectus supplement and this prospectus, your prospectus supplement will control. Thus, the statements we make in this section may not apply to your warrant.
 
When we refer to a series of warrants, we mean all warrants issued as part of the same series under the applicable warrant indenture or warrant agreement. When we refer to your prospectus supplement, we mean the prospectus supplement describing the specific terms of the warrant you purchase. The terms used in your prospectus supplement will have the meanings described in this prospectus, unless otherwise specified.
 
In addition, the specific financial, legal and other specific terms of your warrant will be described in the prospectus supplement relating to the warrants. The prospectus supplement relating to the warrants may contain, where applicable, the following information about your warrants:
 
  •  the specific designation and aggregate number of, and the price at which we will issue, the warrants;
 
  •  the currency with which the warrants may be purchased;
 
  •  the warrant indenture or warrant agreement under which we will issue the warrants;
 
  •  the date on which the right to exercise the warrants will begin and the date on which that right will expire or, if you may not continuously exercise the warrants throughout that period, the specific date or dates on which you may exercise the warrants;
 
  •  whether the warrants will be redeemable by us before their expiration date, and any applicable redemption dates or periods and the related redemption prices;
 
  •  whether the warrants will be issued in fully registered form or bearer form, in global or non-global form or in any combination of these forms, although, in any case, the form of a warrant included in a unit will correspond to the form of the unit and of any debt security or purchase contract included in that unit;
 
  •  the identities of the trustee or warrant agent, any depositaries and any paying, transfer, calculation or other agents for the warrants;
 
  •  any securities exchange or quotation system on which the warrants or any securities deliverable upon exercise of the warrants may be listed;
 
  •  whether the warrants are to be sold separately or with other securities, as part of units or otherwise; and
 
  •  any other terms of the warrants.
 
If we issue warrants as part of a unit, your prospectus supplement will specify whether the warrants will be separable from the other securities in the unit before the warrants’ expiration date.
 
Until a warrant is properly exercised, no holder of a warrant will have any rights of a holder of the warrant property deliverable under the warrant.
 
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to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors— Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Debt Warrants
 
We may issue warrants for the purchase of our debt securities on terms to be determined at the time of sale. We refer to this type of warrant as a “debt warrant.”
 
If you purchase debt warrants, your prospectus supplement may contain, where applicable, the following additional information about your debt warrants:
 
  •  the designation, aggregate principal amount, currency and terms of the debt securities that may be purchased upon exercise of the debt warrants;
 
  •  the exercise price and whether the exercise price may be paid in cash, by the exchange of any debt warrants or other securities or both and the method of exercising the debt warrants; and
 
  •  the designation, terms and amount of debt securities, if any, to be issued together with each of the debt warrants and the date, if any, after which the debt warrants and debt securities will be separately transferable.
 
Universal Warrants
 
We may also issue warrants, on terms to be determined at the time of sale, for the purchase or sale of, or whose cash value is determined by reference to the performance, level or value of, one or more of the following:
 
  •  securities of one or more issuers, including AIG’s common or preferred stock or other securities described in this prospectus or debt or equity securities of third parties;
 
  •  one or more currencies;
 
  •  one or more commodities;
 
  •  any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance; and
 
  •  one or more indices or baskets of the items described above.
 
We refer to this type of warrant as a “universal warrant.” We refer to each property described above as a “warrant property.”
 
We may satisfy our obligations, if any, and the holder of a universal warrant may satisfy its obligations, if any, with respect to any universal warrants by delivering:
 
  •  the warrant property;
 
  •  the cash value of the warrant property; or
 
  •  the cash value of the warrants determined by reference to the performance, level or value of the warrant property.
 
Your prospectus supplement will describe what we may deliver to satisfy our obligations, if any, and what the holder of a universal warrant may deliver to satisfy its obligations, if any, with respect to any universal warrants.
 
If you purchase universal warrants, your prospectus supplement may contain, where applicable, the following additional information about your universal warrants:
 
  •  whether the universal warrants are put warrants or call warrants, including in either case warrants that may be settled by means of net cash settlement or cashless exercise, or any other type of warrants;
 
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  •  the price at which and the currency with which the warrant property may be purchased or sold by or on behalf of the holder of each universal warrant upon the exercise of that warrant, or the method of determining that price;
 
  •  whether the exercise price may be paid in cash, by the exchange of any universal warrants or other securities or both, and the method of exercising the universal warrants; and
 
  •  whether the exercise of the universal warrants is to be settled in cash or by delivery of the warrant property or both, whether the election of the form of settlement will be at the option of the holder or of us and whether settlement will occur on a net basis or a gross basis.
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
Subsidiaries of AIG may resell warrants in market-making transactions after their initial issuance. We discuss these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries of AIG.” We may also purchase, in our discretion, warrants to be held, resold or cancelled.
 
General Provisions of the Warrant Indenture
 
We may issue as many distinct series of warrants under the warrant indenture as we wish, in such amounts as we wish. The provisions of the warrant indenture allow us not only to issue warrants with terms different from those of warrants previously issued under the warrant indenture, but also to “reopen” a previous issue of a series of warrants and issue additional warrants of that series. We may issue warrants in amounts that exceed the total amount specified on the cover of your prospectus supplement at any time without your consent and without notifying you.
 
The warrant indenture and the warrants do not limit our ability to incur other contractual obligations or indebtedness or to issue other securities. Also, the terms of the warrants do not impose financial or similar restrictions on us.
 
Warrants will not be secured by any property or our assets or the assets of AIG or its subsidiaries. Thus, by owning a warrant issued under the warrant indenture, you hold one of our unsecured obligations.
 
The warrants issued under the warrant indenture will be our contractual obligations and will rank equally with all of our other unsecured contractual obligations and unsecured and unsubordinated debt. The warrant indenture does not limit our ability to incur additional contractual obligations or debt.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Additional Terms relevant to the warrants under normal circumstances, such as how holders transfer warrants, and the expiration and payment and delivery mechanics relating to warrants;
 
  •  Holders’ rights in several Special Situations, such as if we or the Guarantor merge with another company or if we want to change a term of the warrants; and
 
  •  Holders’ rights if we Default or experience other financial difficulties.
 
Additional Mechanics
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer of Warrants
 
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these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
If a warrant is issued as a registered global warrant, only the depositary — e.g., DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream — will be entitled to transfer and exchange the warrant as described in this subsection, since the depositary will be the sole holder of the warrant.
 
If any warrants cease to be issued in registered global form, they will be issued:
 
  •  only in fully registered form; and
 
  •  only in the denominations specified in your prospectus supplement.
 
Holders may exchange their warrants for certificates representing a smaller or larger number of warrants, as long as the total number of warrants is not changed.
 
Holders may exchange or transfer their warrants at the office of the trustee. They may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated warrants at that office. We have appointed the trustee to act as our agent for registering warrants in the names of holders and transferring and replacing warrants. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their warrants, but they may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may require an indemnity before replacing any warrants.
 
If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any warrants before their expiration, and we exercise our right as to less than all those warrants, we may block the transfer or exchange of those warrants during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing or during any other period specified in the prospectus supplement, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or to exchange any warrant selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any warrant being partially settled.
 
If we have designated additional transfer agents for your warrant, they will be named in your prospectus supplement. We may appoint additional transfer agents or cancel the appointment of any particular transfer agent. We may also approve a change in the office through which any transfer agent acts.
 
The rules for exchange described above apply to exchange of warrants for other warrants of the same series and kind. If a warrant is exercisable for a different kind of security, such as one that we have not issued, or for other property, the rules governing that type of exercise will be described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Expiration Date and Payment or Settlement Date
 
The term “expiration date” with respect to any warrant means the date on which the right to exercise the warrant expires. The term “payment or settlement date” with respect to any warrant means the date when any money or warrant property with respect to that warrant becomes payable or deliverable upon exercise or redemption of that warrant in accordance with its terms.
 
Currency of Warrants
 
Amounts that become due and payable on your warrant may be payable in a currency, composite currency, basket of currencies or currency unit or units specified in your prospectus supplement. We refer to this currency, composite currency, basket of currencies or currency unit or units as a “specified currency.” The specified currency for your warrant will be U.S. dollars, unless your prospectus supplement states otherwise. You will have to pay for your warrant by delivering the requisite amount of the specified currency to a firm that we name in your prospectus supplement, unless other arrangements have been made between you and us or you and that firm. We will make payments on your warrants in the specified currency, except as described in your prospectus supplement. See “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities” below for more information about risks of investing in warrants of this kind.


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Redemption
 
We will not be entitled to redeem your warrant before its expiration date unless your prospectus supplement specifies a redemption commencement date.
 
If your prospectus supplement specifies a redemption commencement date, it will also specify one or more redemption prices. It may also specify one or more redemption periods during which the redemption prices relating to a redemption of warrants during those periods will apply.
 
If your prospectus supplement specifies a redemption commencement date, your warrant will be redeemable at our option at any time on or after that date or at a specified time or times. If we redeem your warrant, we will do so at the specified redemption price. If different prices are specified for different redemption periods, the price we pay will be the price that applies to the redemption period during which your warrant is redeemed.
 
If we exercise an option to redeem any warrant, we will give the holder written notice of the redemption price of the warrant to be redeemed, not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days before the applicable redemption date or within any other period before the applicable redemption date specified in your prospectus supplement. We will give the notice in the manner described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Special Situations
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
We and the Guarantor are generally permitted to merge or consolidate with another corporation or firm. We and the Guarantor are also permitted to sell our assets substantially as an entirety to another firm, or to buy or lease substantially all of the assets of another firm. With regard to any warrant, however, we may not take any of these actions unless all the following conditions are met:
 
  •  When we or the Guarantor merge out of existence or sell or lease our assets, the other firm may not be organized under a foreign country’s laws, that is, it must be a corporation, partnership or trust organized under the laws of a state of the United States or the District of Columbia or under federal law, and it must agree to be legally responsible for that warrant or the guarantees, as applicable.
 
  •  The merger, sale of assets or other transaction must not cause a default under the warrant, and we must not already be in default (unless the merger or other transaction would cure the default). For purposes of this no-default test, a default under the warrant would include an event of default with respect to that warrant or any event that would be an event of default with respect to that warrant if the requirements for giving us default notice and for our default having to continue for a specific period of time were disregarded. We describe these matters below under “— Events of Default.”
 
If the conditions described above are satisfied with respect to any warrant, we and the Guarantor will not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that warrant in order to merge or consolidate or to sell our assets. Also, these conditions will apply only if we or the Guarantor wish to merge or consolidate with another entity or sell our assets substantially as an entirety to another entity. We and the Guarantor will not need to satisfy these conditions if we enter into other types of transactions, including any transaction in which we acquire the stock or assets of another entity, any transaction that involves a change of control but in which we do not merge or consolidate and any transaction in which we sell less than substantially all our assets. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in AIG’s credit rating, may reduce our or AIG’s operating results or may impair our or AIG’s financial condition. Holders of our warrants, however, will have no approval right with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
Modification and Waiver of the Warrants
 
There are three types of changes we can make to the warrant indenture and the warrants issued under that warrant indenture.
 
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affected by the change. Affected warrants may be all or less than all of the warrants issued under that warrant indenture or all or less than all of the warrants of a series. Here is a list of those types of changes:
 
  •  change the exercise price of the warrant;
 
  •  change the terms of any warrant with respect to the expiration date or the payment or settlement date of the warrant;
 
  •  reduce the amount of money payable or reduce the amount or change the kind of warrant property deliverable upon the exercise of the warrant or any premium payable upon redemption of the warrant;
 
  •  change the currency of any payment on a warrant;
 
  •  change the place of payment on a warrant;
 
  •  permit redemption of a warrant if not previously permitted;
 
  •  impair a holder’s right to exercise its warrant, or sue for payment of any money payable or delivery of any warrant property deliverable with respect to its warrant on or after the payment or settlement date or, in the case of redemption, the redemption date;
 
  •  if any warrant provides that the holder may require us to repurchase the warrant, impair the holder’s right to require repurchase of the warrant;
 
  •  reduce the percentage in number of the warrants of any one or more affected series, taken separately or together, as applicable, whose consent is needed to modify or amend the warrant indenture or those warrants;
 
  •  reduce the percentage in number of the warrants of any one or more affected series, taken separately or together, as applicable, whose consent is needed to waive compliance with the warrant indenture or to waive defaults; or
 
  •  modify any other aspect of the provisions dealing with modification and waiver of the warrant indenture, except to increase any required percentage referred to above or add to the provisions that cannot be changed or waived without approval of the holder of the affected warrants.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  The second type of change to the warrant indenture and the warrants is the kind that requires a vote in favor by holders of warrants owning not less than a majority of the amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular warrants affected thereby. If the change affects the warrants of more than one series issued under the warrant indenture, it must be approved by the holders of a majority in number of all series affected by the change, with the warrants of all the affected series voting together as one class for this purpose.
 
Most changes fall into this category, except for clarifying changes and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the warrants. However, we cannot obtain a waiver of a payment default or any other aspect of the warrant indenture or the warrants listed in the first category described above under “— Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders” unless we obtain the individual consent of each holder to the waiver.
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  The third type of change to the warrant indenture and the warrants does not require any approval by holders of the warrants. These changes are limited to clarifications and changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect the holders of the warrants. Nor do we need any approval to make changes that affect only warrants to be issued under the warrant indenture after the changes take effect.
 
We may also make changes or obtain waivers that do not adversely affect a particular warrant, even if they affect other warrants. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that warrant; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected warrants.
 
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entities who are holders on the record date and must be taken during the period that we specify for this purpose, or that the trustee specifies if it sets the record date. We or the trustee, as applicable, may shorten or lengthen this period from time to time. In addition, record dates for any global warrant may be set in accordance with procedures established by the depositary from time to time. Accordingly, record dates for global warrants may differ from those for other warrants.
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT OWNERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW APPROVAL MAY BE GRANTED OR DENIED IF WE SEEK TO CHANGE THE WARRANT INDENTURE OR ANY WARRANTS OR REQUEST A WAIVER.
 
 
Events of Default
 
You will have special rights if an event of default with respect to your warrant occurs and is continuing, as described in this subsection.
 
What is an Event of Default?  Unless your prospectus supplement says otherwise, when we refer to an event of default with respect to any warrant, we mean that, upon satisfaction by the holder of the warrant of all conditions precedent to our relevant obligation or covenant to be satisfied by the holder, any of the following occurs:
 
  •  We do not pay any money or deliver any warrant property with respect to that warrant within 5 days of the payment or settlement date in accordance with the terms of that warrant;
 
  •  The AIG Guarantee ceases to be a valid and enforceable obligation of AIG;
 
  •  We remain in breach of any covenant or warranty we make in the warrant indenture for the benefit of the holder of that warrant for 60 days after we receive a notice of default stating that we are in breach and requiring us to remedy the breach. The notice must be sent by the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in number of the relevant series of warrants;
 
  •  We or AIG files for bankruptcy or other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occur; or
 
  •  Any other event of default described in the prospectus supplement occurs.
 
If we do not pay any money or deliver any warrant property when due with respect to a particular warrant of a series, as described in the first bullet point above, that failure to make a payment or delivery will not constitute an event of default with respect to any other warrant of the same series or any other series.
 
Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.  If an event of default occurs, the trustee will have special duties. In that situation, the trustee will be obligated to use those of its rights and powers under the warrant indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in doing so, that a prudent person would use in that situation in conducting his or her own affairs.
 
Except in cases of default, where the trustee has special duties, the trustee is not required to take any action under the warrant indenture at the request of any holders unless the holders offer the trustee reasonable protection from expenses and liability called an indemnity. If indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the trustee is provided, the holders of a majority in number of all warrants of the relevant series may direct the time, method and place of conducting any lawsuit or other formal legal action seeking any remedy available to the trustee with respect to that series. These majority holders may also direct the trustee in performing any other action under the warrant indenture with respect to the warrants of that series.
 
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  •  The holders of not less than 25% in number of all warrants of your series must make a written request that the trustee take action because of the default, and they must offer reasonable indemnity to the trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities of taking that action; and
 
  •  The trustee must not have taken action for 60 days after the above steps have been taken.
 
However, you are entitled at any time to bring a lawsuit for the payment of any money or delivery of any warrant property due on your warrant on or after its payment or settlement date.
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO GIVE NOTICE OR DIRECTION TO OR MAKE A REQUEST OF THE TRUSTEE AND TO MAKE OR CANCEL A DECLARATION OF ACCELERATION.
 
 
We will give to the trustee every year a written statement of certain of our officers certifying that to their knowledge we are in compliance with the warrant indenture and the warrants issued under it, or else specifying any default.
 
General Provisions of Warrant Agreements
 
We may issue debt warrants and universal warrants in one or more series under one or more warrant agreements, each to be entered into among us as Issuer, AIG, as Guarantor, and a bank, trust company or other financial institution as warrant agent. We may add, replace or terminate warrant agents from time to time. We may also choose to act as our own warrant agent or may choose a subsidiary of AIG to do so. We will describe the warrant agreement under which we issue any warrants in your prospectus supplement. Each warrant agreement and any warrants issued under the warrant agreements will be governed by New York law. We will file that agreement with the SEC, either as an exhibit to an amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part or as an exhibit to a current report of AIG on Form 8-K. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy of a warrant agreement when it is filed.
 
We may also issue warrants under the warrant indenture. For these warrants, the applicable provisions of the warrant indenture described above would apply instead of the provisions described in this section.
 
Warrant Agreement Will Not Be Qualified under Trust Indenture Act
 
No warrant agreement will be qualified as an indenture, and no warrant agent will be required to qualify as a trustee, under the Trust Indenture Act. Therefore, holders of warrants issued under a warrant agreement will not have the protection of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to their warrants.
 
Enforcement of Rights
 
The warrant agent under a warrant agreement will act solely as our agent in connection with the warrants issued under that agreement. The warrant agent will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders of those warrants. Any holder of warrants may, without the consent of any other person, enforce by appropriate legal action, on its own behalf, its right to exercise those warrants in accordance with their terms. Until the warrant is properly exercised, no holder of any warrant will be entitled to any rights of a holder of the warrant property purchasable upon exercise of the warrant.
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
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these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
In addition, we will issue each warrant in registered form, unless we say otherwise in your prospectus supplement. Bearer warrants would be subject to special provisions, as we describe below under “Considerations Relating to Securities Issued in Bearer Form.”
 
If any warrants are issued in non-global form, the terms described below will apply to them:
 
  •  The warrants will be issued in fully registered form. Holders may exchange their warrants for certificates representing a smaller or larger number of warrants, as long as the total number of warrants is not changed.
 
  •  Holders may exchange or transfer their warrants at the office of the warrant agent. They may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated warrants at that office. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
  •  Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their warrants, but they may be required to pay any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may also require an indemnity before replacing any warrants.
 
  •  If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any warrants before their expiration, and we exercise our right as to less than all those warrants, we may block the transfer or exchange of those warrants during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or exchange any warrant selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any warrant being partially settled.
 
Only the depositary will be entitled to transfer or exchange a warrant in global form, because it will be the sole holder of the warrant.
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
The warrant agreements and any warrants issued under the warrant agreements will not restrict our or AIG’s ability to merge or consolidate with, or sell our or AIG’s assets to, another corporation or other entity or to engage in any other transactions. If at any time we or AIG merges or consolidates with, or sells substantially all of our or AIG’s assets to, another corporation or other entity, the successor entity will succeed to and assume our obligations under the warrants and warrant agreements or AIG’s obligations under the guarantees, as applicable. We will then be relieved of any further obligation under the warrants and warrant agreements, and AIG would be releived of any further obligations under the guarantees, as applicable. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in AIG’s credit rating, may reduce our or AIG’s operating results or may impair our or AIG’s financial condition. Holders of our warrants, however, will have no right to vote with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
No Events of Default
 
The warrant agreements and any warrants issued under the warrant agreements also will not provide for any specific events of default.
 
Modification of the Warrant Agreement
 
There are three types of amendments that we and the applicable warrant agent may make to any warrant agreement or warrants issued under that warrant agreement:
 
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  •  change the kind or reduce the amount of the warrant property or other consideration receivable upon exercise, cancellation or expiration of the warrant;
 
  •  shorten, advance or defer the period of time during which the holder may exercise the warrant or otherwise impair the holder’s right to exercise the warrant; or
 
  •  reduce the percentage of outstanding, unexpired warrants of any series or class the consent of whose holders is required to amend the series or class, or the applicable warrant agreement with regard to that series or class, as described below.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  Second, any other change to a particular warrant agreement and the warrants issued under that agreement would require the following approval:
 
  •  If the change affects only the warrants of a particular series issued under that warrant agreement, the change must be approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding, unexpired warrants of that series.
 
  •  If the change affects the warrants of more than one series issued under that warrant agreement, the change must be approved by the holders of a majority of all outstanding, unexpired warrants of all series affected by the change, with the warrants of all the affected series voting together as one class for this purpose.
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  Third, we and the applicable warrant agent may amend any warrant or warrant agreement without the consent of any holder:
 
  •  to cure any ambiguity;
 
  •  to cure, correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision; or
 
  •  to make any other change that we believe is necessary or desirable and will not adversely affect the interests of the affected holders in any material respect.
 
We do not need any approval to make changes that affect only warrants to be issued after the changes take effect. We may also make changes that do not adversely affect a particular warrant in any material respect, even if they adversely affect other warrants in a material respect. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of the unaffected warrant; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected warrants.
 
Payments and Notices
 
We will describe the plan we will use to make payments and give notices with respect to our warrants issued under the warrant indenture or warrant agreements in a separate supplement to this prospectus.
 
Calculation Agent
 
Calculations relating to warrants will be made by the calculation agent, an institution that we appoint as our agent for this purpose. That institution may be a subsidiary of AIG. The prospectus supplement for a particular warrant will name the institution that we have appointed to act as the calculation agent for that warrant as of its original issue date. We may appoint a different institution to serve as calculation agent from time to time after the original issue date of the warrant without your consent and without notifying you of the change.
 
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DESCRIPTION OF PURCHASE CONTRACTS AIGPF MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIGPF”, “us”, “we” or “our” in this section mean AIG Program Funding, Inc., as Issuer. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own purchase contracts registered in their own names, on the books that we or our agent maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in purchase contracts registered in street name or in purchase contracts issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean those who invest in the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in the purchase contracts should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Our payment obligations under the purchase contracts will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by American International Group, Inc., as discussed earlier under “Description of AIG Guarantees.”
 
General
 
We may issue purchase contracts in such amounts and in as many distinct series as we wish. In addition, we may issue a purchase contract separately or as part of a unit, as described below under “Description of Units AIGPF May Offer.”
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the purchase contracts. In this summary, we describe the meaning of only some of the more important terms.
 
As you read this section, please remember that the specific terms of your purchase contract as described in your prospectus supplement will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms described in this section. If there are differences between your prospectus supplement and this prospectus, your prospectus supplement will control. Thus, the statements we make in this section may not apply to your purchase contract.
 
When we refer to a series of purchase contracts, we mean all the purchase contracts issued as part of the same series under the applicable governing instrument. The purchase contracts and any governing documents will be governed by New York law. When we refer to your prospectus supplement, we mean the prospectus supplement describing the specific terms of the purchase contract you purchase. The terms used in your prospectus supplement will have the meanings described in this prospectus, unless otherwise specified.
 
Prepaid Purchase Contracts; Applicability of Debt Indenture
 
Some purchase contracts may require the holders to satisfy their obligations under the contracts at the time the contracts are issued. We refer to those contracts as “prepaid purchase contracts.” Our obligation to settle a prepaid purchase contract on the relevant settlement date will be subject to the holder’s delivery of one of our debt securities, which are described above under “Description of Debt Securities AIGPF May Offer.” Prepaid purchase contracts will be issued under a debt indenture, and the provisions of the applicable indenture will govern those contracts.
 
Non-Prepaid Purchase Contracts; No Trust Indenture Act Protection
 
Some purchase contracts do not require the holders to satisfy their obligations under the contracts until settlement. We refer to those contracts as “non-prepaid purchase contracts.” The holder of a non-prepaid purchase contract may remain obligated to perform under the contract for a substantial period of time.
 
Non-prepaid purchase contracts will be issued under a unit agreement, if they are issued in units, or under some other document, if they are not. For example, we may issue non-prepaid purchase contracts under which the holder has multiple obligations to purchase or sell, some of which are prepaid and some of which are not, under one of our indentures. We describe unit agreements generally under “Description of Units AIGPF May Offer” below. We will describe the particular governing document that applies to your non-prepaid purchase contracts in your prospectus supplement.
 
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those contracts, under the Trust Indenture Act. Holders of non-prepaid purchase contracts will not have the protection of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to those contracts.
 
Principal Purchase Contract Terms
 
We may issue purchase contracts for the purchase or sale of, or whose cash value is determined by reference or linked to the performance, level or value of, one or more of the following:
 
  •  securities of one or more issuers, including AIG’s common or preferred stock or other securities described in this prospectus or debt or equity securities of third parties;
 
  •  one or more currencies;
 
  •  one or more commodities;
 
  •  any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance; and
 
  •  one or more indices or baskets of the items described above.
 
We refer to each property described above as a “purchase contract property.” Each purchase contract will obligate:
 
  •  the holder to purchase or sell, and obligate us to sell or purchase, on specified dates, one or more purchase contract properties at a specified price or prices; or
 
  •  the holder or us to settle the purchase contract by reference to the value, performance or level of one or more purchase contract properties, on specified dates and at a specified price or prices.
 
Some purchase contracts may include multiple obligations to purchase or sell different purchase contract properties, and both we and the holder may be sellers or buyers under the same purchase contract. Until a purchase contract is properly exercised, no holder of a purchase contract will have any rights of a holder of the purchase contract property purchasable under the contract.
 
An investment in purchase contracts may involve special risks, including risks associated with indexed securities and currency-related risks if the purchase contract or purchase contract property is linked to an index or is payable in or otherwise linked to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Your prospectus supplement may contain, where applicable, the following information about your purchase contract:
 
  •  whether the purchase contract obligates the holder to purchase or sell, or both purchase and sell, one or more purchase contract properties and the nature and amount of each of those properties, or the method of determining those amounts;
 
  •  whether the purchase contract is to be prepaid or not and the governing document for the contract;
 
  •  whether the purchase contract is to be settled by delivery, or by reference or linkage to the value, performance or level of, the purchase contract properties;
 
  •  any acceleration, cancellation, termination or other provisions relating to the settlement of the purchase contract;
 
  •  whether the purchase contract will be issued as part of a unit and, if so, the other securities comprising the unit and whether any unit securities will be subject to a security interest in our favor as described below; and
 
  •  whether the purchase contract will be issued in fully registered or bearer form and in global or non-global form.
 
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Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of the subsidiaries of AIG may purchase and resell purchase contracts after their initial issuance in market-making transactions. We describe these transactions below under “Plan Of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries of AIG.” We may also purchase, in our discretion, purchase contracts to be held, resold or canceled.
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless we specify otherwise in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each purchase contract in global — i.e., book-entry — form only. Purchase contracts in book-entry form will be represented by a global security registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the purchase contracts represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in a purchase contract will do so through participants in the depositary’s system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
In addition, we will issue each purchase contract in registered form, unless we say otherwise in your prospectus supplement.
 
If any purchase contracts are issued in non-global form, the following will apply to them:
 
  •  The purchase contracts will be issued in fully registered form. Holders may exchange their purchase contracts for contracts of a smaller or larger number as long as the total number of contracts is not changed.
 
  •  Holders may exchange or transfer their purchase contracts at the office of the trustee, unit agent or other agent we name in the prospectus supplement. Holders may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated purchase contracts at that office. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
  •  Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their purchase contracts, but they may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may also require an indemnity before replacing any purchase contracts.
 
  •  If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any purchase contracts before their maturity, and we exercise our right as to less than all those purchase contracts, we may block the transfer or exchange of those purchase contracts during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or exchange any purchase contract selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any purchase contract being partially settled.
 
Only the depositary will be entitled to transfer or exchange a purchase contract in global form, because it will be the sole holder of the purchase contract.
 
Additional Terms of Non-Prepaid Purchase Contracts
 
In addition to the general terms described above, a non-prepaid purchase contract may include the following additional terms described below.
 
Pledge by Holders to Secure Performance
 
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the “pledge” and all the items described below as the “pledged items.” The pledge will create in our favor a security interest in the holder’s entire interest in and to:
 
  •  any other securities included in the unit, if the purchase contract is part of a unit, or any other property specified in the prospectus supplement;
 
  •  all additions to and substitutions for the pledged items;
 
  •  all income, proceeds and collections received in respect of the pledged items; and
 
  •  all powers and rights owned or acquired later with respect to the pledged items.
 
The collateral agent will forward all payments from the pledged items to us, unless the payments have been released from the pledge in accordance with the purchase contract and the governing document. We will use the payments from the pledged items to satisfy the holder’s obligations under the purchase contract.
 
Settlement of Purchase Contracts that are Part of Units
 
The following will apply to a non-prepaid purchase contract that is issued together with any of our debt securities as part of a unit. If the holder fails to satisfy its obligations under the purchase contract, the unit agent may apply the principal payments on the debt securities to satisfy those obligations as provided in the governing document. If the holder is permitted to settle its obligations by cash payment, the holder may be permitted to do so by delivering the debt securities in the unit to the unit agent as provided in the governing document.
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT OWNERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO SETTLE THEIR PURCHASE CONTRACTS.
 
 
Failure of Holder to Perform Obligations under a Non-Prepaid Purchase Contract
 
If the holder fails to settle its obligations under a non-prepaid purchase contract as required, the holder will not receive the purchase contract property or other consideration to be delivered at settlement. Holders that fail to make timely settlement may also be obligated to pay interest or other amounts.
 
Assumption of Obligations by Transferee
 
When the holder of a non-prepaid purchase contract transfers the purchase contract to a new holder, the new holder will assume the obligations of the prior holder with respect to the purchase contract, and the prior holder will be released from those obligations. Under the non-prepaid purchase contract, we will consent to the transfer of the purchase contract, to the assumption of those obligations by the new holder and to the release of the prior holder, if the transfer is made in accordance with the provisions of the purchase contract.
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
Purchase contracts that are not prepaid will not restrict our or the Guarantor’s ability to merge or consolidate with, or sell our assets to, another corporation or firm or to engage in any other transactions. If at any time we or the Guarantor merges or consolidates with, or sells substantially all of our or the Guarantor’s assets to, another corporation or firm, the successor corporation or firm will succeed to and assume our obligations under these purchase contracts. We or the Guarantor will then be relieved of any further obligation under these purchase contracts or the Guarantor’s obligations under the guarantees, as applicable. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in AIG’s credit rating, may reduce our or AIG’s operating results or may impair our or AIG’s financial condition. Holders of our purchase contracts, however, will have no right to vote with respect to any transaction of this type.


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No Events of Default
 
Purchase contracts that are not prepaid will not provide for any specific events of default.
 
Payments and Notices
 
We will describe the plan we will use to make payments and give notices with respect to purchase contracts in a separate supplement to this prospectus.
 
Calculation Agent
 
Calculations relating to purchase contracts will be made by the calculation agent, an institution that we appoint as our agent for this purpose. That institution may be a subsidiary of AIG. The prospectus supplement for a particular purchase contract will name the institution that we have appointed to act as the calculation agent for that purchase contract as of its original issue date. We may appoint a different institution to serve as calculation agent from time to time after the original issue date of the purchase contract without your consent and without notifying you of the change.
 
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DESCRIPTION OF UNITS AIGPF MAY OFFER
 
References to “AIGPF”, “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means AIG Program Funding, Inc., as Issuer. Also, in this section, references to “holders” mean those who own units registered in their own names, on the books that we or our agent maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in units registered in street name or in units issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries. When we refer to “you” in this section, we mean those who invest in the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. Owners of beneficial interests in the units should read the section below entitled “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Our payment obligations under the units will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by American International Group, Inc., as discussed earlier under “Description of AIG Guarantees.”
 
General
 
We may issue units comprised of any combination of our debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts. Each unit will be issued so that the holder of the unit is also the holder of each security included in the unit. Thus, the holder of a unit will have the rights and obligations of a holder of each included security. The unit agreement under which a unit is issued may provide that the securities included in the unit may not be held or transferred separately, at any time or at any time before a specified date.
 
We may issue units in such amounts and in as many distinct series as we wish. This section summarizes terms of the units that apply generally to all series. We describe most of the financial and other specific terms of your series in the prospectus supplement accompanying this prospectus. Those terms may vary from the terms described here.
 
As you read this section, please remember that the specific terms of your unit as described in your prospectus supplement will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms described in this section. If there are differences between your prospectus supplement and this prospectus, your prospectus supplement will control. Thus, the statements we make in this section may not apply to your unit.
 
When we refer to a series of units, we mean all units issued as part of the same series under the applicable unit agreement. We will identify the series of which your units are a part in your prospectus supplement. When we refer to your prospectus supplement, we mean the prospectus supplement describing the specific terms of the units you purchase. The terms used in your prospectus supplement will have the meanings described in this prospectus, unless otherwise specified.
 
The applicable prospectus supplement may describe:
 
  •  the designation and terms of the units and of the securities comprising the units, including whether and under what circumstances those securities may be held or transferred separately;
 
  •  any provisions of the governing unit agreement that differ from those described below; and
 
  •  any provisions for the issuance, payment, settlement, transfer or exchange of the units or of the securities comprising the units.
 
The applicable provisions described in this section, as well as those described under “Description of Debt Securities AIGPF May Offer,” “Description of Warrants AIGPF May Offer” and “Description of Purchase Contracts AIGPF May Offer”, will apply to each unit and to any debt security, warrant or purchase contract included in each unit, respectively.
 
Unit Agreements Will Not Be Qualified under Trust Indenture Act
 
No unit agreement will be qualified as an indenture, and no unit agent will be required to qualify as a trustee, under the Trust Indenture Act. Therefore, holders of units issued under unit agreements will not have the protections of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to their units.
 
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linked to a non-U.S. dollar currency. We will describe some of these risks below under “Risk Factors — Indexed Securities” and under “Risk Factors — Non-U.S. Dollar Securities.”
 
Market-Making Transactions
 
One or more of AIG’s subsidiaries may resell units after their initial issuance in market-making transactions. We discuss these transactions below under “Plan of Distribution — Market-Making Resales by Subsidiaries of AIG.”
 
Unit Agreements: Prepaid, Non-Prepaid and Other
 
We will issue the units under one or more unit agreements to be entered into among us, as Issuer, AIG, as Guarantor and a bank or other financial institution, as unit agent. We may add, replace or terminate unit agents from time to time. We may also choose to act as our own unit agent or may appoint a subsidiary of AIG to do so. We will identify the unit agreement under which your units will be issued and the unit agent under that agreement in your prospectus supplement.
 
If a unit includes one or more purchase contracts and all those purchase contracts are prepaid purchase contracts, we will issue the unit under a “prepaid unit agreement.” Prepaid unit agreements will reflect the fact that the holders of the related units have no further obligations under the purchase contracts included in their units. If a unit includes one or more non-prepaid purchase contracts, we will issue the unit under a “non-prepaid unit agreement.” Non-prepaid unit agreements will reflect the fact that the holders have payment or other obligations under one or more of the purchase contracts comprising their units. We may also issue units under other kinds of unit agreements, which we will describe in the applicable prospectus supplement. In some cases, we may issue units under one of our indentures.
 
A unit agreement may also serve as the governing document for a security included in a unit. For example, a non-prepaid purchase contract that is part of a unit may be issued under and governed by the relevant unit agreement.
 
In this prospectus, we refer to prepaid unit agreements, non-prepaid unit agreements and other unit agreements, generally, as “unit agreements.” The unit agreements and the units will be governed by New York law. The unit agreement under which we issue your units will be filed, either as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part or as an exhibit to a current report of AIG on Form 8-K. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy of a unit agreement when it is filed.
 
Principal Unit Agreement Terms
 
The following provisions will generally apply to all unit agreements unless otherwise stated in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
Enforcement of Rights
 
The unit agent under a unit agreement will act solely as our agent in connection with the units issued under that agreement. The unit agent will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders of those units or of the securities comprising those units. The unit agent will not be obligated to take any action on behalf of those holders to enforce or protect their rights under the units or the included securities.
 
Except as described in the next paragraph, a holder of a unit may, without the consent of the unit agent or any other holder, enforce its rights as holder under any security included in the unit, in accordance with the terms of that security and the indenture, warrant agreement or purchase contract under which that security is issued. Those terms are described elsewhere in this prospectus under the sections relating to debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts.
 
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qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, that are included in those units. Limitations of this kind will be described in your prospectus supplement.
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless otherwise stated in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each unit in global — i.e., book-entry — form only. Units in book-entry form will be represented by a global security registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the units represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in a unit will do so through participants in the depositary’s system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry securities below under “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
In addition, we will issue each unit in registered form, unless we say otherwise in the prospectus supplement. Each unit and all securities comprising the unit will be issued in the same form. If we issue any units in registered, non-global form, the following will apply to them:
 
  •  The units will be issued in fully registered form. Holders may exchange their units for units of smaller or larger number, as long as the total number of units is not changed.
 
  •  Holders may exchange or transfer their units at the office of the unit agent. Holders may also replace lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated units at that office. We may appoint another entity to perform these functions or perform them ourselves.
 
  •  Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their units, but they may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the transfer or exchange. The transfer or exchange, and any replacement, will be made only if our transfer agent is satisfied with the holder’s proof of legal ownership. The transfer agent may also require an indemnity before replacing any units.
 
  •  If we have the right to redeem, accelerate or settle any units before their maturity, and we exercise our right as to less than all those units or other securities, we may block the exchange or transfer of those units during the period beginning 15 days before the day we mail the notice of exercise and ending on the day of that mailing, in order to freeze the list of holders to prepare the mailing. We may also refuse to register transfers of or to exchange any unit selected for early settlement, except that we will continue to permit transfers and exchanges of the unsettled portion of any unit being partially settled. We may also block the transfer or exchange of any unit in this manner if the unit includes securities that are or may be selected for early settlement.
 
Only the depositary will be entitled to transfer or exchange a unit in global form, since it will be the sole holder of the unit.
 
Modification and Waiver of the Units
 
There are three types of changes we can make to the unit agreement and the units issued under that unit agreement:
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders.  First, we may not amend any particular unit or a unit agreement with respect to any particular unit unless we obtain the consent of the holder of that unit, if the amendment would:
 
  •  impair any right of the holder to exercise or enforce any right under a security included in the unit if the terms of that security require the consent of the holder to any changes that would impair the exercise or enforcement of that right;
 
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  •  reduce the percentage of outstanding units of any series or class the consent of whose holders is required to amend that series or class, or the applicable unit agreement with respect to that series or class, as described below.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  Second, any other change to particular unit agreement and the units issued under that agreement would require the following approval:
 
  •  If the change affects only the units of a particular series, it must be approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding units of that series; or
 
  •  If the change affects the units of more than one series issued under that agreement, it must be approved by the holders of a majority of all outstanding units of all series affected by the change, with the units of all the affected series voting together as one class for this purpose.
 
These provisions regarding changes with majority approval apply to changes affecting any securities issued under a unit agreement, as the governing document.
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  Third, we and the applicable unit agent may amend any unit or unit agreement without the consent of any holder:
 
  •  to cure any ambiguity;
 
  •  to correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision; or
 
  •  to make any other change that we believe is necessary or desirable and will not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the affected holders.
 
We do not need any approval to make changes that affect only units to be issued after the changes take effect. We may also make changes that do not adversely affect in any material respect a particular unit, even if they adversely affect in any material respect other units. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of the unaffected unit; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected units.
 
The foregoing applies also to any security issued under a unit agreement, as the governing document.
 
Additional Provisions of a Non-Prepaid Unit Agreement
 
In addition to the provisions described above, a non-prepaid unit agreement will include the provisions described below:
 
Obligations of Unit Holder
 
Each holder of units issued under a non-prepaid unit agreement will:
 
  •  be bound by the terms of each non-prepaid purchase contract included in the holder’s units and by the terms of the unit agreement with respect to those contracts; and
 
  •  appoint the unit agent as its authorized agent to execute, deliver and perform on the holder’s behalf each non-prepaid purchase contract included in the holder’s units.
 
The unit agreement for a unit that includes a non-prepaid purchase contract will also include provisions regarding the holder’s pledge of collateral and special settlement provisions. These are described above under “Description of Purchase Contracts AIGPF May Offer” — Additional Terms of Non-Prepaid Purchase Contracts.”
 
Failure of Holder to Perform Obligations
 
If the holder fails to settle its obligations under a non-prepaid purchase contract included in a unit as required, the holder will not receive the purchase contract property or other consideration to be delivered at settlement of the purchase contract. Holders that fail to make timely settlement may also be obligated to pay interest or other amounts.


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Assumption of Obligations by Transferee
 
When the holder of a unit issued under a non-prepaid unit agreement transfers the unit to a new holder, the new holder will assume the obligations of the prior holder with respect to each purchase contract included in the unit, and the prior holder will be released from those obligations. Under the non-prepaid unit agreement, we will consent to the transfer of the unit, to the assumption of those obligations by the new holder and to the release of the prior holder, if the transfer is made in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
The unit agreements will not restrict our or the Guarantor’s ability to merge or consolidate with, or sell our assets to, another corporation or firm or to engage in any other transactions. If at any time we or the Guarantor merges or consolidates with, or sells substantially all of our assets to, another corporation or firm, the successor corporation or firm will succeed to and assume our or the Guarantor’s obligations, as the case may be, under the unit agreements. We will then be relieved of any further obligation under the units and the unit agreements. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in AIG’s credit rating, may reduce our or AIG’s operating results or may impair our or AIG’s financial condition. Holders of units will have no right to vote with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
No Events of Default
 
The non-prepaid unit agreements will not provide for any specific events of default.
 
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RISK FACTORS
 
References to “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means American International Group, Inc., and/or AIG Program Funding, Inc., as applicable, as Issuers.
 
Indexed Securities
 
We use the term “indexed securities” to mean debt securities, warrants and purchase contracts whose value is linked to an underlying asset or index, as well as units that include a debt security, warrant or purchase contract of this kind.
 
An Investment in Indexed Securities Presents Significant Risks Not Associated with Other Types of Securities
 
An investment in indexed securities presents certain significant risks not associated with other types of securities. If we issue indexed securities, we will describe certain risks associated with any such particular indexed security more fully in the applicable pricing supplement. Indexed securities may present a high level of risk, and you may lose your entire investment if you purchase these types of securities.
 
The treatment of indexed securities for United States federal income tax purposes is often unclear due to the absence of any authority specifically addressing the issues presented by any particular indexed security. Accordingly, you, or your tax adviser, should, in general, be capable of independently evaluating the federal income tax consequences of purchasing an indexed security applicable in your particular circumstances.
 
Investors in Indexed Securities Could Lose Principal or Interest
 
The principal amount of an indexed security payable at maturity, the amount of interest payable on an interest payment date, the cash value or physical settlement value of a physically settled debt security and the cash value or physical settlement value of an indexed warrant or purchase contract, will be determined by reference to one or more of the following:
 
  •  currencies, including baskets or indices of currencies;
 
  •  commodities, including baskets or indices of commodities;
 
  •  securities, including baskets or indices of securities; or
 
  •  any other index or financial measure, including, if permitted by any relevant state or Federal law, the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstances.
 
The direction and magnitude of the change in the value of the relevant index will determine one or more of the principal amount of an indexed security payable at maturity, the amount of interest payable on an interest payment date, the cash value or physical settlement value of a physically settled debt security and the cash value or physical settlement value of an indexed warrant or purchase contract or all the foregoing. The terms of a particular indexed security may or may not include a guaranteed return of a percentage of the face amount at maturity or a minimum interest rate. An indexed warrant or purchase contract generally will not provide for any guaranteed minimum settlement value. Accordingly, if you invest in an indexed security, you may lose all or a portion of the amount invested in such indexed security and may receive no interest on the security.
 
Market Price of Indexed Securities Influenced by Many Unpredictable Factors
 
Several factors, many of which are beyond our control, will influence the value of indexed securities, including:
 
  •  the market price of the index stock or other property, which we call the reference property;
 
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  •  economic, financial, political, regulatory or judicial events that affect markets generally and which may affect the market price of the reference property;
 
  •  interest and yield rates in the market; and
 
  •  the time remaining until (a) you can exchange your indexed securities for the reference property, (b) we can call the indexed securities and (c) the indexed securities mature.
 
These factors will influence the price that you will receive if you sell your indexed securities prior to maturity. For example, you may have to sell your indexed securities at a substantial discount from the issue price if the market price of the reference property is at, below or not sufficiently above the price of the reference property at pricing.
 
You cannot predict the future performance of an index or an indexed security based on its historical performance.
 
The Issuer of Reference Property Could Take Actions That May Adversely Affect an Indexed Security
 
The issuer of a stock or other security that serves as the reference property or as part of the reference property for an indexed security will, unless otherwise provided in the pricing supplement, have no involvement in the offer and sale of the indexed security and no obligations to the holder of the indexed security. The issuer may take actions, such as a merger or sale of assets, without regard to the interests of the holders of our indexed securities. Any of these actions could adversely affect the value of a security indexed to the reference property.
 
The issuer of the reference property is not involved in the offering of the indexed securities in any way and has no obligation to consider your interest as owner of these indexed securities in taking any corporate actions that might affect the value of your securities. None of the money you pay on the indexed security will go to a third-party issuer.
 
An Indexed Security May Be Linked to a Volatile Index, Which Could Hurt Your Investment
 
Certain indices are highly volatile, which means that their value may change significantly, up or down, over a short period of time. The expected principal amount payable at maturity, the amount of interest payable on an interest payment date, the cash value or physical settlement value of a physically settled debt security and the cash value or physical settlement value of an indexed warrant or purchase contract based on a volatile index may vary substantially from time to time. Because the amount payable on an indexed security is generally calculated based on the value of the relevant index on a specified date or over a limited period of time, volatility in the index increases the risk that the return on the indexed securities may be adversely affected by a fluctuation in the level of the relevant index.
 
The volatility of an index may be affected by political or economic events, including governmental actions, or by the activities of participants in the relevant markets. Any of these could adversely affect the value of an indexed security.
 
An Index to Which a Security is Linked Could Be Changed or Become Unavailable
 
Certain indices reference several different currencies, commodities, securities or other financial instruments. The compiler of such an index typically reserves the right to alter the composition of the index and the manner in which the value of the index is calculated. Such an alteration may result in a decrease in the value of or return on an indexed security which is linked to such index.
 
An index may become unavailable due to such factors as war, natural disasters, cessation of publication of the index, or suspension of or disruption in trading in the currency or currencies, commodity or commodities, security or securities or other financial instrument or instruments comprising or underlying such index. If an index becomes unavailable, the determination of the amount payable on an indexed security may be delayed or an alternative method may be used to determine the value of the unavailable index. Alternative methods of valuation are generally intended to produce a value similar to the value resulting from reference to the relevant index. However, it is unlikely that such alternative methods of valuation will produce values identical to those which would be produced


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were the relevant index to be used. An alternative method of valuation may result in a decrease in the value of or return on an indexed security.
 
Certain indexed securities are linked to indices which are not commonly utilized or have been recently developed. The lack of a trading history may make it difficult to anticipate the volatility or other risks to which such a security is subject. In addition, there may be less trading in such indices or instruments underlying such indices, which could increase the volatility of such indices and decrease the value of or return on indexed securities relating to them.
 
You Have No Rights With Respect to the Reference Property
 
As an owner of indexed securities, you will not have voting rights or the right to receive dividends or other distributions or any other rights with respect to reference property.
 
We May Engage in Hedging Activities that Could Adversely Affect the Value of an Indexed Security
 
In order to hedge an exposure on a particular indexed security, we may, directly or through subsidiaries of AIG, enter into transactions involving the currencies, commodities, securities, or other financial instruments that underlie the index for that security, or derivative instruments, such as options, on those currencies, commodities, securities, or other financial instruments. Transactions of this kind could affect the value of the indexed security in a manner adverse to the investor.
 
You Have No Right to Any of Our Hedging Profits
 
As discussed in the paragraph just above this one, we may engage in activities to hedge our exposure under an indexed security. We may have profits or losses from these hedging activities. It is possible that we could achieve substantial profits from our hedging transactions while the value of the indexed security may decline. The holders of an indexed security will have no right to any such profit.
 
Information About Indices May Not Be Indicative of Future Performance
 
If we issue an indexed security, we may include historical information about the relevant index in the applicable pricing supplement. Any information about indices that we may provide will be furnished as a matter of information only, and you should not regard the information as indicative of the range of, or trends in, fluctuations in the relevant index that may occur in the future.
 
We May Have Conflicts of Interest Regarding an Indexed Security
 
AIG Financial Securities Corp. and other subsidiaries of AIG may have conflicts of interest with respect to some indexed securities. AIG Financial Securities Corp. and other subsidiaries of AIG may engage in trading, including trading for hedging purposes, for their proprietary accounts or for other accounts under their management, in indexed securities and in the currencies, commodities, securities, or other financial instruments on which the index is based or in other derivative instruments related to the index. These trading activities could adversely affect the value of indexed securities. We and the subsidiaries of AIG may also issue securities or derivative instruments that are linked to the same index as one or more indexed securities. By introducing competing products into the marketplace in this manner, we could adversely affect the value of an indexed security.
 
To the extent that one or more of the subsidiaries of AIG calculates or compiles a particular index or serves as calculation agent with respect to an indexed security, it may have considerable discretion in performing the calculation or compilation. Exercising discretion in this manner could adversely affect the value of or the rate of return on an indexed security based on such index.


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Non-U.S. Dollar Securities
 
 
This prospectus and any attached prospectus supplement (including any pricing supplement) do not describe all the risks of an investment in the securities denominated in other than U.S. dollars. You should consult your own financial and legal advisors about the risks of an investment in the securities denominated in a currency, including any composite currency, other than U.S. dollars. If you are unsophisticated with respect to foreign currency transactions, these securities are not an appropriate investment for you.
 
Information About Exchange Rates May Not Be Indicative of Future Performance
 
With respect to any security denominated in other than U.S. dollars, the applicable pricing supplement may include a currency supplement on the applicable specified currency. A currency supplement may include historical exchange rates for the specified currency. Information concerning exchange rates is furnished as a matter of information only. You should not regard such information as indicative of the range of or trends in fluctuations in currency exchange rates that may occur in the future.
 
 
The information set forth in this prospectus is applicable to you only if you are a U.S. resident. We disclaim any responsibility to advise prospective purchasers who are residents of countries other than the United States, with respect to any matters that may affect the purchase, holding or receipt of payments on the securities. If you are not a U.S. resident, you should consult your own financial and legal advisors with regard to such matters.
 
An Investment in a Non-U.S. Dollar Security Involves Currency-Related Risks
 
If you invest in securities that are denominated in other than U.S. dollars, your investment may be subject to significant risks that are not associated with a similar investment in a security denominated in U.S. dollars. These risks include, for example, the possibility of significant changes in rates of exchange between the U.S. dollar and the various foreign currencies or composite currencies and the possibility of the imposition or modification of foreign exchange controls by either the U.S. or foreign governments. These risks depend on events over which we have no control, such as economic and political events and the supply of and demand for the relevant currencies.
 
Changes in Currency Exchange Rates Can Be Volatile and Unpredictable
 
In recent years, rates of exchange between the U.S. dollar and many other currencies have been highly volatile, and this volatility may be expected to continue and perhaps spread to other currencies in the future. Fluctuations in currency exchange rates could adversely affect an investment in a security with a specified currency other than U.S. dollars. Depreciation of the specified currency against the U.S. dollar could result in a decrease in the U.S. dollar-equivalent value of payments on the security, including the principal payable at maturity or the settlement value payable upon exercise. That in turn could cause the market value of the security to fall. Depreciation of the specified currency against the U.S. dollar could result in a loss to the investor on a U.S. dollar basis.
 
Government Policy Can Adversely Affect Currency Exchange Rates and an Investment in a Non-U.S. Dollar Security
 
Currency exchange rates can either float or be fixed by sovereign governments. From time to time, governments use a variety of techniques, such as intervention by a country’s central bank or imposition of regulatory controls or taxes, to affect the exchange rate of their currencies. Governments may also issue a new currency to replace an existing currency or alter the exchange rate or exchange characteristics by devaluation or revaluation of a currency. Thus, a special risk in purchasing non-U.S. dollar-denominated securities is that their U.S. dollar-equivalent yields or payouts could be significantly and unpredictably affected by governmental actions. Even in the absence of governmental action directly affecting currency exchange rates, political or economic developments in the country issuing the specified currency for a non-dollar security or elsewhere could lead to significant and sudden changes in the exchange rate between the dollar and the specified currency. These changes


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could affect the U.S. dollar equivalent value of the security as participants in the global currency markets move to buy or sell the specified currency or U.S. dollars in reaction to those developments.
 
Governments have imposed from time to time and may in the future impose exchange controls or other conditions with respect to the exchange or transfer of a specified currency that could affect exchange rates as well as the availability of a specified currency for a security at its maturity or on any other payment date. In addition, the ability of a holder to move currency freely out of the country in which payments are made, or to convert the currency at a freely determined market rate could be limited by governmental actions.
 
Non-U.S. Dollar Securities Will Permit Us to Make Payments in Dollars if We Are Unable to Obtain the Specified Currency
 
Securities payable in a currency other than U.S. dollars will provide that, if the other currency is not available to us at or about the time when a payment on the securities comes due because of circumstances beyond our control, we will be entitled to make the payment in U.S. dollars. These circumstances could include the imposition of exchange controls or our inability to obtain the currency because of a disruption in the currency markets. If we made payment in U.S. dollars, the exchange rate we would use may be for a date substantially before the payment date. As a result, the amount of dollars an investor would receive on the payment date may not reflect currency market conditions at the time of payment.
 
Payments Due in Other Currencies May Be Made From an Overseas Bank
 
Currently, there are limited facilities in the United States for conversion of U.S. dollars into foreign currencies, and vice versa. Accordingly, payments on securities made in a specified currency other than U.S. dollars are likely to be made from an account with a bank located in the country issuing the specified currency.
 
We Will Not Adjust Non-U.S. Dollar Securities to Compensate for Changes in Currency Exchange Rates
 
Except as described in your prospectus supplement, we will not make any adjustment or change in the terms of a security payable in a currency other than U.S. dollars in the event of any change in exchange rates for that currency, whether in the event of any devaluation, revaluation or imposition of exchange or other regulatory controls or taxes or in the event of other developments affecting that currency, the U.S. dollar or any other currency. Consequently, investors in non-U.S. dollar securities will bear the risk that their investment may be adversely affected by these types of events.
 
In a Lawsuit for Payment on a Non-Dollar Security, an Investor May Bear Currency Exchange Risk
 
The securities we are offering will be governed by New York law. Under New York law, a New York state court rendering a judgment on a security denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars would be required to render the judgment in the specified currency; however, the judgment would be converted into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate prevailing on the date of entry of the judgment. Consequently, in a lawsuit for payment on a security denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars, investors would bear currency exchange risk until a New York state court judgment is entered, which could be a long time.
 
In courts outside of New York, investors may not be able to obtain a judgment in a specified currency other than U.S. dollars. For example, a judgment for money in an action based on a non-U.S. dollar security in many other U.S. federal or state courts ordinarily would be enforced in the United States only in U.S. dollars. The date used to determine the rate of conversion of the currency in which any particular security is denominated into U.S. dollars will depend upon various factors, including which court renders the judgment.


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LEGAL OWNERSHIP AND BOOK-ENTRY ISSUANCE
 
References to “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means American International Group, Inc., and/or AIG Program Funding, Inc., as applicable, as Issuers. In this section, we describe special considerations that will apply to registered securities issued in global — i.e., book-entry — form. First we describe the difference between legal ownership and indirect ownership of registered securities. Then we describe special provisions that apply to global securities.
 
Who is the Legal Owner of a Registered Security?
 
Each debt security, warrant, purchase contract, unit, junior subordinated debenture or share of preferred or common stock in registered form will be represented either by a certificate issued in definitive form to a particular investor or by one or more global securities representing such securities. We refer to those who have securities registered in their own names, on the books that we or the trustee, warrant agent or other agent maintain for this purpose, as the “holders” of those securities. These persons are the legal holders of the securities. We refer to those who, indirectly through others, own beneficial interests in securities that are not registered in their own names as indirect owners of those securities. As we discuss below, indirect owners are not legal holders, and investors in securities issued in book-entry form or in street name will be indirect owners.
 
Book-Entry Owners
 
Unless otherwise noted in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each security in book-entry form only. This means securities will be represented by one or more global securities registered in the name of a financial institution that holds them as depositary on behalf of other financial institutions that participate in the depositary’s book-entry system. These participating institutions, in turn, hold beneficial interests in the securities on behalf of themselves or their customers.
 
Under each indenture, warrant agreement, purchase contract, unit agreement or depositary agreement, only the person in whose name a security is registered is recognized as the holder of that security. Consequently, for securities issued in global form, we will recognize only the depositary as the holder of the securities and we will make all payments on the securities, including deliveries of any property other than cash, to the depositary. The depositary passes along the payments it receives to its participants, which in turn pass the payments along to their customers who are the beneficial owners. The depositary and its participants do so under agreements they have made with one another or with their customers; they are not obligated to do so under the terms of the securities.
 
As a result, investors will not own securities directly. Instead, they will own beneficial interests in a global security, through a bank, broker or other financial institution that participates in the depositary’s book-entry system or holds an interest through a participant. As long as the securities are issued in global form, investors will be indirect owners, and not holders, of the securities.
 
Street Name Owners
 
We may terminate an existing global security or issue securities initially in non-global form. In these cases, investors may choose to hold their securities in their own names or in street name. Securities held by an investor in street name would be registered in the name of a bank, broker or other financial institution that the investor chooses, and the investor would hold only a beneficial interest in those securities through an account he or she maintains at that institution.
 
For securities held in street name, we will recognize only the intermediary banks, brokers and other financial institutions in whose names the securities are registered as the holders of those securities and we will make all payments on those securities, including deliveries of any property other than cash, to them. These institutions pass along the payments they receive to their customers who are the beneficial owners, but only because they agree to do so in their customer agreements or because they are legally required to do so. Investors who hold securities in street name will be indirect owners, not holders, of those securities.


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Legal Holders
 
Our obligations, as well as the obligations of the trustee under any indenture and the obligations, if any, of any warrant agents and unit agents and any other third parties employed by us, the trustee or any of those agents, run only to the holders of the securities. We do not have obligations to investors who hold beneficial interests in global securities, in street name or by any other indirect means. This will be the case whether an investor chooses to be an indirect owner of a security or has no choice because we are issuing the securities only in global form.
 
For example, once we make a payment or give a notice to the holder, we have no further responsibility for that payment or notice even if that holder is required, under agreements with depositary participants or customers or by law, to pass it along to the indirect owners but does not do so. Similarly, if we want to obtain the approval of the holders for any purpose — for example, to amend the indenture for a series of debt securities or warrants or the warrant agreement for a series of warrants or to relieve us of the consequences of a default or of our obligation to comply with a particular provision of an indenture — we would seek the approval only from the holders, and not the indirect owners, of the relevant securities. Whether and how the holders contact the indirect owners is up to the holders.
 
When we refer to “you” in this prospectus, we mean all purchasers of the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or indirect owners of those securities. When we refer to “your securities” in this prospectus, we mean the securities in which you will hold a direct or indirect interest.
 
Special Considerations for Indirect Owners
 
If you hold securities through a bank, broker or other financial institution, either in book-entry form or in street name, you should check with your own institution to find out:
 
  •  how it handles securities payments and notices;
 
  •  whether it imposes fees or charges;
 
  •  whether and how you can instruct it to exercise any rights to purchase or sell warrant property under a warrant or purchase contract property under a purchase contract or to exchange or convert a security for or into other property;
 
  •  how it would handle a request for the holders’ consent, if ever required;
 
  •  whether and how you can instruct it to send you securities registered in your own name so you can be a holder, if that is permitted in the future;
 
  •  how it would exercise rights under the securities if there were a default or other event triggering the need for holders to act to protect their interests; and
 
  •  if the securities are in book-entry form, how the depositary’s rules and procedures will affect these matters.
 
What is a Global Security?
 
Unless otherwise noted in the applicable pricing supplement, we will issue each security in book-entry form only. Each security issued in book-entry form will be represented by a global security that we deposit with and register in the name of one or more financial institutions or clearing systems, or their nominees, which we select. A financial institution or clearing system that we select for any security for this purpose is called the “depositary” for that security. A security will usually have only one depositary but it may have more. Each series of securities will have one or more of the following as the depositaries:
 
  •  The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, which is known as “DTC”;
 
  •  Euroclear System, which is known as “Euroclear”;
 
  •  Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, Luxembourg, which is known as “Clearstream”; and
 
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The depositaries named above may also be participants in one another’s systems. Thus, for example, if DTC is the depositary for a global security, investors may hold beneficial interests in that security through Euroclear or Clearstream, as DTC participants. The depositary or depositaries for your securities will be named in your prospectus supplement; if none is named, the depositary will be DTC.
 
A global security may represent one or any other number of individual securities. Generally, all securities represented by the same global security will have the same terms. We may, however, issue a global security that represents multiple securities of the same kind, such as debt securities, that have different terms and are issued at different times. We call this kind of global security a master global security. Your prospectus supplement will not indicate whether your securities are represented by a master global security.
 
A global security may not be transferred to or registered in the name of anyone other than the depositary or its nominee, unless special termination situations arise. We describe those situations below under “— Holder’s Option to Obtain a Non-Global Security: Special Situations When a Global Security Will Be Terminated.” As a result of these arrangements, the depositary, or its nominee, will be the sole registered owner and holder of all securities represented by a global security, and investors will be permitted to own only indirect interests in a global security. Indirect interests must be held by means of an account with a broker, bank or other financial institution that in turn has an account with the depositary or with another institution that does. Thus, an investor whose security is represented by a global security will not be a holder of the security, but only an indirect owner of an interest in the global security.
 
If the prospectus supplement for a particular security indicates that the security will be issued in global form only, then the security will be represented by a global security at all times unless and until the global security is terminated. We describe the situations in which this can occur below under “— Holder’s Option to Obtain a Non-Global Security: Special Situations When a Global Security Will Be Terminated.” If termination occurs, we may issue the securities through another book-entry clearing system or decide that the securities may no longer be held through any book-entry clearing system.
 
Special Considerations for Global Securities
 
As an indirect owner, an investor’s rights relating to a global security will be governed by the account rules of the depositary and those of the investor’s bank, broker, financial institution or other intermediary through which it holds its interest (e.g., Euroclear or Clearstream, if DTC is the depositary), as well as general laws relating to securities transfers. We do not recognize this type of investor or any intermediary as a holder of securities and instead deal only with the depositary that holds the global security.
 
If securities are issued only in the form of a global security, an investor should be aware of the following:
 
  •  An investor cannot cause the securities to be registered in his or her own name, and cannot obtain non-global certificates for his or her interest in the securities, except in the special situations we describe below;
 
  •  An investor will be an indirect holder and must look to his or her own bank, broker or other financial institution for payments on the securities and protection of his or her legal rights relating to the securities, as we describe above under “ — Who is the Legal Owner of a Registered Security?”;
 
  •  An investor may not be able to sell interests in the securities to some insurance companies and other institutions that are required by law to own their securities in non-book-entry form;
 
  •  An investor may not be able to pledge his or her interest in a global security in circumstances where certificates representing the securities must be delivered to the lender or other beneficiary of the pledge in order for the pledge to be effective;
 
  •  The depositary’s policies will govern payments, deliveries, transfers, exchanges, notices and other matters relating to an investor’s interest in a global security, and those policies may change from time to time. We, the trustee and any warrant agents and unit agents will have no responsibility for any aspect of the depositary’s policies, actions or records of ownership interests in a global security. We, the trustee and any warrant agents and unit agents also do not supervise the depositary in any way;


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  •  The depositary may require that those who purchase and sell interests in a global security within its book-entry system use immediately available funds, and your bank, broker or other financial institution may require you to do so as well; and
 
  •  Financial institutions that participate in the depositary’s book-entry system and through which an investor holds its interest in the global securities, directly or indirectly, may also have their own policies affecting payments, deliveries, transfers, exchanges, notices and other matters relating to the securities, and those policies may change from time to time. For example, if you hold an interest in a global security through Euroclear or Clearstream, when DTC is the depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, may require those who purchase and sell interests in that security through them to use immediately available funds and comply with other policies and procedures, including deadlines for giving instructions as to transactions that are to be effected on a particular day. There may be more than one financial intermediary in the chain of ownership for an investor. We do not monitor and are not responsible for the policies or actions or records of ownership interests of any of those intermediaries.
 
Holder’s Option to Obtain a Non-Global Security: Special Situations When a Global Security Will Be Terminated
 
If we issue any series of securities in book-entry form but we choose to give the beneficial owners of that series the right to obtain non-global securities, any beneficial owner entitled to obtain non-global securities may do so by following the applicable procedures of the depositary, any transfer agent or registrar for that series and that owner’s bank, broker or other financial institution through which that owner holds its beneficial interest in the securities. If you are entitled to request a non-global certificate and wish to do so, you will need to allow sufficient lead time to enable us or our agent to prepare the requested certificate.
 
In addition, in a few special situations described below, a global security will be terminated and interests in it will be exchanged for certificates in non-global form representing the securities it represented. After that exchange, the choice of whether to hold the securities directly or in street name will be up to the investor. Investors must consult their own banks, brokers or other financial institutions, to find out how to have their interests in a global security transferred on termination to their own names, so that they will be holders. We have described the rights of holders and street name investors above under “— Who is the Legal Owner of a Registered Security?.”
 
The special situations for termination of a global security are as follows:
 
  •  if the depositary notifies us that it is unwilling, unable or no longer qualified to continue as depositary for that global security and we do not appoint another institution to act as depositary within 60 days;
 
  •  if we notify the trustee, warrant agent or unit agent, as applicable, that we wish to terminate that global security; or
 
  •  in the case of a global security representing debt securities or warrants issued under an indenture, if an event of default has occurred with regard to these debt securities or warrants and has not been cured or waived.
 
If a global security is terminated, only the depositary, and not we, the trustee for any debt securities, the warrant agent for any warrants or the unit agent for any units, is responsible for deciding the names of the institutions in whose names the securities represented by the global security will be registered and, therefore, who will be the holders of those securities.
 
Considerations Relating to DTC
 
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participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations, and may include other organizations. DTC is owned by a number of its DTC participants and by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the American Stock Exchange, LLC and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Indirect access to the DTC system also is available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a participant, either directly or indirectly. The rules applicable to DTC and DTC participants are on file with the SEC.
 
Purchases of securities within the DTC system must be made by or through DTC participants, which will receive a credit for the securities on DTC’s records. Transfers of ownership interests in the securities are to be accomplished by entries made on the books of participants acting on behalf of beneficial owners.
 
Redemption notices will be sent to DTC’s nominee, Cede & Co., as the registered holder of the securities. If less than all of the securities are being redeemed, DTC will determine the amount of the interest of each direct participant to be redeemed in accordance with its then current procedures.
 
In instances in which a vote is required, neither DTC nor Cede & Co. will itself consent or vote with respect to the securities. Under its usual procedures, DTC would mail an omnibus proxy to the relevant trustee as soon as possible after the record date. The omnibus proxy assigns Cede & Co.’s consenting or voting rights to those direct participants to whose accounts such securities are credited on the record date (identified in a listing attached to the omnibus proxy).
 
Distribution payments on the securities will be made by the relevant trustee to DTC. DTC’s usual practice is to credit direct participants’ accounts on the relevant payment date in accordance with their respective holdings shown on DTC’s records unless DTC has reason to believe that it will not receive payments on such payment date. Payments by participants to beneficial owners will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices and will be the responsibility of such participants and not of DTC, the relevant trustee or us, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment of distributions to DTC is the responsibility of the relevant trustee, and disbursements of such payments to the beneficial owners are the responsibility of direct and indirect participants.
 
The information in this section concerning DTC and DTC’s book-entry system has been obtained from sources that we believe to be accurate, but we assume no responsibility for the accuracy thereof. We do not have any responsibility for the performance by DTC or its participants of their respective obligations as described herein or under the rules and procedures governing their respective operations.
 
Considerations Relating to Euroclear and Clearstream
 
Euroclear and Clearstream are securities clearance systems in Europe. Both systems clear and settle securities transactions between their participants through electronic, book-entry delivery of securities against payment.
 
Euroclear and Clearstream may be depositaries for a global security. In addition, if DTC is the depositary for a global security, Euroclear and Clearstream may hold interests in the global security as participants in DTC.
 
As long as any global security is held by Euroclear or Clearstream, as depositary, you may hold an interest in the global security only through an organization that participates, directly or indirectly, in Euroclear or Clearstream. If Euroclear or Clearstream is the depositary for a global security and there is no depositary in the United States, you will not be able to hold interests in that global security through any securities clearance system in the United States.
 
Payments, deliveries, transfers, exchanges, notices and other matters relating to the securities made through Euroclear or Clearstream must comply with the rules and procedures of those systems. Those systems could change their rules and procedures at any time. We have no control over those systems or their participants and we take no responsibility for their activities. Transactions between participants in Euroclear or Clearstream, on one hand, and participants in DTC, on the other hand, when DTC is the depositary, would also be subject to DTC’s rules and procedures.


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Special Timing Considerations Relating to Transactions in Euroclear and Clearstream
 
Investors will be able to make and receive through Euroclear and Clearstream payments, deliveries, transfers, exchanges, notices and other transactions involving any securities held through those systems only on days when those systems are open for business. Those systems may not be open for business on days when banks, brokers and other financial institutions are open for business in the United States.
 
In addition, because of time-zone differences, U.S. investors who hold their interests in the securities through these systems and wish to transfer their interests, or to receive or make a payment or delivery or exercise any other right with respect to their interests, on a particular day may find that the transaction will not be effected until the next business day in Luxembourg or Brussels, as applicable. Thus, investors who wish to exercise rights that expire on a particular day may need to act before the expiration date. In addition, investors who hold their interests through both DTC and Euroclear or Clearstream may need to make special arrangements to finance any purchases or sales of their interests between the U.S. and European clearing systems, and those transactions may settle later than would be the case for transactions within one clearing system.
 
CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO SECURITIES ISSUED IN BEARER FORM
 
References to “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means American International Group, Inc., and/or AIG Program Funding, Inc., as applicable, as Issuers. If we issue securities in bearer, rather than registered, form, those securities will be subject to special provisions described in this section. This section primarily describes provisions relating to debt securities issued in bearer form. Other provisions may apply to securities of other kinds issued in bearer form. To the extent the provisions described in this section are inconsistent with those described elsewhere in this prospectus, they supersede those described elsewhere with regard to any bearer securities. Otherwise, the relevant provisions described elsewhere in this prospectus will apply to bearer securities.
 
General
 
Temporary and Permanent Bearer Global Securities
 
If we issue securities in bearer form, and unless otherwise noted in the applicable pricing supplement, all securities of the same series and kind will initially be represented by a temporary bearer global security, which we will deposit with a common depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream. Euroclear and Clearstream will credit the account of each of their subscribers with the amount of securities the subscriber purchases. We will promise to exchange the temporary bearer global security for a permanent bearer global security, which we will deliver to the common depositary upon the later of the following two dates:
 
  •  the date that is 40 days after the later of (a) the completion of the distribution of the securities as determined by the underwriter, dealer or agent and (b) the closing date for the sale of the securities by us; we may extend this date as described below under “— Extensions For Further Issuances;” and
 
  •  the date on which Euroclear and Clearstream provide us or our agent with the necessary tax certificates described below under “— U.S. Tax Certificate Required.”
 
Unless we say otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, owners of beneficial interests in a permanent bearer global security will be able to exchange those interests at their option, in whole but not in part, for:
 
  •  non-global securities in bearer form with interest coupons attached, if applicable; or
 
  •  non-global securities in registered form without coupons attached.
 
A beneficial owner will be able to make this exchange by giving us or our designated agent 60 days’ prior written notice in accordance with the terms of the securities.
 
Extensions For Further Issuances
 
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required to exchange the temporary bearer global security representing the prior issue for a permanent bearer global security as described above, that date will be extended until the 40th day after the completion of the distribution and the closing, whichever is later, for the additional securities. Extensions of this kind may be repeated if we sell additional identical securities. As a result of these extensions, beneficial interests in the temporary bearer global security may not be exchanged for interests in a permanent bearer global security until the 40th day after the additional securities have been distributed and sold.
 
U.S. Tax Certificate Required
 
We will not pay or deliver interest or other amounts in respect of any portion of a temporary bearer global security unless and until Euroclear or Clearstream delivers to us or our agent a tax certificate with regard to the owners of the beneficial interests in that portion of the global security or a security in any other form. Also, we will not exchange any portion of a temporary bearer global security for a permanent bearer global security unless and until we receive from Euroclear or Clearstream a tax certificate with regard to the owners of the beneficial interests in the portion to be exchanged. In each case, this tax certificate must state that each of the relevant owners:
 
  •  is not a United States person, as defined below under “— Limitations on Issuance of Bearer Debt Securities”;
 
  •  is a foreign branch of a United States financial institution purchasing for its own account or for resale, or is a United States person who acquired the security through a financial institution of this kind and who holds the security through that financial institution on the date of certification, provided in either case that the financial institution provides a certificate to us or the distributor selling the security to it stating that it agrees to comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Treasury Regulations under that Section; or
 
  •  is a financial institution holding for purposes of resale during the “restricted period,” as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7). A financial institution of this kind, whether or not it is also described in either of the two preceding bullet points, must certify that it has not acquired the security for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.
 
The tax certificate must be signed by an authorized person satisfactory to us.
 
No one who owns an interest in a temporary bearer global security will receive payment or delivery of any amount or property in respect of its interest, and will not be permitted to exchange its interest for an interest in a permanent bearer global security or a security in any other form, unless we or our agent have received the required tax certificate on its behalf.
 
Special requirements and restrictions imposed by United States federal tax laws and regulations will apply to bearer debt securities. We describe these below under “— Limitations on Issuance of Bearer Debt Securities.”
 
Legal Ownership of Bearer Securities
 
Securities in bearer form are not registered in any name. Whoever is the bearer of the certificate representing a security in bearer form is the legal owner of that security. Legal title and ownership of bearer securities will pass by delivery of the certificates representing the securities. Thus, when we use the term “holder” in this prospectus with regard to bearer securities, we mean the bearer of those securities.
 
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participants in their systems, and ownership interests can be held and transferred only through those records. We will pay any amounts owing with respect to a bearer global security only to the common depositary.
 
Neither we, the trustee nor any of our agents will recognize any owner of indirect interests as a holder or legal owner. Nor will we, the trustee or any of our agents have any responsibility for the ownership records or practices of Euroclear or Clearstream, the common depositary or any direct or indirect participants in those systems or for any payments, transfers, deliveries, notices or other transactions within those systems, all of which will be subject to the rules and procedures of those systems and participants. If you own an indirect interest in a bearer global security, you must look only to the common depositary for Euroclear or Clearstream, and to their direct and indirect participants through which you hold your interest, for your ownership rights. You should read the section above entitled “Legal Ownership And Book-Entry Issuance” for more information about holding interests through Euroclear and Clearstream.
 
Payment and Exchange of Non-Global Bearer Securities
 
Payments and deliveries owing on non-global bearer securities will be made, in the case of interest payments, only to the holder of the relevant coupon after the coupon is surrendered to the paying agent. In all other cases, payments and deliveries will be made only to the holder of the certificate representing the relevant security after the certificate is surrendered to the paying agent.
 
Non-global bearer securities, with all unmatured coupons relating to the securities, if any, may be exchanged for a like aggregate amount of registered securities of like kind. Non-global registered securities may be exchanged for a like aggregate amount of non-global registered securities of like kind, as described above in the sections on the different types of securities we may offer. However, we will not issue bearer securities in exchange for any registered securities.
 
Replacement certificates and coupons for non-global bearer securities will not be issued in lieu of any lost, stolen or destroyed certificates and coupons unless we and our transfer agent receive evidence of the loss, theft or destruction, and an indemnity against liabilities, satisfactory to us and our agent. Upon redemption or any other settlement before the stated maturity or expiration, as well as upon any exchange, of a non-global bearer security, the holder will be required to surrender all unmatured coupons to us or our designated agent. If any unmatured coupons are not surrendered, we or our agent may deduct the amount of interest relating to those coupons from the amount otherwise payable or deliverable or we or our agent may demand an indemnity against liabilities satisfactory to us and our agent.
 
We may make payments, deliveries and exchanges in respect of bearer securities in global form in any manner acceptable to us and the depositary.
 
Notices
 
If we are required to give notice to the holders of bearer securities, we will do so in the manner prescribed by any securities exchange on which the bearer securities are listed or, if the bearer securities are not listed on a securities exchange, we will give notice in the manner prescribed by the bearer securities. If the bearer securities do not prescribe the manner for giving notice, then we will determine, in our sole judgment, the manner in which we shall give notice.
 
We may give any required notice with regard to bearer securities in global form to the common depositary for the securities, in accordance with its applicable procedures.
 
Limitations on Issuance of Bearer Debt Securities
 
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Regulations cited earlier, offer, sell, resell or deliver, directly or indirectly, any bearer debt securities in the United States or its possessions or to United States persons, other than as permitted by the applicable Treasury Regulations described above.
 
In addition, any underwriters, dealers or agents must have procedures reasonably designed to ensure that their employees or agents who are directly engaged in selling bearer debt securities are aware of the above restrictions on the offering, sale, resale or delivery of bearer debt securities.
 
We will make payments on bearer debt securities only outside the United States and its possessions except as permitted by the applicable Treasury Regulations described above.
 
Bearer debt securities and any coupons will bear the following legend:
 
“Any United States person who holds this obligation will be subject to limitations under the United States income tax laws, including the limitations provided in sections 165(j) and 1287(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.”
 
The sections referred to in this legend provide that, with certain limited exceptions, a United States person will not be permitted to deduct any loss, and will not be eligible for capital gain treatment with respect to any gain, realized on the sale, exchange or redemption of that bearer debt security or coupon.
 
As used in this subsection, the term “bearer debt securities” includes bearer debt securities that are part of units. As used in this section entitled “Considerations Relating To Securities Issued In Bearer Form”, “United States person” means a person that is, for U.S. federal income tax law purposes:
 
  •  a citizen or resident of the United States;
 
  •  a corporation or partnership, including an entity treated as a corporation or partnership for United States federal income tax purposes, created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, any State of the United States or the District of Columbia;
 
  •  an estate the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source; or
 
  •  a trust if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision of the administration of the trust and one or more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust.
 
“United States” means the United States of America, including the States and the District of Columbia, and “possessions” of the United States include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.
 
EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT
 
A fiduciary of a pension, profit-sharing or other employee benefit plan (a “plan”) subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), should consider the fiduciary standards of ERISA in the context of the plan’s particular circumstances before authorizing an investment in securities offered hereunder. Accordingly, among other factors, the fiduciary should consider whether the investment would satisfy the prudence and diversification requirements of ERISA and would be consistent with the documents and instruments governing the plan.
 
ERISA and the Code prohibit plans, as well as individual retirement accounts, Keogh plans and other plans subject to Section 4975 of the Code (also “plans”), from engaging in certain transactions involving plan assets with persons who are “parties in interest” under ERISA or “disqualified persons” under the Code (together, “parties in interest”) with respect to the plan. A violation of these prohibited transaction rules may result in civil penalties or other liabilities under ERISA and/or an excise tax under the Code for those persons, unless exemptive relief is available under an applicable statutory, regulatory or administrative exemption. Certain employee benefit plans and arrangements including governmental plans, certain church plans and foreign plans (“non-ERISA arrangements”) are not subject to the requirements of ERISA or the Code but may be subject to similar provisions under applicable federal, state, local, foreign or other laws (“similar laws”).


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AIG and certain of its affiliates may each be considered a party in interest with respect to many plans. The acquisition of securities that we may offer by a plan with respect to which we or an affiliate is or becomes a party in interest may constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or the Code, unless those securities are acquired pursuant to an applicable exemption. The U.S. Department of Labor has issued five prohibited transaction class exemptions, or “PTCEs”, that may provide exemptive relief if required for direct or indirect prohibited transactions that may arise from the purchase or holding of a security offered hereunder. These exemptions are PTCE 84-14 (for certain transactions determined or effected by a qualified professional asset manager), 90-1 (for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), 91-38 (for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds), 95-60 (for transactions involving insurance company general accounts) and 96-23 (for transactions determined or effected by an in-house asset manager). In addition, ERISA Section 408(b)(17) and Code Section 4975(d)(20) provide an exemption for the purchase and sale of securities, provided that neither the issuer of the securities nor any of its affiliates have or exercise any discretionary authority or control or render any investment advice with respect to the assets of any plan involved in the transaction, and provided further that the plan pays no more and receives no less than “adequate consideration” in connection with the transaction (the “service provider exemption”).
 
Unless otherwise specified in an applicable prospectus supplement, any purchaser or holder of any security offered hereunder or any interest therein will be deemed to have represented by its purchase and holding of the security that it either (1) is not a plan and is not purchasing the security on behalf of or with the assets of a plan or (2) with respect to the purchase and holding of the security is eligible for the exemptive relief available under any of the PTCEs listed above, the service provider exemption or another applicable exemption. In addition, any purchaser or holder of a security offered hereunder which is a non-ERISA arrangement will be deemed to have represented by its purchase or holding of the security that its purchase and holding will not violate the provisions of any similar laws.
 
Due to the complexity of these rules and the penalties that may be imposed upon persons involved in non-exempt prohibited transactions, it is important that fiduciaries or other persons considering the purchase of securities offered hereunder on behalf of or with plan assets of any plan or non-ERISA arrangement consult with their counsel regarding the availability of an exemption, or the potential consequences of any purchase or holding under similar laws, as applicable. If you are an insurance company or the fiduciary of a pension plan or an employee benefit plan, and propose to invest in securities offered hereunder, you should consult your legal counsel.
 
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
Initial Offering and Sale of Securities
 
References to “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means American International Group, Inc., and/or AIG Program Funding, Inc., as applicable, as Issuers.
 
We may sell securities:
 
  •  to or through underwriting syndicates represented by managing underwriters;
 
  •  through one or more underwriters without a syndicate for them to offer and sell to the public;
 
  •  through dealers or agents; and
 
  •  to investors directly in negotiated sales or in competitively bid transactions.
 
Any underwriter or agent involved in the offer and sale of any series of the securities will be named in the prospectus supplement. AIG Financial Securities Corp., or other subsidiaries of AIG, may act as an underwriter or agent.
 
The prospectus supplement for each series of securities will describe:
 
  •  the terms of the offering of these securities, including the name or names of any agent or agents or the name or names of any underwriters;
 
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  •  any discounts and commissions to be allowed or paid to any agents or underwriters and all other items constituting underwriting compensation;
 
  •  any discounts and commissions to be allowed or paid to dealers; and
 
  •  other specific terms of the particular offering or sale.
 
Only the agents or underwriters named in a prospectus supplement are agents or underwriters in connection with the securities being offered by that prospectus supplement.
 
Underwriters, agents and dealers may be entitled, under agreements with us, to indemnification against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.
 
Underwriters to whom securities are sold by us for public offering and sale are obliged to purchase all of those particular securities if any are purchased. This obligation is subject to certain conditions and may be modified in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
Any subsidiary of AIG that participates in a particular offering of securities will comply with the applicable requirements of Rule 2720 of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. In compliance with guidelines of the NASD, the maximum commission or discount to be received by any NASD member or independent broker-dealer may not exceed 8% of the aggregate principal amount of securities offered pursuant to this prospectus. We anticipate, however, that the maximum commission or discount to be received in any particular offering of securities will be significantly less than this amount.
 
Underwriters, dealers or agents may engage in transactions with, or perform services for, us or subsidiaries of AIG in the ordinary course of business.
 
MARKET-MAKING RESALES BY SUBSIDIARIES OF AIG
 
References to “us”, “we” or “our” in this section means American International Group, Inc., and/or AIG Program Funding, Inc., as applicable, as Issuers. This prospectus may be used by subsidiaries of AIG, in connection with offers and sales of the securities in market-making transactions. In market-making transactions, subsidiaries of AIG may resell securities they acquire from other holders, after the original offering and sale of the securities. Resales of this kind may occur in the open market or may be privately negotiated, at prevailing market prices at the time of resale or at related or negotiated prices. In these transactions, subsidiaries of AIG may act as principal or agent. Subsidiaries of AIG may receive compensation in the form of discounts and commissions from both the purchaser and seller. Subsidiaries of AIG may also engage in transactions of this kind and may use this prospectus for this purpose.
 
The aggregate initial offering price specified on the cover of this prospectus relates to the initial offering of the securities not yet issued as of the date of this prospectus. This amount does not include the securities to be sold in market-making transactions. The latter includes securities to be issued after the date of this prospectus, as well as securities previously issued.
 
We do not expect to receive any proceeds from market-making transactions. We do not expect that AIG Financial Securities Corp. or any other subsidiary of AIG that engages in these transactions will pay any proceeds from market-making resales to us.
 
Information about the trade and settlement dates, as well as the purchase price, for a market-making transaction will be provided to the purchaser in a separate confirmation of sale.
 
Unless we or an agent informs you in your confirmation of sale that your security is being purchased in its original offering and sale, you may assume that you are purchasing your security in a market-making transaction.
 
Matters Relating to Initial Offering and Market-Making Resales
 
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system. Any underwriters to whom we sell securities for public offering may make a market in those securities. However, no such underwriter that makes a market is obligated to do so, and any of them may stop doing so at any time without notice. No assurance can be given as to the liquidity or trading market for any of the securities.
 
Unless otherwise indicated in your prospectus supplement or confirmation of sale, the purchase price of the securities will be required to be paid in immediately available funds in New York City.
 
In this prospectus, the term “this offering” means the initial offering of the securities made in connection with their original issuance. This term does not refer to any subsequent resales of securities in market-making transactions.
 
VALIDITY OF THE SECURITIES AND GUARANTEES
 
Unless otherwise specified in any prospectus supplement, the validity of the securities will be passed upon for us by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, New York, and the validity of the Guarantees will be passed upon for AIG by Kathleen E. Shannon, Esq., Senior Vice President, Secretary and Deputy General Counsel of AIG. Partners of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP involved in the representation of AIG beneficially own approximately 11,360 shares of AIG common stock. Ms. Shannon is regularly employed by AIG, participates in various AIG employee benefit plans under which she may receive shares of AIG common stock and currently beneficially owns less than 1% of the outstanding shares of AIG common stock.
 
EXPERTS
 
The consolidated financial statements, the financial statement schedules and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting) incorporated in this prospectus by reference to AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report (which contains an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting) of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
 
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
 
AIG is required to file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports, proxy statements and other information can be inspected and copied at:
 
SEC Public Reference Room
100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference room. AIG’s filings are also available to the public through:
 
  •  The SEC web site at http://www.sec.gov
 
  •  The New York Stock Exchange 20 Broad Street New York, New York 10005
 
AIG’s common stock is listed on the NYSE and trades under the symbol “AIG.”
 
AIG and AIGPF have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the securities. This prospectus is part of the registration statement and does not contain all the information in the registration statement. Whenever a reference is made in this prospectus to a contract or other document, please be aware that the reference is not necessarily complete and that you should refer to the exhibits that are part of the registration statement for a copy of the contract or other document. You may review a copy of the registration statement at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. as well as through the SEC’s internet site noted above.


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The SEC allows AIG to “incorporate by reference” the information AIG files with the SEC, which means that AIG can disclose important information to you by referring to those documents, and later information that AIG files with the SEC will automatically update and supersede that information as well as the information included in this prospectus. AIG incorporates by reference the documents below, any filings that AIG makes after the date of the initial filing of this registration statement (or post-effective amendment) and prior to the effectiveness of this registration statement (or post-effective amendment) and any future filings made with the SEC under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 until all the securities are sold. This prospectus is part of a registration statement AIG filed with the SEC.
 
  •  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006.
 
  •  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31,2007.
 
  •  Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on January 19, 2007, March 1, 2007 (containing items 8.01 and 9.01), March 13, 2007, March 16, 2007, May 22, 2007 and June 7, 2007.
 
  •  Proxy Statement, dated April 6, 2007.
 
  •  The description of common stock in the registration statement on Form 8-A, dated September 20, 1984, filed pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
 
AIG will provide without charge to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom this prospectus is delivered, upon his or her written or oral request, a copy of any or all of the reports or documents referred to above that have been incorporated by reference into this prospectus excluding exhibits to those documents unless they are specifically incorporated by reference into those documents. You can request those documents from AIG’s Director of Investor Relations, 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, telephone 212-770-6293, or you may obtain them from AIG’s corporate website at www.aigcorporate.com. Except for the documents specifically incorporated by reference into this prospectus, information contained on AIG’s website or that can be accessed through its website does not constitute a part of this prospectus. AIG has included its website address only as an inactive textual reference and does not intend it to be an active link to its website.


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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING PROJECTIONS
AND OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS
 
This prospectus and the documents incorporated herein by reference, as well as other publicly available documents, may include, and AIG’s officers and representatives may from time to time make, projections concerning financial information and statements concerning future economic performance and events, plans and objectives relating to management, operations, products and services, and assumptions underlying these projections and statements. These projections and statements are not historical facts but instead represent only AIG’s belief regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside AIG’s control. These projections and statements may address, among other things, the status and potential future outcome of the current regulatory and civil proceedings against AIG and their potential effect on AIG’s businesses, financial position, results of operations, cash flows and liquidity, the effect of credit rating changes on AIG’s businesses and competitive position, the unwinding and resolving of various relationships between AIG and Starr International Company, Inc. and AIG’s strategy for growth, product development, market position, financial results and reserves. It is possible that AIG’s actual results and financial condition may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results and financial condition indicated in these projections and statements. Factors that could cause AIG’s actual results to differ, possibly materially, from those in the specific projections and statements are discussed throughout Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7, Part II, of AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and Risk Factors in Item 1A, Part I of AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. AIG is not under any obligation (and expressly disclaims any such obligations) to update or alter any projection or other statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to represent anything not contained in this prospectus. You must not rely on any unauthorized information or representations. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the securities it describes, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.
 
American International Group, Inc.
 
$22,000,000,000
 
Debt Securities
Warrants
Purchase Contracts
Units
Junior Subordinated Debentures
Preferred Stock
Depositary Shares
Guarantees of Securities
 
Common Stock
(up to $16,459,681,000)
 
 
 
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
 
Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by
American International Group, Inc.
 
 
Debt Securities
Warrants
Purchase Contracts
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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
 
$22,000,000,000
 
DATA,euro AIG Logo DATA,agrave
 
AIG CAPITAL TRUST I
AIG CAPITAL TRUST II
 
Capital Securities
 
guaranteed on a subordinated basis, as described in this prospectus, by
 
American International Group, Inc.
 
 
The AIG Capital Trusts may offer from time to time capital securities guaranteed on a subordinated basis by American International Group, Inc. These capital securities will have an initial public offering price or purchase price of up to $22,000,000,000, although we may increase this amount in the future. This prospectus describes some of the general terms that may apply to these securities and the general manner in which they will be offered. The specific terms of any securities to be offered will be included in a supplement to this prospectus. Your prospectus supplement will also describe the specific manner in which we will offer the securities. This prospectus may not be used to sell securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement.
 
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
 
We may offer and sell these securities to or through one or more underwriters, dealers and agents, or directly to purchasers, on a continuous or delayed basis.
 
AIG FINANCIAL SECURITIES CORP.
 
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Unless otherwise mentioned or unless the context requires otherwise, all references in this prospectus to the “Company”, “AIG”, “we”, “our”, “us” and similar references mean American International Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
 
You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement or information contained in documents which you are referred to by this prospectus or any prospectus supplement. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. We are offering to sell the securities only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information contained in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement is accurate only as of the date on the front of those documents, regardless of the time of delivery of the documents or any sale of the securities.


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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS
 
This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission utilizing a shelf registration process. Under this shelf process, we may sell the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings up to a total dollar amount of $22,000,000,000. This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer.
 
Each time we sell capital securities, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and any prospectus supplement together with additional information described in the section entitled “Where You Can Find More Information.”
 
To see more detail, you should read our registration statement and the exhibits filed with our registration statement.
 
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
AIG, a Delaware corporation, is a holding company which, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in a broad range of insurance and insurance-related activities in the United States and abroad. AIG’s principal executive offices are located at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, and its main telephone number is (212) 770-7000. The Internet address for AIG’s corporate website is www.aigcorporate.com. Except for the documents referred to under “Where You Can Find More Information” which are specifically incorporated by reference into this prospectus, information contained on AIG’s website or that can be accessed through its website does not constitute a part of this prospectus. AIG has included its website address only as an inactive textual reference and does not intend it to be an active link to its website.
 
THE AIG CAPITAL TRUSTS
 
AIG, as sponsor, created the AIG Capital Trusts, each of which is a Delaware statutory trust. Each AIG Capital Trust will have a term of approximately 55 years from the date it issues the trust securities, but may terminate earlier as provided in the applicable trust agreement. Each AIG Capital Trust exists solely to:
 
  •  issue and sell its securities;
 
  •  use the proceeds from the sale of its securities to purchase AIG’s junior subordinated debentures; and
 
  •  engage in other activities that are necessary, convenient or incidental to the above purposes, such as registering the transfer of its securities.
 
The AIG Capital Trusts’ principal executive offices are located at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, and their telephone number is 212-770-7000.
 
CONSOLIDATED RATIOS OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
 
The following table sets forth the historical ratios of earnings to fixed charges of AIG and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods indicated. For more information on our consolidated ratios of earnings to fixed charges, see AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2007, each of which is incorporated by reference into this prospectus as described under “Where You Can Find More Information.”
 
                                         
Quarter Ended
  Year Ended December 31,  
March 31, 2007
  2006     2005     2004     2003     2002  
 
3.29
    3.37       3.01       3.42       3.03       2.55  
                                         
 
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  •  Fixed charges other than capitalized interest
 
  •  Amortization of capitalized interest
 
  •  The distributed income of equity investees
 
less
 
  •  The minority interest in pre-tax income of subsidiaries that do not have fixed charges.
 
Fixed charges include:
 
  •  Interest, whether expensed or capitalized
 
  •  Amortization of debt issuance costs
 
  •  The proportion of rental expense deemed representative of the interest factor by the management of AIG.
 
USE OF PROCEEDS
 
The AIG Capital Trusts will use substantially all proceeds from the sale of trust securities to purchase junior subordinated debentures from us. Unless otherwise set forth in your prospectus supplement, we intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of our junior subordinated debentures for general corporate purposes.
 
INFORMATION ABOUT THE AIG CAPITAL TRUSTS
 
The following description summarizes the formation, purposes and material terms of each AIG Capital Trust. This description is followed by descriptions later in this prospectus of:
 
  •  the capital securities to be issued by each AIG Capital Trust;
 
  •  the junior subordinated debentures to be issued by us to each AIG Capital Trust and the junior debt indenture under which they will be issued;
 
  •  our subordinated guarantees for the benefit of the holders of the capital securities; and
 
  •  the relationship among the capital securities, the junior subordinated debentures, the expense agreement and the subordinated guarantees.
 
Formation, Purposes and Material Terms
 
Before the AIG Capital Trusts issue trust securities, the trust agreement for each AIG Capital Trust will be amended and restated in its entirety substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to our registration statement. The trust agreements will be qualified as indentures under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. The trust securities will be governed by Delaware law. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy.
 
Each AIG Capital Trust may offer to the public preferred securities representing preferred undivided beneficial interests in the applicable AIG Capital Trust, which we call “capital securities.” In addition to the capital securities offered to the public, each AIG Capital Trust will sell common securities representing common ownership interests in such AIG Capital Trust to AIG, which we call “common securities.” When we refer to “trust securities” in this prospectus, we mean both the common securities and the capital securities. See “Description of Common Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer” and “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer” below for more information.
 
Because the AIG Capital Trusts will use the proceeds from the sale of its trust securities to purchase AIG’s junior subordinated debentures, our junior subordinated debentures will be the sole assets of each AIG Capital Trust, and payments under the junior subordinated debentures owned by each AIG Capital Trust will be its sole source of revenues. Each AIG Capital Trust will use these funds to make any cash payments due to holders of its


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capital securities. The junior subordinated debentures will be governed by a document we refer to in this prospectus as the “junior debt indenture.” See “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures” below for more information. The payments terms of the junior subordinated debentures will be substantially the same as the terms of each AIG Capital Trust’s capital securities.
 
Under certain circumstances, we may redeem the junior subordinated debentures that we sold to an AIG Capital Trust. If this happens, the AIG Capital Trust will redeem a like amount of the capital securities which it sold to the public and the common securities which it sold to us. See “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Rights of Holders of Capital Securities — Redemption or Exchange” for more information.
 
Under certain circumstances, we may terminate an AIG Capital Trust and cause the junior subordinated debentures to be distributed to the holders of the capital securities. If this happens, owners of the capital securities will no longer have any interest in such AIG Capital Trust and will only own the junior subordinated debentures we issued to such AIG Capital Trust.
 
Administration of the AIG Capital Trusts
 
The business and affairs of the AIG Capital Trusts will be administered by the property trustee. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the property trustee for each AIG Capital Trust will be The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286. The AIG Capital Trusts will each have a Delaware trustee, as required under Delaware law, which is an entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware or a natural person that is a resident of the State of Delaware. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the name and address of the Delaware trustee for each AIG Capital Trust will be The Bank of New York (Delaware), White Clay Center, Route 273, Newark, Delaware 19711. The AIG Capital Trusts will each have three administrators. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the administrators will be officers, employees or affiliates of AIG and will be named in your prospectus supplement.
 
We will pay all fees and expenses related to the organization of the AIG Capital Trusts and the offering of the trust securities. We will also pay all ongoing costs and expenses of the AIG Capital Trusts, except each trust’s obligations under the trust securities. Each AIG Capital Trust will also be a party to an expense agreement with AIG. Under the terms of the expense agreement, each AIG Capital Trust will have the right to be reimbursed by us for certain expenses on a subordinated basis.
 
DESCRIPTION OF COMMON SECURITIES THE AIG CAPITAL TRUSTS MAY OFFER
 
We will hold directly or indirectly all of the common securities of each of the AIG Capital Trusts. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the common securities will represent an aggregate liquidation amount equal to at least 3% of each AIG Capital Trust’s total capitalization. The capital securities will represent the remaining percentage of each AIG Capital Trust’s total capitalization. The common securities will have terms substantially identical to, and will rank equal in priority of payment with, the capital securities. However, if we default in payments due under the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust, then distributions, redemption payments and liquidation distributions must be paid to the holders of the capital securities of the applicable AIG Capital Trust before any payments are paid to the holders of the common securities of that trust.
 
Only we, as direct or indirect owner of the common securities, can remove or replace the administrators. In addition, we can increase or decrease the number of administrators. Also, we, as direct or indirect holder of the common securities, will generally have the sole right to remove or replace the property trustee and Delaware trustee. However, if we default in payments due on the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust, then, so long as that default is continuing, the holders of a majority in liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities of that trust may remove and replace the property trustee and Delaware trustee for that trust.


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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL SECURITIES THE AIG CAPITAL TRUSTS MAY OFFER
 
Each AIG Capital Trust may issue only one series of capital securities and one series of common securities pursuant to the trust agreement for each AIG Capital Trust.
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the capital securities and the trust agreements. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the trust agreements, including the definitions of certain terms, and those provisions made part of each trust agreement by the Trust Indenture Act. A form of the trust agreement to be used in connection with the issuance of the capital securities and a form of the capital securities are filed as exhibits to our registration statement that includes this prospectus. Wherever particular defined terms of a trust agreement are referred to in this prospectus, those defined terms are incorporated in this prospectus by reference. A copy of the form of the trust agreement is available upon request from the property trustee of the relevant trust.
 
This summary also is subject to and qualified by reference to the description of the particular terms of your capital securities described in your prospectus supplement. Those terms may vary from the terms described in this prospectus. Your prospectus supplement relating to the capital securities will be attached to the front of this prospectus.
 
General
 
Pursuant to the terms of the trust agreement for each AIG Capital Trust, the AIG Capital Trusts will sell capital securities and common securities. The capital securities will represent preferred undivided beneficial interests in the assets of an AIG Capital Trust and will benefit from a subordinated guarantee executed by us for the benefit of the holders of an AIG Capital Trust’s capital securities. The guarantee will be made on a subordinated basis and will not guarantee payment of distributions or amounts payable on redemption or liquidation of such capital securities when the applicable AIG Capital Trust does not have funds on hand available to make such payments. See “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees.” Once issued, the capital securities will be deemed fully paid and non-assessable.
 
Each AIG Capital Trust will describe the specific terms of the capital securities it is offering in your prospectus supplement, including:
 
  •  the specific designation, liquidation amount, number to be issued by the AIG Capital Trust and purchase price;
 
  •  the currency or currency units based on or relating to currencies in which distributions and other payments will or may be payable;
 
  •  the distribution rates, or the method by which the rates will be determined, if any;
 
  •  the dates on which any distributions will be payable;
 
  •  any provisions relating to deferral of distribution payments;
 
  •  the places where distributions and other amounts payable on the capital securities will be payable;
 
  •  any repayment, redemption, prepayment or sinking fund provisions;
 
  •  any conversion or exchange provisions;
 
  •  the voting rights, if any, of holders of the capital securities;
 
  •  the terms and conditions, if any, upon which the assets of the AIG Capital Trust may be distributed to holders of the capital securities;
 
  •  any securities exchange on which the capital securities will be listed;
 
  •  any applicable U.S. federal income tax consequences;
 
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If indicated in your prospectus supplement, the terms of the trust agreement for, and capital securities offered by, an AIG Capital Trust may differ from the terms summarized in this prospectus.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Rights of Holders of Capital Securities, relative to the holder of common securities, such as the right of holders of capital securities to receive distributions and amounts on the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of an AIG Capital Trust;
 
  •  Holders’ rights in several Special Situations, such as if an AIG Capital Trust merges with another trust or if the holders of trust securities want to amend the trust agreements;
 
  •  Information relating to the Trustees and Administrators of the AIG Capital Trusts;
 
  •  Trust securities holders’ rights if certain Defaults occur under the trust agreement or we default under the junior debt indenture or experience other financial difficulties; and
 
  •  Certain Miscellaneous matters relating to the conduct and operation of the AIG Capital Trusts, the absence of preemptive rights of the holders of trust securities, notices to holders of trust securities, the payment of expenses and taxes of the AIG Capital Trusts and the form in which the capital securities may be issued.
 
Rights of Holders of Capital Securities
 
Distributions
 
Distributions on the capital securities will be cumulative and payable at a rate specified in your prospectus supplement. Distributions will accumulate from the date of original issuance and will be payable on the dates specified in your prospectus supplement. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the amount of distributions payable for any period less than a full distribution period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the actual days elapsed in a partial month in that period. Distributions to which holders of capital securities are entitled may accumulate additional distributions at the rate per annum if and as specified in your prospectus supplement. The term “distributions” includes these additional distributions unless we state otherwise in this prospectus or in your prospectus supplement.
 
If provided in your prospectus supplement, so long as no payment default on the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing, we will have the right at any time and from time to time during the term of any series of junior subordinated debentures to defer payment of interest for up to the number of consecutive interest payment periods that is specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, referred to as an “extension period.” If an extension period occurs with respect to the junior subordinated debentures, distributions on the capital securities will be correspondingly deferred, but would continue to accumulate additional distributions at the rate per annum set forth in the prospectus supplement for the capital securities. See “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures — Option to Defer Interest Payments.”
 
The revenue of each AIG Capital Trust available for distribution to holders of its capital securities will be limited to payments under the junior subordinated debentures that the AIG Capital Trust will acquire with the proceeds from the issuance and sale of its trust securities. If we do not make interest payments on the junior subordinated debentures, the property trustee will not have funds available to pay distributions on the capital securities. The payment of distributions, if and to the extent the AIG Capital Trust has funds legally available for the payment of distributions and cash sufficient to make payments, is guaranteed by us on a subordinated basis as described under the heading “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees.”


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Redemption or Exchange
 
Mandatory Redemption.  Upon the repayment or redemption, in whole or in part, of any junior subordinated debentures, whether at maturity or upon earlier redemption, as provided in the junior debt indenture, the proceeds from the repayment or redemption will be applied by the property trustee to redeem a like amount of the trust securities at a redemption price equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of such trust securities plus accumulated but unpaid distributions to the date of redemption and the related amount of the premium, if any, paid by us upon the concurrent redemption of the junior subordinated debentures. See “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures — Redemption.” If less than all of any series of junior subordinated debentures are to be repaid or redeemed on a redemption date, then the proceeds from the repayment or redemption will be allocated to the redemption pro rata of the capital securities and the common securities based upon the relative liquidation amounts of these classes. The amount of premium, if any, paid by us upon the redemption of all or any part of any series of any junior subordinated debentures to be repaid or redeemed on a redemption date will be allocated to the redemption pro rata of the capital securities and the common securities. The redemption price will be payable on each redemption date only to the extent that the AIG Capital Trust has funds then on hand and available in the payment account for the payment of the redemption price.
 
We will have the right to redeem any series of junior subordinated debentures:
 
  •  on or after such date as may be specified in your prospectus supplement, in whole at any time or in part from time to time;
 
  •  at any time, in whole, but not in part, upon the occurrence of a tax event or an investment company event (as defined below); or
 
  •  as may be otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement.
 
Distribution of Junior Subordinated Debentures.  We have the right at any time to terminate any AIG Capital Trust and, after satisfaction of the liabilities of creditors of the AIG Capital Trust as provided by applicable law, cause the junior subordinated debentures with respect to the capital securities and common securities issued by the AIG Capital Trust to be distributed to the holders of the capital securities and common securities in liquidation of the AIG Capital Trust.
 
Tax Event or Investment Company Event Redemption.  We have rights if certain events, called tax events and investment company events, occur and are continuing. The tax events and investment company events are described under “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures — Redemption.”
 
If a tax event or an investment company event with respect to the capital securities and common securities of the applicable AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing, we have the right to:
 
  •  redeem the junior subordinated debentures in whole, but not in part, and thereby cause a mandatory redemption of the capital securities and common securities in whole, but not in part, at the redemption price within 90 days following the occurrence of the tax event or investment company event; or
 
  •  liquidate the applicable AIG Capital Trust and cause the junior subordinated debentures to be distributed to holders of the capital securities and common securities in liquidation of the AIG Capital Trust.
 
If a tax event has occurred and is continuing with respect to a series of capital securities and common securities and we do not elect to redeem the junior subordinated debentures or liquidate the AIG Capital Trust and cause the distribution of the junior subordinated debentures, such capital securities will remain outstanding and certain additional sums may be payable on the junior subordinated debentures.
 
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The term “like amount” means:
 
  •  with respect to a redemption of trust securities of an AIG Capital Trust, trust securities of that series having a liquidation amount equal to the principal amount of junior subordinated debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the junior debt indenture, the proceeds of which will be used to pay the redemption price of the trust securities; and
 
  •  with respect to a distribution of junior subordinated debentures to holders of trust securities of an AIG Capital Trust in connection with a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of such AIG Capital Trust, junior subordinated debentures having a principal amount equal to the liquidation amount of the trust securities with respect to which the distribution is made.
 
The term “liquidation amount” means the stated amount per trust security. This amount will be $25 unless another amount is set forth in your prospectus supplement.
 
After the liquidation date fixed for any distribution of junior subordinated debentures for any series of capital securities:
 
  •  the series of capital securities will no longer be deemed to be outstanding;
 
  •  The Depository Trust Company, commonly referred to as DTC, or its nominee, as the record holder of the applicable capital securities, will receive a registered global certificate or certificates representing the junior subordinated debentures to be delivered upon the distribution; and
 
  •  any certificates representing the capital securities not held by DTC or its nominee will be deemed to represent the junior subordinated debentures having a principal amount equal to the stated liquidation amount of the capital securities, and bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an amount equal to the accrued and unpaid distributions on the capital securities until the certificates are presented to the administrators or their agent for transfer or reissuance.
 
Redemption Procedures
 
Capital securities redeemed on each redemption date will be redeemed at the redemption price with the applicable proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption of the junior subordinated debentures. Redemptions of the capital securities will be made and the redemption price will be payable on each redemption date only to the extent that the applicable AIG Capital Trust has funds on hand available for the payment of the redemption price. See also “— Subordination of Common Securities.”
 
If the property trustee gives a notice of redemption with respect to any capital securities, then, while such capital securities are in book-entry form, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the redemption date, to the extent funds are available, the property trustee will deposit irrevocably with DTC funds sufficient to pay the applicable redemption price and will give DTC irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the redemption price to the holders of the capital securities. If the capital securities are no longer in book-entry form, the property trustee, to the extent funds are available, will irrevocably deposit with the paying agent for the capital securities funds sufficient to pay the applicable redemption price and will give the paying agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the redemption price to the holders upon surrender of their certificates evidencing the capital securities. Distributions payable on or prior to the redemption date for any capital securities called for redemption will be payable to the holders of the capital securities on the relevant record dates for the related distribution dates. If notice of redemption has been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of the deposit, all rights of the holders of the capital securities so called for redemption will cease, except the right of the holders of the capital securities to receive the redemption price and any distributions payable with respect to the capital securities on or prior to the redemption date and the capital securities will cease to be outstanding. Your prospectus supplement will contain additional information about procedures for redemption of the capital securities.


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In the event that payment of the redemption price with respect to capital securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by an AIG Capital Trust or by us pursuant to the applicable subordinated guarantee as described under “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees,” distributions on the capital securities will continue to accrue at the then applicable rate from the redemption date originally established by the applicable AIG Capital Trust for the capital securities to the date the redemption price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the redemption price.
 
Subject to applicable law, we or our subsidiaries may at any time and from time to time purchase outstanding capital securities, in the open market or by private agreement.
 
Payment of the redemption price on the capital securities and any distribution of junior subordinated debentures to holders of capital securities will be made to the applicable record holders as they appear on the register for the capital securities on the relevant record date, which, as long as the capital securities remain in book-entry form, will be one business day prior to the relevant redemption date or liquidation date, as applicable; provided, however, that in the event that the capital securities are not in book-entry form, the relevant record date for the capital securities will be a date at least 15 days prior to the redemption date or liquidation date, as applicable, as specified in your prospectus supplement.
 
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW THEY WILL RECEIVE PAYMENTS.
 
 
If less than all of the capital securities and common securities issued by an AIG Capital Trust are to be redeemed on a redemption date, then the aggregate liquidation amount of the capital securities and common securities to be redeemed will be allocated pro rata to the capital securities and the common securities based upon the relative liquidation amounts of these classes. The particular capital securities to be redeemed will be selected on a pro rata basis not more than 60 days prior to the redemption date by the property trustee from the outstanding capital securities not previously called for redemption, by a customary method that the property trustee deems fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to $25 or an integral multiple of $25, unless a different amount is specified in your prospectus supplement) of the liquidation amount of capital securities. The property trustee will promptly notify the securities registrar in writing of the capital securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any capital securities selected for partial redemption, the liquidation amount to be redeemed. For all purposes of each trust agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of capital securities will relate, in the case of any capital securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the aggregate liquidation amount of capital securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
 
Notice of any redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each holder of trust securities to be redeemed at its registered address. Unless we default in payment of the redemption price on the junior subordinated debentures, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the junior subordinated debentures or portions thereof called for redemption and, consequently, distributions will cease to accrue on the applicable capital securities or portions thereof.
 
Subordination of Common Securities
 
Payment of distributions on, and other amounts payable under, the capital securities and the common securities issued by an AIG Capital Trust will be made pro rata based on the liquidation amount of the capital securities and the common securities. However, unless otherwise provided in your prospectus supplement, if on any distribution date or other payment date, an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing as a result of any failure by us to pay any amounts with respect to the junior subordinated debentures when due, no payment of any distribution on, or other amounts payable under, the common securities will be made unless cash payment in full of all accumulated amounts then due and payable with respect to all of the AIG Capital Trust’s outstanding capital securities has been made or provided for, and all funds available to the property trustee will first be applied to the cash payment in full of all distributions on, and all other


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amounts with respect to, capital securities then due and payable. See below under “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures — Events of Default” for more information about what constitutes an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust.
 
In the case of any event of default under the trust agreement resulting from any failure by us to pay any amounts with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust, we, as the holder of the applicable AIG Capital Trust’s common securities, will have no right to act with respect to such event of default under the applicable trust agreement until the effect of all those events of default with respect to the capital securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until the events of default under the trust agreement resulting from such payment defaults with respect to the junior subordinated debentures have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the property trustee will act solely on behalf of the holders of the capital securities and not on behalf of the holders of the common securities, and only the holders of the capital securities will have the right to direct the property trustee to act on their behalf.
 
Liquidation Distribution upon Dissolution
 
Pursuant to each trust agreement, each AIG Capital Trust will terminate on the first to occur of:
 
  •  the expiration of its term;
 
  •  certain events of bankruptcy, dissolution or liquidation of the holder of the common securities;
 
  •  the distribution of a like amount of the junior subordinated debentures to the holders of its trust securities, if we, as sponsor, in our sole discretion, have given written direction to the property trustee to terminate the applicable AIG Capital Trust;
 
  •  redemption of all of such AIG Capital Trust’s capital securities as described above under “— Redemption or Exchange — Mandatory Redemption;”
 
  •  and the entry of an order for the dissolution of such AIG Capital Trust by a court of competent jurisdiction.
 
If an early termination occurs as described in the second, third and fifth bullet points above, the applicable AIG Capital Trust will be liquidated by the AIG Capital Trust trustees as expeditiously as the AIG Capital Trust trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the AIG Capital Trust as provided by applicable law, to the holders of the trust securities a like amount of the junior subordinated debentures in exchange for their trust securities, unless the distribution is determined by the administrators not to be practical, in which event the holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the AIG Capital Trust available for distribution to holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of such AIG Capital Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to, in the case of holders of capital securities, the aggregate of the liquidation amount plus accrued and unpaid distributions to the date of payment, which we refer to as the “liquidation distribution.” If the liquidation distribution can be paid only in part because the AIG Capital Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate liquidation distribution, then the amounts payable directly by the AIG Capital Trust on its capital securities will be paid on a pro rata basis. The holder of the AIG Capital Trust’s common securities will be entitled to receive distributions upon any liquidation pro rata with the holders of its capital securities, except that if an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing as a result of any failure by us to pay any amounts with respect to the junior subordinated debentures when due, the capital securities will have a priority over the common securities. See “— Subordination of Common Securities” above.


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Payment and Paying Agents
 
Your prospectus supplement will specify the manner in which payments of distributions with respect to the capital securities will be made. The paying agent for capital securities will initially be the property trustee and any co-paying agent chosen by the property trustee and acceptable to the administrators. The paying agent will be permitted to resign as paying agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the property trustee and the administrators. If the property trustee is no longer the paying agent, the property trustee will appoint a successor (which must be a bank or trust company) reasonably acceptable to the administrators to act as paying agent.
 
 
 
BOOK-ENTRY AND OTHER INDIRECT HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR BANKS, BROKERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW THEY WILL RECEIVE PAYMENTS.
 
Registrar and Transfer Agent
 
Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the property trustee will act as registrar and transfer agent for the capital securities.
 
Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange their capital securities, but they may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charges associated with such transfer or exchange.
 
The registrar shall not be required to:
 
  •  issue, register the transfer of or exchange any capital securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of capital securities and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the relevant notice of redemption;
 
  •  or register the transfer of or exchange any capital security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such capital security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
 
Special Situations
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions Relating to the AIG Capital Trusts
 
An AIG Capital Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate or amalgamate with, be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, any entity, except as described below or as otherwise set forth in the applicable trust agreement. An AIG Capital Trust may, at the request of the holder of its common securities and with the consent of the administrators, merge with or into, consolidate or amalgamate with, be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, an entity organized as a trust under the laws of any state of the U.S., so long as:
 
  •  the successor entity either:
 
  —  agrees to be legally responsible for all the obligations of the AIG Capital Trust under the trust agreement and the capital securities, or
 
  —  substitutes for the capital securities of that AIG Capital Trust other securities having substantially the same terms as those capital securities so long as the successor securities have the same priority as the capital securities with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise;
 
  •  the successor entity has a trustee possessing the same powers and duties as the property trustee;
 
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  •  the successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the AIG Capital Trust;
 
  •  prior to the merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the property trustee and Delaware trustee have received an opinion from counsel experienced in these matters to the effect that:
 
  —  the merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect in any material respect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the capital securities (including any successor capital securities) of that AIG Capital Trust, and
 
  —  following the merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the AIG Capital Trust nor the successor entity will be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940; and
 
  •  AIG or any permitted transferee to whom AIG has transferred the common securities owns, directly or indirectly, all of the common securities of the successor entity and guarantees the obligations of the successor entity with respect to the successor securities at least to the extent provided by the applicable subordinated guarantee with respect to the capital securities.
 
An AIG Capital Trust may not, except with the consent of holders of 100% in aggregate liquidation amount of the capital securities of that AIG Capital Trust, merge with or into, consolidate or amalgamate with, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, any other entity or permit any other entity to merge with or into, consolidate or amalgamate with, or replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the AIG Capital Trust or the successor entity to be taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
 
Voting Rights; Amendment of the Trust Agreements
 
Except as provided in this section and below under “— Trustees and Administrators of the AIG Capital Trusts — Removal of AIG Capital Trustees; Appointment of Successors” and “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees — Additional Information Relating to the Subordinated Guarantees — Amendments and Assignment” and as otherwise required by law and the applicable trust agreement, the holders of the capital securities will have no voting rights.
 
There are three types of changes holders of the trust securities can make to a trust agreement and the capital securities issued under that trust agreement.
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders of Trust Securities and the Property Trustee.  First, there are changes that cannot be made to your capital securities without the consent of each holder of trust securities affected by the change under a trust agreement and the property trustee:
 
  •  change the amount or timing of any distribution on the trust securities or otherwise adversely affect in any material respect the amount of any distribution required to be made with respect to the trust securities as of a specified date; or
 
  •  restrict the right of a holder of trust securities to institute suit for the enforcement of payment of any distribution on the trust securities on or after such date.
 
Changes Requiring Approval of the Holder of the Common Securities and the Property Trustee.  The second type of change to the trust agreement and the capital securities is the kind that does not require the consent of any holders of capital securities. This type of change is limited to clarifications and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the capital securities. Such changes may be made to:
 
  •  cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provisions in the trust agreement that may be inconsistent with any other provision, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the trust agreement; or
 
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  ensure that the AIG Capital Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940,
 
provided that, in either case, the change will not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any holder of trust securities.
 
Any amendment of the trust agreement and the capital securities without the consent of the holders of the capital securities will become effective when notice of the amendment is given to the holders of trust securities.
 
Changes Requiring Consent of a Majority of Holders of Capital Securities.  The third type of change to the trust agreements and the capital securities is the kind that requires the consent of at least a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities. Each trust agreement may be amended by the holder of the common securities and the property trustee so long as holders representing at least a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities consent. Most changes fall into this category, except for clarifying changes and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the capital securities.
 
Further Details Concerning Voting.  Any required approval of holders of capital securities may be given at a meeting of holders of capital securities convened for that purpose or pursuant to written consent. The property trustee will cause a notice of any meeting at which holders of capital securities are entitled to vote, or of any matter upon which action by written consent of the holders is to be taken, to be given to each registered holder of capital securities in the manner set forth in the applicable trust agreement.
 
No vote or consent of the holders of capital securities will be required to redeem and cancel the capital securities in accordance with the applicable trust agreement.
 
Any capital securities that are owned by us or any of our affiliates will, for purposes of a vote or consent under any of the circumstances described above, be treated as if they were not outstanding.
 
The property trustee may not take any of the actions referenced above in this subsection until the Delaware trustee and the property trustee receive an opinion of counsel that the amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Delaware trustee and the property trustee in accordance with the amendment will not cause the AIG Capital Trust to be taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the AIG Capital Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
 
Details Concerning Voting and the Junior Subordinated Debentures.  So long as any junior subordinated debentures are held by an AIG Capital Trust, the property trustee will not:
 
  •  direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee under the junior debt indenture, which we refer to as the “indenture trustee,”
 
  •  waive any past default that may be waived under the junior debt indenture,
 
  •  exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures unless all defaults have been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all amounts then owing has been deposited with the indenture trustee, or
 
  •  consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the junior debt indenture or junior subordinated debentures, where consent is required,
 
without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the holders of at least a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities. However, if a consent under the junior debt indenture would require the consent of each holder of the junior subordinated debentures affected, no consent will be given by the property trustee without the prior consent of each holder of capital securities. See “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures — Events of Default” for more information.
 
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The property trustee may not take any of the actions referenced above until it receives an opinion of counsel that the amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the property trustee in accordance with the amendment will not cause the AIG Capital Trust to be taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
 
Trustees and Administrators of the AIG Capital Trusts
 
Information Concerning the Trustees
 
The business and affairs of the AIG Capital Trusts will be administered by the property trustee. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the property trustee for each AIG Capital Trust will be The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286. For information concerning the relationships between The Bank of New York and us, see “— Our Relationship with the Property Trustee” below.
 
The property trustee will have various duties and powers, including, but not limited to, the delivery of certain notices to the holders of trust securities, the collection of payments made on the junior subordinated debentures and the making of distributions to the holders of the trust securities. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the property trustee will act as registrar, transfer agent and paying agent with respect to the capital securities. The duties and obligations of the property trustee will be governed by the applicable trust agreement.
 
The property trustee, other than during the occurrence and continuance of an event of default under the applicable trust agreement undertakes to perform only those duties specifically set forth in each trust agreement or provided by the Trust Indenture Act and, after an event of default under a trust agreement has occurred that has not been cured or waived, must exercise the rights and powers vested in it by the applicable trust agreement for the benefit of the holders of trust securities using the same degree of care and skill as a prudent person would exercise in the conduct of his or her own affairs. Subject to this provision, the property trustee is under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the applicable trust agreement, other than those vested in it upon the occurrence of an event of default under a trust agreement, at the request of any holder of trust securities unless it is offered reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred in complying with the request or direction. See “— Events of Default” below for more information about what constitutes an event of default under a trust agreement.
 
The AIG Capital Trusts will each have a Delaware trustee for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of the laws of the State of Delaware and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by the laws of the State of Delaware. The Delaware trustee must be an entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware or a natural person that is a resident of the State of Delaware. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the name and address of the Delaware trustee for each AIG Capital Trust will be The Bank of New York (Delaware), White Clay Center, Route 273, Newark, Delaware 19711.
 
Information Concerning the Administrators
 
The AIG Capital Trusts will each have three administrators. Unless otherwise specified in your prospectus supplement, the administrators will be officers, employees or affiliates of AIG and will be named in your prospectus supplement. The administrators will have various duties and powers including, but not limited to, executing documents in connection with the sale of the trust securities and the purchase of the junior subordinated debentures, executing the trust securities on behalf of the AIG Capital Trusts and assisting in the compliance with state and federal securities laws.
 
Only AIG, as the owner of the common securities, can remove or replace the administrators. In addition, AIG can increase or decrease the number of administrators.
 
Removal of AIG Capital Trustees; Appointment of Successors
 
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removed by the holders of the outstanding capital securities, the successor may be appointed by the holders of at least a majority in liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities. If a property trustee or Delaware trustee resigns, AIG, as sponsor, will appoint its successor. If a resigning property trustee or Delaware trustee fails to appoint a successor or if an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures has occurred and is continuing as a result of any failure by us to pay any amounts with respect to the junior subordinated debentures when due, the holders of at least a majority in liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities may appoint a successor; otherwise, the holder of the common securities may appoint a successor. If a successor has not been appointed by the holders, any holder of capital securities or common securities or the property trustee or the Delaware trustee may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor. Any Delaware trustee must meet the applicable requirements of Delaware law. Any property trustee must be a national-or state-chartered bank and at the time of appointment have capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. No resignation or removal of a property trustee or Delaware trustee and no appointment of a successor trustee shall be effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee in accordance with the provisions of the applicable trust agreement.
 
Merger or Consolidation of AIG Capital Trustees
 
Any entity into which a property trustee or Delaware trustee is merged or converted or with which it is consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the property trustee or the Delaware trustee is a party, or any entity succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the property trustee or the Delaware trustee, will be the successor of that property trustee or Delaware trustee under each trust agreement, provided it is otherwise qualified and eligible.
 
Our Relationship with the Property Trustee
 
The Bank of New York is one of our lenders and from time to time provides other banking services to us and our subsidiaries.
 
The Bank of New York is initially serving as the trustee for our senior debt securities, our subordinated debt securities and the warrants issued under our warrant indenture, as well as the trustee under the amended and restated trust agreements and subordinated guarantees. Consequently, if an actual or potential event of default occurs with respect to any of these securities or a trust agreement or subordinated guarantee, the trustee may be considered to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. In that case, the trustee may be required to resign under one or more of the indentures or trust agreements, and we would be required to appoint a successor trustee. For this purpose, a “potential” event of default means an event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or for the default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.
 
Events of Default
 
You will have special rights if an event of default with respect to your capital security occurs and is continuing, as described in this subsection.
 
What is an Event of Default?  Each of the following is an event of default under a trust agreement:
 
  •  the occurrence of an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures held by the applicable AIG Capital Trust. For more information, see “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures — Events of Default;”
 
  •  default by the applicable AIG Capital Trust in the payment of any distribution on the capital securities when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of the default for a period of 30 days;
 
  •  default by the applicable AIG Capital Trust in the payment of any redemption price of any trust security issued pursuant to its trust agreement when it becomes due and payable and the continuation of the default for a period of five days; or
 
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Within five business days after the occurrence of any event of default under the trust agreement actually known to the property trustee, the property trustee will transmit notice of the event of default to the holders of the trust securities and the administrators, unless the event of default under the trust agreement has been cured or waived. In addition, the property trustee will notify each holder of the capital securities of any notice of default received by it with respect to the junior subordinated debentures.
 
We, as sponsor, and the administrators are required to file annually with the property trustee a certificate as to whether or not the applicable AIG Capital Trust is in compliance with all the conditions and covenants under its trust agreement.
 
If an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures has occurred and is continuing as a result of any failure by us to pay any amounts with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust when due, the capital securities issued by that AIG Capital Trust will have a preference over the common securities issued by the AIG Capital Trust with respect to payments of any amounts with respect to the capital securities as described above under “— Rights of Holders of Capital Securities — Subordination of Common Securities.” The existence of an event of default does not entitle the holders of capital securities to accelerate the maturity of the capital securities or demand early repayment of the capital securities.
 
Miscellaneous
 
Conduct and Operation of the Trust
 
The administrators and the property trustee of each AIG Capital Trust are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of, and to operate, the applicable AIG Capital Trust in such a way that the AIG Capital Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the Investment Company Act or taxed as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and so that the junior subordinated debentures owned by the applicable AIG Capital Trust will be treated as indebtedness of AIG for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In this regard, the property trustee and the holder of common securities are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law or the certificate of trust or the trust agreement of the applicable AIG Capital Trust, that the property trustee and the holder of common securities determine in their discretion to be necessary or desirable for those purposes, as long as the action does not materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of the capital securities of the applicable AIG Capital Trust.
 
The AIG Capital Trusts may not borrow money, issue debt or mortgage or pledge any of their assets.
 
Preemptive rights
 
Holders of the trust securities have no preemptive or similar rights.
 
Notices
 
The property trustee will send notices regarding the capital securities only to holders, using their addresses as listed in the trustee’s records. With respect to who is deemed a “holder” for this purpose, see “Legal Ownership and Book — Entry Issuance.”
 
Expenses and Taxes
 
In the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust, we, as borrower, will agree to pay all debts and other obligations, other than with respect to the capital securities issued by an AIG Capital Trust, and all costs and expenses of an AIG Capital Trust and to pay any and all taxes and all costs and expenses with respect to those taxes, other than U.S. withholding taxes, to which an AIG Capital Trust might become subject. The foregoing obligations under the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust are for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by, any person to whom any of those debts, obligations, costs, expenses and taxes payable by an AIG Capital Trust are owed, whether or not that person has received notice of the debts, obligations, costs, expenses or taxes. Any such person may enforce these obligations directly against us, and we will irrevocably waive any right or remedy to require that person to take any action against an AIG Capital Trust or any other person before proceeding


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against us. We will also agree in the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust to execute additional agreements necessary or desirable to give full effect to the foregoing.
 
Global Capital Securities
 
Unless otherwise set forth in a prospectus supplement, any capital securities will be represented by fully registered global certificates issued as global capital securities that will be deposited with, or on behalf of, a depositary with respect to that series instead of paper certificates issued to each individual holder. The depositary arrangements that will apply, including the manner in which the liquidation amount of and premium, if any, and distributions on capital securities will be payable, are discussed in more detail under the heading “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Impact of Other Securities
 
Each series of securities issued pursuant to a junior debt indenture may contain terms and provisions that restrict our activities with respect to our other securities that rank pari passu with or junior to such series of junior subordinated debentures. We have previously issued junior subordinated debentures that contain such provisions. Specifically, the issued debentures provide that if an event of default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the issued debentures or we have given notice of our election to defer interest payments on the issued debentures but the related deferral period has not yet commenced or a deferral period is continuing, then we will not, and will not permit any of our subsidiaries to: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of our capital stock, (b) make any payment of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, or repay, purchase or redeem any of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with or junior to the issued debentures or (c) make any guarantee payments with respect to any of our guarantees of the securities of any subsidiary if such guarantee ranks pari passu with, or junior in interest to, the issued debentures. However, these limitations do not apply to:
 
  •  purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of our capital stock in connection with (a) any employment benefit plan or other compensatory contract or arrangement; or the Assurance Agreement, dated as of June 27, 2005, by AIG in favor of eligible employees and relating to specified obligations of Starr International Company, Inc. (as such agreement may be amended, supplemented, extended, modified or replaced from time to time); or (b) a dividend reinvestment, stock purchase plan or other similar plan; or
 
  •  any exchange or conversion of any class or series of our capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of AIG) for any class or series of our capital stock or of any class or series of our indebtedness for any class or series of our capital stock; or
 
  •  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in accordance with the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged; or
 
  •  any declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, equity securities or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights in accordance with any stockholders’ rights plan; or
 
  •  any dividend in the form of equity securities, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks on a parity with or junior to such equity securities; or
 
  •  any payment during a deferral period of current interest in respect of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with the issued debentures that is made pro rata to the amounts due on such pari passu securities and on the issued debentures, provided that such payments are made in accordance with certain limitations requiring pro rata distributions while certain market disruption events are ongoing, and any payments of deferred interest on pari passu securities that, if not made, would cause us to breach the terms of the instrument governing such pari passu securities; or


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  •  any payment of principal in respect of pari passu securities having an earlier scheduled maturity date than the issued debentures, as required under a provision of such pari passu securities that have similar repayment of principal provisions as the issued debentures, or any such payment in respect of pari passu securities having the same scheduled maturity date as the issued debentures that is made on a pro rata basis among one or more series of such securities and the issued debentures; or
 
  •  any repayment or redemption of a security necessary to avoid a breach of the instrument governing the same.
 
In addition, if any deferral period for the issued debentures lasts longer than one year, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries will be permitted to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any securities ranking junior to or pari passu with any common stock, certain qualifying warrants and certain qualifying non-cumulative preferred stock, the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant deferral period until the first anniversary of the date on which all deferred interest has been paid, subject to the exceptions listed above. However, if we are involved in a business combination where immediately after its consummation more than 50% of the surviving or resulting entity’s voting stock is owned by the shareholders of the other party to the business combination or continuing directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the surviving or resulting entity’s board of directors, then the one-year restriction on repurchases described in the previous sentence will not apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next interest payment date following the date of consummation of the business combination.


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DESCRIPTION OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES
 
The junior subordinated debentures will be governed by a supplemental indenture to our junior subordinated indenture or subordinated junior subordinated indenture, and will be a contract between AIG and the indenture trustee, which will initially be The Bank of New York. We refer to such supplemental indenture to our junior subordinated indenture or subordinated junior subordinated indenture as the “junior debt indenture” in this prospectus. The indenture trustee has two main roles:
 
The indenture trustee can enforce the rights of holders against us if we default on our obligations under the terms of the junior debt indenture or the junior subordinated debentures. There are some limitations on the extent to which the indenture trustee acts on behalf of holders, described below under “— Events of Default — Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.”
 
The indenture trustee performs administrative duties for us, such as sending interest payments to holders and notices, and transferring a holder’s junior subordinated debentures to a new buyer if a holder sells.
 
The junior debt indenture and its associated documents contain the full legal text of the matters described in this section. The junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures are governed by New York law. A copy of our junior debt indenture is an exhibit to our registration statement. See “Where You Can Find More Information” below for information on how to obtain a copy.
 
General
 
We may issue as many distinct series of junior subordinated debentures under the junior debt indenture as we wish. The provisions of the junior debt indenture allow us not only to issue junior subordinated debentures with terms different from those previously issued, but also to “reopen” a previous issue of a series of junior subordinated debentures and issue additional junior subordinated debentures of that series.
 
This section summarizes the material terms of the junior subordinated debentures that are common to all series, although the prospectus supplement may also describe differences from the material terms summarized here.
 
Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the junior subordinated debentures. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the junior debt indenture, including definitions of certain terms used in the junior debt indenture. In this summary, we describe the meaning of only some of the more important terms. You must look to the junior debt indenture for the most complete description of what we describe in summary form in this prospectus.
 
The prospectus supplement relating to any offered junior subordinated debentures will describe the following terms of the series:
 
  •  the title of the series of the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  the date or dates on which the junior subordinated debentures will mature;
 
  •  the rate or rates, which may be fixed or variable per annum, at which the junior subordinated debentures will bear interest, if any, and the date or dates from which that interest, if any, will accrue;
 
  •  the dates on which interest, if any, on the junior subordinated debentures will be payable and the regular record dates for the interest payment dates;
 
  •  our right, if any, to defer or extend an interest payment date;
 
  •  any mandatory or optional sinking funds or similar provisions;
 
  •  any additions, modifications or deletions in the events of default under the junior debt indenture or covenants of AIG specified in the junior debt indenture with respect to the junior subordinated debentures;


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  •  the date, if any, after which and the price or prices at which the junior subordinated debentures may, in accordance with any optional or mandatory redemption provisions, be redeemed and the other detailed terms and provisions of those optional or mandatory redemption provisions, if any;
 
  •  if other than denominations of $25 and any of its integral multiples, the denominations in which the junior subordinated debentures will be issuable; the currency of payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  the applicability of the provisions described under “— Defeasance” below;
 
  •  any event of default under the junior subordinated debentures if different from those described under “— Events of Default” below;
 
  •  any index or indices used to determine the amount of payments of principal of and premium, if any, on the junior subordinated debentures and the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
 
  •  the terms and conditions of any obligation or right of us or a holder to convert or exchange the junior subordinated debentures into capital securities;
 
  •  the form of trust agreement, guarantee agreement and expense agreement, if applicable;
 
  •  the relative degree, if any, to which such junior subordinated debentures of the series will be senior to or be subordinated to other series of such junior subordinated debentures or other indebtedness of AIG in right of payment, whether such other series of junior subordinated debentures or other indebtedness are outstanding or not; and
 
  •  any other special feature of the junior subordinated debentures.
 
Overview of Remainder of this Description
 
The remainder of this description summarizes:
 
  •  Additional Mechanics relevant to the junior subordinated debentures under normal circumstances, such as how holders transfer ownership and where we make payments;
 
  •  Our Option to Defer Interest Payments on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Our right to Redeem the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Holders’ rights in several Special Situations, such as if we merge with another company or if we want to change a term of the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Subordination Provisions that may prohibit us from making payment on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  Our right to release ourselves from all or some of our obligations under the junior subordinated debentures and the junior debt indenture by a process called Defeasance;
 
  •  Holders’ rights if we Default or experience other financial difficulties;
 
  •  Our ability to Convert or Exchange junior subordinated debentures into junior subordinated debentures of another series or capital securities of another series; and
 
  •  The junior subordinated debentures’ Impact on Other Securities.


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Additional Mechanics
 
Form, Exchange and Transfer
 
Unless we specify otherwise in the prospectus supplement, the junior subordinated debentures will be issued:
 
  •  only in fully registered form; and
 
  •  in denominations that are even multiples of $25.
 
Unless the junior subordinated debentures are distributed to the holders of the trust securities, all of the junior subordinated debentures will be held solely by an AIG Capital Trust. The following provisions only apply if there is a distribution of the junior subordinated debentures to holders of the trust securities. The circumstances under which the junior subordinated debentures may be exchanged for trust securities is described under “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Rights of Holders of Capital Securities — Redemption or Exchange.”
 
If a junior subordinated debenture is issued as a global junior subordinated debenture, only the depositary — e.g., DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, each as defined below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance” — will be entitled to transfer and exchange the junior subordinated debenture as described in this subsection, since the depositary will be the sole holder of that junior subordinated debenture. Those who own beneficial interests in a global security do so through participants in the depositary’s securities clearance system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. We describe book-entry procedures below under “Legal Ownership and Book-Entry Issuance.”
 
Holders may have their junior subordinated debentures broken into more junior subordinated debentures of smaller denominations of not less than $25 or combined into fewer junior subordinated debentures of larger denominations, as long as the total principal amount is not changed. This is called an exchange.
 
Subject to the restrictions relating to junior subordinated debentures represented by global securities, holders may exchange or transfer junior subordinated debentures at the office of the indenture trustee. They may also replace lost, stolen or mutilated junior subordinated debentures at that office. The indenture trustee acts as our agent for registering junior subordinated debentures in the names of holders and transferring junior subordinated debentures. We may change this appointment to another entity or perform it ourselves. The entity performing the role of maintaining the list of registered holders is called the security registrar. It will also perform transfers. The indenture trustee’s agent may require an indemnity before replacing any junior subordinated debentures.
 
Holders will not be required to pay a service charge to transfer or exchange junior subordinated debentures, but holders may be required to pay for any tax or other governmental charge associated with the exchange or transfer. The transfer or exchange will only be made if the security registrar is satisfied with your proof of ownership.
 
If we designate additional transfer agents, they will be named in the prospectus supplement. We may cancel the designation of any particular transfer agent. We may also approve a change in the office through which any transfer agent acts.
 
In the event of any redemption, neither we nor the indenture trustee will be required to:
 
  •  issue, register the transfer of or exchange junior subordinated debentures of any series during the period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of junior subordinated debentures of that series and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; and
 
  •  transfer or exchange any junior subordinated debentures so selected for redemption, except, in the case of any junior subordinated debentures being redeemed in part, any portion thereof not being redeemed.
 
Payment and Paying Agents
 
Your prospectus supplement will specify the manner in which payments will be made. The paying agent for the junior subordinated debentures will initially be the indenture trustee.


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Notices
 
We and the indenture trustee will send notices regarding the junior subordinated debentures only to holders, using their addresses as listed in the indenture trustee’s records.
 
Option to Defer Interest Payments
 
If provided in your prospectus supplement, so long as no event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing as a result of any failure by us to pay any amounts with respect to the junior subordinated debentures, we will have the right at any time and from time to time during the term of any series of junior subordinated debentures to defer payment of interest for an extension period of up to the number of consecutive interest payment periods specified in your prospectus supplement. The extension period is subject to the terms, conditions and covenants, if any, specified in your prospectus supplement and may not extend beyond the stated maturity of the applicable series of junior subordinated debentures. U.S. federal income tax consequences and other special considerations applicable to any such junior subordinated debentures will be described in your prospectus supplement.
 
As a consequence of any such deferral, distributions on the capital securities would be deferred by the AIG Capital Trust during the extension period. However, the capital securities would continue to accumulate additional distributions at the rate per annum described in the prospectus supplement. During any applicable extension period, we may not:
 
  •  declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of our capital stock; or
 
  •  make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any of our debt securities that rank on a parity in all respects with or junior in interest to the junior subordinated debentures other than:
 
  —  repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of our capital stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of our capital stock (or securities convertible into or exercisable for our capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction or business combination;
 
  —  as a result of any exchange or conversion of any class or series of our capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of AIG) for any class or series of our capital stock or of any class or series of our indebtedness for any class or series of our capital stock;
 
  —  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in accordance with the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged;
 
  —  any declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights in accordance with any stockholders’ rights plan; or
 
  —  any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks on a parity with or junior to such stock.
 
Prior to the termination of any applicable extension period, we may further defer the payment of interest.
 
Redemption
 
Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we may, at our option redeem the junior subordinated debentures of any series in whole at any time or in part from time to time. If the junior subordinated debentures of any series are redeemable only on or after a specified date or upon the satisfaction of additional


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conditions, the applicable prospectus supplement will specify this date or describe these conditions. Unless otherwise indicated in the form of security for such series, junior subordinated debentures in denominations larger than $25 may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $25. Except as otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the redemption price for any junior subordinated debenture will equal any accrued and unpaid interest, including additional interest, to the redemption date, plus 100% of the principal amount.
 
Except as otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, if a tax event or an investment company event of the kind described below with respect to a series of junior subordinated debentures has occurred and is continuing, we may, at our option redeem that series of junior subordinated debentures in whole, but not in part, at any time within 90 days following the occurrence of the tax event or investment company event, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures then outstanding plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption.
 
An “investment company event” means the receipt by an AIG Capital Trust and us of an opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that the trust is or will be considered an “investment company” that is required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, as a result of a change in law or regulation or a change in interpretation or application of law or regulation.
 
A “tax event” means the receipt by us and the AIG Capital Trust of an opinion of independent counsel, experienced in tax matters, to the effect that, as a result of any tax change, there is more than an insubstantial risk that any of the following will occur:
 
  •  the AIG Capital Trust is, or will be within 90 days after the date of the opinion of counsel, subject to U.S. federal income tax on income received or accrued on the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  interest payable by us on the junior subordinated debentures is not, or within 90 days after the opinion of counsel will not be, deductible by us, in whole or in part, for U.S. federal income tax purposes; or
 
  •  the AIG Capital Trust is, or will be within 90 days after the date of the opinion of counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges.
 
As used above, the term “tax change” means any of the following:
 
  •  any amendment to or change, including any announced prospective change, in the laws or any regulations under the laws of the U.S. or of any political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the U.S., if the amendment or change is enacted, promulgated or announced on or after the date the capital securities are issued; or
 
  •  any official administrative pronouncement, including any private letter ruling, technical advice memorandum, field service advice, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement, including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt any procedures or regulations, or any judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, whether or not the pronouncement or decision is issued to or in connection with a proceeding involving us or the trust or is subject to review or appeal, if the pronouncement or decision is enacted, promulgated or announced on or after the date of the issuance of the capital securities.
 
Notice of any redemption will be mailed at least 45 days but not more than 75 days before the redemption date to each holder of junior subordinated debentures to be redeemed at its registered address. Unless we default in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the junior subordinated debentures or portions thereof called for redemption.


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Special Situations
 
Mergers and Similar Transactions
 
We are generally permitted to consolidate or merge with another company or firm. We are also permitted to sell or lease substantially all of our assets to another firm, or to buy or lease substantially all of the assets of another firm. However, we may not take any of these actions unless all the following conditions are met:
 
  •  When we merge or consolidate out of existence or sell or lease substantially all of our assets, the other firm may not be organized under a foreign country’s laws, that is, it must be a corporation, partnership or trust organized under the laws of a state of the U.S. or the District of Columbia or under federal law, and it must agree to be legally responsible for the junior subordinated debentures.
 
  •  The merger, sale of assets or other transaction must not cause a default on the junior subordinated debentures, and we must not already be in default (unless the merger or other transaction would cure the default). For purposes of this no-default test, a default would include an event of default that has occurred and not been cured. A default for this purpose would also include any event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or our default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.
 
If the conditions described above are satisfied with respect to any series of junior subordinated debentures, we will not need to obtain the approval of the holders of those junior subordinated debentures in order to merge or consolidate or to sell our assets. Also, these conditions will apply only if we wish to merge or consolidate with another entity or sell our assets substantially as an entirety to another entity. We will not need to satisfy these conditions if we enter into other types of transactions, including any transaction in which we acquire the stock or assets of another entity, any transaction that involves a change of control but in which we do not merge or consolidate and any transaction in which we sell less than substantially all of our assets. It is possible that this type of transaction may result in a reduction in our credit rating or may reduce our operating results or impair our financial condition. Holders of our junior subordinated debentures, however, will have no approval right with respect to any transaction of this type.
 
Modification and Waiver of the Junior Subordinated Debentures
 
Unless and until the junior subordinated debentures are distributed to the holders of the trust securities, the property trustee of an AIG Capital Trust has agreed not to consent to any amendment or modification of the junior debt indenture or the junior subordinated debentures without the consent of the holders of the capital securities that would be required if the holders of the capital securities held the junior subordinated debentures. For a discussion of the actions the property trustee may take with respect to the junior subordinated debentures, see “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Special Situations — Voting Rights; Amendment of the Trust Agreements — Details Concerning Voting and the Junior Subordinated Debentures.” As a result, all references to “holder” should be understood to refer to the “holders” of capital securities.
 
There are four types of changes we can make to the junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures issued under that indenture.
 
Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders.  First, there are changes that cannot be made to the junior subordinated debentures without specific approval of each holder of a junior subordinated debenture affected by the change. Affected junior subordinated debentures may be all or less than all of the junior subordinated debentures issued under that junior debt indenture or all or less than all of the junior subordinated debentures of a series. Following is a list of those types of changes:
 
  •  change the stated maturity of the principal or interest on a junior subordinated debenture;
 
  •  reduce any amounts due on a junior subordinated debenture;
 
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  •  change the currency of payment on a junior subordinated debenture;
 
  •  impair a holder’s right to sue for payment;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of junior subordinated debentures whose consent is needed to modify or amend the junior debt indenture;
 
  •  reduce the percentage of holders of junior subordinated debentures whose consent is needed to waive compliance with certain provisions of the junior debt indenture or to waive certain defaults;
 
  •  modify any other aspect of the provisions dealing with modification and waiver of the junior debt indenture;
 
and provided that, in the case of junior subordinated debentures, so long as any of the applicable capital securities remain outstanding,
 
  •  no modification may be made that adversely affects the holders of such capital securities in any material respect, and no termination of the junior debt indenture may occur, and no waiver of any event of default or compliance with any covenant under the junior debt indenture may be effective, without the prior consent of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate liquidation amount of all outstanding capital securities affected unless and until the principal of the junior subordinated debentures and all accrued and unpaid interest have been paid in full and certain other conditions have been satisfied; and
 
  •  where a consent under the junior debt indenture would require the consent of each holder of junior subordinated debentures, no such consent will be given by the property trustee without the prior consent of each holder of capital securities.
 
We may, with the indenture trustee’s consent, execute, without the consent of any holder of junior subordinated debentures or trust securities, any supplemental indenture for the purpose of creating any new series of junior subordinated debentures.
 
Changes Requiring a Majority Vote.  The second type of change to the junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures is the kind that requires a vote in favor by holders of junior subordinated debentures owning a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular junior subordinated debentures affected thereby. Most changes fall into this category, except for clarifying changes and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the junior subordinated debentures. We may also obtain a waiver of a past default from the holders of junior subordinated debentures owning a majority of the principal amount of the particular series affected. However, we cannot obtain a waiver of a payment default or any other aspect of the junior debt indenture or the junior subordinated debentures listed in the first category described above under “ — Changes Requiring Approval of All Holders” unless we obtain the individual consent of each holder to the waiver.
 
Changes Not Requiring Approval.  The third type of change does not require any vote by holders of junior subordinated debentures or trust securities. This type is limited to clarifications and certain other changes that would not adversely affect in any material respect holders of the junior subordinated debentures.
 
We may also make changes or obtain waivers that do not adversely affect in any material respect a particular junior subordinated debenture, even if they affect other junior subordinated debentures. In those cases, we do not need to obtain the approval of the holder of that junior subordinated debenture; we need only obtain any required approvals from the holders of the affected junior subordinated debentures or trust securities.
 
Modification of Subordination Provisions.  We may not modify the subordination provisions of the junior debt indenture in a manner that would adversely affect in any material respect the outstanding junior subordinated debentures, without the consent of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the particular series affected or, if so provided and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, of particular junior subordinated debentures affected thereby. Also, we may not modify the subordination provisions of any outstanding junior subordinated debentures without the consent of each holder of our senior indebtedness that would be adversely affected thereby. The term “senior indebtedness” is defined below under “Subordination Provisions”.


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Subordination Provisions
 
Holders of junior subordinated debentures should recognize that contractual provisions in the junior subordinated debenture may prohibit us from making payments on those debentures. Junior subordinated debentures are subordinate and junior in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner stated in the junior debt indenture, to all of our senior indebtedness, as defined in the junior debt indenture.
 
The junior debt indenture defines “senior indebtedness” as all indebtedness and obligations of, or guaranteed or assumed by, us for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, whether existing now or in the future, and all amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of any indebtedness or obligations of that kind. Senior debt excludes the junior subordinated debentures and any other indebtedness or obligations that would otherwise constitute indebtedness if it is specifically designated as being subordinate, or not superior, in right of payment to the subordinated junior subordinated debentures.
 
The junior debt indenture provides that, unless all principal of and any premium or interest on the senior indebtedness has been paid in full, no payment or other distribution may be made with respect to any junior subordinated debentures in the following circumstances:
 
  •  in the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization, assignment for creditors or other similar proceedings or events involving us or our assets;
 
  •  (a) in the event and during the continuation of any default in the payment of principal, premium or interest on any senior indebtedness beyond any applicable grace period or (b) in the event that any event of default with respect to any senior indebtedness has occurred and is continuing, permitting the holders of that senior indebtedness (or a trustee) to accelerate the maturity of that senior indebtedness, whether or not the maturity is in fact accelerated (unless, in the case of (a) or (b), the payment default or event of default has been cured or waived or ceased to exist and any related acceleration has been rescinded) or (c) in the event that any judicial proceeding is pending with respect to a payment default or event of default described in (a) or (b);
 
  •  or in the event that any junior subordinated debentures have been declared due and payable before their stated maturity.
 
If the indenture trustee under the junior debt indenture or any holders of the junior subordinated debentures receive any payment or distribution that is prohibited under the subordination provisions, then the indenture trustee or the holders will have to repay that money to the holders of the senior indebtedness.
 
Even if the subordination provisions prevent us from making any payment when due on the junior subordinated debentures of any series, we will be in default on our obligations under that series if we do not make the payment when due. This means that the indenture trustee under the junior subordinated debenture and the holders of that series can take action against us, but they will not receive any money until the claims of the holders of senior indebtedness have been fully satisfied. The junior debt indenture allows the holders of senior indebtedness to obtain a court order requiring us and any holder of junior subordinated debentures to comply with the subordination provisions.
 
Defeasance
 
The following discussion of full defeasance and covenant defeasance will be applicable to each series of junior subordinated debentures that is denominated in U.S. dollars and has a fixed rate of interest and will apply to other series of junior subordinated debentures if we so specify in the prospectus supplement.
 
Full Defeasance
 
If there is a change in U.S. federal tax law, as described below, we can legally release ourselves from any payment or other obligations on the junior subordinated debentures, called full defeasance, if we put in place the following other arrangements for holders to be repaid:
 
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  sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the junior subordinated debentures on their various due dates.
 
  •  There must be a change in current U.S. federal tax law or an IRS ruling that lets us make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the junior subordinated debentures any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the junior subordinated debentures ourselves. Under current federal tax law, the deposit and our legal release from the obligations pursuant to the junior subordinated debentures would be treated as though we took back your junior subordinated debentures and gave you your share of the cash and notes or bonds deposited in trust. In that event, you could recognize gain or loss on the junior subordinated debentures you give back to us.
 
  •  We must deliver to the indenture trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming the tax law change described above.
 
  •  No event or condition may exist that, under the provisions described above under “— Subordination Provisions” above, would prevent us from making payments of principal, premium or interest on those junior subordinated debentures on the date of the deposit referred to above or during the 90 days after that date.
 
If we ever did accomplish full defeasance, as described above, you would have to rely solely on the trust deposit for repayment on the junior subordinated debentures. You could not look to us for repayment in the unlikely event of any shortfall.
 
Covenant Defeasance
 
Under current U.S. federal tax law, we can make the same type of deposit as described above and we will be released from some of the restrictive covenants under the junior subordinated debentures that may be described in the prospectus supplement. This is called covenant defeasance. In that event, you would lose the protection of these covenants but would gain the protection of having money and U.S. government or U.S. government agency notes or bonds set aside in trust to repay the junior subordinated debentures. In order to achieve covenant defeasance, we must do the following:
 
  •  We must deposit in trust for the benefit of all holders of the junior subordinated debentures a combination of money and notes or bonds of the U.S. government or a U.S. government agency or U.S. government-sponsored entity (the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) that will generate enough cash to make interest, principal and any other payments on the junior subordinated debentures on their various due dates.
 
  •  We must deliver to the indenture trustee a legal opinion of our counsel confirming that under current U.S. federal income tax law we may make the above deposit without causing the holders to be taxed on the junior subordinated debentures any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the junior subordinated debentures ourselves.
 
If we accomplish covenant defeasance, the following provisions of the junior debt indenture and the junior subordinated debentures would no longer apply:
 
  •  Covenants applicable to the series of junior subordinated debentures and described in the prospectus supplement.
 
  •  Events of default described in the prospectus supplement.
 
If we accomplish covenant defeasance, you can still look to us for repayment of the junior subordinated debentures if there were a shortfall in the trust deposit. In fact, if one of the remaining events of default occurred (such as a bankruptcy) and the junior subordinated debentures become immediately due and payable, there may be such a shortfall.


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Events of Default
 
Unless and until the junior subordinated debentures are distributed to the holders of the trust securities, the property trustee of an AIG Capital Trust has agreed, without the consent of the holders of a majority in liquidation amount of the capital securities, not to:
 
  •  direct the time, method or place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the indenture trustee;
 
  •  waive any past default that may be waived under the junior debt indenture;
 
  •  exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration of acceleration of the principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures unless all defaults have been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all amounts then owing has been deposited with the indenture trustee; or
 
  •  consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the junior debt indenture or junior subordinated debentures, where the consent is required.
 
For a discussion of the restrictions on the property trustee’s ability to exercise its rights, see “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Special Situations — Voting Rights; Amendment of the Trust Agreements — Details Concerning Voting and the Junior Subordinated Debentures.” As a result, the references to “holder” below should be understood to refer to “holders” of the capital securities.
 
Holders will have special rights if an event of default occurs and is not cured, as described later in this subsection.
 
What Is An Event of Default?  The term “Event of Default” means any of the following:
 
  •  We do not pay the principal of or any premium on a junior subordinated debenture within 5 days of its due date.
 
  •  We do not pay interest on a junior subordinated debenture within 30 days of its due date.
 
  •  We remain in breach of any other covenant or warranty of the junior debt indenture for 60 days after we receive a notice of default stating we are in breach. The notice must be sent by either the indenture trustee or holders of 25% of the principal amount of junior subordinated debentures of the affected series.
 
  •  We file for bankruptcy or certain other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occur with respect to us.
 
  •  Any other event of default described in the prospectus supplement occurs.
 
Remedies If an Event of Default Occurs.  If you are the holder of a junior subordinated debenture, all remedies available upon the occurrence of an event of default under the junior debt indenture will be subject to the restrictions on the junior subordinated debentures described above under “— Subordination Provisions.” If an event of default occurs, the indenture trustee will have special duties. In that situation, the indenture trustee will be obligated to use its rights and powers under the junior debt indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in doing so, that a prudent person would use in that situation in conducting his or her own affairs. If an event of default has occurred and has not been cured, the indenture trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures of the affected series may declare the entire principal amount of all the junior subordinated debentures of that series to be due and immediately payable. This is called a declaration of acceleration of maturity. In the case of junior subordinated debentures held by an AIG Capital Trust, should the indenture trustee or the property trustee fail to make this declaration, the holders of at least 25% in aggregate liquidation amount of the capital securities will have the right to make this declaration. The property trustee may annul the declaration and waive the default, provided all defaults have been cured and all payment obligations have been made current. In the case of junior subordinated debentures held by an AIG Capital Trust, should the property trustee fail to annul the declaration and waive the default, the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the capital securities will have the right to do so. In the event of our bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, junior subordinated debentures holders’ claims would fall under the broad equity power of a federal bankruptcy court, and to that court’s determination of the nature of those holders’ rights.


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The holders of a majority in aggregate outstanding principal amount of each series of junior subordinated debentures affected may, on behalf of the holders of all the junior subordinated debentures of that series, waive any default, except a default in the payment of principal or interest, including any additional interest (unless the default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest, including any additional interest, and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the indenture trustee) or a default with respect to a covenant or provision which under the junior debt indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding junior subordinated debenture of that series. In the case of junior subordinated debentures held by an AIG Capital Trust, should the property trustee fail to waive the default, the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the capital securities will have the right to do so.
 
If an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing as to a series of junior subordinated debentures, the property trustee will have the right to declare the principal of and the interest on the junior subordinated debentures, and any other amounts payable under the junior debt indenture, to be immediately due and payable and to enforce its other rights as a creditor with respect to the junior subordinated debentures.
 
Except in cases of default, where the indenture trustee has the special duties described above, the indenture trustee is not required to take any action under the junior debt indenture at the request of any holders unless the holders offer the indenture trustee reasonable protection from expenses and liability called an indemnity. If indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the trustee is provided, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding junior subordinated debentures of the relevant series may direct the time, method and place of conducting any lawsuit or other formal legal action seeking any remedy available to the indenture trustee. These majority holders may also direct the indenture trustee in performing any other action under the junior debt indenture with respect to the junior subordinated debentures of that series.
 
Before you bypass the indenture trustee and bring your own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce your rights or protect your interests relating to the junior subordinated debentures the following must occur:
 
  •  The holder of the junior subordinated debenture must give the indenture trustee written notice that an event of default has occurred and remains uncured;
 
  •  The holders of 25% in principal amount of all junior subordinated debentures of the relevant series must make a written request that the indenture trustee take action because of the default, and they must offer reasonable indemnity to the indenture trustee against the cost, expenses and liabilities of taking that action; and
 
  •  The indenture trustee must have not taken action for 60 days after receipt of the above notice and offer of indemnity.
 
We will give to the indenture trustee every year a written statement of certain of our officers certifying that to their knowledge we are in compliance with the applicable indenture and the junior subordinated debentures issued under it, or else specifying any default.
 
Enforcement of Certain Rights by Holders of Capital Securities
 
If an event of default with respect to the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing and the event is attributable to our failure to pay interest or principal on the junior subordinated debentures on the date the interest or principal is due and payable, a holder of the applicable capital securities may institute a legal proceeding directly against us for enforcement of payment to that holder of the principal of or interest, including any additional interest, on junior subordinated debentures having a principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the capital securities of that holder called a “direct action.” We may not amend the junior debt indenture to remove this right to bring a direct action without the prior written consent of the holders of all of the capital securities outstanding. We will have the right under the junior debt indenture to set-off any payment made to the holder of the capital securities by us in connection with a direct action.


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The holders of capital securities will not be able to exercise directly any remedies other than those set forth in the preceding paragraph available to the holders of the junior subordinated debentures unless there has occurred an event of default under the trust agreement. See “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Events of Default.”
 
Conversion or Exchange
 
If indicated in your prospectus supplement, a series of junior subordinated debentures may be convertible or exchangeable into junior subordinated debentures of another series or into capital securities of another series. The specific terms on which series may be converted or exchanged will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement. These terms may include provisions for conversion or exchange, whether mandatory, at the holder’s option, or at our option, in which case the number of shares of capital securities or other securities the junior subordinated debenture holder would receive would be calculated at the time and manner described in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
Impact on Other Securities
 
Each series of junior subordinated debentures may contain terms and provisions that restrict our activities with respect to our other securities that rank pari passu with or junior to such series of junior subordinated debentures. We have previously issued junior subordinated debentures that contain such provisions. Specifically, the issued debentures provide that if an event of default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the issued debentures or we have given notice of our election to defer interest payments on the issued debentures but the related deferral period has not yet commenced or a deferral period is continuing, then we will not, and will not permit any of our subsidiaries to: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of our capital stock, (b) make any payment of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, or repay, purchase or redeem any of our debt securities that upon our liquidation rank pari passu with or junior to the issued debentures or (c) make any guarantee payments with respect to any of our guarantees of the securities of any subsidiary if such guarantee ranks pari passu with, or junior in interest to, the issued debentures. However, these limitations do not apply to:
 
  •  purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of our capital stock in connection with (a) any employment benefit plan or other compensatory contract or arrangement; or the Assurance Agreement, dated as of June 27, 2005, by AIG in favor of eligible employees and relating to specified obligations of Starr International Company, Inc. (as such agreement may be amended, supplemented, extended, modified or replaced from time to time); or (b) a dividend reinvestment, stock purchase plan or other similar plan; or
 
  •  any exchange or conversion of any class or series of our capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of AIG) for any class or series of our capital stock or of any class or series of our indebtedness for any class or series of our capital stock; or
 
  •  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in accordance with the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged; or
 
  •  any declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, equity securities or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights in accordance with any stockholders’ rights plan; or
 
  •  any dividend in the form of equity securities, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks on a parity with or junior to such equity securities; or
 
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  any payments of deferred interest on pari passu securities that, if not made, would cause us to breach the terms of the instrument governing such pari passu securities;or
 
  •  any payment of principal in respect of pari passu securities having an earlier scheduled maturity date than the issued debentures, as required under a provision of such pari passu securities that have similar repayment of principal provisions as the issued debentures, or any such payment in respect of pari passu securities having the same scheduled maturity date as the issued debentures that is made on a pro rata basis among one or more series of such securities and the issued debentures; or
 
  •  any repayment or redemption of a security necessary to avoid a breach of the instrument governing the same.
 
In addition, if any deferral period for the issued debentures lasts longer than one year, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries will be permitted to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any securities ranking junior to or pari passu with any common stock, certain qualifying warrants and certain qualifying non-cumulative preferred stock, the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant deferral period until the first anniversary of the date on which all deferred interest has been paid, subject to the exceptions listed above. However, if we are involved in a business combination where immediately after its consummation more than 50% of the surviving or resulting entity’s voting stock is owned by the shareholders of the other party to the business combination or continuing directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the surviving or resulting entity’s board of directors, then the one-year restriction on repurchases described in the previous sentence will not apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next interest payment date following the date of consummation of the business combination.
 
Agreements Contained in the Junior Debt Indenture
 
We have agreed in the junior debt indenture, as to each series of junior subordinated debentures held by an AIG Capital Trust, that if and so long as:
 
  •  the AIG Capital Trust of the series of trust securities is the holder of all the junior subordinated debentures;
 
  •  a tax event with respect to such AIG Capital Trust has occurred and is continuing; and
 
  •  we elect, and do not revoke that election, to pay additional sums with respect to the trust securities,
 
we will pay to the AIG Capital Trust these additional sums, which are described under “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Rights of Holders of Capital Securities — Redemption or Exchange.” We also have agreed, as to each series of such junior subordinated debentures:
 
  •  to maintain directly or indirectly 100% ownership of the trust securities of the AIG Capital Trust to which the junior subordinated debentures have been issued, provided that certain successors which are permitted under the junior debt indenture may succeed to our ownership of the trust securities; or
 
  •  not to voluntarily terminate, wind-up or liquidate any AIG Capital Trust, except:
 
  —  in connection with a distribution of junior subordinated debentures to the holders of the capital securities in exchange for their capital securities upon liquidation of the AIG Capital Trust; and
 
  —  in connection with certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations permitted by the applicable trust agreement; and
 
  •  to use reasonable efforts, consistent with the terms and provisions of the applicable trust agreement, to cause the AIG Capital Trust to be classified as a grantor trust and not as an association taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
 
Our Relationship with the Indenture Trustee
 
Please see “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Trustees and Administrators of the AIG Capital Trusts — Our Relationship with the Property Trustee” above for more information about our relationship with The Bank of New York.


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LEGAL OWNERSHIP AND BOOK-ENTRY ISSUANCE
 
In this section, we describe special considerations that will apply to capital securities issued in global — i.e., book-entry — form. First we describe the difference between legal ownership and indirect ownership of capital securities. Then we describe special provisions that apply to capital securities.
 
If the junior subordinated debentures are distributed to holders of capital securities, we anticipate that they would be issued in global form as well and the following discussion will apply to the junior subordinated debentures. Until such a distribution, an AIG Capital Trust will be the sole holder and beneficial owner of the junior subordinated debentures and the property trustee may exercise all rights with respect to the junior subordinated debentures and the junior debt indenture, except as described under “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Special Situations — Voting Rights; Amendment of the Trust Agreements — Details Concerning Voting and the Junior Subordinated Debentures.”
 
Who is the Legal Owner of a Registered Security?
 
Each capital security will be represented either by a certificate issued in definitive form to a particular investor or by one or more global securities representing such capital securities. We refer to those who have securities registered in their own names, on the books that we or the property trustee maintain for this purpose, as the “holders” of those capital securities. These persons are the legal holders of the capital securities. We refer to those who, indirectly through others, own beneficial interests in capital securities that are not registered in their own names as indirect owners of those securities. As we discuss below, indirect owners are not legal holders, and investors in capital securities issued in book-entry form or in street name will be indirect owners.
 
Book-Entry Owners
 
Unless otherwise noted in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each capital security in book-entry form only. This means capital securities will be represented by one or more global securities registered in the name of a financial institution that holds them as depositary on behalf of other financial institutions that participate in the depositary’s book-entry system. These participating institutions, in turn, hold beneficial interests in the capital securities on behalf of themselves or their customers.
 
Under the trust agreement, only the person in whose name a capital security is registered is recognized as the holder of that capital security. Consequently, for capital securities issued in global form, we will recognize only the depositary as the holder of the securities and we will make all payments on the securities, including deliveries of any property other than cash, to the depositary. The depositary passes along the payments it receives to its participants, which in turn pass the payments along to their customers who are the beneficial owners. The depositary and its participants do so under agreements they have made with one another or with their customers; they are not obligated to do so under the terms of the capital securities.
 
As a result, investors will not own securities directly. Instead, they will own beneficial interests in a global security, through a bank, broker or other financial institution that participates in the depositary’s book-entry system or holds an interest through a participant. As long as the capital securities are issued in global form, investors will be indirect owners, and not holders, of the capital securities.
 
Street Name Owners
 
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For capital securities held in street name, we will recognize only the intermediary banks, brokers and other financial institutions in whose names the capital securities are registered as the holders of those securities and we will make all payments on those securities, including deliveries of any property, to them.
 
These institutions pass along the payments they receive to their customers who are the beneficial owners, but only because they agree to do so in their customer agreements or because they are legally required to do so. Investors who hold capital securities in street name will be indirect owners, not holders, of those securities.
 
Legal Holders
 
Our obligations, as well as the obligations of the property trustee under the trust agreement and the obligations, if any, of any third parties employed by us or any agents of theirs, run only to the holders of the capital securities. We do not have obligations to investors who hold beneficial interests in global securities, in street name or by any other indirect means. This will be the case whether an investor chooses to be an indirect owner of a capital security or has no choice because we are issuing the capital securities only in global form.
 
For example, once we make a payment or give a notice to the holder, we have no further responsibility for that payment or notice even if that holder is required, under agreements with depositary participants or customers or by law, to pass it along to the indirect owners but does not do so. Similarly, if we want to obtain the approval of the holders for any purpose — for example, to amend the trust agreement or to relieve us of the consequences of a default or of our obligation to comply with a particular provision of the junior debt indenture — we would seek the approval only from the holders, and not the indirect owners, of the relevant capital securities. Whether and how the holders contact the indirect owners is up to the holders.
 
When we refer to “you” in this prospectus, we mean all purchasers of the capital securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the holders or only indirect owners of those securities. When we refer to “your capital securities” in this prospectus, we mean the capital securities in which you will hold a direct or indirect interest.
 
Special Considerations for Indirect Owners
 
If you hold capital securities through a bank, broker or other financial institution, either in book-entry form or in street name, you should check with your own institution to find out:
 
  •  how it handles capital securities payments and notices;
 
  •  whether it imposes fees or charges;
 
  •  how it would handle a request for the holders’ consent, if ever required;
 
  •  how it would exercise rights under the capital securities if there were a default or other event triggering the need for holders to act to protect their interests; and
 
  •  if the capital securities are in book-entry form, how the depositary’s rules and procedures will affect these matters.
 
What is a Global Security?
 
Unless otherwise noted in your prospectus supplement, we will issue each capital security in book-entry form only. Each capital security issued in book-entry form will be represented by a global security that we deposit with and register in the name of one or more financial institutions or clearing systems, or their nominees, which we select. A financial institution or clearing system that we select for any security for this purpose is called the “depositary” for that security. A security will usually have only one depositary but it may have more. Each series of capital securities will have one or more of the following as the depositaries:
 
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  •  Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, Luxembourg, which is known as “Clearstream;” and
 
  •  any other clearing system or financial institution named in the prospectus supplement.
 
The depositaries named above may also be participants in one another’s systems. Thus, for example, if DTC is the depositary for a global security, investors may hold beneficial interests in that security through Euroclear or Clearstream, as DTC participants. The depositary or depositaries for your capital securities will be named in your prospectus supplement; if none is named, the depositary will be DTC.
 
A global security may represent one or any other number of individual capital securities. All capital securities represented by the same global security will have the same terms.
 
A global security may not be transferred to or registered in the name of anyone other than the depositary or its nominee, unless special termination situations arise. We describe those situations below under “— Holder’s Option to Obtain a Non-Global Security; Special Situations When a Global Security Will Be Terminated.” As a result of these arrangements, the depositary, or its nominee, will be the sole registered owner and holder of all capital securities represented by a global security, and investors will be permitted to own only indirect interests in a global security. Indirect interests must be held by means of an account with a broker, bank or other financial institution that in turn has an account with the depositary or with another institution that does. Thus, an investor whose capital security is represented by a global security will not be a holder of the security, but only an indirect owner of an interest in the global security.
 
If the capital securities are issued in global form only, then the capital securities will be represented by a global security at all times unless and until the global security is terminated. We describe the situations in which this can occur below under “— Holder’s Option to Obtain a Non-Global Security; Special Situations When a Global Security Will Be Terminated.” If termination occurs, we may issue the capital securities through another book-entry clearing system or decide that the capital securities may no longer be held through any book-entry clearing system.
 
Special Considerations for Global Securities
 
As an indirect owner, an investor’s rights relating to a global security will be governed by the account rules of the depositary and those of the investor’s bank, broker, financial institution or other intermediary through which it holds its interest (e.g., Euroclear or Clearstream, if DTC is the depositary), as well as general laws relating to securities transfers. We do not recognize this type of investor or any intermediary as a holder of capital securities and instead deal only with the depositary that holds the global security.
 
If capital securities are issued only in the form of a global security, an investor should be aware of the following:
 
  •  An investor cannot cause the capital securities to be registered in his or her own name, and cannot obtain non-global certificates for his or her interest in the capital securities, except in the special situations we describe below;
 
  •  An investor will be an indirect holder and must look to his or her own bank, broker or other financial institutions for payments on the capital securities and protection of his or her legal rights relating to the capital securities, as we describe above under “— Who is the Legal Owner of a Registered Security?”;
 
  •  An investor may not be able to sell interests in the capital securities to some insurance companies and other institutions that are required by law to own their capital securities in non-book-entry form;
 
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  will have no responsibility for any aspect of the depositary’s policies, actions or records of ownership interests in a global security. We also do not supervise the depositary in any way;
 
  •  The depositary may require that those who purchase and sell interests in a global security within its book-entry system use immediately available funds and your bank, broker or other financial institutions may require you to do so as well; and
 
  •  Financial institutions that participate in the depositary’s book-entry system and through which an investor holds its interest in the global securities, directly or indirectly, may also have their own policies affecting payments, deliveries, transfers, exchanges, notices and other matters relating to the capital securities, and those policies may change from time to time. For example, if you hold an interest in a global security through Euroclear or Clearstream, when DTC is the depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, may require those who purchase and sell interests in that security through them to use immediately available funds and comply with other policies and procedures, including deadlines for giving instructions as to transactions that are to be effected on a particular day. There may be more than one financial intermediary in the chain of ownership for an investor. We do not monitor and are not responsible for the policies or actions or records of ownership interests of any of those intermediaries.
 
Holder’s Option to Obtain a Non-Global Security; Special Situations When a Global Security Will Be Terminated
 
If we issue capital securities in book-entry form but we choose to give the beneficial owners the right to obtain non-global securities, any beneficial owner entitled to obtain non-global capital securities may do so by following the applicable procedures of the depositary, the property trustee and that owner’s bank, broker or other financial institutions through which that owner holds its beneficial interest in the capital securities. If you are entitled to request a non-global certificate and wish to do so, you will need to allow sufficient lead time to enable us or our agent to prepare the requested certificate.
 
In addition, in a few special situations described below, a global security will be terminated and interests in it will be exchanged for certificates in non-global form representing the capital securities it represented. After that exchange, the choice of whether to hold the capital securities directly or in street name will be up to the investor. Investors must consult their own banks, brokers or other financial institutions, to find out how to have their interests in a global security transferred on termination to their own names, so that they will be holders. We have described the rights of holders and street name investors above under “— Who is the Legal Owner of a Registered Security?”
 
The special situations for termination of a global security are as follows:
 
  •  if the depositary notifies us that it is unwilling, unable or no longer qualified to continue as depositary for that global security and we do not appoint another institution to act as depositary within 60 days;
 
  •  if we notify the applicable trustee that we wish to terminate that global security; or
 
  •  if an event of default has occurred with regard to the capital securities and has not been cured or waived.
 
If a global security is terminated, only the depositary, and not us, is responsible for deciding the names of the institutions in whose names the capital securities represented by the global security will be registered and, therefore, who will be the holders of those capital securities.
 
Considerations Relating to DTC
 
DTC has informed us that it is a limited-purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking Law, a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. DTC holds securities that DTC participants deposit with DTC. DTC also facilitates the settlement among DTC participants of securities transactions, such as transfers and pledges in deposited securities through electronic computerized book-


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entry changes in DTC participants’ accounts, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates. DTC participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations, and may include other organizations. DTC is owned by a number of its DTC direct participants and by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the American Stock Exchange, LLC and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Indirect access to the DTC system also is available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a participant, either directly or indirectly. The rules applicable to DTC and DTC participants are on file with the SEC.
 
Purchases of capital securities within the DTC system must be made by or through DTC participants, which will receive a credit for the capital securities on DTC’s records. The ownership interest of each actual purchaser of each capital security is in turn to be recorded on the direct and indirect participants’ records, including Euroclear and Clearstream. Transfers of ownership interests in the capital securities are to be accomplished by entries made on the books of participants acting on behalf of beneficial owners.
 
Redemption notices will be sent to DTC’s nominee, Cede & Co., as the registered holder of the capital securities. If less than all of the capital securities are being redeemed, DTC will determine the amount of the interest of each direct participant to be redeemed in accordance with its then current procedures.
 
In instances in which a vote is required, neither DTC nor Cede & Co. will itself consent or vote with respect to the capital securities. Under its usual procedures, DTC would mail an omnibus proxy to the property trustee as soon as possible after the record date. The omnibus proxy assigns Cede & Co.’s consenting or voting rights to those direct participants to whose accounts such capital securities are credited on the record date (identified in a listing attached to the omnibus proxy).
 
Distribution payments on the capital securities will be made by the property trustee to DTC. DTC’s usual practice is to credit direct participants’ accounts on the relevant payment date in accordance with their respective holdings shown on DTC’s records unless DTC has reason to believe that it will not receive payments on such payment date. Payments by DTC participants to beneficial owners will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices and will be the responsibility of such participants and not of DTC, the property trustee or us, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment of distributions to DTC is the responsibility of the property trustee, and disbursements of such payments to the beneficial owners are the responsibility of direct and indirect participants.
 
The information in this section concerning DTC and DTC’s book-entry system has been obtained from sources that we believe to be accurate, but we assume no responsibility for the accuracy thereof. We do not have any responsibility for the performance by DTC or its participants of their respective obligations as described herein or under the rules and procedures governing their respective operations.
 
Considerations Relating to Euroclear and Clearstream
 
Euroclear and Clearstream are securities clearance systems in Europe. Both systems clear and settle securities transactions between their participants through electronic, book-entry delivery of securities against payment.
 
Euroclear and Clearstream may be depositaries for a global security. In addition, if DTC is the depositary for a global security, Euroclear and Clearstream may hold interests in the global security as participants in DTC.
 
As long as any global security is held by Euroclear or Clearstream, as depositary, you may hold an interest in the global security only through an organization that participates, directly or indirectly, in Euroclear or Clearstream. If Euroclear or Clearstream is the depositary for a global security and there is no depositary in the U.S., you will not be able to hold interests in that global security through any securities clearance system in the U.S.


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Payments, deliveries, transfers, exchanges, notices and other matters relating to the capital securities made through Euroclear or Clearstream must comply with the rules and procedures of those systems. Those systems could change their rules and procedures at any time. We have no control over those systems or their participants and we take no responsibility for their activities. Transactions between participants in Euroclear or Clearstream, on one hand, and participants in DTC, on the other hand, when DTC is the depositary, would also be subject to DTC’s rules and procedures.
 
Special Timing Considerations Relating to Transactions in Euroclear and Clearstream
 
Investors will be able to make and receive through Euroclear and Clearstream payments, deliveries, transfers, exchanges, notices and other transactions involving any capital securities held through those systems only on days when those systems are open for business. Those systems may not be open for business on days when banks, brokers and other financial institutions are open for business in the U.S.
 
In addition, because of time-zone differences, U.S. investors who hold their interests in the capital securities through these systems and wish to transfer their interests, or to receive or make a payment or delivery or exercise any other right with respect to their interests, on a particular day may find that the transaction will not be effected until the next business day in Luxembourg or Brussels, as applicable. Thus, investors who wish to exercise rights that expire on a particular day may need to act before the expiration date. In addition, investors who hold their interests through both DTC and Euroclear or Clearstream may need to make special arrangements to finance any purchases or sales of their interests between the U.S. and European clearing systems, and those transactions may settle later than would be the case for transactions within one clearing system.


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DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBORDINATED GUARANTEES
 
AIG will execute and deliver a subordinated guarantee concurrently with the issuance by each AIG Capital Trust of its capital securities for the benefit of the holders from time to time of those capital securities. The Bank of New York will act as the guarantee trustee under each subordinated guarantee for the purposes of compliance with the Trust Indenture Act and each subordinated guarantee will be qualified as an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act. The guarantee trustee will hold the subordinated guarantee for the benefit of the holders of the applicable AIG Capital Trust’s capital securities.
 
Because this section is only a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the subordinated guarantees. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of each subordinated guarantee, including the definitions of terms, and those provisions made part of each subordinated guarantee by the Trust Indenture Act. A form of subordinated guarantee is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement that includes this prospectus. A copy of the form of the subordinated guarantee is available upon request from the guarantee trustee. If indicated in your prospectus supplement, the terms of a particular subordinated guarantee may differ from the terms discussed below.
 
General
 
AIG will unconditionally agree to pay in full on a subordinated basis the guarantee payments to the holders of the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee, as and when due.
 
The following payments constitute guarantee payments with respect to capital securities that, to the extent not paid by or on behalf of the AIG Capital Trust, will be subject to the applicable subordinated guarantee:
 
  •  any accumulated and unpaid distributions required to be paid on the applicable capital securities, to the extent that the AIG Capital Trust has funds on hand available for that purpose at that time;
 
  •  the applicable redemption price with respect to any capital securities called for redemption, which will include all accumulated and unpaid distributions to the date of redemption, to the extent that the AIG Capital Trust has funds on hand available for that purpose at that time; and
 
  •  upon a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, winding-up or liquidation of an AIG Capital Trust, unless the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust are distributed to holders of the capital securities in accordance with the terms of the trust agreement, the lesser of:
 
   — the aggregate of the liquidation amount and all accumulated and unpaid distributions to the date of payment, to the extent that the AIG Capital Trust has funds available, and
 
   — the amount of assets of the AIG Capital Trust remaining available for distribution to holders of capital securities on liquidation of the AIG Capital Trust.
 
Our obligation to make a guarantee payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the required amounts by us to the holders of the capital securities or by causing the AIG Capital Trust to pay those amounts to the holders.
 
AIG may assert as a defense with respect to its obligations under the subordinated guarantee any defense that is available to an AIG Capital Trust.
 
Each subordinated guarantee will be a guarantee of the AIG Capital Trust’s payment obligations described above under the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee, but will apply only to the extent that the AIG Capital Trust has funds sufficient to make such payments, and is not a guarantee of collection. See “— Additional Information Relating to the Subordinated Guarantees — Status of the Subordinated Guarantees.”
 
If we do not make payments on the junior subordinated debentures owned by an AIG Capital Trust, the AIG Capital Trust will not be able to pay any amounts payable with respect to its capital securities and will not have funds legally available for that purpose. In that event, holders of the capital securities would not be able to rely upon the subordinated guarantee for payment of those amounts. Each subordinated guarantee will have the same ranking as the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust that issues the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee. See “— Additional Information Relating to the Subordinated Guarantees — Status of the Subordinated Guarantees.” No subordinated guarantee will limit the incurrence or issuance of other secured or unsecured debt of AIG.


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We have, through the applicable subordinated guarantee, the trust agreement, the junior subordinated debentures, the junior debt indenture and the expense agreement, taken together, fully and unconditionally guaranteed all of the applicable AIG Capital Trust’s obligations under the capital securities. No single document standing alone or operating in conjunction with fewer than all of the other documents constitutes a full and unconditional subordinated guarantee. It is only the combined operation of these documents that has the effect of providing a full and unconditional subordinated guarantee of an AIG Capital Trust’s obligations under its capital securities.
 
Additional Information Relating to the Subordinated Guarantees
 
Status of the Subordinated Guarantees
 
Each subordinated guarantee will constitute an unsecured obligation of AIG and will rank equal to the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust that issues the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee. See “Description of Junior Subordinated Debentures — Subordination Provisions” for a description of this subordination.
 
Each subordinated guarantee will constitute a guarantee of payment and not of collection. Any holder of capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee may institute a legal proceeding directly against us to enforce its rights under the subordinated guarantee without first instituting a legal proceeding against any other person or entity.
 
Each subordinated guarantee will be held by the guarantee trustee for the benefit of the holders of the applicable capital securities. Each subordinated guarantee will not be discharged except by payment of the guarantee payments in full to the extent not paid by or on behalf of the AIG Capital Trust or, if applicable, distribution to the holders of the capital securities of the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust.
 
Amendments and Assignment
 
Except with respect to any changes that do not materially adversely affect in any material respect the rights of holders of the capital securities issued by the AIG Capital Trust, in which case no approval will be required, the subordinated guarantee that covers the capital securities may not be amended without the prior approval of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee. The manner of obtaining any such approval is as set forth under “Description of Capital Securities the AIG Capital Trusts May Offer — Special Situations — Voting Rights; Amendment of the Trust Agreements.” All subordinated guarantees and agreements contained in each subordinated guarantee will bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of AIG and will inure to the benefit of the holders of the then outstanding capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee.
 
Events of Default
 
An event of default under a subordinated guarantee will occur upon the failure of AIG to perform any of its payment obligations for five days under that subordinated guarantee, or to perform any non- payment obligation if the non-payment default remains unremedied for 30 days following notice to AIG by the guarantee trustee or to AIG and the guarantee trustee by the holders of at least 25% in liquidation amount of outstanding capital securities specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied. If an event of default under a subordinated guarantee occurs and is continuing, the guarantee trustee will enforce the subordinated guarantee for the benefit of the holders of capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee. The holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the guarantee trustee with respect to the subordinated guarantee or to direct the exercise of any right or power conferred upon the guarantee trustee under the subordinated guarantee.
 
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the payment of the Guarantor’s obligations to make guarantee payments. If such a waiver occurs, any event of default will cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured under the terms of the subordinated guarantee.
 
Any holder of capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee may institute a legal proceeding directly against AIG to enforce its rights under the subordinated guarantee without first instituting a legal proceeding against the AIG Capital Trust, the guarantee trustee or any other person or entity.
 
We, as guarantor, are required to file annually with the guarantee trustee a certificate as to whether or not we are in compliance with all the conditions and covenants under the subordinated guarantee.
 
Information Concerning the Guarantee Trustee
 
The guarantee trustee, other than during the occurrence and continuance of an event of default under the subordinated guarantee, undertakes to perform only those duties as are specifically set forth in the subordinated guarantee and, after the occurrence of an event of default with respect to the subordinated guarantee that has not been cured or waived, must exercise the rights and powers vested in it by the subordinated guarantee using the same degree of care and skill as a prudent person would exercise or use in the conduct of his or her own affairs. Subject to this provision, the guarantee trustee is under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the subordinated guarantee at the request of any holder of the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee unless it is offered reasonable indemnity, including reasonable advances requested by it, against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred in complying with the request or direction.
 
Termination of the Subordinated Guarantee
 
Each subordinated guarantee will terminate and be of no further effect upon:
 
  •  full payment of the redemption price of all of the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee;
 
  •  full payment of the amounts payable with respect to the capital securities upon liquidation of the AIG Capital Trust; or
 
  •  distribution of the junior subordinated debentures owned by the AIG Capital Trust to the holders of all the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee.
 
Each subordinated guarantee will continue to be effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any holder of the capital securities covered by the subordinated guarantee must repay any sums with respect to the capital securities or the subordinated guarantee.
 
Governing Law
 
Each subordinated guarantee will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
 
The Expense Agreement
 
Pursuant to the expense agreement that will be entered into by us under each trust agreement, we will unconditionally guarantee on a subordinated basis to each person or entity to whom an AIG Capital Trust becomes indebted or liable, the full payment of any costs, expenses or liabilities of such AIG Capital Trust, other than obligations of such AIG Capital Trust to pay to the holders of any capital securities or other similar interests in such AIG Capital Trust of the amounts owed to holders pursuant to the terms of the capital securities or other similar interests, as the case may be. The expense agreement will be enforceable by third parties.
 
Our Relationship with the Guarantee Trustee
 
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RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE CAPITAL SECURITIES
AND THE RELATED INSTRUMENTS
 
Because this section is only a summary, the following description of the relationship among the capital securities, the junior subordinated debentures, the expense agreement and the subordinated guarantee is not complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, each trust agreement, the junior debt indenture and the form of subordinated guarantee, each of which is or will be incorporated as an exhibit to our registration statement, and the Trust Indenture Act.
 
Full and Unconditional Guarantee
 
Payments of distributions and other amounts due on the capital securities, to the extent the applicable AIG Capital Trust has funds available for the payment of such distributions, are guaranteed by us on a subordinated basis as described under “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees.” Taken together, our obligations under the junior subordinated debentures, the junior debt indenture, the trust agreement, the expense agreement, and the subordinated guarantee provide, in the aggregate, a full and unconditional subordinated guarantee of payments of distributions and other amounts due on the applicable capital securities. No single document standing alone or operating in conjunction with fewer than all of the other documents constitutes such subordinated guarantee. It is only the combined operation of these documents that has the effect of providing a full and unconditional subordinated guarantee of the AIG Capital Trust’s obligations under the capital securities. If and to the extent that we do not make payments on the junior subordinated debentures, the AIG Capital Trust will not pay distributions or other amounts due on its capital securities. The subordinated guarantee does not cover payment of distributions when the AIG Capital Trust does not have sufficient funds to pay such distributions. In such an event, the remedy of a holder of any capital securities is to institute a legal proceeding directly against us pursuant to the terms of the junior debt indenture for enforcement of payment of amounts of such distributions to such holder. Our obligations under each guarantee are subordinate and junior in right of payment to all of our senior debt to the same extent as the junior subordinated debentures.
 
Sufficiency of Payments
 
As long as payments of interest and other payments are made when due on the junior subordinated debentures, such payments will be sufficient to cover distributions and other payments due on the capital securities, primarily because:
 
  •  the aggregate principal amount of the junior subordinated debentures will be equal to the sum of the aggregate stated liquidation amount of the capital securities and the common securities;
 
  •  the interest rate and interest and other payment dates on the junior subordinated debentures will match the distribution rate and distribution and other payment dates for the capital securities;
 
  •  we will pay, under the expense agreement, for all and any costs, expenses and liabilities of an AIG Capital Trust except the AIG Capital Trust’s obligations to holders of its capital securities under the capital securities; and
 
  •  the trust agreement provides that an AIG Capital Trust will not engage in any activity that is inconsistent with the limited purposes of such AIG Capital Trust.
 
We have the right to set-off any payment we are otherwise required to make under the junior debt indenture with a payment we make under the subordinated guarantee.
 
Enforcement Rights of Holders of Capital Securities
 
A holder of any capital security may, to the extent permissible under applicable law, institute a legal proceeding directly against us to enforce its rights under the applicable subordinated guarantee without first instituting a legal proceeding against the guarantee trustee, the AIG Capital Trust or any other person or entity.
 
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until the senior debt has been paid in full or any payment default has been cured or waived. Failure to make required payments on the junior subordinated debentures would constitute an event of default under the junior debt indenture.
 
Limited Purpose of AIG Capital Trusts
 
Each AIG Capital Trust’s capital securities evidence a preferred and undivided beneficial interest in the AIG Capital Trust, and each AIG Capital Trust exists for the sole purpose of issuing its capital securities and common securities and investing the proceeds thereof in junior subordinated debentures and engaging in only those other activities necessary or incidental thereto. A principal difference between the rights of a holder of a capital security and a holder of a junior subordinated debenture is that a holder of a junior subordinated debenture is entitled to receive from us the principal amount of and interest accrued on junior subordinated debentures held, while a holder of capital securities is entitled to receive distributions from an AIG Capital Trust, or from us under the applicable subordinated guarantee, if and to the extent such AIG Capital Trust has funds available for the payment of such distributions.
 
Rights Upon Termination
 
Upon any voluntary or involuntary termination, winding-up or liquidation of an AIG Capital Trust involving our liquidation, the holders of the capital securities will be entitled to receive, out of the assets held by such AIG Capital Trust, the liquidation distribution. Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or bankruptcy of ours, the property trustee, as holder of the junior subordinated debentures, would be a subordinated creditor of ours, subordinated in right of payment to all senior debt as set forth in the junior debt indenture, but entitled to receive payment in full of principal and interest, before any stockholders of ours receive payments or distributions. Since we are the guarantor under each subordinated guarantee and have agreed, under the expense agreement, to pay for all costs, expenses and liabilities of an AIG Capital Trust, other than the AIG Capital Trust’s obligations to the holders of its capital securities, the positions of a holder of such capital securities and a holder of such junior subordinated debentures relative to other creditors and to our stockholders in the event of our liquidation or bankruptcy are expected to be substantially the same.
 
ERISA CONSIDERATIONS
 
Each fiduciary of any of the following, which we collectively refer to as “Plans”:
 
  •  an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”),
 
  •  a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) (including an individual retirement account and a Keogh plan) or a plan subject to one or more provisions under other applicable federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that contain one or more provisions that are similar to the provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Laws”), and
 
  •  any entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of any such plan’s investment in that entity or otherwise,
 
should consider the fiduciary standards and the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA, applicable Similar Laws and Section 4975 of the Code in the context of the Plan’s particular circumstances before authorizing an investment in the capital securities. Among other factors, the fiduciary should consider whether the investment would satisfy the applicable prudence and diversification requirements of ERISA or any Similar Law and would be consistent with the documents and instruments governing the Plan.
 
Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code prohibit Plans subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (each, an “ERISA Plan”) from engaging in certain transactions involving “plan assets” with persons who are “parties in interest” under ERISA or “disqualified persons” under the Code (collectively, “Parties in Interest”). A violation of these “prohibited transaction” rules may result in an excise tax, penalty or other liability under ERISA and/or Section 4975 of the Code, unless exemptive relief is available under an applicable statutory or administrative exemption. Employee benefit plans that are governmental plans, as defined in Section 3(32) of


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ERISA, certain church plans, as defined in Section 3(33) of ERISA, and foreign plans, as described in Section 4(b)(4) of ERISA, are not subject to the requirements of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, but may be subject to Similar Laws.
 
Under a regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”), which we refer to as the “Plan Assets Regulation” the assets of an AIG Capital Trust would be deemed to be “plan assets” of an ERISA Plan for purposes of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code if “plan assets” of the ERISA Plan were used to acquire an equity interest in the AIG Capital Trust and no exception were applicable under the Plan Assets Regulation. The Plan Assets Regulation defines an “equity interest” as any interest in an entity, other than an instrument that is treated as indebtedness under applicable local law and has no substantial equity features.
 
Under exceptions contained in the Plan Assets Regulation (as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA), the assets of an AIG Capital Trust would not be deemed to be “plan assets” of investing ERISA Plans if:
 
  •  immediately after the most recent acquisition of an equity interest in the AIG Capital Trust, less than 25% of the value of each class of equity interests in the trust were held by “Benefit Plan Investors”, which we define as Plans that are subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and entities whose underlying assets are deemed to include “plan assets” under the Plan Assets Regulation or otherwise; or
 
  •  the capital securities were “publicly-offered securities” for purposes of the Plan Assets Regulation. “Publicly-offered securities” are securities which are widely held, freely transferable, and either (i) part of a class of securities registered under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act or (ii) sold as part of an offering pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and then timely registered under the Exchange Act.
 
No assurance can be given that Benefit Plan Investors will hold less than 25% of the total value of the capital securities of an AIG Capital Trust at the completion of the initial offering or thereafter, and we do not intend to monitor or take any other measures to assure satisfaction of the conditions to this exception. It is currently anticipated that the capital securities will be offered in a manner consistent with the requirements of the publicly-offered securities exception described above and therefore an AIG Capital Trust should qualify for the exception so that the assets of the AIG Capital Trust should not be “plan assets” of any ERISA Plan investing in the capital securities. However, no assurance can be given that the capital securities would be considered to be publicly-offered securities under the Plan Assets Regulation.
 
Certain transactions involving an AIG Capital Trust could be deemed to constitute direct or indirect prohibited transactions under ERISA and/or Section 4975 of the Code with respect to an ERISA Plan if the capital securities (or junior subordinated debt securities) were acquired with “plan assets” of the ERISA Plan or the assets of the AIG Capital Trust were deemed to be “plan assets” of ERISA Plans investing in the trust. For example, if we were a Party in Interest with respect to an ERISA Plan, either directly or by reason of our ownership of subsidiaries, extensions of credit between us and an AIG Capital Trust (or the ERISA Plan), including the junior subordinated debt securities and the guarantees, could be prohibited by Section 406(a)(1)(B) of ERISA and Section 4975(c)(1)(B) of the Code, unless exemptive relief were available under an applicable administrative exemption.
 
The DOL has issued prohibited transaction class exemptions (“PTCEs”) that may provide exemptive relief for direct or indirect prohibited transactions that may arise from the purchase or holding of the capital securities. Those class exemptions include:
 
  •  PTCE 96-23 (for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers);
 
  •  PTCE 95-60 (for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts);
 
  •  PTCE 91-38 (for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds);
 
  •  PTCE 90-1 (for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts); and
 
  •  PTCE 84-14 (for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers).
 
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direct or indirect prohibited transactions could occur as a result of the purchase, holding or disposition of the capital securities (or the junior subordinated debt securities) the capital securities may not be purchased or held by any ERISA Plan or any person investing “plan assets” of any ERISA Plan, unless the purchase and holding is eligible for the exemptive relief available under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or 84-14 or another applicable exemption.
 
By directly or indirectly purchasing or holding capital securities or any interest in them you will be deemed to have represented that either:
 
  •  you are not a Plan and are not purchasing the capital securities on behalf of or with “plan assets” of any Plan; or
 
  •  your purchase, holding and disposition of capital securities (or junior subordinated debt securities) will not violate any applicable Similar Laws and will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or the Code by reason of PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or 84-14 or another applicable exemption.
 
Due to the complexity of the above rules and the penalties that may be imposed upon persons involved in non-exempt prohibited transactions, it is particularly important that fiduciaries or other persons considering purchasing the capital securities on behalf of or with “plan assets” of any ERISA Plan consult with their counsel regarding the potential consequences of its purchase, holding and disposition of the capital securities and regarding the availability of exemptive relief under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or 84-14 or any other applicable exemption. In addition, fiduciaries of Plans not subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, in consultation with their advisors, should consider the impact of their respective applicable Similar Laws on their investment in capital securities, and the considerations discussed above, to the extent applicable.
 
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
Initial Offering and Sale of Capital Securities
 
AIG Capital Trust may sell capital securities:
 
  •  to or through underwriting syndicates represented by managing underwriters;
 
  •  through one or more underwriters without a syndicate for them to offer and sell to the public;
 
  •  through dealers or agents; and to investors directly in negotiated sales or in competitively bid transactions.
 
Any underwriter or agent involved in the offer and sale of the capital securities will be named in the prospectus supplement. One or more of our subsidiaries may act as an underwriter or agent.
 
The prospectus supplement will describe:
 
  •  the terms of the offering, including the name of the agent or the name or names of any underwriters;
 
  •  the public offering or purchase price;
 
  •  any discounts and commissions to be allowed or paid to the agent or underwriters and all other items constituting underwriting compensation;
 
  •  any discounts and commissions to be allowed or paid to dealers;
 
  •  and other specific terms of the particular offering or sale.
 
Only the agents or underwriters named in a prospectus supplement are agents or underwriters in connection with the capital securities being offered by that prospectus supplement.
 
Underwriters, agents and dealers may be entitled, under agreements with us, to indemnification against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.
 
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To the extent required, offerings of capital securities will be conducted in compliance with Rule 2810 of NASD’s Conduct Rules. In compliance with guidelines of the NASD, the maximum commission or discount to be received by any NASD member or independent broker dealer may not exceed 8% of the aggregate liquidation amount of capital securities offered pursuant to this prospectus. We anticipate, however, that the maximum commission or discount to be received in any particular offering of capital securities will be significantly less than this amount.
 
Underwriters, dealers or agents may engage in transactions with, or perform services for, us or our subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.
 
VALIDITY OF THE SECURITIES
 
Unless we state otherwise in any prospectus supplement, the validity of the capital securities will be passed upon for the AIG Capital Trusts by Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. The validity of the junior subordinated debentures and the subordinated guarantees will be passed upon for AIG by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP or by Kathleen E. Shannon, Esq., Senior Vice President, Secretary and Deputy General Counsel of AIG and for any underwriters or agents by counsel named in your prospectus supplement. Partners of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP involved in the representation of AIG beneficially own approximately 11,360 shares of AIG common stock. Ms. Shannon is regularly employed by AIG, participates in various AIG employee benefit plans under which she may receive shares of AIG common stock and currently beneficially owns less than 1% of the outstanding shares of AIG common stock.
 
EXPERTS
 
The consolidated financial statements, the financial statement schedules and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting) incorporated in this prospectus by reference to AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report (which contains an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting) of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
 
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
 
AIG is required to file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports, proxy statements and other information can be inspected and copied at:
 
SEC Public Reference Room
100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference room. AIG’s filings are also available to the public through:
 
  •  The SEC web site at http://www.sec.gov
 
  •  The New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005
 
AIG’s common stock is listed on the NYSE and trades under the symbol “AIG”.
 
AIG has filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the securities. This prospectus is part of the registration statement and does not contain all the information in the registration statement. Whenever a reference is made in this prospectus to a contract or other document, please be aware that the reference is not necessarily complete and that you should refer to the exhibits that are part of the registration statement for a copy of


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the contract or other document. You may review a copy of the registration statement at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. as well as through the SEC’s internet site noted above.
 
The SEC allows AIG to “incorporate by reference” the information AIG files with the SEC, which means that AIG can disclose important information to you by referring to those documents, and later information that AIG files with the SEC will automatically update and supersede that information as well as the information included in this prospectus. AIG incorporates by reference the documents below, any filings that we make after the date of the initial filing of this registration statement (or post-effective amendment) and prior to the effectiveness of this registration statement (or post-effective amendment) and any future filings made with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 until all the securities are sold. This prospectus is part of a registration statement AIG filed with the SEC.
 
  (1)  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006.
 
  (2)  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2007
 
  (3)  Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on January 19, 2007, March 1, 2007 (containing items 8.01 and 9.01), March 13, 2007, March 16, 2007, May 22, 2007 and June 7, 2007.
 
  (4)  Proxy Statement, dated April 7, 2007.
 
AIG will provide without charge to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom this prospectus is delivered, upon his or her written or oral request, a copy of any or all of the reports or documents referred to above that have been incorporated by reference into this prospectus excluding exhibits to those documents unless they are specifically incorporated by reference into those documents. You can request those documents from AIG’s Director of Investor Relations, 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, telephone 212-770-6293, or you may obtain them from AIG’s corporate website at www.aigcorporate.com. Except for the documents specifically incorporated by reference into this prospectus, information contained on AIG’s website or that can be accessed through its website does not constitute a part of this prospectus. AIG has included its website address only as an inactive textual reference and does not intend it to be an active link to its website.
 
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING PROJECTIONS AND OTHER INFORMATION
ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS
 
This prospectus and the documents incorporated herein by reference, as well as other publicly available documents, may include, and AIG’s officers and representatives may from time to time make, projections concerning financial information and statements concerning future economic performance and events, plans and objectives relating to management, operations, products and services, and assumptions underlying these projections and statements. These projections and statements are not historical facts but instead represent only AIG’s belief regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside AIG’s control. These projections and statements may address, among other things, the status and potential future outcome of the current regulatory and civil proceedings against AIG and their potential effect on AIG’s businesses, financial position, results of operations, cash flows and liquidity, the effect of credit rating changes on AIG’s businesses and competitive position, the unwinding and resolving of various relationships between AIG and Starr International Company, Inc. and AIG’s strategy for growth, product development, market position, financial results and reserves. It is possible that AIG’s actual results and financial condition may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results and financial condition indicated in these projections and statements. Factors that could cause AIG’s actual results to differ, possibly materially, from those in the specific projections and statements are discussed throughout Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7, Part II, of AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and Risk Factors in Item 1A, Part I of AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. AIG is not under any obligation (and expressly disclaims any such obligations) to update or alter any projection or other statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to represent anything not contained in this prospectus. You must not rely on any unauthorized information or representations. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the securities it describes, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.
 
 
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PART II
 
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN A PROSPECTUS
 
Item 14.   Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
 
The following is a statement of the expenses (all of which are estimated other than the SEC registration fee) to be incurred by the Registrants in connection with the distribution of the securities registered under this registration statement:
 
         
    Amount
 
    to be paid  
 
SEC registration fee
  $ 675,400  
NASD Fees
    100,000  
Legal fees and expenses
    500,000  
Accounting fees and expenses
    500,000  
Rating agency fees
    2,000,000  
Printing fees
    100,000  
Trustee fees
    150,000  
Miscellaneous
    15,000  
         
Total
  $ 4,040,400  
 
Item 15.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers
 
The certificate of incorporation of AIG Program Funding, Inc. provides that a director will not be personally liable to AIG or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent that the exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. Article III, Section 12 of AIG Program Funding, Inc.’s by-laws provides that AIG Program Funding, Inc. shall indemnify (i) 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, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as director, officer, 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 reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful and (ii) 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 by or in the right of the corporation to produce a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, 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 and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of 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 except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the corporation unless and only to the extent that a court of common pleas of the county in which the registered office of the corporation is located or the court in which such action, suit or proceeding was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity.
 
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation of AIG provides that AIG shall indemnify to the full extent permitted by law any person made, or threatened to be made, a party to an action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he or she, his or her testator or intestate is or


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was a director, officer or employee of AIG or serves or served any other enterprise at the request of AIG. Section 6.4 of AIG’s by-laws contains a similar provision.
 
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation also provides that a director will not be personally liable to AIG or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent that the exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.
 
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits indemnification against expenses, fines, judgments and settlements incurred by any director, officer or employee of a company in the event of pending or threatened civil, criminal, administrative or investigative proceedings, if such person was, or was threatened to be made, a party by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of the company. Section 145 also provides that the indemnification provided for therein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may otherwise be entitled.
 
In addition, AIG and its subsidiaries maintain a directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy.
 
Item 16.   Exhibits
 
See Exhibits Index which is incorporated herein by reference.
 
Item 17.   Undertakings
 
Each of the undersigned Registrants hereby undertakes:
 
(a)(1) 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;
 
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any fact or events arising after the effective date of this 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 this registration statement; notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and
 
(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 paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
 
(3) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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.
 
(4) 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.
 
(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:
 
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(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5) or (b)(7) as part of the registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii) or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at the date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which the prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.
 
(6) That, for the purpose of determining liability of a Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, each undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of such undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, such undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:
 
(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of such undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
 
(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of such undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by such undersigned Registrant;
 
(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about such undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of such undersigned Registrant; and
 
(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by such undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.
 
(7) That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of AIG’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the 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.
 
(b) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrants 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 of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrants of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrants in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted against the Registrants by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrants 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 Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant 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 this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in The City of New York, State of New York, on the 22nd day of June, 2007.
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Registrant)
 
  By: 
/s/  STEVEN J. BENSINGER
Steven J. Bensinger
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Martin J. Sullivan and Steven J. Bensinger, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 of American International Group, Inc. and any and all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective amendments) thereto, and to file the same, with the exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection herewith, including any related registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing required and necessary to be done in and about the foregoing as fully for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
 
             
Signature
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  MARTIN J. SULLIVAN

(Martin J. Sullivan)
  President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 22, 2007
         
/s/  STEVEN J. BENSINGER

(Steven J. Bensinger)
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
  June 22, 2007
         
/s/  DAVID L. HERZOG

(David L. Herzog)
  Senior Vice President and Comptroller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
  June 22, 2007
         
/s/  MARSHALL A. COHEN

(Marshall A. Cohen)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  MARTIN S. FELDSTEIN

(Martin S. Feldstein)
  Director   June 22, 2007


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Signature
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  ELLEN V. FUTTER

(Ellen V. Futter)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  STEPHEN L. HAMMERMAN

(Stephen L. Hammerman)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE

(Richard C. Holbrooke)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  FRED H. LANGHAMMER

(Fred H. Langhammer)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  GEORGE L. MILES, JR.

(George L. Miles, Jr.)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  MORRIS W. OFFIT

(Morris W. Offit)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  JAMES F. ORR III

(James F. Orr III)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  VIRGINIA M. ROMETTY

(Virginia M. Rometty)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  MICHAEL H. SUTTON

(Michael H. Sutton)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  EDMUND S.W. TSE

(Edmund S.W. Tse)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  ROBERT B. WILLUMSTAD

(Robert B. Willumstad)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  FRANK G. ZARB

(Frank G. Zarb)
  Director   June 22, 2007


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, AIG Capital Trust I and AIG Capital Trust II each 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 this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by each of the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in The City of New York, State of New York, on the 22nd day of June, 2007.
 
AIG Capital Trust I
(Registrant)
 
  By:  American International Group, Inc.
as Sponsor
 
  By: 
/s/  STEVEN J. BENSINGER
Steven J. Bensinger
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
 
AIG Capital Trust II
(Registrant)
 
  By:  American International Group, Inc.
as Sponsor
 
  By: 
/s/  STEVEN J. BENSINGER
Steven J. Bensinger
Executive Vice President and Chief
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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant 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 this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in The City of New York, State of New York, on the 22nd day of June, 2007.
 
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
(Registrant)
 
  By: 
/s/  ROBERT A. GENDER
Robert A. Gender
President
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Robert A. Gender and Steven J. Bensinger, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 of AIG Program Funding, Inc. and any and all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective amendments) thereto, and to file the same, with the exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection herewith, including any related registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing required and necessary to be done in and about the foregoing as fully for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
 
             
Signature
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  ROBERT A. GENDER

(Robert A. Gender)
  President and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 22, 2007
         
/s/  GREG. J. GIARDIELLO

(Greg. J. Giardiello)
  Comptroller (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  STEVEN J. BENSINGER

(Steven J. Bensinger)
  Director   June 22, 2007
         
/s/  WILLIAM N. DOOLEY

(William N. Dooley)
  Director   June 22, 2007


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EXHIBITS INDEX
 
             
Exhibit
       
Number
 
Description
 
Location
 
  1.1     Form of Underwriting Agreement of American International Group, Inc. for debt securities   *
  1.2     Form of Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement of American International Group, Inc. for Medium-Term Notes   Filed Herewith
  1.3     Form of Underwriting Agreement of American International Group, Inc. for warrants   *
  1.4     Form of Underwriting Agreement of American International Group, Inc. for purchase contracts   *
  1.5     Form of Underwriting Agreement of American International Group, Inc. for units   *
  1.6     Form of Underwriting Agreement of AIG Program Funding, Inc. for debt securities   *
  1.7     Form of Distribution Agreement of AIG Program Funding, Inc. for Medium-Term Notes   *
  1.8     Form of Underwriting Agreement of AIG Program Funding, Inc. for warrants   *
  1.9     Form of Underwriting Agreement of AIG Program Funding, Inc. for purchase contracts   *
  1.10     Form of Underwriting Agreement of AIG Program Funding, Inc. for units   *
  3(i )(a)   Restated Certificate of Incorporation of AIG   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) to AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1996 (File No. 1-8787)
  3(i )(b)   Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of AIG, filed June 3, 1998   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) to AIG’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1998 (File No. 1-8787)
  3(i )(c)   Certificate of Merger of SunAmerica Inc. with and into AIG, filed December 30, 1998 and effective January 1, 1999   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) to AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998 (File No. 1-8787)
  3(i )(d)   Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation of AIG, filed June 5, 2000   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i)(c) to AIG’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-45828)
  3(i )(e)   Certificate of Incorporation of AIG Program Funding, Inc.    Filed Herewith
  3(ii )(a)   Amended and Restated By-laws of AIG   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to AIG’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 22, 2007 (File No. 1-8787)
  3(ii )(b)   By-laws of AIG Program Funding, Inc.    Filed Herewith
  4.1     Indenture between AIG and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, dated as of October 12, 2006, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23, 2007 and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2007, including the form of debt security in Article Two thereof   Filed Herewith


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Exhibit
       
Number
 
Description
 
Location
 
  4.2     Form of Subordinated Indenture between AIG and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, including the form of subordinated debt security in Article Two thereof   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to AIG’s Registration Statement on Form S-3/A, filed December 7, 2004 (File No. 333-106040)
  4.3     Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture between AIG and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, dated as of March 13, 2007, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2007, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007 and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 7, 2007, including the form of junior subordinated debt security in Article Two thereof   Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture and First Supplemental Indenture, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 and Exhibit 4.2, respectively, to AIG’s 8-K, filed March 13, 2007 (File No. 1-8787); Second Supplemental Indenture and Third Supplemental Indenture, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 and Exhibit 4.4, respectively, to AIG’s 8-K, filed March 16, 2007 (File No. 1-8787); Fourth Supplemental Indenture incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to AIG’s 8-K, filed June 7, 2007 (File No. 1-8787)
  4.4     Form of Subordinated Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture between AIG and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, including the form of junior subordinated debt security in Article Two thereof   Filed Herewith
  4.5     Form of Warrant Indenture between AIG and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, including the form of put warrant and form of call warrant in Article Two thereof   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to AIG’s Registration Statement on Form S-3/A, filed December 7, 2004 (File No. 333-106040)
  4.6     Form of Indenture, among AIG Program Funding, Inc., American International Group, Inc., as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, including the form of Debt Security and form of Guarantee in Article Two thereof   Filed Herewith
  4.7     Form of Warrant Indenture among AIG Program Funding, Inc., American International Group, as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, including the form of Put Warrant and form of Call Warrant in Article Two thereof   Filed Herewith
  4.8     Form of Debt Warrant Agreement for Warrants sold attached to debt securities   *
  4.9     Form of Debt Warrant Agreement for Warrants sold alone   *
  4.10     Form of Unit Agreement, including form of unit certificate   *
  4.11     Form of Prepaid Purchase Contract   *
  4.12     Form of Non-Prepaid Purchase Contract (Issuer Sale)   (to be included in Exhibit 4.9)
  4.13     Form of Non-Prepaid Purchase Contract (Issuer Purchase)   (to be included in Exhibit 4.9)
  4.14     Form of Deposit Agreement including depositary receipt.   *
  4.15     Specimen of certificate representing AIG’s common stock, par value $2.50 per share   Incorporated by reference to the AIG Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed September 20, 1984
  4.16     Certificate of Trust of AIG Capital Trust I   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.11 to AIG Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed June 11, 2003 (File No. 333-106040)


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Exhibit
       
Number
 
Description
 
Location
 
  4.17     Certificate of Trust of AIG Capital Trust II   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.12 to AIG Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed June 11, 2003 (File No. 333-106040)
  4.18     Trust Agreement of AIG Capital Trust I   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.13 to AIG Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed June 11, 2003 (File No. 333-106040)
  4.19     Trust Agreement of AIG Capital Trust II   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.14 to AIG Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed June 11, 2003 (File No. 333-106040)
  4.20     Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement to be used in connection with the issuance of Capital Securities   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.15 to AIG Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed June 11, 2003 (File No. 333-106040)
  4.21     Form of Capital Security   (Included in Exhibit 4.19)
  4.22     Form of Guarantee Agreement   *
  5.1     Validity Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP   Filed Herewith
  5.2     Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., with respect to AIG Capital Trust I and AIG Capital Trust II   Filed Herewith
  12     Statement regarding computation of ratios of earnings to fixed charges   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 12 of AIG’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 (File No. 1-8787)
  23.1     Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, AIG’s independent public accounting firm.   Filed Herewith
  23.2     Consent of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP   (Included in Exhibit 5.1)
  23.3     Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.   (Included in Exhibit 5.2)
  24     Powers of Attorney   (Included in the signature pages of this Registration Statement)
  25.1     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the AIG Indenture   Filed Herewith
  25.2     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the Subordinated Indenture   Filed Herewith
  25.3     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the Junior Subordinated Indenture   Filed Herewith
  25.4     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the Subordinated Junior Subordinated Indenture   Filed Herewith
  25.5     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the AIG Warrant Indenture   Filed Herewith
  25.6     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of AIG Capital Trust I   Filed Herewith


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Exhibit
       
Number
 
Description
 
Location
 
  25.7     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of AIG Capital Trust II   Filed Herewith
  25.8     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the Capital Securities Guarantee of AIG with respect to the Capital Securities of AIG Capital Trust I   Filed Herewith
  25.9     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the Capital Securities Guarantee of AIG with respect to the Capital Securities of AIG Capital Trust II   Filed Herewith
  25.10     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the AIGPF Indenture   Filed Herewith
  25.11     Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of The Bank of New York, Trustee under the AIGPF Warrant Indenture   Filed Herewith
 
 
* To be filed by amendment or as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

EX-1.2
 

Exhibit 1.2
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
U.S. $
Medium-Term Notes
Series G
Series AIG-FP
Series MP, Matched Investment Program
Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement
June , 2007
To the Agents named in Annex VI hereto.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     American International Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell at an aggregate initial offering price of up to U.S. $ or the equivalent thereof in one or more foreign or composite currencies or currency units, of its Medium-Term Notes, Series G; Medium-Term Notes, Series AIG-FP; and Medium-Term Notes, Series MP, Matched Investment Program (collectively, the “Securities”), and agrees with each of you (individually, an “Agent”, and collectively, the “Agents”) as set forth in this Agreement. Between October 12, 2006, the date of establishment of the series of Securities referred to in the preceding sentence, and the date hereof, the Company has issued securities at an aggregate initial offering price equivalent to U.S. $, which reduced the aggregate amount of Securities that the Company may offer and sell under this Agreement from the equivalent of U.S. $25,139,770,000 to the equivalent of U.S. $, provided, that the Company may increase the amount of Securities it may sell at any time as provided in Section 10(c) hereof.
     Subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, the Company hereby appoints each Agent as an agent of the Company for the purpose of soliciting and receiving offers to purchase the Securities from the Company, and the Company and the Agents agree that whenever the Company determines to sell Securities directly to any Agent as principal for resale to others, the Company and such Agent will, unless otherwise agreed by them, enter into either a separate agreement, substantially in the form of Annex I hereto, relating to such sale, or another agreement (which may be oral and confirmed in writing) relating to the purchase by such Agent as principal (each, a “Terms Agreement”), in each case in accordance with Section 2(b) hereof. The Company reserves the right to sell Securities directly on its own behalf and to enter into agreements with other broker-dealers as Agents as contemplated by Section 10(b) hereof. This Agreement shall not be construed to create either an obligation on the part of the Company to sell any Securities or an obligation of the Agents to purchase Securities as principal.
     The terms and rights of the Securities shall be as specified in or established pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Original Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23,

 


 

2007, and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2007 (the Original Indenture as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), each between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the “Trustee”). The Securities shall have the maturity ranges, annual interest rates (if any), redemption provisions and other terms set forth in the Prospectus referred to below as it may be supplemented from time to time. The Securities may be issued in amounts denominated in United States dollars or in amounts denominated in foreign currencies, including the Euro, or any composite currency. References herein to amounts stated in United States dollars shall be deemed to refer to the equivalent amount of foreign currency or composite currency to the extent applicable. The Securities will be issued, and the terms thereof established, from time to time by the Company in accordance with the Indenture and the Administrative Procedure attached hereto as Attachment A (the “Procedure”) and, if applicable, such terms will be specified in a related Terms Agreement.
     1. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Agent that:
          (a) The registration statements on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333- and No. 333-106040) in respect of the Securities have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”); such registration statements and any post-effective amendment thereto, each in the form heretofore delivered or to be delivered to such Agent, excluding exhibits to such registration statements, but including all documents incorporated by reference in the prospectus included in the latest registration statement, have been declared effective by the Commission in such form; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of any such registration statement has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission (any preliminary prospectus (including the Basic Prospectus or the Prospectus (as hereinafter defined), as the case may be, as supplemented by any preliminary prospectus supplement) included in the latest registration statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus;” the various parts of such registration statements, including all exhibits thereto and the documents incorporated by reference in the prospectus contained in the registration statements at the time such part of the registration statements became effective but excluding Form T-1, each as amended at the time such part of the registration statements most recently became effective, are hereinafter collectively called the “Registration Statement;” the prospectus (including, if applicable, any prospectus supplement) relating to the Securities, in the form in which it has most recently been filed, or transmitted for filing, with the Commission on or prior to the date of this Agreement, is hereinafter called the “Prospectus;” any reference herein to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to the applicable form under the Act, as of the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be; any reference to any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, including any supplement to the Prospectus that sets forth only the terms of a particular issue of the Securities (a “Pricing Supplement”), shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and incorporated therein by reference; any reference to any amendment to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to refer to and include any annual report of the Company filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement; and any reference to the “Prospectus as amended or supplemented,” other than in Section 1(c)(i)(B) hereof, shall be deemed to refer to and include the Prospectus as amended or

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supplemented (including by the applicable Pricing Supplement filed in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof and any other prospectus supplement specifically referred to in such Pricing Supplement) in relation to Securities to be sold pursuant to this Agreement, in the form filed or transmitted for filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act and in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof, including any documents incorporated by reference therein as of the date of such filing);
          (b) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433 under the Act relating to the Securities (an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”) has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by any Agent expressly for use therein;
          (c) (i) With respect to any issue of Securities, (A) the “Applicable Time” will be such time on the date of the applicable Terms Agreement as is specified therein as the Applicable Time, or, if either the Terms Agreement does not specify the Applicable Time or if such Securities are not being sold pursuant to a Terms Agreement, the Applicable Time shall mean the time immediately prior to the time of the first sale by an Agent (including, without limitation, a contract of sale by an Agent) of such Securities or with respect to Securities sold by such Agent as agent, the Applicable Time shall mean each time of sale (including, without limitation, a contract of sale) of such Securities, and (B) the “Pricing Disclosure Package” shall mean the Prospectus as amended or supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time taken together with any Term Sheet prepared pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof in connection with such issue of Securities and any other free writing prospectus that the Company and such Agent shall expressly agree in writing to include as part of the Pricing Disclosure Package with respect to such issue of Securities; (ii) with respect to each issue of Securities, the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; and (iii) with respect to each issue of Securities, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, included in the Pricing Disclosure Package, will not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Prospectus as amended or supplemented and, taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; provided, however, that the representations and warranties in clauses (ii) and (iii) of this Section 1(c) shall not apply to statements or omissions made in any Pricing Disclosure Package or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by any Agent expressly for use therein;
          (d) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules

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and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or, in the case of an Annual Report on Form 10-K, omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or, in the case of any other document filed under the Exchange Act, omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by any Agent specifically for use in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented to relate to a particular issuance of Securities, or to any statements in any such document which does not constitute part of the Registration Statement or Prospectus pursuant to Rule 412 under the Act;
          (e) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus conform, and any amendments or supplements thereto will conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Trust Indenture Act, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and do not and will not, as of the applicable effective date as to the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and as of its date as to the Prospectus and any supplement thereto, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or, in the case of the Registration Statement, omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or, in the case of the Prospectus, omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to (i) that part of the Registration Statement which constitutes the Statement of Eligibility (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee, (ii) any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by any Agent expressly for use in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented to relate to a particular issuance of Securities and (iii) any statement which does not constitute part of the Registration Statement or Prospectus pursuant to Rule 412 under the Act;
          (f) The Company has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of Delaware, and has full power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus;
          (g) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented there has not been (i) any material change in the capital stock (other than as occasioned by Common Stock having been issued pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans, equity incentive option plans and upon conversion of convertible securities), or (ii) any material adverse change in or affecting the financial position, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries considered as an entirety, in each case, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in such Prospectus as amended or supplemented (any such change described in clause (ii) is referred to as a “Material Adverse Change”);

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          (h) The series constituting the Securities has been duly authorized and established in conformity with the Indenture and, when the terms of a particular Security and of the issue and sale thereof have been duly authorized and established by all necessary corporate action in conformity with the Indenture and such Security has been duly completed, executed, authenticated and issued in accordance with the Indenture, and delivered against payment therefor as contemplated by this Agreement and any applicable Terms Agreement, such Security will have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered and will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture; the Indenture has been duly authorized and qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and the Indenture conforms and the Securities will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented;
          (i) The issue and sale of the Securities and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Securities, the Indenture, this Agreement and any Terms Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated, will not conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, or result in any violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties, except, in each case, for such breaches, conflicts, defaults and violations that would not have a material adverse effect on the business, financial position, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as an entirety (a “Material Adverse Effect”) or affect the validity of the Securities, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, or the By-Laws of the Company; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or governmental agency or body is required by the Company for the solicitation of offers to purchase Securities and the issue and sale of the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, any Terms Agreement or the Indenture, except such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications the failure to obtain or make would not have a Material Adverse Effect or affect the validity of the Securities, and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications as have been, or will have been prior to the date of this Agreement, obtained under the Act or the Trust Indenture Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws (including insurance laws of any state relating to offers and sales of securities in such state) in connection with the solicitation by such Agent of offers to purchase the Securities from the Company and with purchases of the Securities by such Agent as principal, as the case may be, both in the manner contemplated hereby; and
          (j) There is no action, suit or proceeding pending, or to the knowledge of the executive officers of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries, which has, or may reasonably be expected in the future to have, a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented; and, at each Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 2(b) hereof), there will not be any action, suit or proceeding pending, or to the knowledge of the executive officers of the Company, threatened against the

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Company or any of its subsidiaries, which will have had, or may reasonably be expected in the future to have, a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented.
     2. (a) On the basis of the representations and warranties, and subject to the terms and conditions, herein set forth, each of the Agents hereby severally and not jointly agrees, as agent of the Company, to use its best efforts to solicit and receive offers to purchase the Securities from the Company upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented from time to time and in any applicable Term Sheet.
          The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to instruct the Agents to suspend at any time, for any period of time or permanently, the solicitation of offers to purchase the Securities. Upon receipt of instructions from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities from the Company until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed. During such time as the solicitation of offers to purchase the Securities shall be suspended, the Company shall not be required to comply with the provisions of Sections 4(g), 4(h) and 4(i).
          The Company agrees to pay each Agent a commission, at the time of settlement of each sale of Securities by the Company as a result of a solicitation made by such Agent, in an amount to be agreed to by the Company and such Agent at the time of solicitation, it being understood and agreed that the commissions may not be the same for each Agent.
          As Agents, you are authorized to solicit offers to purchase the Securities only in authorized denominations as set forth in the Prospectus or the applicable Pricing Supplement at a purchase price equal to 100% of their principal amount unless otherwise indicated on the applicable Term Sheet, if any, and Pricing Supplement. Each Agent shall communicate to the Company, orally or in writing, each offer to purchase Securities other than those rejected by such Agent. The Company shall have the sole right to accept offers to purchase Securities and may reject any proposed purchase of Securities as a whole or in part. The Agents shall have the right, in their discretion reasonably exercised, to reject any offer to purchase Securities, as a whole or in part, and any such rejection by the Agents shall not be deemed a breach of their agreements contained herein.
          (b) Unless the Company and the Agents otherwise agree, each sale of Securities to any Agent as principal shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and, unless the Company and such Agent shall otherwise agree, a Terms Agreement which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase thereof by, such Agent. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by such Agent. Unless the Company and such Agent shall otherwise agree, the commitment of any Agent to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties, and subject to the terms and conditions, herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall include a specification of the principal amount of Securities to be purchased by any Agent pursuant thereto, the price to be paid to the Company for such Securities, the currency in which such Securities are to be denominated, any provisions relating to rights of, and default by, underwriters acting together with such Agent in the reoffering of the Securities, and the time (each a “Time of Delivery”) and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities. Such Terms Agreement shall also specify any requirements for officers’ certificates, opinions of counsel and accountants’ letters pursuant to Section 4 hereof.

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          (c) Procedural details relating to the issue and delivery of Securities, the solicitation of offers to purchase, and purchases by any Agent as principal of, Securities, and the payment in each case therefor, are set forth in the Procedure. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them in the Procedure as it may be amended from time to time by written agreement between the Agents and the Company.
          (d) Each Agent agrees, with respect to any Security denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars, as agent, directly or indirectly, not to solicit offers to purchase, and as a principal under any Terms Agreement or otherwise, directly or indirectly, not to offer, sell or deliver, such Security in, or to residents of, the country issuing such currency (or if such Security is denominated in euros, not to residents of the 12 member states of the European Monetary Union; or if such Security is denominated in a composite currency, not to residents in any country issuing a currency comprising a portion of such composite currency), except, in each case, as permitted by applicable law.
          (e) Each Agent represents and agrees with the Company that it will comply with or observe any restrictions or limitations set forth in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented on persons to whom, or the jurisdictions in which, or in the manner in which, the Securities may be offered, sold, resold or delivered.
     3. Any documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6 hereof shall be made available to the Agents at the office of the Company’s counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, 125 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004.
     4. The Company covenants and agrees with each Agent:
          (a) To make no amendment or supplement (other than an amendment or supplement as a result of the Company’s filing of a report under the Exchange Act) to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus after the date of any Terms Agreement and prior to the related Time of Delivery which shall be disapproved by any Agent party to such Terms Agreement promptly after reasonable notice thereof; to prepare, with respect to any Securities to be sold by the Company through or to such Agent pursuant to this Agreement, a Pricing Supplement and, if applicable, a Term Sheet (as defined below) with respect to such Securities in a form previously approved by such Agent and to file such Pricing Supplement or Term Sheet pursuant to Rule 424(b) or Rule 433(d) under the Act within the time required by such rule; to make no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, other than any Term Sheet (as defined below), Pricing Supplement or any report filed under the Exchange Act, at any other time prior to having afforded each Agent a reasonable opportunity to review it; if requested by such Agent prior to the Applicable Time, to prepare an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is a final term sheet relating to such Securities in the form set forth in Annex II hereto (each a “Term Sheet”), and to file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act within the time required by such rule; to file promptly all material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act; to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities, and during such same period to advise such Agent, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement

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to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed with, or transmitted for filing to, the Commission (other than an amendment or supplement as a result of the Company’s filing of a report under the Exchange Act or any Pricing Supplement that relates to Securities not purchased through or by such Agent), of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating to the Securities, of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amendment or supplement of the Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any such stop order or of any such order preventing or suspending the use of any such prospectus or suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its best efforts to obtain its withdrawal;
          (b) Promptly from time to time to take such action as such Agent may reasonably request to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as such Agent may request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein for as long as may be necessary to complete the distribution or sale of the Securities; provided, however, that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction;
          (c) To furnish such Agent with copies of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, and with copies of the Prospectus as each time amended or supplemented, other than any Pricing Supplement or Term Sheet (except as provided in the Procedure) or amendment or supplement relating solely to an offering of securities other than the Securities, in the form in which it is filed with, or transmitted for filing to, the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Act, both in such quantities as such Agent may reasonably request from time to time; and, if the delivery of a prospectus is required at any time within 90 days after sale of the Securities (including Securities purchased from the Company by such Agent as principal) and if at such time any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in order to comply with the Act, the Exchange Act or the Trust Indenture Act, to notify such Agent as promptly as practicable and request such Agent to suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities from the Company, in its capacity as agent of the Company and, if so notified, such Agent shall forthwith cease such solicitations; and if the Company shall decide to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented, to so advise such Agent promptly by telephone (with confirmation in writing) and to prepare and cause to be filed promptly with the Commission an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented that will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; provided, however, that if during such same period such Agent continues to own Securities purchased from the Company by such Agent as principal which such Agent proposes to sell, upon the reasonable request of such Agent, the Company shall promptly prepare and file with the Commission such an amendment or supplement, the expense of such preparation and filing to be borne by the Company if such amendment or supplement occurs within 90 days of the date of the relevant Pricing Supplement or Term Sheet and if after such 90-day period, by such Agent;

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          (d) To make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than 90 days after the close of the period covered thereby, an earnings statement or statements of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158) and covering each twelve-month period beginning not later than the first day of the Company’s fiscal quarter next following the date of any sale of Securities hereunder;
          (e) That, from the date of any Terms Agreement with such Agent and continuing to and including the earlier of (i) the termination of the trading restrictions for the Securities purchased thereunder, as notified to the Company by such Agent and (ii) the related Time of Delivery, the Company will not, without the prior consent of such Agent, offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of the Company that mature more than nine months after such Time of Delivery, have the same maturity, and are otherwise substantially similar to the Securities. The restriction imposed by this Section 4(e) shall not apply to an issue of debt securities denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars or to an issue of debt securities of which at least 90% (based on gross offering proceeds) is offered and sold outside the United States or to guarantees by the Company of debt securities of its subsidiaries;
          (f) That each acceptance by the Company of an offer to purchase Securities hereunder, and each sale of Securities to such Agent pursuant to a Terms Agreement, shall be deemed to be an affirmation to such Agent that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in or made pursuant to this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects as of the date of such acceptance or of such Terms Agreement as though made at and as of such time (except that such statements shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented at such time);
          (g) That each time the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented as a result of the filing by the Company of its Annual Report on Form 10-K under the Exchange Act, and each time, if so indicated in the applicable Terms Agreement, the Company sells Securities to such Agent as principal, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished (as promptly as reasonably practicable in the case of any such amendment or supplement) to such Agent, upon its request, a certificate of officers of the Company satisfactory to such Agent, dated the date of such supplement, amendment or Time of Delivery related to such sale, in form satisfactory to such Agent in its reasonable judgment to the effect that the statements contained in the certificate referred to in Section 6(g) hereof which were last furnished to such Agent are true and correct, in all material respects, at such date, as though made at and as of such date (except that such statements shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to such time) or, in lieu of such certificate, certificates of the same tenor as the certificates referred to in said Section 6(g) but modified to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to such date;
          (h) That each time the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented as a result of the filing by the Company of its Annual Report on Form 10-K under the Exchange Act, and each time, if so indicated in the applicable Terms Agreement, the Company sells Securities to such Agent as principal, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished (as promptly as reasonably practicable in the case of any such amendment or supplement) to such Agent, upon its request, a written opinion and letter of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Company, and a written opinion of Kathleen E. Shannon, Senior Vice

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President and Deputy General Counsel of the Company, or, in either case, other counsel satisfactory to such Agent in its reasonable judgment, dated the date of such amendment, supplement or Time of Delivery relating to such sale, each in form satisfactory to such Agent in its reasonable judgment to the effect that such Agent may rely on the opinion and letter referred to in Section 6(c) or the opinion referred to in Section 6(d) hereof, as the case may be, which was last furnished to such Agent to the same extent as though it were dated the date of such letter authorizing reliance (except that statements in such last opinion or letter shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to such date) or, in lieu of either such opinion, an opinion and letter of the same tenor as the opinion and letter referred to in Section 6(c) or an opinion of the same tenor as the opinion referred to in Section 6(d) hereof, as the case may be, but modified to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to such date; and
          (i) That each time the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented as a result of the filing by the Company of its Annual Report on Form 10-K under the Exchange Act to set forth financial information included in or derived from the Company’s consolidated financial statements, or, if so indicated in the applicable Terms Agreement, each time the Company sells Securities to such Agent as principal, the Company shall cause its independent registered public accounting firm to furnish (as promptly as reasonably practicable in the case of any such amendment or supplement) to such Agent, upon its request, a letter, dated a date which is as soon as reasonably practicable after the date of such amendment or supplement, or a letter, dated the Time of Delivery relating to such sale, in either case in form satisfactory to such Agent in its reasonable judgment, of the same tenor as the letter referred to in Section 6(e) hereof but modified to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented to the date of such amendment or supplement or Terms Agreement, as the case may be, with such changes as may be necessary to reflect changes in the financial statements and other information derived from the accounting records of the Company, to the extent such financial statements and other information are available as of a date not more than five business days prior to the date of such letter; provided, however, that where such amendment or supplement only sets forth unaudited quarterly financial information, the scope of such letter may be limited to relate to such unaudited financial information unless any other accounting or financial information included therein is of a character that, in the reasonable judgment of the Agents, such other information should be addressed by such letter.
     4A. (a) The Company and each Agent agree that the Agents may prepare and use one or more preliminary term sheets relating to the Securities containing customary information; provided that such information has been approved by the Company in writing or orally before the first communication containing such information is used;
          (b) Each Agent represents that it has not and will not use, authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any written communication that constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities other than (A) any written communication permitted under subparagraph (a) above, (B) any Term Sheet or (C) any written communication prepared by such Agent and approved by the Company in advance in writing;
          (c) Except in the case of Securities sold directly by the Company, with respect to any particular issuance of Securities, the Company represents to the Agent purchasing or soliciting the purchase of such Securities that it has not and will not use, authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any written communication that constitutes an offer to

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sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy such Securities other than (A) any written communication permitted under subparagraph (a) above, (B) any Term Sheet or (C) any written communication approved by such Agent in advance in writing;
          (d) The Company represents and agrees that it has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 under the Act applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record keeping; and
          (e) With respect to any issue of Securities, the Company agrees that if at any time following the relevant Applicable Time until and including the related Time of Delivery any event occurred or occurs as a result of which an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus included in the relevant Pricing Disclosure Package would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented or the Pricing Supplement or, taken together with the relevant Pricing Disclosure Package, would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will give prompt notice thereof to the relevant Agents and, if requested by such Agents, will prepare and furnish without charge to each Agent an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or other document which will correct such conflict, statement or omission; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Agent expressly for use therein.
     5. The Company covenants and agrees with each Agent that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants in connection with the registration of the Securities under the Act and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any Pricing Supplements and all other amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to such Agent; (ii) the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Agents in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder; (iii) the cost of printing, word-processing or reproducing this Agreement, any Terms Agreement, any Indenture, any Blue Sky and Legal Investment Memoranda and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities; (iv) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Securities for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 4(b) hereof, including fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky and legal investment surveys; (v) any fees charged by security rating services for rating the Securities; (vi) the cost of preparing the Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of any Trustee and any agent of any Trustee and the fees and disbursements of counsel for any Trustee in connection with any Indenture and the Securities; (viii) any advertising expenses connected with the solicitation of offers to purchase and the sale of Securities so long as such advertising expenses have been approved by the Company; and (ix) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section. Each Agent shall pay all other fees and expenses it incurs.
     6. The obligation of any Agent, as agent of the Company, to solicit offers to purchase the Securities and the obligation of any Agent to purchase Securities as principal

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pursuant to any Terms Agreement, shall be subject, in such Agent’s reasonable discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein are true and correct, in all material respects, at and as of the date of this Agreement, the date of each such solicitation, any settlement date related to the acceptance of such an offer, and each Time of Delivery, the condition that the Company shall have performed, in all material respects, all of its obligations hereunder theretofore in each case to be performed and the following additional conditions, where applicable:
          (a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission or, to the knowledge of the executive officers of the Company, shall be contemplated by the Commission; and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of such Agent;
          (b) Such Agent shall have received, upon its request, from Davis Polk & Wardwell, counsel to the Agents, such opinion, dated the date of this Agreement and the Time of Delivery as specified in the applicable Terms Agreement, with respect to the validity of the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, and other related matters as such Agent may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters;
          (c) Such Agent shall have received an opinion and letter of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Company, or other counsel satisfactory to such Agent in its reasonable judgment, dated the date of this Agreement and any applicable date referred to in Section 4(h), to the effect set forth in Annex III hereto;
          (d) Such Agent shall have received an opinion of Kathleen E. Shannon, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the Company, or other counsel satisfactory to such Agent in its reasonable judgment, dated the date of this Agreement and any applicable date referred to in Section 4(i), to the effect set forth in Annex IV hereto;
          (e) At 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement and on any applicable date referred to in Section 4(i), the independent registered public accounting firm who have audited the financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall have furnished to such Agent a letter, dated such applicable date, in form and substance satisfactory to such Agent, to the effect set forth in Annex V hereto;
          (f) Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, there has not been any Material Adverse Change which, in the judgment of the Agents, materially impairs the investment quality of the Securities, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented;
          (g) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to such Agent a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President and a principal financial or accounting officer of the Company, dated the date of this Agreement and any applicable date referred to in Section 4(g), in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation,

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shall state that the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, in all material respects, as of such applicable date, that the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied, in all material respects, at or prior to such applicable date, that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are threatened by the Commission, and that, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, there has not been any Material Adverse Change, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented; and
          (h) During the period between the date of any Terms Agreement and the related Time of Delivery, there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange if the effect of any such event, in the reasonable judgment of such Agent, is to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the purchase by such Agent of Securities from the Company, as principal; (ii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York declared by either Federal or New York State authorities; (iii) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, other than any such outbreak, escalation or declaration arising out of or relating to the U.S. war on terrorism that does not represent a significant departure from the conditions that exist on the date of any Terms Agreement, if the effect of any such event in the reasonable judgment of such Agent is to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the purchase of Securities by such Agent from the Company as principal on the terms and in the manner contemplated by the Prospectus as amended or supplemented; (iv) the suspension in trading in the Company’s common stock, par value $2.50 per share, on the New York Stock Exchange, if the effect of such event in the reasonable judgment of such Agent is to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the purchase of Securities by such Agent from the Company as principal; or (v) any downgrading in the rating accorded the Company’s senior debt securities by Moody’s Investors Service, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation, or Standard & Poor’s, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
     7. (a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Agent and each person, if any, who controls any of the Agents within the meaning of the Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Agent or such controlling person may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, or any amendment or supplement thereto or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse such Agent and such controlling person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by it in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as incurred; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, or any such amendment or supplement, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the

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Company by such Agent expressly for use therein; and provided, further, that the foregoing indemnity agreement contained in this Section 7(a), with respect to any Preliminary Prospectus, preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, or any amendment or supplement thereto or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, shall not inure to the benefit of any Agent from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased Securities, or any person controlling such Agent where (i) prior to the Applicable Time the Company shall have notified such Agent that any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, or any amendment or supplement thereto or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus contains an untrue statement of material fact or omits to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) such untrue statement or omission of a material fact was corrected in a further amendment or supplement to the Preliminary Prospectus, preliminary prospectus supplement, Registration Statement, Prospectus as amended or supplemented or, where permitted by law, an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and such corrected Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus was provided to such Agent prior to the Applicable Time, (iii) such corrected Preliminary Prospectus, preliminary prospectus supplement, Registration Statement, Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (excluding any document incorporated by reference therein) was not conveyed to such person at or prior to the contract for sale of the Securities to such person and (iv) such loss, claim, damage or liability would not have occurred had the corrected Preliminary Prospectus, preliminary prospectus supplement, Registration Statement, Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (excluding any document incorporated by reference therein) been conveyed to such person as provided for in clause (iii) above.
          (b) Each Agent, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company or such controlling person may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented or any such amendment or supplement, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Agent expressly for use therein; and will reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or such controlling person in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as incurred.
          (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection. In case any such action is brought against any

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indemnified party and it notifies the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation.
          (d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and each Agent on the other from the offering of the Securities to which such loss, claim, damage or liability (or action in respect thereof) relates. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law, or if the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and each Agent on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and each Agent on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the sale of Securities (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total commissions or discounts received by such Agent in respect thereof. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or by any Agent on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and each Agent agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), an Agent shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities purchased by or through it were sold exceeds the amount of any damages which such Agent has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

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          (e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 7 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Agent within the meaning of the Act; and the obligations of each Agent under this Section 7 shall be in addition to any liability which such Agent may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company and to each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act.
     8. In soliciting offers by others to purchase Securities from the Company, each Agent is acting solely as agent for the Company, and not as principal (other than in respect of any purchase by an Agent pursuant to a Terms Agreement). Each Agent will make reasonable efforts to assist the Company in obtaining performance by each purchaser whose offer to purchase Securities from the Company has been accepted by the Company, but such Agent shall not have any liability to the Company in the event such purchase for any reason is not consummated. If the Company shall default on its obligation to deliver Securities to a purchaser whose offer it has accepted, the Company shall hold each Agent harmless against any loss, claim or damage arising from or as a result of such default by the Company.
     9. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties, and other statements by any Agent and the Company or its officers set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation or statement as to the results thereof made by or on behalf of any Agent or the Company or any of its officers or directors or any controlling person, and will survive each delivery of and payment for any of the Securities.
     10. (a) The provisions of this Agreement relating to the solicitation of offers to purchase the Securities may be suspended or terminated at any time by the Company as to any Agent or by any Agent as to such Agent upon the giving of written notice of such suspension or termination to such Agent or the Company, as the case may be. In the event of any such suspension or termination, with respect to any Agent, this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect with respect to any Agent as to which such suspension or termination has not occurred and no party shall have any liability to the other party hereto, except as provided in the third paragraph of Section 2(a), Section 5, Section 7, Section 8 and Section 9 and except that, if at the time of such suspension or termination, an offer for the purchase of Securities shall have been accepted by the Company but the delivery of the Securities relating thereto to the purchaser or his agent shall not yet have occurred, the Company shall have the obligations provided in subsections (g), (h) and (i) of Section 4.
     (b) The Company, in its sole discretion, may appoint one or more additional parties to act as Agents hereunder from time to time. Any such appointment shall be made in a writing signed by the Company and the party so appointed. Such appointment shall become effective in accordance with its terms after the execution and delivery of such writing by the Company and such other party. When such appointment is effective, such other party shall be deemed to be one of the Agents referred to in, and to have the rights and obligations of an Agent under, this Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions of such appointment.
     (c) The Company, in its sole discretion, may increase the aggregate initial offering price of the Securities from time to time without consent of, or notice to, any Agent.

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     (d) The Company and any Agent may amend, eliminate or otherwise change any provision of this Agreement with respect to such Agent without consent of, or notice to, any other Agent. Any such amendment, elimination or change shall be made in a writing signed by the Company and each Agent that is a party to such amendment, elimination or change. In the event of such amendment, elimination or change, this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect with respect to any Agent that is not a party to such amendment, elimination or change (without giving effect to such amendment, elimination or change with respect to such Agent) unless suspended or terminated with respect to such Agent pursuant to clause (a) of this Section 10.
     11. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein or in the Procedure, all statements, requests, notices and advices hereunder shall be in writing, or by telephone if promptly confirmed in writing, and if to an Agent, shall be sufficient in all respects when delivered or sent by facsimile transmission or registered mail as set forth in Annex VI hereto under such Agent’s name, and if to the Company shall be sufficient in all respects when delivered or sent by registered mail to 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, Facsimile Transmission No. (212) 785-1584, Attention: Corporate Secretary.
     12. This Agreement and any Terms Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, each Agent (or the applicable Agent, in the case of a Terms Agreement) and the Company, and to the extent provided in Section 7 and Section 9 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and any person who controls any Agent or the Company, and their respective personal representatives, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement or any Terms Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Securities through or from any Agent hereunder shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason of such purchase.
     13. The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement and any Terms Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Agents, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each Agent is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, (iii) no Agent has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Agent has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and (iv) the Company has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Agent, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
     14. This Agreement and any Terms Agreement supersede all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Agents, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
     15. This Agreement and any Terms Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
     16. Time shall be of the essence in this Agreement and any Terms Agreement.

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     17. This Agreement and any Terms Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto and thereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
     18. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company is authorized to disclose to any persons the U.S. federal and state income tax treatment and tax structure of any potential transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and other tax analyses) provided to the Company relating to that treatment and structure, without any Agent imposing any limitation of any kind. However, any information relating to the tax treatment and tax structure shall remain confidential (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent necessary to enable any person to comply with securities laws. For this purpose, “tax structure” is limited to any facts that may be relevant to the U.S. federal and state income tax treatment of the potential transaction.

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     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us five counterparts hereof, whereupon this letter and the acceptance by each of you thereof shall constitute a binding agreement between the Company and each of you in accordance with its terms.
         
    Very truly yours,
 
       
    AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
       
 
  By    
 
       
 
         Name:
 
         Title:
         
Accepted in New York, New York    
 
       
AIG FINANCIAL SECURITIES CORP.    
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
ABN AMRO INCORPORATED    
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC    
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
BANCA IMI S.P.A.    
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    

 


 

         
 
       
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
BEAR, STEARNS & CO. INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CORP.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
BNY CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
CALYON SECURITIES (USA) INC.    
 
       
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       

 


 

         
 
       
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
DAIWA SECURITIES AMERICA INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
DAIWA SECURITIES SMBC EUROPE LIMITED    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    

 


 

         
 
       
GREENWICH CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
HSBC SECURITIES (USA) INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
KEY BANC CAPITAL MARKETS INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    

 


 

         
 
       
MITSUBISHI UFJ SECURITIES INTERNATIONAL PLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS CORPORATION    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
SANTANDER INVESTMENT SECURITIES INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
SCOTIA CAPITAL (USA) INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
SG AMERICAS SECURITIES, LLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    

 


 

         
 
       
TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
UBS SECURITIES LLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
ANZ SECURITIES, INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
 
       
CIBC WORLD MARKETS CORP.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
MIZUHO INTERNATIONAL PLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
MIZUHO SECURITIES USA INC.    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    
 
       
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC    
 
       
 
       
By
       
 
       
 
     Name:    
 
     Title:    

 


 

ANNEX I
American International Group, Inc.
U.S. $
Medium-Term Notes, Series [G][AIG-FP][MP, Matched Investment Program]
Terms Agreement
[Date]
[Name(s) and Address(es) of Agent(s)]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”) proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein and in the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement, dated June , 2007 (the “Amended Distribution Agreement”), between the Company on the one hand and [Name(s) of Agent(s)] (individually, an “Agent” and collectively, the “Agents”) on the other, to issue and sell to [Name(s) of Agent(s)] the securities specified in Schedule I hereto (the “Purchased Securities”). Each of the provisions of the Amended Distribution Agreement not specifically related to the solicitation by the Agents, as agents of the Company, of offers to purchase Securities is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, and shall be deemed to be part of this Terms Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions had been set forth in full herein. Nothing contained herein or in the Amended Distribution Agreement shall make any party hereto an agent of the Company or make such party subject to the provisions therein relating to the solicitation of offers to purchase Securities from the Company, solely by virtue of its execution of this Terms Agreement. Each of the representations and warranties set forth therein shall be deemed to have been made at and as of the date of this Terms Agreement, except that each representation and warranty in Section 1 of the Amended Distribution Agreement which makes reference to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty as of the date of the Amended Distribution Agreement in relation to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (each as therein defined), and also a representation and warranty as of the date of this Terms Agreement in relation to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus as amended and supplemented in relation to the Purchased Securities.
     An amendment to the Registration Statement, or a supplement to the Prospectus, or a Term Sheet, as the case may be, relating to the Purchased Securities, in the form heretofore delivered to you, is now proposed to be filed with the Commission.
     Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Amended Distribution Agreement incorporated herein by reference, the Company agrees to issue and sell to [Name(s) of Agent(s)] and [Name(s) of Agent(s)] agree[s] to purchase from the Company the Purchased Securities, at the time and place, in the principal amount and at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto.

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     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us [___] counterparts hereof, and, upon acceptance hereof by you, this letter and such acceptance hereof, including those provisions of the Amended Distribution Agreement incorporated herein by reference, shall constitute a binding agreement between you and the Company.
         
  American International Group, Inc.
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
Accepted:
[Name(s) of Agent(s)]
By:                                        
Name:
Title:

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Schedule I to Annex I
     
Title of Purchased Securities:
  Medium-Term Notes, Series [G][AIG-FP][MP, Matched Investment Program]
 
   
Aggregate Principal Amount:
  [$] or units of other Specified Currency
 
   
Price to Public:
   
 
   
Applicable Time:
  [time of day, month, day and year]
 
   
Purchase Price by [Name(s) of Agent(s)]:
  % of the principal amount of the Purchased Securities[, plus accrued interest from                      to                     ] [and accrued amortization, if any, from                      to                     ]
 
   
Method of and Specified Funds for Payment of Purchase Price:
  [By certified or official bank check or checks, payable to the order of the Company, in [New York] Clearing House] [immediately available] funds]
 
   
 
  [By wire transfer to a bank account specified by the Company in [next day] [immediately available] funds]
 
   
Indenture:
  Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006, as amended or supplemented, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee
 
   
Time of Delivery:
   
 
   
Closing Location for Delivery of Securities:
   
 
   
Maturity Date:
   
 
   
Interest Rate:
  [%]
 
   
Interest Payment Dates:
  [months and dates]
 
   
Regular Record Dates:
  [months and dates]

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Documents to be Delivered:
  The following documents referred to in the Amended Distribution Agreement shall be delivered as a condition to the Closing:
 
  [None]
 
  or
 
  [1. The officers’ certificate referred to in Section 4(g).]
 
  [2. The opinions of counsel to the Company referred to in Section 4(h).]
 
  [3. The accountants’ letter referred to in Section 4(i).]

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Schedule II to Annex I
(a) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses:
     [Term Sheet in the form set forth in Annex II of the Amended Distribution Agreement, but only if the Company is requested by the Agent(s) to prepare and file such term sheet pursuant to Section 4(a) of the Amended Distribution Agreement.]
(b) Additional Information in Pricing Disclosure Package:
     [List any free writing prospectus, other than the Term Sheet, that the Company and the Agent(s) have expressly agreed in writing to include as part of the Pricing Disclosure Package]

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ANNEX II
Form of Term Sheet
[To be modified as appropriate and completed prior to the Applicable Time]
American International Group, Inc.
Title of Purchased Securities:
Aggregate Principal Amount Offered:
Price to Public:
Settlement Date:
Managing Underwriter(s):
[Underwriting Discount/Purchase Price by Underwriter(s):]
Maturity Date:
Interest Rate:
Interest Payment Dates:
Interest Reset Dates:
Redemption Provisions:
[Treasury Benchmark/Treasury Price and Yield/Spread to Treasury/Reoffer Yield/Minimum Denominations/Other Provisions:]
     The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternately, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling toll-free .

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ANNEX III
Form of Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
     [Date]
[Name of Agent(s)]
[
Address(es)]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
          [Use the following if the opinion is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery In connection with the offering and sale from time to time by you of the Medium-Term Notes, Series [] of American International Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), at an aggregate initial offering price of up to $[] or the equivalent thereof in one or more foreign or composite currencies or currency units (such series of securities being hereinafter referred to as the “Series” and any securities to be issued from time to time as part of the Series on or after the date hereof being hereinafter referred to individually as a “Security” and collectively as the “Securities”), to be issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Original Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23, 2007 [,][and] the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2007 [list any other, later Supplemental Indentures] (the Original Indenture as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), each between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the “Trustee”),]
          [Use the following if the opinion is being delivered at a Time of Delivery In connection with the [several] purchase[s] today by you [and the other Agents named in Schedule I to][pursuant to] the Terms Agreement, dated [], 200[] (the “Terms Agreement”), between American International Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company”), and you (the “Agent[s]”)(which Terms Agreement incorporates by reference certain provisions of the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement, dated June [], 2007 (the “Amended Distribution Agreement”), between the Company and you), of $[] aggregate principal amount of the Company’s [] Notes due [] (the “Securities”) issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Original Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23, 2007[,][and] the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2007 [list any other, later Supplemental Indentures] (the Original Indenture as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), each between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the “Trustee”),]
we, as counsel for the Company, have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and such questions of law, as we have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion. Upon the basis of such examination, it is our opinion that:
     (1) The Company has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.

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     (2) The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     [Use the following if the opinion is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery (3) The Series has been duly authorized and established in conformity with the Indenture and, when the terms of a particular Security and of its issuance and sale have been duly authorized and established by all necessary corporate action in conformity with the Indenture, and such Security has been duly completed, executed, authenticated and issued in accordance with the Indenture and delivered against payment in accordance with the Amended Distribution Agreement, such Security will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.]
     [Use the following if the opinion is being delivered at a Time of Delivery (3) The Securities have been duly authorized, executed, authenticated, issued and delivered and constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.]
     (4) The Amended Distribution Agreement [Use the following if the opinion is being delivered at a Time of Delivery and the Terms Agreement] [has][have] been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
          [Use the following if the opinion is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery In connection with our opinion set forth in paragraph (3) above, we have assumed that at the time of the issuance, sale and delivery of each particular Security the authorization of the Series will not have been modified or rescinded and, with respect to each Security, that such Security will conform to one of the forms of Securities examined by us.
          In connection with our opinion set forth in paragraph (3) above, we have assumed that at the time of the issuance, sale and delivery of each particular Security there will not have occurred any change in law affecting the validity, legally binding character or enforceability of such Security and that the issuance, sale and delivery of such Security, all of the terms of such Security and the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder will comply with applicable law and with each requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company and will not result in a default under or a breach of any agreement or instrument then binding upon the Company.]
          [Use the following if the opinion is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery or if the Securities are denominated in a non-U.S. dollar currency In connection with our opinion set forth in paragraph (3) above, we note that, as of the date of this opinion, a judgment for money in an action based on Securities denominated in foreign currencies or currency units in a Federal or state court in the United States ordinarily would be enforced in the United States only in U.S. dollars. The date used to determine the rate of conversion of the foreign currency or currency unit in which a particular Security is denominated into U.S. dollars will depend upon various factors, including which court renders the judgment. In the case of a Security denominated in a foreign currency, a state court in the State of New York rendering a judgment on such Security

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would be required under Section 27 of the New York Judiciary Law to render such judgment in the foreign currency in which the Security is denominated, and such judgment would be converted into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate prevailing on the date of entry of the judgment.]
          The foregoing opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United States, the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and we express no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
          [Use the following if the opinion is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery Also, we have relied as to certain matters upon information obtained from public officials, officers of the Company and other sources believed by us to be responsible, and we have assumed that the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee and that the signatures on all documents examined by us are genuine, assumptions which we have not independently verified.]
          [Use the following if the opinion is being delivered at a Time of Delivery Also, we have relied as to certain matters upon information obtained from public officials, officers of the Company and other sources believed by us to be responsible, and we have assumed that the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee, that the Securities conform to the specimens thereof examined by us, that the Trustee’s certificates of authentication of the Securities have been manually signed by one of the Trustee’s authorized officers, and that the signatures on all documents examined by us are genuine, assumptions which we have not independently verified.]
         
  Very truly yours,
 
 
     
     
     
 

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Form of Letter of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
     [Date]
[Name of Agent(s)]
[
Address]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
          This is with reference to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) and offering of [Use the following if the letter is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery Medium-Term Notes, Series [](the “Securities”) of American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”) at an aggregate initial offering price of up to $[] or the equivalent thereof in one or more foreign or composite currencies or currency units.] [Use the following if the letter is being delivered at a Time of Delivery — $[] aggregate principal amount of [] Notes due [] (the “Securities”) of American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”).]
          The Registration Statement relating to the Securities was filed on Form S-3 in accordance with procedures of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) permitting a delayed or continuous offering of securities pursuant thereto and, if appropriate, a post-effective amendment, document incorporated by reference therein or prospectus supplement that provides information relating to the terms of the securities and the manner of their distribution. [Use the following if the letter is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery The Securities will be offered by the Prospectus dated [], 2007 (the “Basic Prospectus”), as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement dated [], 2007 (the “Prospectus Supplement”). The Basic Prospectus will be further supplemented by pricing supplements, each of which will be dated approximately as of the date of sale of particular Securities and will furnish information as to the specific terms thereof.][Use the following if the letter is being delivered at a Time of Delivery The Securities have been offered by the Prospectus dated [], 2007 (the “Basic Prospectus”), as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, dated [], 2007 (the “Prospectus Supplement”), and the Pricing Supplement No. [], dated [] (the “Pricing Supplement”).] The Basic Prospectus, as so supplemented, does not necessarily contain a current description of the Company’s business and affairs since, pursuant to Form S-3, it incorporates by reference certain documents filed with the Commission that contain information as of various dates.
          As counsel to the Company, we reviewed the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus [and][,] the Prospectus Supplement [and the Pricing Supplement], [Use the following if the letter is being delivered at a Time of Delivery and the documents listed in Schedule A hereto (those listed documents, taken together with the Basic Prospectus [and][,] the Prospectus Supplement [and Pricing Supplement], being referred to herein as the “Pricing Disclosure Package”),] [and] participated in discussions with your representatives and those of the Company and its accountants. Between the date of the [Prospectus Supplement][Pricing Supplement] and the time of delivery of this letter, we participated in further discussions with your representatives and those of the Company and its accountants concerning certain portions of the Prospectus [and] reviewed certificates of certain officers of the Company [, letters addressed to you from the Company’s accountants] [and an opinion addressed to you from counsel to the Company]. On the basis of the information that we gained in the course of the performance of the services referred to above, considered in the light of our understanding of the applicable law (including the requirements of Form S-3 and the character of prospectus contemplated thereby) and the experience we have gained through our practice under the Act, we confirm to you that, in our opinion, each part of the Registration Statement, as of its latest effective date, and the Basic

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Prospectus, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement [and the Pricing Supplement], as of [Use the following if the letter is not being delivered at a Time of Delivery the date and time of the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 20 Describe other triggering filing, if applicable][Use the following if the letter is being delivered at a Time of Delivery the date of the Pricing Supplement], appeared on their face to be appropriately responsive, in all material respects, to the requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Further, nothing that came to our attention in the course of such review has caused us to believe that,
          (a) any part of the Registration Statement, as of its latest effective date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or
          [Use the following if the letter is being delivered at a Time of Delivery —— (b) the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of [___:00] [A/P].M. on [] (which you have informed us is prior to the time of the first sale of the Securities by any Agent), [when considered together with the price to the public and underwriting discount for the Securities set forth on the cover of the Pricing Supplement [and the statements made under the caption[s] [“Description of Securities” in the Pricing Supplement] [and [any other disclosure added ][in the Pricing Supplement][to the final Prospectus]] , contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or]
          [(b)][(c)] the Basic Prospectus, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement [and the Pricing Supplement], as of [the date of the Prospectus Supplement][the date of the Pricing Supplement], contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
[Use the following if the letter is being delivered at a Time of Delivery —— We also advise you that nothing that came to our attention in the course of the procedures described in the second sentence of this paragraph has caused us to believe that (a) the Prospectus, as supplemented by the Pricing Supplement, or (b) the Pricing Disclosure Package, [when considered together with the price to the public [insert only if underwriting discount is material — and underwriting discount]for the Securities set forth on the cover of the Pricing Supplement and the statements made under the caption[s] [“Description of Securities”] in the Pricing Supplement] [and [any other disclosure added ][in the Pricing Supplement][to the final Prospectus,] as of the time of delivery of this letter, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the lights of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.]
          The limitations inherent in the independent verification of factual matters and the character of determinations involved in the registration process are such, however, that we do not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, [any Post-Effective Amendment thereto,] the Basic Prospectus [or][,] the Prospectus Supplement [or][,][the Pricing Supplement][or the Pricing Disclosure Package], except for those made under the captions “Description of Debt Securities We May Offer” in the Basic Prospectus and “Description of Notes We May Offer” in the Prospectus Supplement, in each case insofar as they relate to provisions of the Securities, the Indenture under which the Securities are to be issued and the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement relating to the Securities therein described, and except for those made under the caption “United States Taxation” in the Prospectus Supplement, insofar as they relate to provisions of U.S. Federal income tax law therein described. Also, we do not express any opinion or belief as to the financial statements or other financial data derived from accounting records contained in the Registration Statement, any Post-Effective Amendment thereto, the Basic Prospectus

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[or][,] the Prospectus Supplement [or][,][the Pricing Supplement] [or the Pricing Disclosure Package], or as to the report of management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting or the auditor’s attestation report thereon, each as included in the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus [or][,] the Prospectus Supplement [or][,][the Pricing Supplement] [or the Pricing Disclosure Package], or as to the statement of the eligibility and qualification of the Trustee under the Indenture under which the Securities are being issued.
          This letter is furnished by us, as counsel to the Company, to you[, as Representatives of the Agents,] solely for [your][the] benefit [in your capacity as Agent][of the Agents in their capacity as such], and may not be relied on by any other person. This letter may not be quoted, referred to or furnished to any purchaser or prospective purchaser of the Securities and may not be used in furtherance of any offer or sale of the Securities.
         
  Very truly yours,
 
 
     
     
     
 

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Schedule A
[List documents other than the Basic Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement that are included in the Pricing Disclosure Package]

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ANNEX IV
Form of Opinion of In-House Counsel to the Company
     (i) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented;
     (ii) To the best knowledge and information of such counsel, there are no contracts or other documents required to be summarized or disclosed or filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement other than those summarized or disclosed in the Registration Statement or filed as exhibits thereto, and there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened of a character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, which are not disclosed and properly described therein;
     (iii) The issue and sale of the Securities (provided that the terms of such Securities shall have been established by all necessary corporate action in conformity with the Indenture), and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Securities, the Indenture, the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement and any Terms Agreement, will not result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, or other material agreement or instrument in effect on the date of such opinion and known to such counsel, to which the Company is a party or by which the Company may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject or violate any judgment, order or decree of any court or governmental body applicable to the Company, except for such breaches, defaults and violations that would not have a Material Adverse Effect or affect the validity of the Securities, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, or the By-Laws of the Company in effect on the date of such opinion; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or any regulatory authority or other governmental body is required for the issue and sale of the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the other transactions contemplated by the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement (and any applicable Terms Agreement) or the Indenture, except such as have been obtained under the Act and the Trust Indenture Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications the failure to obtain or make would not have a Material Adverse Effect or affect the validity of the Securities and as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws (including insurance laws of any state relating to offers and sales of securities in such state) in connection with solicitation by the Agents of the Company of offers to purchase Securities and with purchases of Securities by the Agents and any other firms as principals, as the case may be, both as contemplated by the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement (and any applicable Terms Agreement);
     (iv) Nothing which came to the attention of such counsel has caused such counsel to believe that, insofar as relevant to the offering of the Securities,
          (a) any part of the Registration Statement, when such part became effective, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or
          [Use the following if the letter is being delivered at a Time of Delivery —— (b) the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of [___:00] [A/P].M. on [] (which such Agent has informed

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such counsel is prior to the time of the first sale of the Securities by any Agent), [when considered together with the price to the public and underwriting discount for the Securities set forth on the cover of the Pricing Supplement and the statements made under the caption [“Description of Securities” in the Pricing Supplement] [and [any other disclosure added ][in the Pricing Supplement][to the final Prospectus]], contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or]
          [(b)][(c)] the Prospectus as amended and supplemented [including by the Pricing Supplement], as of [the date of the Pricing Supplement], contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or
          [(c)][(d)] the Pricing Disclosure Package, [when considered together with the price to the public and underwriting discount for the Securities set forth on the cover of the Pricing Supplement and the statements made under the caption[s] [“Description of Securities”] in the Pricing Supplement] [and [any other disclosure added ][in the Pricing Supplement][to the finalProspectus,], as of the time of delivery of this letter, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the lights of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
     (v) the documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, as of the date they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, complied as to form in all material respects with the Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder
Such counsel may state that, in rendering his or her opinion in paragraph (iv), such counsel does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, [any Post-Effective Amendment thereto,] the Basic Prospectus [or][,] the Prospectus Supplement [or][,] the Pricing Supplement][or the Pricing Disclosure Package], except for those made under the captions “Description of Debt Securities We May Offer” in the Basic Prospectus and “Description of Notes We May Offer” in the Prospectus Supplement, in each case insofar as they relate to provisions of the Securities, the Indenture under which the Securities are to be issued and the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement relating to the Securities therein described. Also, in rendering his or her opinion in paragraphs (iv) and (v), such counsel need not express any opinion or belief as to the financial statements or other financial data derived from accounting records contained in the Registration Statement, [any Post-Effective Amendment thereto,] the Basic Prospectus [or][,] the Prospectus Supplement [or][,] [the Pricing Supplement] [or][,] [or the Pricing Disclosure Package], or as to the report of management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting or the auditor’s attestation report thereon, each as included in the Registration Statement, [any Post-Effective Amendment thereto,] the Basic Prospectus [or][,] the Prospectus Supplement [or][,][the Pricing Supplement] [or the Pricing Disclosure Package], or as to the statement of the eligibility and qualification of the Trustee under the Indenture under which the Securities are being issued.

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ANNEX V
Form of Letter of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
American International Group, Inc.
and
The Agents listed on Schedule I
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have audited:
  1.   the consolidated financial statements of American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”) and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006 and 2005 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006 included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 (the “Form 10-K”),
 
  2.   the related financial statement schedules included in the Form 10-K,
 
  3.   management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006 included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and
 
  4.   the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006
          The consolidated financial statements, financial statement schedules and management’s assessment referred to above are all incorporated by reference in the registration statements (Registration No. 333- [,][and] No. 333-106040 [and 333-31024]) on Form S-3 filed by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”); our report (which contains an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting) with respect to the audits referred to above is also incorporated by reference in such registration statement. Such registration statement as amended as of , 2007,of which the Prospectus dated , 2007 forms a part, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement dated , 2007 for the offering of the Company’s U.S. $,000, 000,000 Medium-Term Notes, is herein referred to as the “Registration Statement.”
In connection with the Registration Statement:
1.   We are an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the “PCAOB”).
 
2.   In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedules audited by us and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and

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    the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the related rules and regulations adopted by the SEC.
3.   We have not audited any financial statements of the Company as of any date or for any period subsequent to December 31, 2006; although we have conducted an audit for the year ended December 31, 2006, the purpose (and therefore the scope) of such audit was to enable us to express our opinion on the consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2006 and for the year then ended, but not on the financial statements for any interim period within such year. Therefore, we are unable to and do not express any opinion on the unaudited consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2007 and the unaudited consolidated statements of income, of cash flows and of comprehensive income included in the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007 incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, or on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows as of any date or for any period subsequent to December 31, 2006. Also, we have not audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of any date subsequent to December 31, 2006. Therefore, we do not express any opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of any date subsequent to December 31, 2006.
 
4.   For purposes of this letter, we have read the minutes of the 2007 meetings of the shareholders, the Board of Directors and Committees of the Board of Directors of the Company as set forth in the minute books at •, 2007, officials of the Company having advised us that the minutes of all such meetings through that date were set forth therein, except for the minutes of the meetings listed below which were not approved in final form, for which agendas were provided to us; officials of the Company have represented that such agendas include all substantive actions taken at such meetings:
 
    We have carried out other procedures to •, 2007 (our work did not extend to •, 2007) as follows:
 
    With respect to the three-month period ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, we have
  (i)   performed the procedures (completed the procedures related to March 31, 2007 on , 2007) specified by the PCAOB for a review of interim financial information as described in SAS No. 100, Interim Financial Information, on the unaudited consolidated financial statements as of and for the three-month period ended March 31, 2007 and 2006 included in the Company’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement; and
 
  (ii)   inquired of certain officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters whether the unaudited consolidated financial statements referred to in (i) above comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as it

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      applies to Form 10-Q and the related rules and regulations adopted by the SEC.
      The foregoing procedures do not constitute an audit made in accordance with standards of the PCAOB. Also, they would not necessarily reveal matters of significance with respect to the comments in the following paragraph. Accordingly, we make no representations as to the sufficiency of the foregoing procedures for your purposes.
5.   Nothing came to our attention as a result of the foregoing procedures, however, that caused us to believe that:
  (i)   Any material modifications should be made to the unaudited consolidated financial statements described in 4(i), incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, for them to be in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
 
  (ii)   The unaudited consolidated financial statements described in 4(i) do not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as it applies to Form 10-Q and the related rules and regulations adopted by the SEC.
6.   Company officials have advised us that no consolidated financial data as of any date or for any period subsequent to March 31, 2007 are available; accordingly, the procedures carried out by us with respect to changes in financial statement items after March 31, 2007 have, of necessity, been limited. We have inquired of certain officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters as to whether (a) at , 2007 there was any change in the capital stock, increase in long-term debt, or decrease in consolidated shareholders’ equity of the Company as compared with amounts shown in the March 31, 2007 consolidated balance sheet incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement; or (b) for the period from April 1, 2007 to , 2007, there were any decreases, as compared with the corresponding period in the preceding year, in consolidated net income.
 
    Those officials referred to above stated that due to the fact that there is no consolidated financial data available subsequent to March 31, 2007, they are not in a position to comment on whether there was any such change, increase or decrease.
 
7.   This letter is solely for the information of the addressees and to assist the agents in conducting and documenting their investigation of the affairs of the Company in connection with the offering of the securities covered by the Registration Statement, and is not to be used, circulated, quoted, or otherwise referred to within or without the underwriting group for any other purpose, including but not limited to the registration, purchase, or sale of securities, nor is it to be filed with or referred to in whole or in part in the Registration Statement or any other document, except that reference may be made to it in the distribution agreement or in any list of closing documents pertaining to the offering of the securities covered by the Registration Statement.

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Yours very truly,

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Schedule I
AIG Financial Securities Corp.
ABN AMRO Incorporated
ANZ Securities, Inc.
Banc of America Securities LLC
Banca IMI S.p.A.
BMO Capital Markets Corp.
Barclays Capital Inc.
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
BNY Capital Markets, Inc.
Calyon Securities (USA) Inc.
CIBC World Markets Corp.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited
Deutsche Bank Securities
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Key Banc Capital Markets Inc.
Lehman Brothers Inc.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc
Mizuho International plc
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
National Australia Capital Markets, LLC
RBC Capital Markets Corporation
Santander Investment Securities Inc.
Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.
SG Americas Securities, LLC
TD Securities (USA) LLC
UBS Securities LLC
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

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ANNEX VI
Agents
AIG Financial Securities Corp.
ABN AMRO Incorporated
ANZ Securities, Inc.
Banc of America Securities LLC
Banca IMI S.p.A.
BMO Capital Markets Corp.
Barclays Capital Inc.
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
BNY Capital Markets, Inc.
Calyon Securities (USA) Inc.
CIBC World Markets Corp.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited
Deutsche Bank Securities
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Key Banc Capital Markets Inc.
Lehman Brothers Inc.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc
Mizuho International plc
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
National Australia Capital Markets, LLC
RBC Capital Markets Corporation
Santander Investment Securities Inc.
Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.
SG Americas Securities, LLC
TD Securities (USA) LLC
UBS Securities LLC
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

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ATTACHMENT A
American International Group, Inc.
Administrative Procedure
     This Administrative Procedure relates to the Securities defined in the Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement, dated June , 2007 (the “Amended Distribution Agreement”), between American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”) and the Agents listed in Annex VI (individually, an “Agent” and collectively, the “Agents”), to which this Administrative Procedure is attached as Attachment A. Defined terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the meanings given such terms in the Amended Distribution Agreement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented or the Indenture.
     The procedures to be followed with respect to the settlement of sales of Securities directly by the Company to purchasers solicited by an Agent, as agent, are set forth below. The terms and settlement details related to a purchase of Securities by an Agent, as principal, from the Company will be set forth in a Terms Agreement pursuant to the Amended Distribution Agreement, unless the Company and such Agent otherwise agree as provided in Section 2(b) of the Amended Distribution Agreement, in which case the procedures to be followed in respect of the settlement of such sale will be as set forth below. An Agent, in relation to a purchase of a Security by a purchaser solicited by such Agent, is referred to herein as the “Selling Agent” and, in relation to a purchase of a Security by such Agent, as principal, other than pursuant to a Terms Agreement, as the “Purchasing Agent”.
     The Company will advise each Agent in writing of those persons with whom such Agent is to communicate regarding offers to purchase Securities and the related settlement details.
     Each Security will be issued only in fully registered form and will be represented by either a global security (a “Global Security”) delivered to the Trustee, as agent for The Depository Trust Company (the “Depositary”), and recorded in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary (a “Book-Entry Security”) or a certificate issued in definitive form (a “Certificated Security”) delivered to a person designated by an Agent, as set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement. An owner of a Book-Entry Security will not be entitled to receive a certificate representing such a Security, except as provided in the Indenture.
     Book-Entry Securities will be issued in accordance with the Administrative Procedure set forth in Part I hereof, and Certificated Securities will be issued in accordance with the Administrative Procedure set forth in Part II hereof.
PART I: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR BOOK-ENTRY SECURITIES
     In connection with the qualification of the Book-Entry Securities for eligibility in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary, the Trustee will perform the custodial, document control and administrative functions described below, in accordance with its respective obligations under a Blanket Letter of Representations from the Company and the Trustee to the Depositary, dated September 30, 2005, and a Medium-Term Note Certificate Agreement between the Trustee and the Depositary, dated as of April 14, 1989 (the “Certificate Agreement”), and its obligations as a participant in the Depositary, including the Depositary’s Same-Day Funds Settlement System (“SDFS”).

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Posting Rates by the Company:
     The Company and the Agents will discuss from time to time the rates of interest per annum to be borne by and the maturity of Book-Entry Securities that may be sold as a result of the solicitation of offers by an Agent. The Company may establish a fixed set of interest rates and maturities for an offering period (“posting”). If the Company decides to change already posted rates, it will promptly advise the Agents to suspend solicitation of offers until the new posted rates have been established with the Agents.
Acceptance of Offers by the Company:
     Each Agent will promptly advise the Company by telephone or other appropriate means of all reasonable offers to purchase Book-Entry Securities, other than those rejected by such Agent. Each Agent may, in its discretion reasonably exercised, reject any offer received by it in whole or in part. Each Agent also may make offers to the Company to purchase Book-Entry Securities as a Purchasing Agent. The Company will have the sole right to accept offers to purchase Book-Entry Securities and may reject any such offer in whole or in part.
     The Company will promptly notify the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, of its acceptance or rejection of an offer to purchase Book-Entry Securities. If the Company accepts an offer to purchase Book-Entry Securities, it will confirm such acceptance in writing to the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, and the Trustee.
Communication of Sale Information to the Company by Agent and Settlement Procedures:
     A. After the acceptance of an offer by the Company, the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, will communicate promptly, but in no event later than the time set forth under “Settlement Procedure Timetable” below, the following details of the terms of such offer (the “Sale Information”) to the Company by telephone (confirmed in writing) or by facsimile transmission or other acceptable written means:
  (1)   Principal Amount of Book-Entry Securities to be purchased;
 
  (2)   If a Fixed Rate Book-Entry Security, the interest rate and initial interest payment date;
 
  (3)   Trade Date;
 
  (4)   Settlement Date;
 
  (5)   Maturity Date;
 
  (6)   Specified Currency and, if the Specified Currency is other than U.S. dollars, the applicable Exchange Rate for such Specified Currency;
 
  (7)   Issue Price;
 
  (8)   Selling Agent’s commission or Purchasing Agent’s discount, as the case may be;
 
  (9)   Net Proceeds to the Company;
 
  (10)   If a redeemable Book-Entry Security, such of the following as are applicable:
  (i)   Redemption Commencement Date,
 
  (ii)   Initial Redemption Price (% of par), and

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  (iii)   Amount (% of par) that the Redemption Price shall decline (but not below par) on each anniversary of the Redemption Commencement Date;
  (11)   If a Floating Rate Book-Entry Security, such of the following as are applicable:
  (i)   Interest Rate Basis,
 
  (ii)   Index Maturity,
 
  (iii)   Spread or Spread Multiplier,
 
  (iv)   Maximum Rate,
 
  (v)   Minimum Rate,
 
  (vi)   Initial Interest Rate,
 
  (vii)   Interest Reset Dates,
 
  (viii)   Interest Calculation Dates,
 
  (ix)   Interest Determination Dates,
 
  (x)   Interest Payment Dates,
 
  (xi)   Regular Record Dates, and
 
  (xii)   Calculation Agent;
  (12)   Name, address and taxpayer identification number of the registered owner(s);
 
  (13)   Denomination of certificates to be delivered at settlement;
 
  (14)   Book-Entry Security or Certificated Security; and
 
  (15)   Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent.
     B. After receiving the Sale Information from the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, the Company will communicate such Sale Information to the Trustee by facsimile transmission or other acceptable written means. The Trustee will assign a CUSIP number to the Global Security from a list of CUSIP numbers previously delivered to the Trustee by the Company representing such Book-Entry Security and then advise the Company and the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, of such CUSIP number.
     C. The Trustee will enter a pending deposit message through the Depositary’s Participant Terminal System, providing the following settlement information to the Depositary, and the Depositary shall forward such information to such Agent and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group:
  (1)   The applicable Sale Information;
 
  (2)   CUSIP number of the Global Security representing such Book-Entry Security;
 
  (3)   Whether such Global Security will represent any other Book-Entry Security (to the extent known at such time);
 
  (4)   Number of the participant account maintained by the Depositary on behalf of the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, which number will be supplied by such Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent;
 
  (5)   The interest payment period; and
 
  (6)   Initial Interest Payment Date for such Book-Entry Security, number of days by which such date succeeds the record date for the Depositary’s purposes (or, in the case of Floating Rate Securities which reset daily or weekly, the date five calendar days immediately preceding the applicable

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      Interest Payment Date and, in the case of all other Book-Entry Securities, the Regular Record Date, as defined in the Security) and, if calculable at that time, the amount of interest payable on such Interest Payment Date.
     D. The Trustee will complete and authenticate the Global Security previously delivered by the Company representing such Book-Entry Security.
     E. The Depositary will credit such Book-Entry Security to the Trustee’s participant account at the Depositary.
     F. The Trustee will enter an SDFS deliver order through the Depositary’s Participant Terminal System instructing the Depositary to (i) debit such Book-Entry Security to the Trustee’s participant account and credit such Book-Entry Security to such Agent’s participant account and (ii) debit such Agent’s settlement account and credit the Trustee’s settlement account for an amount equal to the price of such Book-Entry Security less such Agent’s commission or discount, as the case may be. The entry of such a deliver order shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Trustee to the Depositary that (a) the Global Security representing such Book-Entry Security has been authenticated and issued and (b) the Trustee is holding such Global Security pursuant to the Certificate Agreement.
     G. Such Agent will enter an SDFS deliver order through the Depositary’s Participant Terminal System instructing the Depositary (i) to debit such Book-Entry Security to such Agent’s participant account and credit such Book-Entry Security to the participant accounts of the Participants with respect to such Book-Entry Security and (ii) to debit the settlement accounts of such Participants and credit the settlement account of such Agent for an amount equal to the price of such Book-Entry Security.
     H. Transfers of funds in accordance with SDFS deliver orders described in Settlement Procedures “F” and “G” will be settled in accordance with SDFS operating procedures in effect on the settlement date.
     I. Upon confirmation of receipt of funds, the Trustee will transfer to the account of the Company maintained at The Bank of New York, New York, New York, DDA Account No. [8230122580], or such other account as the Company may have previously specified to the Trustee, in funds available for immediate use in the amount transferred to the Trustee in accordance with Settlement Procedure “F”.
     J. Upon request, the Trustee will send to the Company a statement setting forth the principal amount of Book-Entry Securities outstanding as of that date under the Indenture.
     K. Such Agent will confirm the purchase of such Book-Entry Security to the purchaser either by transmitting to the participants with respect to such Book-Entry Security a confirmation order or orders through the Depositary’s institutional delivery system or by mailing a written confirmation to such purchaser.

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Preparation of Pricing Supplement and, if applicable, Term Sheet:
     If the Company accepts an offer to purchase a Book-Entry Security, it will prepare a Pricing Supplement reflecting the terms of such Book-Entry Security and arrange to have delivered to the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, at least ten copies of such Pricing Supplement, with a copy to the Trustee, as provided under “Delivery of Confirmation and Prospectus to Purchaser by Selling Agent” below. If applicable, the Term Sheet reflecting the terms of such Security will be prepared by such Agent and at least 10 copies will be delivered by such Agent to the Company, with a copy to the Trustee, as provided under “Delivery of Confirmation and Prospectus to Purchaser by Selling Agent” below. The Company will arrange to have the Pricing Supplement filed with, or transmitted by a means reasonably calculated to result in filing with, the Commission via the Commission’s EDGAR System pursuant to Rule 424 under the Act and, if applicable, will file the Term Sheet in accordance with Rule 433.
Delivery of Confirmation and Prospectus to Purchaser by Selling Agent:
     The Selling Agent will deliver to the purchaser of a Book-Entry Security a written confirmation of the sale and delivery and payment instructions. In addition, the Selling Agent will deliver to such purchaser or its agent the Prospectus as amended or supplemented (including the Pricing Supplement) and, if applicable, the Term Sheet in relation to such Book-Entry Security prior to the first contract for sale of the Book-Entry Security.
Date of Settlement:
     The receipt by the Company of immediately available funds in payment for a Book-Entry Security and the authentication and issuance of the Global Security representing such Book-Entry Security shall constitute “settlement” with respect to such Book-Entry Security. All orders of Book-Entry Securities solicited by a Selling Agent or made by a Purchasing Agent and accepted by the Company on a particular date (the “Trade Date”) will be settled on a date (the “Settlement Date”) which is the third Business Day after the Trade Date pursuant to the “Settlement Procedure Timetable” set forth below, unless the Company and the purchaser agree to settlement on another Business Day which shall be no earlier than the next Business Day after the Trade Date.
Trustee Not to Risk Own Funds:
     Nothing herein shall be deemed to require the Trustee to risk or expend its own funds in connection with any payments to the Company, the Agents or the Depositary or any purchaser, it being understood by all parties that payments made by the Trustee to the Company or the Agents, or the Depositary, or any purchaser shall be made only to the extent that funds are provided to the Trustee for such purpose.
Settlement Procedure Timetable:
     For orders of Book-Entry Securities solicited by a Selling Agent and accepted by the Company for settlement on the third Business Day after the Trade Date, Settlement Procedures “A” through “I” set forth above shall be completed as soon as possible but not later than the respective times (New York City time) set forth below:

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Settlement        
Procedure       Time
A
  5:00 p.m.   on the Business Day following the Trade Date or 10:00 a.m. on the Business Day prior to the Settlement Date, whichever is earlier
B
  12:00 noon   on the second Business Day
immediately preceding the
Settlement Date
C
  2:00 p.m.   on the second Business Day
immediately preceding the
Settlement Date
D
  9:00 a.m.   on the Settlement Date
E
  10:00 a.m.   on the Settlement Date
F-G
  2:15 p.m.   on the Settlement Date
H
  4:45 p.m.   on the Settlement Date
I
  5:00 p.m.   on the Settlement Date
     If the initial interest rate for a Floating Rate Book-Entry Security has not been determined at the time that Settlement Procedure “A” is completed, Settlement Procedures “B” and “C” shall be completed as soon as such rate has been determined but no later than 2:00 p.m. on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Settlement Date. Settlement Procedure “H” is subject to extension in accordance with any extension of Fedwire closing deadlines and in the other events specified in the SDFS operating procedures in effect on the Settlement Date.
     If settlement of a Book-Entry Security is rescheduled or canceled, the Trustee, upon obtaining knowledge thereof, will deliver to the Depositary, through the Depositary’s Participant Terminal System, a cancellation message to such effect by no later than 2:00 p.m. on the Business Day immediately preceding the scheduled Settlement Date.
Failure to Settle:
     If the Trustee fails to enter an SDFS deliver order with respect to a Book-Entry Security pursuant to Settlement Procedure “F”, the Trustee may deliver to the Depositary, through the Depositary’s Participant Terminal System, as soon as practicable a withdrawal message instructing the Depositary to debit such Book-Entry Security to the Trustee’s participant account, provided that the Trustee’s participant account contains a principal amount of the Global Security representing such Book-Entry Security that is at least equal to the principal amount to be debited. If a withdrawal message is processed with respect to all the Book-Entry Securities represented by a Global Security, the Trustee will mark such Global Security “canceled”, make appropriate entries in the Trustee’s records and send such canceled Global Security to the Company. The CUSIP number assigned to such Global Security shall, in accordance with CUSIP Service Bureau procedures, be canceled and not immediately reassigned. If a withdrawal message is processed with respect to one or more, but not all, of the Book-Entry Securities represented by a Global Security, the Trustee will exchange such Global Security for two Global Securities, one of which shall represent such Book-Entry Security or Securities and shall be canceled immediately after issuance and the other of which shall represent the remaining Book-Entry Securities previously represented by the surrendered Global Security and shall bear the CUSIP number of the surrendered Global Security.

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     If the purchase price for any Book-Entry Security is not timely paid to the participants with respect to such Book-Entry Security by the beneficial purchaser thereof (or a person, including an indirect participant in the Depositary, acting on behalf of such purchaser), such participants and, in turn, the Agent for such Book-Entry Security may enter deliver orders through the Depositary’s Participant Terminal System debiting such Book-Entry Security to such participant’s account and crediting such Book-Entry Security to such Agent’s account and then debiting such Book-Entry Security to such Agent’s participant account and crediting such Book-Entry Security to the Trustee’s participant account and shall notify the Company and the Trustee thereof. Thereafter, the Trustee will (i) promptly notify the Company of such order, and the Company shall transfer to such Agent funds available for immediate use in an amount equal to the price of such Book-Entry Security which was credited to the account of the Company maintained at the Trustee in accordance with Settlement Procedure I, and (ii) deliver the withdrawal message and take the related actions described in the preceding paragraph. If such failure shall have occurred for any reason other than default by the applicable Agent to perform its obligations hereunder or under the Distribution Agreement, the Company will reimburse such Agent on an equitable basis for the loss of its use of funds during the period when the funds were credited to the account of the Company.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon any failure to settle with respect to a Book-Entry Security, the Depositary may take any actions in accordance with its SDFS operating procedures then in effect. In the event of a failure to settle with respect to one or more, but not all, of the Book-Entry Securities to have been represented by a Global Security, the Trustee will provide, in accordance with Settlement Procedure “D”, for the authentication and issuance of a Global Security representing the other Book-Entry Securities to have been represented by such Global Security and will make appropriate entries in its records. The Company will, from time to time, furnish the Trustee with a sufficient quantity of Securities.
PART II: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR CERTIFICATED SECURITIES
Posting Rates by Company:
     The Company and the Agents will discuss from time to time the rates of interest per annum to be borne by and the maturity of Certificated Securities that may be sold as a result of the solicitation of offers by an Agent. The Company may establish a fixed set of interest rates and maturities for an offering period (“posting”). If the Company decides to change already posted rates, it will promptly advise the Agents to suspend solicitation of offers until the new posted rates have been established with the Agents.
Acceptance of Offers by Company:
     Each Agent will promptly advise the Company by telephone or other appropriate means of all reasonable offers to purchase Certificated Securities, other than those rejected by such Agent. Each Agent may, in its discretion reasonably exercised, reject any offer received by it in whole or in part. Each Agent also may make offers to the Company to purchase Certificated Securities as a Purchasing Agent. The Company will have the sole right to accept offers to purchase Certificated Securities and may reject any such offer in whole or in part.
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Company accepts an offer to purchase Certificated Securities, it will confirm such acceptance in writing to the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, and the Trustee.
Communication of Sale Information to Company by Agent:
     After the acceptance of an offer by the Company, the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, will communicate the following details of the terms of such offer (the “Sale Information”) to the Company by telephone (confirmed in writing) or by facsimile transmission or other acceptable written means:
  (1)   Principal Amount of Certificated Securities to be purchased;
 
  (2)   If a Fixed Rate Certificated Security, the interest rate and initial interest payment date;
 
  (3)   Trade Date;
 
  (4)   Settlement Date;
 
  (5)   Maturity Date;
 
  (6)   Specified Currency and, if the Specified Currency is other than U.S. dollars, the applicable Exchange Rate for such Specified Currency;
 
  (7)   Issue Price;
 
  (8)   Selling Agent’s commission or Purchasing Agent’s discount, as the case may be;
 
  (9)   Net Proceeds to the Company;
 
  (10)   If a redeemable Certificated Security, such of the following as are applicable:
  (i)   Redemption Commencement Date,
 
  (ii)   Initial Redemption Price (% of par), and
 
  (iii)   Amount (% of par) that the Redemption Price shall decline (but not below par) on each anniversary of the Redemption Commencement Date;
  (11)   If a Floating Rate Certificated Security, such of the following as are applicable:
  (i)   Interest Rate Basis,
 
  (ii)   Index Maturity,
 
  (iii)   Spread or Spread Multiplier,
 
  (iv)   Maximum Rate,
 
  (v)   Minimum Rate,
 
  (vi)   Initial Interest Rate,
 
  (vii)   Interest Reset Dates,
 
  (viii)   Interest Calculation Dates,
 
  (ix)   Interest Determination Dates,
 
  (x)   Interest Payment Dates,
 
  (xi)   Regular Record Dates, and
 
  (xii)   Calculation Agent;
  (12)   Name, address and taxpayer identification number of the registered owner(s);
 
  (13)   Denomination of certificates to be delivered at settlement;
 
  (14)   Book-Entry Security or Certificated Security; and
 
  (15)   Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent.

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Preparation of Pricing Supplement and, if applicable, Term Sheet:
     If the Company accepts an offer to purchase a Certificated Security, it will prepare a Pricing Supplement reflecting the terms of such Certificated Security and arrange to have delivered to the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, with a copy to the Trustee, as the case may be, at least ten copies of such Pricing Supplement, as provided under “Delivery of Confirmation and Prospectus to Purchaser by Selling Agent” below. If applicable, the Term Sheet reflecting the terms of such Security will be prepared by such Agent and at least 10 copies will be delivered by such Agent to the Company, with a copy to the Trustee, as provided under “Delivery of Confirmation and Prospectus to Purchaser by Selling Agent” below. The Company will arrange to have the Pricing Supplement filed with, or transmitted by a means reasonably calculated to result in filing with, the Commission via the Commission’s EDGAR System pursuant to Rule 424 under the Act and, if applicable, will file the Term Sheet in accordance with Rule 433.
Delivery of Confirmation and Prospectus to Purchaser by Selling Agent:
     The Selling Agent will deliver to the purchaser of a Certificated Security a written confirmation of the sale and delivery and payment instructions. In addition, the Selling Agent will deliver to such purchaser or its agent the Prospectus as amended or supplemented (including the Pricing Supplement) and, if applicable, the Term Sheet in relation to such Certificated Security prior to or together with the earlier of the delivery to such purchaser or its agent of (a) the confirmation of sale or (b) the Certificated Security.
Date of Settlement:
     All offers of Certificated Securities solicited by a Selling Agent or made by a Purchasing Agent and accepted by the Company will be settled on a date (the “Settlement Date”) which is the third Business Day after the date of acceptance of such offer, unless the Company and the purchaser agree to settlement (a) on another Business Day after the acceptance of such offer or (b) with respect to an offer accepted by the Company prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of such acceptance.
Trustee Not to Risk Own Funds:
     Nothing herein shall be deemed to require the Trustee to risk or expend its own funds in connection with any payments to the Company, the Agents or any purchaser, it being understood by all parties that payments made by the Trustee to the Company or the Agents, or any purchaser shall be made only to the extent that funds are provided to the Trustee for such purpose.
Instruction from Company to Trustee for Preparation of Certificated Securities:
     After receiving the Sale Information from the Selling Agent or Purchasing Agent, as the case may be, the Company will communicate such Sale Information to the Trustee by telephone (confirmed in writing) or by facsimile transmission or other acceptable written means.
     The Company will instruct the Trustee by facsimile transmission or other acceptable written means to authenticate and deliver the Certificated Securities no later than 2:15 p.m., New York City time, on the Settlement Date. Such instruction will be given by the Company prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Settlement Date

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unless the Settlement Date is the date of acceptance by the Company of the offer to purchase Certificated Securities in which case such instruction will be given by the Company by 11:00 a.m., New York City time.
Preparation and Delivery of Certificated Securities by Trustee and Receipt of Payment Therefor:
     The Trustee will prepare each Certificated Security and appropriate receipts that will serve as the documentary control of the transaction.
     In the case of a sale of Certificated Securities to a purchaser solicited by a Selling Agent, the Trustee will, by 2:15 p.m., New York City time, on the Settlement Date, make available for delivery the Certificated Securities to the Selling Agent for the benefit of the purchaser of such Certificated Securities against delivery by the Selling Agent of a receipt therefor. On the Settlement Date the Selling Agent will deliver payment for such Certificated Securities in immediately available funds to the Company in an amount equal to the issue price of the Certificated Securities less the Selling Agent’s commission; provided that the Selling Agent reserves the right to withhold payment for which it has not received funds from the purchaser. The Company shall not use any proceeds advanced by a Selling Agent to acquire securities.
     In the case of a sale of Certificated Securities to a Purchasing Agent, the Trustee will, by 2:15 p.m., New York City time, on the Settlement Date, make available for delivery the Certificated Securities to the Purchasing Agent against delivery of payment for such Certificated Securities in immediately available funds to the Company in an amount equal to the issue price of the Certificated Securities less the Purchasing Agent’s discount.
Failure of Purchaser to Pay Selling Agent:
     If a purchaser (other than a Purchasing Agent) fails to make payment to the Selling Agent for a Certificated Security, the Selling Agent will promptly notify the Trustee and the Company thereof by telephone (confirmed in writing) or by facsimile transmission or other acceptable written means. The Selling Agent will immediately return the Certificated Security to the Trustee. Immediately upon receipt of such Certificated Security by the Trustee, the Company will return to the Selling Agent an amount equal to the amount previously paid to the Company in respect of such Certificated Security. The Company will reimburse the Selling Agent on an equitable basis for its loss of the use of funds during the period when they were credited to the account of the Company.
     The Trustee will cancel the Certificated Security in respect of which the failure occurred and make appropriate entries in its records.

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EX-3.I.E
 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
AIG PROGRAM FUNDING, INC.
     WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, in order to form a corporation for the purposes hereinafter stated, under and pursuant to the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, do hereby certify as follows:
     FIRST: The name of the corporation is AIG Program Funding, Inc.
     SECOND: The address of the registered office of the corporation is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington 19808, in the County of New Castle, in the State of Delaware. The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.
     THIRD: The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
     FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the corporation is authorized to issue is 1,000, all of which shall be Common Stock, and the par value of each of such shares is $1.00.

 


 

     FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the incorporator is as follows:
     
NAME   ADDRESS
Elizabeth M. Tuck
  70 Pine Street
 
  New York, New York 10270
     SIXTH: The following provisions are inserted for the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and for further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the corporation and of its directors and stockholders.
     (1) The number of directors of the corporation shall be such as from time to time shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in the By-Laws. Election of directors need not be by written ballot except and to extent provided in the By-Laws.
     (2) The Board of Directors shall have power without the assent or vote of the stockholders to make, alter, amend, change, add to or repeal the By-Laws of the corporation; to fix and vary the amount of shares of capital stock of the corporation to be reserved for any proper purpose; to authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon all or any part of the property of the corporation; to determine the use and disposition of any surplus or net profits and to fix the times for the declaration and payment of dividends.
     (3) The directors in their discretion may submit any contract or act for approval or ratification at any annual meeting of the stockholders or at any meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose of considering any such contract or act, and any contract or act that shall be approved or be ratified by the vote of the holders of a majority of the stock of the corporation which is represented by person or by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat (provided that a lawful quorum of stockholders be there represented in person or by proxy) shall be as valid and as binding upon the corporation and upon all the stockholders as though it had been approved or ratified by every stockholder of the corporation, whether or not

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the contract or act would otherwise be open to legal attack because of directors’ interest, or for any other reason.
     (4) In addition to the powers and authorities herein before or by statute expressly conferred upon them, the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the corporation, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the statutes of Delaware, of this certificate, and to any by-laws from time to time made by the stockholders; provided, however, that no by-laws so made shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such by-laws had not been made.
     SEVENTH: The corporation shall, to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended from time to time, indemnify the officers, directors and incorporators and may, to the full extent permitted by such section, indemnify all other persons whom it may indemnify pursuant thereto.
     EIGHTH: A director of the corporation shall not be liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent that such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law as currently in effect or as the same may hereafter be amended. No amendment, modifications or repeal of this Article Eighth shall adversely affect any right or protection of a director that exists at the time of such amendment, modification or repeal.
     NINTH: No contract or other transaction between the corporation and any other corporation, whether or not a majority of the shares of the capital stock of such other corporation is owned by the corporation, and no act of the corporation shall in any way be affected or

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invalidated by the fact that any of the directors of the corporation are financially interested in, or are directors or officers of, such other corporation; any director individually, or any firm of which such director may be a member, may be a party to, or may be financially or otherwise interested in, any contract or transaction of the corporation, provided that the fact that he, she or such firm is so interested shall be disclosed or shall have been known to the Board of Directors or a majority thereof; and any director of the corporation who is a director or officer of such other corporation, or who is so interested, may be counted in determining the existence of a quorum at any meeting of the Board of Directors of the corporation which shall authorize such contract or transaction and may vote thereat to authorize such contract or transaction with like force and effect as if he were not such director or officer of such other corporation or not so interested.
     TENTH: The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this certificate of incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights and powers conferred herein on stockholders and directors are subject to this reserved power.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my respective hand this 14th day of February 2007.
         
     
  /s/ Elizabeth M. Tuck    
  Elizabeth M. Tuck, INCORPORATOR   
     
 

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EX-3.II.B
 

Exhibit 3(ii)(b)
BY - LAWS
OF
AIG PROGRAM FUNDING, INC.
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
     SECTION 1. REGISTERED OFFICE. The registered office shall be established and maintained at the office of Corporation Service Company, in the City of Wilmington, in the County of New Castle, in the State of Delaware, and said corporation shall be the registered agent of this corporation in charge thereof.
     SECTION 2. OTHER OFFICES. The corporation may have other offices, either within or without the State of Delaware, at such place or places as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
     SECTION 1. ANNUAL MEETINGS. Annual meetings of the stockholders for the election of directors and for such other business as may be stated in the notice of the meeting, shall be held at such place, either within or without the State of Delaware, and at such time and date as the Board of Directors, by resolution, shall determine and as set forth in the notice of meeting. In the event the Board of Directors fails to so determine the time, date and place of the meeting, the annual meeting of the stockholders shall be held at the registered office of the corporation in Delaware on the second Wednesday in February of each year.

 


 

     If the date of the annual meeting shall fall upon a legal holiday, the meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day. At each annual meeting, the stockholders entitled to vote shall elect a Board of Directors and they may transact such other corporation business as shall be stated in the notice of meeting.
     SECTION 2. OTHER MEETINGS. Meetings of stockholders for any purpose other than the election of directors may be held at such time and place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be stated in the notice of meeting.
     SECTION 3. VOTING. Each stockholder entitled to vote in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Incorporation and in accordance with the provisions of these By-Laws shall be entitled to one vote, in person or by proxy, for each share of stock entitled to vote held by such stockholder, but no proxy shall be voted after three years from its date unless such proxy provides for a longer period. Upon demand of any stockholder, the vote for directors and the vote upon any question before the meeting, shall be by ballot. All elections for directors shall be decided by plurality vote; all other questions shall be decided by majority vote except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation or the laws of the State of Delaware.
     A complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the ensuing elections, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of each, and the number of shares held by each, shall be open for the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.
     SECTION 4. QUORUM. Except as otherwise required by law, by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these By-Laws, the presence, in person or by proxy, of stockholders holding a majority of the stock of the corporation entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders. In case a quorum shall not be present at any meeting, a majority in interest of the

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stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until the requisite amount to stock entitled to vote shall be present. At any such adjourned meeting at which the requisite amount of stock entitled to vote shall be represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed; but only those stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting as originally noticed shall be entitled to vote at any adjournment or adjournments thereof.
     SECTION 5. SPECIAL MEETING. Special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes may be called by the President or Secretary, or by resolution of the directors.
     SECTION 6. NOTICE OF MEETINGS. Written notice, stating the place, date and time of the meeting, and the general nature of the business to be considered, shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation, not less than ten or more than sixty days before the date of the meeting. No business other than that stated in the notice shall be transacted at any meeting without the unanimous consent of all the stockholders entitled to vote thereat.
     SECTION 7. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING. Unless otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders, or any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted. Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall be given to those stockholders who have not consented in writing.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS

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     SECTION 1. NUMBER AND TERM. The number of directors shall be no less than one (1) nor more than ten (10). The directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders and each director shall be elected to serve until his successor shall be elected and shall qualify. Directors need not be stockholders.
     SECTION 2. RESIGNATIONS. Any director, member of a Committee or other officer may resign at any time. Such resignation shall be made in writing, and shall take effect at the time specified therein, and if no time be specified, at the time of its receipt by the President or Secretary. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
     SECTION 3. VACANCIES. If the office of any director, member of a committee or other officer becomes vacant, the remaining directors in office, though less than a quorum, by a majority vote, may appoint any qualified person to fill such vacancy, who shall hold office for the unexpired term and until his successor shall be duly chosen.
     SECTION 4. REMOVAL. Except as hereinafter provided, any director or directors may be removed either for or without cause at any time by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of all the shares of stock outstanding and entitled to vote, at a special meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose and the vacancies thus created may be filled, at the meeting held for the purpose of removal, by the affirmative vote of a majority in interest of the stockholders entitled to vote.
     Unless the Certificate of Incorporation otherwise provides, stockholders may effect removal of a director who is a member of a classified Board of Directors only for cause. If the Certificate of Incorporation provides for cumulative voting and if less than the entire board is to be removed, no director may be removed without cause if the votes cast against his removal would be sufficient to elect him if then cumulatively voted at an election of the entire board of directors, or if there be classes of directors, at an election of the class of directors of which he is a part.
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provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, these provisions shall apply, in respect to the removal without cause of a director or directors so elected, to the vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of that class or series and not to the vote of the outstanding shares as a whole.
     SECTION 5. INCREASE OF NUMBER. The number of directors may be increased by amendment of these By-Laws by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors, though less than a quorum, or, by the affirmative vote of a majority in interest of the stockholders, at the annual meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose, and by like vote the additional directors may be chosen at such meeting to hold office until the next annual election and until their successors are elected and qualify.
     SECTION 6. POWERS. The Board of Directors shall exercise all of the powers of the corporation except such as are by law, or by the Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation or by these By-Laws conferred upon or reserved to the stockholders.
     SECTION 7. COMMITTEES. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of two or more of the directors of the corporation. The board may designate one or more directors as alternative members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of any member of such committee or committees, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.
     Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors, or these By-Laws, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation, adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange of all or

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substantially all of the corporation’s property and assets, recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or amending the By-Laws of the corporation; and, unless the resolution, these By-Laws, or the Certificate of Incorporation expressly so provide, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of stock.
     SECTION 8. MEETINGS. The newly elected directors may hold their first meeting for the purpose of organization and the transaction of business, if a quorum be present, immediately after the annual meeting of the stockholders; or the time and place of such meeting may be fixed by consent in writing of all the directors.
     Regular meetings of the directors may be held without notice at such places and times as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the directors.
     Special meetings of the board may be called by the President or by the Secretary on the written request of any two directors on at least two days’ notice to each director and shall be held at such place or places as may be determined by the directors, or as shall be stated in the call of the meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, members of the Board of Directors, or any committee designated by the Board of Directors, may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.
     SECTION 9. QUORUM. A majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If at any meeting of the board there shall be less than a quorum present, a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time until a quorum is obtained, and no further notice thereof need be given other than by announcement at the meeting which shall be so adjourned.
     SECTION 10. COMPENSATION. Directors shall not receive any stated salary for their services as directors or as members of committees, but by resolution of the board a fixed fee and

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expenses of attendance may be allowed for attendance at each meeting. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity as an officer, agent or otherwise, and receiving compensation therefore.
     SECTION 11. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting, if prior to such action a written consent thereto is signed by all members of the board, or of such committee as the case may be, and such written consent is filed with the minutes of proceedings of the board or committee.
     SECTION 12. INDEMNIFICATION OF OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, ETC.; INSURANCE.
  (a)   The corporation shall 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, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as director, officer, 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 reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was lawful.

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  (b)   The corporation shall 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 by or in the right of the corporation to produce a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, 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 and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of 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 except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the corporation unless and only to the extent that a court of common pleas of the county in which the registered office of the corporation is located or the court in which such action, suit or proceeding was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity.
 
  (c)   To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), or in 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.
 
  (d)   Any indemnification under paragraphs (a) and (b) (unless ordered by a court or made pursuant to a determination by a court as hereinafter provided) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in

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      paragraphs (a) and (b). Such determination shall be made (1) by the board of directors by a majority of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (2) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (3) by the stockholders. In the absence of a determination that indemnification is proper as aforesaid, the director, officer or employee may apply to a court of common please of the county in which the registered office of the corporation is located or the court in which the action, suit or proceeding was brought, which shall determine whether the director, officer, employee or agent has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b). If the court shall so determine, indemnification shall be made under paragraph (a) or (b) as the case may be.
 
  (e)   Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the board of directors in the manner provided in paragraph (d) upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer, employee or agent to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be determined that he is entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this section.
 
  (f)   The indemnification provided by these By-Laws shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit or the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
 
  (g)   The corporation shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee

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      or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and 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 liability under the provisions of these By-Laws.
ARTICLE IV
OFFICERS
     SECTION 1. The officers of the corporation shall be a President, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, all of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors and who shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. In addition, the Board of Directors may elect a Chairman, one or more Vice Presidents and such Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers as they may deem proper. None of the officers of the corporation need be directors. The officers shall be elected at the first meeting of the Board of Directors after each annual meeting. More than two offices may be HELD by the same person.
     SECTION 2. OTHER OFFICERS AND AGENTS. The Board of Directors may appoint such other officers and agents as it may deem advisable, who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.
     SECTION 3. CHAIRMAN. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, if one be elected, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and he shall have and perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.
     SECTION 4. PRESIDENT. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation and shall have the general powers and duties of supervision and management usually vested in the office of President of a corporation. He shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders if present thereat, and in the absence or non-election of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, at all

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meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall have general supervision, direction and control of the business of the corporation. Except as the Board of Directors shall authorize the execution thereof in some other manner, he shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts on behalf of the corporation, and shall cause the seal to be affixed to any instrument requiring it and when so affixed the seal shall be attested by the signature of the Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer.
     SECTION 5. VICE PRESIDENT. Each Vice President shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to him by the directors.
     SECTION 6. TREASURER. The Treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate account of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the corporation. He shall deposit all moneys and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors.
     The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, or the President, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements. He shall render to the President and Board of Directors at the regular meetings of the Board of Directors, or whenever they may request it, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation. If required by the Board of Directors, he shall give the corporation a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in such amount and with such surety as the Board shall prescribe.
     SECTION 7. SECRETARY. The Secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of stockholders and directors, and all other notices required by law or these By-Laws, and in case of his absence or refusal or neglect so to do, any such notice may be given by any person thereunto directed by the President, or by the directors, or stockholders, upon whose requisition the meeting is called as provided in these By-Laws. He shall record all the proceedings of the meetings of the corporation and of the directors in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the directors or the President. He shall have custody of the seal of the corporation and shall affix the same to all instruments requiring it, when authorized by the directors or the President, and attest the same.

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     SECTION 8. ASSISTANT TREASURERS AND ASSISTANT SECRETARIES. Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Secretaries, if any, shall be elected and shall have such powers and shall perform duties as shall be assigned to them, respectively, by the directors.
ARTICLE V
MISCELLANEOUS
     SECTION 1. CERTIFICATES OF STOCK. Certificates of stock, signed by the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, if they be elected, President or Vice President, and the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, or Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, shall be issued to each stockholder certifying the number of shares owned by him in the corporation. Any of or all the signatures may be facsimiles.
     SECTION 2. LOST CERTIFICATES. A new certificate of stock may be issued in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by the corporation, alleged to have been lost or destroyed, and the directors may, in their discretion, require the owner of the lost or destroyed certificate, or his legal representatives, to give the corporation a bond, in such sum as they may direct, not exceeding double the value of the stock, to indemnify the corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss of any such certificate, or the issuance of any such new certificate.
     SECTION 3. TRANSFER OF SHARES. The shares of stock of the corporation shall be transferable only upon its books by the holders thereof in person or by their duly authorized attorneys or legal representatives, and upon such transfer the old certificates shall be surrendered to the corporation by the delivery thereof to the person in charge of the stock and transfer books and ledgers, or to such other person as the directors may designate, by whom they shall be cancelled, and new certificates shall thereupon be issued. A record shall be made of each transfer and whenever a transfer shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry of the transfer.

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     SECTION 4. STOCKHOLDERS RECORD DATE. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment or any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
     SECTION 5. DIVIDENDS. Subject to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, the Board of Directors may, out of funds legally available therefor at any regular or special meeting, declare dividends upon the capital stock of the corporation as and when they deem expedient. Before declaring any dividend there may be set apart out of any funds of the corporation available for dividends, such sum or sums as the directors from time to time in their discretion deem proper for working capital or as a reserve fund to meet contingencies or for equalizing dividends or for such other purpose as the directors shall deem conducive to the interests of the corporation.
     SECTION 6. SEAL. The corporate seal shall be circular in form and shall contain the name of the corporation, the year of its creation and the words “CORPORATE SEAL”. Said seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise.
     SECTION 7. FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.
     SECTION 8. CHECKS. All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers, agent or agents of the corporation, and in such manner as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors.

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     SECTION 9. NOTICE AND WAIVER OF NOTICE. Whenever any notice is required by these By-Laws to be given, personal notice is not meant unless expressly so stated, and any notice so required shall be deemed to be sufficient if given by depositing the same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the person entitled thereto at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation, and such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the day of such mailing. Stockholders not entitled to vote shall not be entitled to receive notice of any meetings except as otherwise provided by Statute.
     Whenever any notice is required to be given under the provisions of any law, or under the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation or these By-Laws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto.
ARTICLE VI
AMENDMENTS
     These By-Laws may be altered or repealed and By-Laws may be made at any annual meeting of the stockholders or at any special meeting thereof if notice of the proposed alteration or repeal of By-Law or By-Laws to be made be contained in the notice of any special meeting, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, or by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors, at any regular meeting of the Board of Directors, or at any special meeting of the Board of Directors, if notice of the proposed alteration or repeal of By-Law or By-Laws to be made, be contained in the notice of such special meeting.
Dated as of February 15, 2007

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EX-4.1
 

Exhibit 4.1
 
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
   Trustee
______________
Indenture
Dated as of October 12, 2006
______________
 

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
         
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PARTIES   1
 
       
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY   1
 
       

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
 
       
Section 101.
  Definitions.   1
Section 102.
  Compliance Certificates and Opinions.   6
Section 103.
  Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.   7
Section 104.
  Acts of Holders; Record Dates.   7
Section 105.
  Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.   9
Section 106.
  Notice to Holders; Waiver.   9
Section 107.
  Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.   10
Section 108.
  Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.   10
Section 109.
  Successors and Assigns.   10
Section 110.
  Separability Clause.   10
Section 111.
  Benefits of Indenture.   10
Section 112.
  Governing Law.   10
Section 113.
  Legal Holidays.   10
 
       

ARTICLE TWO

SECURITY FORMS
 
       
Section 201.
  Forms Generally.   11
Section 202.
  Form of Face of Security.   11
Section 203.
  Form of Reverse of Security.   13
Section 204.
  Form of Legend for Global Securities.   16
Section 205.
  Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.   16
 
       

ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES
 
       
Section 301.
  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.   17
Section 302.
  Denominations.   19
Section 303.
  Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.   19
Section 304.
  Temporary Securities.   21
Section 305.
  Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.   21
Section 306.
  Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.   23
Section 307.
  Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.   23
Section 308.
  Persons Deemed Owners.   25
Section 309.
  Cancellation.   25
Section 310.
  Computation of Interest.   25
 
Note:   This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 


 

         
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Section 311.
  CUSIP Numbers.   25
Section 312.
  Original Issue Discount.   25
 
       

ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
 
       
Section 401.
  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.   26
Section 402.
  Application of Trust Money.   27
 
       

ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES
 
       
Section 501.
  Events of Default.   27
Section 502.
  Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.   28
Section 503.
  Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.   29
Section 504.
  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.   29
Section 505.
  Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.   30
Section 506.
  Application of Money Collected.   30
Section 507.
  Limitation on Suits.   30
Section 508.
  Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.   31
Section 509.
  Restoration of Rights and Remedies.   31
Section 510.
  Rights and Remedies Cumulative.   31
Section 511.
  Delay or Omission Not Waiver.   32
Section 512.
  Control by Holders.   32
Section 513.
  Waiver of Past Defaults.   32
Section 514.
  Undertaking for Costs.   32
Section 515.
  Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.   33
 
       

ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE
 
       
Section 601.
  Certain Duties and Responsibilities.   33
Section 602.
  Notice of Defaults.   33
Section 603.
  Certain Rights of Trustee.   33
Section 604.
  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.   34
Section 605.
  May Hold Securities.   35
Section 606.
  Money Held in Trust.   35
Section 607.
  Compensation and Reimbursement.   35
Section 608.
  Conflicting Interests.   35
Section 609.
  Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.   36
Section 610.
  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.   36
Section 611.
  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.   37
Section 612.
  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.   38
Section 613.
  Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.   39

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ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
 
       
Section 701.
  Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.   39
Section 702.
  Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.   39
Section 703.
  Reports by Trustee.   40
Section 704.
  Reports by Company.   40
 
       

ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
 
       
Section 801.
  Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.   40
Section 802.
  Successor Substituted.   41
 
       

ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
 
       
Section 901.
  Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.   41
Section 902.
  Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.   42
Section 903.
  Execution of Supplemental Indentures.   43
Section 904.
  Effect of Supplemental Indentures.   44
Section 905.
  Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.   44
Section 906.
  Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.   44
 
       

ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS
 
       
Section 1001.
  Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.   44
Section 1002.
  Maintenance of Office or Agency.   44
Section 1003.
  Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.   45
Section 1004.
  Statement by Officers as to Default.   46
Section 1005.
  Existence.   46
Section 1006.
  Waiver of Certain Covenants.   46
 
       

ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
 
       
Section 1101.
  Applicability of Article.   46
Section 1102.
  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.   47
Section 1103.
  Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.   47
Section 1104.
  Notice of Redemption.   47
Section 1105.
  Deposit of Redemption Price.   48
Section 1106.
  Securities Payable on Redemption Date.   48
Section 1107.
  Securities Redeemed in Part.   49

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ARTICLE TWELVE

SINKING FUNDS
 
       
Section 1201.
  Applicability of Article.   49
Section 1202.
  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.   49
Section 1203.
  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.   50
 
       

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
 
       
Section 1301.
  Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.   50
Section 1302.
  Defeasance and Discharge.   50
Section 1303.
  Covenant Defeasance.   51
Section 1304.
  Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.   51
Section 1305.
  Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.   53
Section 1306.
  Reinstatement.   53
 
       
TESTIMONIUM   54
SIGNATURES   54
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS   55

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Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
     
Trust Indenture    
Act Section   Indenture Section
§ 310(a)(1)
  609
(a)(2)
  609
(a)(3)
  Not Applicable
(a)(4)
  Not Applicable
(b)
  608
 
  610
§ 311(a)
  613
(b)
  613
§ 312(a)
  701
 
  702
(b)
  702
(c)
  702
§ 313(a)
  703
(b)
  703
(c)
  703
(d)
  703
§ 314(a)
  704
(a)(4)
  101
 
  1004
(b)
  Not Applicable
(c)(1)
  102
(c)(2)
  102
(c)(3)
  Not Applicable
(d)
  Not Applicable
(e)
  102
§ 315(a)
  601
(b)
  602
(c)
  601
(d)
  601
(e)
  514
§ 316(a)
  101
(a)(1)(A)
  502
 
  512
(a)(1)(B)
  513
(a)(2)
  Not Applicable
(b)
  508
(c)
  104
§ 317(a)(1)
  503
(a)(2)
  504
(b)
  1003
§ 318(a)
  107
 
Note:   This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 


 

     INDENTURE, dated as of October 12, 2006, between American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
     The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
     All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, 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;
     (2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
     (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation;
     (4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture; and
     (5) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

 


 

     “Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
     “Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
     “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Business Day”, when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
     “Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.
     “Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman, one of its Vice Chairman, its President or one of its Vice Presidents (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and by its Treasurer, one of its Assistant Treasurers, its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee in New York, New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.
     “corporation” means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.
     “Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
     “Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
     “Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1302.

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     “Depositary” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, any Person that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.
     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 204 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
     “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
     “Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.
     “interest”, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.
     “Interest Payment Date”, when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
     “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
     “Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(4).
     “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman, a Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.

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     “Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
     “Outstanding”, when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
     (1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
     (2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
     (3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1302; and
     (4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.

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     “Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
     “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
     “Place of Payment”, when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
     “Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Responsible Officer” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any vice president, any assistant vice president, any senior trust officer or assistant trust officer, any trust officer, or any other officer associated with the corporate trust department of the 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 such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
     “Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.
     “Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
     “Stated Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.

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     “Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
     “Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
     “U.S. Government Obligation” has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
     “Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”.
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
     Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.
     Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates provided for in Section 1004) shall include,
     (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
     (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
     (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, such individual has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

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     (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
     In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
     Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
     Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
     The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

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     The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
     The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.

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     With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.
     Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
     (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office; or
     (2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention Secretary, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
     Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his or her address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
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with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
     If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
     The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 109. Successors and Assigns.
     All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 110. Separability Clause.
     In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.
     Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 112. Governing Law.
     This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York.
Section 113. Legal Holidays.
     In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity; provided, however, that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to the date of such payment.

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ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally.
     The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.
     The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Section 202. Form of Face of Security.
     [Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
American International Group, Inc.
................................
No.   $.........
     American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ..........................., or registered assigns, the principal sum of ........................... Dollars on ...........................[if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — , and to pay interest thereon from ............ or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on ............ and ............ in each year, commencing ............, at the rate of ...% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable, insert — , provided that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of ...% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the

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dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ... or ... (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture].
     [If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of % per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on demand.]
     Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert — any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York], in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [if applicable, insert — ; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].
     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
Dated:
American International Group, Inc.
By....................................
Attest:
..................................

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Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
     This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of _________(herein called the “Indenture”, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert — , [initially] limited in aggregate principal amount to $...][, provided that the Company may, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time, increase the initial principal amount.]
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’ notice by mail, [if applicable, insert — (1) on ... in any year commencing with the year .. and ending with the year .. through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after .., ..], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert — on or before ..............., ...%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning ............... of the years indicated,
                         
    Redemption             Redemption  
Year   Price     Year     Price  
 
                       
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ....% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert — (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’ notice by mail, (1) on ................in any year commencing with the year .... and ending with the year .... through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after ...............], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning ............... of the years indicated,

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    Redemption Price        
    For Redemption     Redemption Price For  
    Through Operation     Redemption Otherwise  
    of the     Than Through Operation  
Year   Sinking Fund     of the Sinking Fund  
 
               
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to .....% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
     [If applicable, insert — Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to ..............., redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [if applicable, insert — Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than ......% per annum.]
     [If applicable, insert — The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on ............... in each year beginning with the year ...... and ending with the year ....... of [if applicable, insert — not less than $............... (“mandatory sinking fund”) and not more than] $............... aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert — , in the inverse order in which they become due].]
     [If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.] $E2 Standard            Paragraph
     [If applicable, insert — The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
     [If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]

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     [If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to — insert formula for determining the amount. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]
     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
     As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one

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or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
     The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $... and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
     No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
     Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
Section 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
     Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
     THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
Section 205. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
     The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
     This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
     
Dated:
  The Bank of New York
 
   
 
  As Trustee
 
  By........................................................................
 
  Authorized Signatory

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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
     The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
     The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,
     (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);
     (2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or 1203 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
     (3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;
     (4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable;
     (5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
     (6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
     (7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
     (8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at

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which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
     (9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;
     (10) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to a financial or economic measure or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
     (11) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;
     (12) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);
     (13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;
     (14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);
     (15) if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease any Securities of the series pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 shall be evidenced; whether any Securities of the series other than Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate are to be subject to Section 1302 or Section 1303; or, in the case of Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or any specified part, shall not be defeasible pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 or both such Sections;
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Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 204 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
     (17) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;
     (18) any addition to, deletion from or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the series; and
     (19) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).
     All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at one time and, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a series of Securities, additional Securities of a series may be issued, at the option of the Company, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time.
     If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
Section 302. Denominations.
     The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
     The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, one of its Vice Chairman, its President, its Treasurer or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

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     Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
     At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
     (1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
     (2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
     (3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
     Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, including in the event that the size of a series of Outstanding Securities is increased as contemplated by Section 301, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
     Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
     No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate

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upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
     Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
     If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
     The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
     At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the

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Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
     All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
     Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107 or 1203 not involving any transfer.
     If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
     The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:
     (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable or no longer permitted under applicable law to continue as Depositary for such Global Security, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security, (C) the Company so directs the Trustee by a Company Order or (D) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
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Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.
     (4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906, 1107 or 1203 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
     If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
     If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
     In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
     Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
     Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued 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 or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
     Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one

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or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
     Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
     (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section 106, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
     (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
     Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

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Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
     Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 309. Cancellation.
     All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary procedures.
Section 310. Computation of Interest.
     Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 311. CUSIP Numbers.
     The Company in issuing any series of the Securities may use CUSIP numbers, if then generally in use, and thereafter with respect to such series, the Trustee may use such numbers in any notice of redemption with respect to such series, provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities of that series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities of that series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
Section 312. Original Issue Discount.
     If any of the Securities is an Original Issue Discount Security, the Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on such Outstanding Original Issue Discount Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
     This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
     (1) either
     (A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
     (B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
     (i) have become due and payable, or
     (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
     (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
     (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
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Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
Section 402. Application of Trust Money.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default.
     “Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
     (1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
     (2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that series at its Maturity, and continuance of such default for a period of five days; or
     (3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series, and the continuance of such default for a period of five days; or
     (4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
     (5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any

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applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
     (6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or
     (7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable.
     At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
     (1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
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     (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
     (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and
     (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel;
     and
     (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
     No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
     The Company covenants that if
     (1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
     (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof and such default continues for a period of five days,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
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intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
     No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
     All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 506. Application of Money Collected.
     Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
     FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607; and
     SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest, respectively.
Section 507. Limitation on Suits.
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     (1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
     (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
     (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
     (4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
     (5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.
     Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or date for repayment, as the case may be) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
     If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
     Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be

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cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
     No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 512. Control by Holders.
     The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that
     (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and
     (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
     The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
     (1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series, or
     (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
     Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.
     In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess reasonable costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the

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Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.
Section 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
     The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
     The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 602. Notice of Defaults.
     If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
     Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
     (1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be 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 or presented by the proper party or parties;

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     (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
     (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;
     (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of 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 reliance thereon;
     (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
     (6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
     (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the 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; and
     (8) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder.
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
     The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

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Section 605. May Hold Securities.
     The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 606. Money Held in Trust.
     Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
     The Company agrees
     (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
     (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
     (3) to indemnify the Trustee 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 the trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
     When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
     The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
Section 608. Conflicting Interests.
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manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series or a trustee under the Indenture, dated as of April 15, 1983, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 9, 1986, between the Company and the Trustee; the Indenture, dated as of July 15, 1989, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 15, 2003, between the Company and the Trustee; and the Indenture, dated as of November 9, 2001, between the Company and the Trustee, as amended or supplemented.
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
     There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and has its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
     No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.
     The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
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     (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
     (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
     (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
     If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
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the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
     Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
     No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
     Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the

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execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion, consolidation or sale to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
     If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
     (1) semi-annually either (i) not later than March 31 and September 30 in each year in the case of any series of Securities consisting solely of Original Issue Discount Securities which by their terms do not bear interest prior to Maturity, or (ii) not more than 15 days after each Regular Record Date in the case of Securities of any other series, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the preceding March 16 or September 15 or as of such Regular Record Date, as the case may be; and
     (2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
     excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
     The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
     The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
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held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
     The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
     A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 704. Reports by Company.
     The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports as may be required by the Trust Indenture Act.
     Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute a representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the reports, information or documents. The Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
     The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
     (1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

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     (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
Section 802. Successor Substituted.
     Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
     Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, 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 herein and in the Securities; or
     (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of some or all of the Holders of all or any series of Securities or of particular Securities within a series as may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
     (3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of some or all of the Holders of all or any series of Securities or of particular Securities within a series as may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities); or

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     (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or
     (5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding; or
     (6) to secure the Securities; or
     (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
     (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611; or
     (9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (9) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
     With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that if the Board Resolutions and supplemental indenture shall expressly provide that any provisions to be changed or eliminated shall apply to fewer than all the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under a particular series under this Indenture, then, to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any such consent may be given by Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under such series to which such change or elimination shall apply; provided, further, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby (whether or not such affected Securities comprise all Securities under this Indenture or under a particular series),

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     (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date); or
     (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture; or
     (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section 1006, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8).
     A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more identified series of Securities or particular Securities within an identified series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series, or Holder of particular Securities within a series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed to affect only the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of the identified series or of particular Securities within the identified series, and shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of any other Securities.
     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
     After a supplemental indenture under this Section 902 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Trustee a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture or a copy of such supplemental indenture and the Trustee shall mail such notice or supplemental indenture to Holders affected thereby. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, or any failure of the Company to mail such supplemental indenture, shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
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Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
     Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
     Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
     Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
     The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
     The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served

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at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
     The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
     If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.
     The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
     Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability

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of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
     The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
Section 1005. Existence.
     Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
     Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the Company may, with respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(18), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in Section 1005, if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.
     Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.

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Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
     The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
     If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
     The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
     The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.
     Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.

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     All notices of redemption shall state:
     (1) the Redemption Date;
     (2) the Redemption Price;
     (3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed;
     (4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;
     (5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
     (6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case; and
     (7) if applicable, the CUSIP numbers of the Securities of that series.
     Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and, unless otherwise specified or contemplated by Section 301, shall be irrevocable.
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
     Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date or the Securities of the series provide otherwise) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
     Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together, if applicable, with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities,

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registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
     If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
     Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
Section 1201. Applicability of Article.
     The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
     The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any series of Securities is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. If provided for by the terms of any series of Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of the series as provided for by the terms of such Securities.
Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
     The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

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Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
     Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 1301. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
     Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, Sections 1302 and 1303 shall apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, in either case, denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article; and the Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Sections 1302 and 1303 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, designated pursuant to Section 301 as being defeasible pursuant to such Section 1302 or 1303, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article. Any such election to have or not to have Sections 1302 and 1303 apply, as the case may be, shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.
     Upon the Company’s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, or if this Section shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the

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Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section applied to the Securities of any series notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section 1303 applied to such Securities.
Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance.
     Upon the Company’s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, or if this Section shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Section 1005 and any covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(18), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 501(4) (with respect to Section 1005 and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(18), 901(2) or 901(7)) and 501(7) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(4)), whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
     The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 1302 or 1303 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be:
     (1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not

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callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
     (2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
     (3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.
     (4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
     (5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(5) and (6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).
     (6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).
     (7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.

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     (8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
     (9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with (in each case, subject to the satisfaction of the condition in clause (5)).
Section 1305.   Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations
to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
     The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
     Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.
Section 1306. Reinstatement.
     If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security

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following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.
     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
             
    AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.    
 
           
 
           
 
  By:   /s/ STEVEN BENSINGER    
 
           
 
      Name: Steven Bensinger    
 
      Title: Executive Vice President and CFO    
     
Attest:
   
 
   
 
   
/s/ MERRITT FABEL
 
Name: Merritt Fabel
   
Title: Assistant Secretary
   
             
    THE BANK OF NEW YORK    
 
           
 
           
 
  By:   /s/ JULIE SALOVITCH-MILLER    
 
           
 
      Name: JULIE SALOVITCH-MILLER    
 
      Title: VICE PRESIDENT    
     
Attest:
   
 
   
 
   
/s/ VAN BROWN
 
Name: Van Brown
   
Title: Vice President and Team Leader
   

 


 

 
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
First Supplemental
Indenture
Dated as of December 19, 2006
 
(Supplemental to Indenture Dated as of October 12, 2006)
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
 

 


 

     FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of December 19, 2006 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), between American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called “Trustee”);
R E C I T A L S:
     WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to The Bank of New York, as trustee, an Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Existing Indenture”) (the Existing Indenture, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, including by this First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of the Company’s unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein and therein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as provided in the Indenture;
     WHEREAS, Section 901 of the Existing Indenture permits the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Existing Indenture to provide for the issuance of, and establish the form and terms of, additional series of Securities;
     WHEREAS, Sections 201, 301 and 901 of the Existing Indenture permit the form of notes of each additional series of notes to be established pursuant to an indenture supplemental to the Existing Indenture;
     WHEREAS, Section 301 of the Existing Indenture permits certain terms of any additional series of notes to be established pursuant to an indenture supplemental to the Existing Indenture;
     WHEREAS, pursuant to resolutions of (i) the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on March 15, 2006 and (ii) the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on December 14, 2006, the Company has authorized the issuance of $500,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its Resetable Floating Rate Notes Due 2046 (the “Notes”);
WHEREAS, the Notes will be established as a series under the Indenture;
     WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture to establish the form and terms of the Notes; and
     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this First Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms have been done;

 


 

     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 Relation to Existing Indenture
     This First Supplemental Indenture constitutes a part of the Existing Indenture (the provisions of which, as modified by this First Supplemental Indenture, shall apply to the Notes) in respect of the Notes but shall not modify, amend or otherwise affect the Existing Indenture insofar as it relates to any other series of Securities or affects in any manner the terms and conditions of the Securities of any other series.
Section 1.2 Definitions
     For all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture, the capitalized terms used herein (i) which are defined in this Section 1.2 have the respective meanings assigned hereto in this Section 1.2, and (ii) which are defined in the Existing Indenture (and which are not defined in this Section 1.2) have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Existing Indenture. For all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture:
     1.2.1 All references herein to Articles and Sections, unless otherwise specified, refer to the corresponding Articles and Sections of this First Supplemental Indenture;
     1.2.2 The terms “herein”, “hereof”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this First Supplemental Indenture; and
     1.2.3 The following terms, as used herein, have the following meanings:
     “Agent Member” means any member of, or participant in, the Depositary.
     “Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Note, to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect at the time of such transfer or transaction.
     “Closing Date” means December 19, 2006.

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     “Company” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph of this First Supplemental Indenture.
     “Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.3.
     “Depositary” means, with respect to Notes issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Notes, DTC, for so long as it shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, or such successor (which shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act) as the Company shall designate from time to time in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee.
     “DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.
     “Existing Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the first recital of this First Supplemental Indenture.
     “First Supplemental Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof.
     “Global Note” means a Note that evidences all or part of the Notes and bears the legend specified in Section 2.2.
     “Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the first recital of this First Supplemental Indenture.
     “Notes” has the meaning stated in the fifth recital of this First Supplemental Indenture.
     “Restricted Global Note” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1.
     “Restricted Note” means all Notes required pursuant to Section 2.6(b) to bear any Restricted Notes Legend. Such term includes the Restricted Global Note.
     “Restricted Notes Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Annex A.
     “Restricted Notes Legend” means a legend substantially in form of the legend required in the form of Note set forth in Section 2.2 to be placed upon each Restricted Note.
     “Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act (including any successor rule thereto), as the same may be amended from time to time.
     “Securities” has the meaning specified in the first recital of this First Supplemental Indenture.
     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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     “Successor Note” of any particular Note means every Note issued after, and evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by, such particular Note; and any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 306 of the Existing Indenture in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note.
ARTICLE TWO
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
Section 2.1 Forms of Notes Generally
     The Notes shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Existing Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange, or as may, consistent with the Existing Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
     The Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the form set forth in Section 2.4.
     Upon their original issuance, the Notes shall be issued in the form of a Global Note registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, for credit by the Depositary to the respective accounts of beneficial owners of the Notes represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct). The Global Note will constitute a single Security for all purposes of the Indenture. The Global Note together with its Successor Notes which are Global Notes, are collectively herein called the “Restricted Global Notes.”
     The Notes will be issued only in registered form. The Notes will be issued in minimum denominations of $100,000 and multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
Section 2.2 Form of Face of the Notes
     THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM AND IN ANY EVENT MAY BE SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, COPIES OF

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WHICH ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE OF THE TRUSTEE IN NEW YORK.
     EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER. EACH HOLDER OF THIS NOTE REPRESENTS TO AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC. THAT (a) SUCH HOLDER WILL NOT SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS NOTE (WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.) OTHER THAN (i) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION COMPLYING WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (ii) IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (iii) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (iv) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT, IN THE CASE OF CLAUSE (ii) OR (iv), TO THE RECEIPT BY AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC. OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OR SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC. THAT SUCH RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (b) SUCH HOLDER WILL NOT SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE NOTES OTHER THAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND BLUE SKY LAWS AND THAT (c) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO HEREIN AND DELIVER TO THE TRANSFEREE (OTHER THAN A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER) PRIOR TO THE SALE, A COPY OF THE TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE HERETO (COPIES OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE).
     [INCLUDE IF NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE — THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY.]

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     [INCLUDE IF NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE AND THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY IS THE DEPOSITARY — UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”), A NEW YORK CORPORATION, TO AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF CEDE & CO. (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
RESETABLE FLOATING RATE NOTE DUE 2046
     
No. R-1
   
CUSIP No.: 026874BC0
   
 
   
STATED PRINCIPAL AMOUNT:
  US$500,000,000
 
   
ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE:
  December 19, 2006
 
   
INITIAL INTEREST RATE:
  5.46% 
 
   
INTEREST DETERMINATION DATES:
  Two London Banking Days prior to each Interest Reset Date
 
   
CALCULATION AGENT:
  AIG Financial Products Corp.
     AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or its registered assigns, the principal sum of $500,000,000 dollars on the Maturity Date, and, subject to the provisions on the reverse of this Note and if there has been no Conversion Date, to pay the Accrued Interest on the Maturity Date; or, if there has been a Conversion Date, to pay the Accrued Interest on the Conversion Date and to pay interest on the Stated Principal Amount from the

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most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid, accrued or duly provided for, in arrears on each Interest Payment Date.
     Interest on the Stated Principal Amount of this Note shall accrue at a rate per annum equal to the Initial Interest Rate set forth above until the first Interest Reset Date and thereafter at a rate equal to LIBOR-Telerate plus the Spread, subject to applicable provisions of law and in accordance with the provisions set forth on the reverse of this Note. The Spread determined as a result of each Holder Spread Adjustment or Dealer Spread Adjustment shall remain in effect from the occurrence of the Holder Spread Adjustment or the Dealer Spread Adjustment, as the case may be, until the effectiveness of the next Holder Spread Adjustment or Dealer Spread Adjustment, whichever is sooner, or until the Stated Principal Amount and any unpaid interest (including any unpaid Accrued Interest) is paid or made available for payment. Interest that is accrued and unpaid on any Interest Accrual Date will compound and be added to Accrued Interest in accordance with paragraph 3 on the reverse of this Note. Interest shall accrue on unpaid Accrued Interest at a rate per annum equal to LIBOR-Telerate (without addition of the Spread).
     Interest will not be payable on this Note until the Maturity Date, unless there is a Conversion Date. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (including Accrued Interest on the Conversion Date, if any) will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the 4th day of June or December (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not fewer than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
     Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed.
     If the Maturity Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day, with the same force and effect as if made on the Maturity Date, provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Maturity Date.
     Payment of the principal of and interest on this Note will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The

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City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
Dated:
         
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By      
       
       
 
[SEAL]
Attest:
 
Section 2.3 Form of Reverse of the Notes
     1. General. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), designated as its Resetable Floating Rate Notes Due 2046, issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Existing Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of December 19, 2006 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), from the Company to The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof.
     The Notes are not subject to redemption at the election of the Company at any time prior to the Maturity Date.

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     2. Definitions. All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Indenture.
     “Accrued Interest” shall mean, in respect of any date prior to and including the Conversion Date, (a) on the Original Issue Date, zero and (b) on each date thereafter, the sum of (i) the Accrued Interest on the next preceding Interest Reset Date (or, in the case of any date on or before the initial Interest Reset Date, on the Original Issue Date), plus (ii) interest accrued on the Stated Principal Amount during the Interest Period beginning on the next preceding Interest Reset Date (or, in the case of any date on or before the initial Interest Reset Date, beginning on the Original Issue Date) at a rate equal to LIBOR-Telerate plus the Spread for such next preceding Interest Reset Date (or, in the case of any date on or before the initial Interest Reset Date, at a rate equal to the Initial Interest Rate specified on the face hereof), plus (iii) except in the case of any date on or before the initial Interest Reset Date, interest accrued on the Accrued Interest as of the next preceding Interest Reset Date during the Interest Period beginning on the next preceding Interest Reset Date at a rate equal to LIBOR-Telerate for such Interest Reset Date.
     “Agent Member” has the meaning set forth in subsection (c) of paragraph 7 hereof.
     “AIG-FS” means AIG Financial Securities Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the Company.
     “Applicable Procedures” has the meaning set forth in subsection (c) of paragraph 7 hereof.
     “Business Day” shall mean any day on which commercial banks are open for business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in New York City.
     “Calculation Agent” has the meaning set forth in subsection (b) of paragraph 3 hereof.
     “Calculation Date” shall have the meaning specified in subsection (d) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Conversion Date” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 4 hereof.
     “Dealer Designated Spread” means, with respect to any Interest Reset Date scheduled to occur on or after December 19, 2007, each of the spreads quoted by the Reference Dealers, in accordance with the procedures set forth in paragraph 6 hereof, as the Spread to be effective on such Interest Reset Date.
     “Dealer Spread Adjustment” means, with respect to any Interest Reset Date scheduled to occur on or after December 19, 2007, adjustment of the Spread on such

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Interest Reset Date determined in accordance with the procedures set forth in paragraph 6 hereof.
     “DTC” has the meaning set forth on the face of this Note.
     “Electing Holders” has the meaning set forth in subsection (b) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Existing Indenture” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 1 hereof.
     “Failed Remarketing” has the meaning set forth in subsection (g) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Final Dealer” has the meaning set forth in clause (iii) of subsection (e) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Final Dealer Designated Spread” has the meaning set forth in clause (i) of subsection (e) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Final Dealer Purchase Price” has the meaning set forth in clause (iv) of subsection (e) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “First Supplemental Indenture” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 1 hereof.
     “Hold Notice” has the meaning set forth in subsection (b) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Hold Notice Ceiling” has the meaning set forth in subsection (b) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Hold Notice Floor” has the meaning set forth in subsection (g) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Holder Designated Spread” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 5 hereof.
     “Holder Spread Adjustment” shall mean the adjustment of the Spread in accordance with the procedures set forth in paragraph 5 hereof.
     “Indenture” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 1 hereof.
     “Initial Interest Rate” has the meaning set forth on the face of this Note.
     “Interest Accrual Date” means each Interest Reset Date, to but excluding the Interest Reset Date next preceding the Conversion Date (if any).
     “Interest Determination Date” has the meaning set forth on the face of this Note.

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     “Interest Payment Date” shall mean each Interest Reset Date, if any, from and including the Conversion Date, and including the Maturity Date.
     “Interest Period” means the period from and including an Interest Reset Date (or, in the case of the initial Interest Period, from and including the Original Issue Date) to but excluding the next Interest Reset Date (or the Maturity Date).
     “Interest Reset Date” means each June 19 and December 19, beginning June 19, 2007, to and including the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Reset Date would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date will be the first following day that is a Business Day, except that if such day falls in the next calendar month, such Interest Reset Date will be the preceding day that is a Business Day.
     “Original Issue Date” has the meaning set forth on the face of this Note.
     “LIBOR-Telerate” shall mean, on each Interest Determination Date, the rate for deposits in U.S. Dollars having a maturity of six months (the “Index Maturity”) which appears on the Telerate Page 3750 (as defined below) as of 11:00 a.m. London time on such Interest Determination Date. If on any Interest Determination Date, the rate for deposits in U.S. Dollars having the Index Maturity does not appear on the Telerate Page 3750 as specified above, LIBOR-Telerate will be determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in U.S. Dollars having the Index Maturity and in a principal amount equal to an amount that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time are offered by four major banks in the London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time, on such Interest Determination Date to prime banks in the London interbank market. The Calculation Agent will request the principal London office of each of such banks to provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two such quotations are provided, the rate in respect of such Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations. If fewer than two quotations are provided, LIBOR-Telerate in respect of such Interest Determination will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted by three major banks in The City of New York, selected by the Calculation Agent, at approximately 11:00 a.m. New York time, on such Interest Determination Date for loans in U.S. Dollars to leading European banks, having the Index Maturity and in a principal amount equal to an amount that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time; provided, however, that if the banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting as described in this sentence, LIBOR-Telerate on such Interest Determination Date will be equal to LIBOR-Telerate in effect on the day preceding such Interest Determination Date.
     “London Banking Day” shall mean any day on which commercial banks are open for business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London.

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     “Market Day” means a day which is a Business Day, a London Banking Day and a day on which markets for U.S. government securities are open for regular trading in New York, New York.
     “Market Disruption Event” shall mean any of the following (as determined in good faith by the Calculation Agent): (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange (or any successor exchange or market) or the establishment of minimum prices on such exchange (or market); (ii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by either federal or New York state authorities; or (iii) an outbreak or escalation of major hostilities involving the United States of America or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, other than any such outbreak, escalation or declaration arising out of or relating to the U.S. war on terrorism that does not represent a significant departure from conditions that exist at the date hereof.
     “Maturity Date” shall mean December 19, 2046; provided, however, that if the Maturity Date would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date will be the first following day that is a Business Day, except that if such day falls in the next calendar month, the Maturity Date will be the preceding day that is a Business Day.
     “Notes” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 1 hereof.
     “Redemption Amount” shall mean, as of the date of a Failed Remarketing, the sum of (i) the principal amount of the Remarketed Notes, (ii) Accrued Interest applicable to the Remarketed Notes as of such date if not previously paid and (iii) any accrued but unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Remarketed Notes or on Accrued Interest applicable to the Remarketed Notes that has not been included in Accrued Interest applicable to the Remarketed Notes in accordance with the procedures set forth in herein.
     “Remarketed Notes” has the meaning set forth in subsection (b) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Repurchase Price” has the meaning set forth in subsection (g) of paragraph 6 hereof.
     “Rule 144A Information” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 12 hereof.
     “Securities Act” has the meaning set forth of the face of this Note.
     “Spread” means (i) with respect to the initial Interest Reset Date, 8 basis points and (ii) with respect to any other Interest Reset Date, the Holder Designated Spread or the Dealer Designated Spread, as the case may be, as determined for such Interest Reset Date.
     “Stated Principal Amount” has the meaning set forth on the face of this Note.

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     “Telerate Page 3750” shall mean the display page designated as page 3750 on the Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace page 3750 on that service for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates).
     “Trustee” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 1 hereof.
     “U.S. Dollars” or “US$” shall mean the lawful currency of the United States of America.
     3. Interest. (a) On each Interest Determination Date, the Calculation Agent shall determine LIBOR-Telerate for the related Interest Reset Date and, upon request of the Trustee, shall notify the Trustee of (i) LIBOR-Telerate and the Spread then in effect for this Note, if available, (ii) if determined, LIBOR-Telerate and the Spread that shall become effective as a result of a determination made on such Interest Determination Date with respect to this Note and (iii) the amount of Accrued Interest as of the related Interest Reset Date.
     (b) Subject to its right to terminate the appointment of any such agent, the Company shall take such action as is necessary to ensure that there shall at all relevant times be a qualified financial institution appointed and acting as its agent for the purpose of performing the actions contemplated hereby to be performed by the Calculation Agent (such agent, including any successor agent, the “Calculation Agent”). The Company has initially appointed AIG Financial Products Corp. as Calculation Agent.
     (c) Interest on this Note shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed.
     (d) The interest rate on this Note will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States law of general application.
     (e) Unless otherwise specified herein, all percentages resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) will be rounded upward to 9.87655% (or .0987655)), and all U.S. dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upward).
     4. Coupon Conversion. The Company shall have the right on any Interest Reset Date scheduled to occur on December 19, 2007 or on any December 19 thereafter until the Maturity Date (any date so designated, the “Conversion Date”), upon prior written notice delivered to the Trustee and each Holder, at least 170 days prior to such Interest Reset Date, to elect to pay cash interest on this Note on each Interest Payment Date on and after the Conversion Date. Any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable. On the Conversion Date, the Accrued Interest on such Conversion Date shall become due and payable in the same manner as provided for payments of interest on this Note.

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Following the Conversion Date, interest on the Stated Principal Amount shall be payable on each Interest Payment Date at a rate equal to LIBOR-Telerate plus the Spread for the Interest Period then ending.
     5. Holder Spread Adjustment. (a) Each Holder shall have the right to propose the Spread to be applicable for one or more subsequent consecutive Interest Periods specified by such Holder for which no Spread has been previously determined, beginning with or following the Interest Period scheduled to begin on December 19, 2007 (each, a “Holder Designated Spread”) by notice given to the Trustee not more than 40 days nor fewer than 30 days prior to the Interest Reset Date in respect of such Interest Period or Interest Periods provided, however that for as long (but only for as long) as this Note or any portion hereof is issued in the form of a Global Note, each beneficial owner of the Notes represented by this Note may give such notice in respect of Notes beneficially owned by it by causing the Agent Member through which such beneficial owner holds such Notes to provide to the Trustee a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto. The Trustee, the Calculation Agent and the Company shall be entitled to rely on any such notice so provided by the Agent Member without independent investigation thereof. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Calculation Agent of each Holder Designated Spread.
     (b) If Holders representing 100% of the outstanding Stated Principal Amount of Notes propose a Holder Designated Spread and a common number of subsequent Interest Periods for which their respective Holder Designated Spreads are to apply, in accordance with paragraph 8(a) above, the Company shall notify each Holder, the Trustee and the Calculation Agent not later than 25 days prior to the next Interest Reset Date whether the Company elects to have the highest Holder Designated Spread be the applicable Spread for the applicable number of subsequent Interest Periods, beginning on such Interest Reset Date. If the Company so elects, then such highest Holder Designated Spread shall be the Spread for Interest Reset Dates relating to the applicable Interest Periods. The adjustment of the Spread as specified in this paragraph 5 is referred to as a “Holder Spread Adjustment”.
     (c) Upon the occurrence of a Holder Spread Adjustment, the Holder Designated Spread, as determined pursuant to paragraphs 5(a) and 5(b) above, shall be the Spread until the earliest of (i) the Maturity Date, (ii) the next Holder Spread Adjustment and (iii) the next Dealer Spread Adjustment.
     (d) If Holders representing 100% of the outstanding Stated Principal Amount of the Notes do not propose a Holder Designated Spread and a common number of subsequent Interest Periods for which their respective Holder Designated Spreads are to apply, in accordance with paragraph 5(a) above, for an Interest Reset Date for which no Spread has been previously determined, or if the Company fails to make the election specified in paragraph 5(b) above with respect to such an Interest Reset Date, then the procedures contained in paragraph 6 below shall apply with respect to such an Interest

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Reset Date. The Company shall notify the Trustee and each Holder of such result not fewer than 25 days prior to any such Interest Reset Date.
     6. Dealer Spread Adjustment. (a) The provisions of this paragraph 6 shall apply with respect to each Interest Reset Date for which the Spread is not adjusted pursuant to the Holder Spread Adjustment procedure set forth in paragraph 5 above, except that the provisions of this paragraph 6 shall not in any case apply with respect to any Interest Reset Date scheduled to occur before December 19, 2007. The procedure by which the Spread is adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph is referred to herein as a “Dealer Spread Adjustment”.
     (b) Notwithstanding the purchase of Notes on an Interest Reset Date by the Final Dealer as contemplated in paragraph 6(e) below, each Holder may elect to retain all or a portion of its Notes by providing notice of such election (a “Hold Notice”) to the Trustee not later than 20 days prior to such Interest Reset Date. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Calculation Agent of all such Hold Notices. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, with respect to a particular Interest Reset Date, Holders (“Electing Holders") deliver Hold Notices with respect to Notes representing more than 80% of the outstanding Stated Principal Amount of Notes (the “Hold Notice Ceiling”), a portion of the Notes subject to Hold Notices (not exceeding 20% of the outstanding Stated Principal Amount of Notes) shall nonetheless be subject to remarketing pursuant to this paragraph 6, selected by the Trustee by lot from among Electing Holders, to the extent necessary so that the total amount of Notes remarketed shall equal 20% of the outstanding Stated Principal Amount of Notes. Such Notes (if any), together with those Notes as to which no Hold Notice has been delivered, are referred to as “Remarketed Notes” for the respective Interest Reset Date. If, with respect to any Interest Reset Date, Hold Notices are delivered in respect of Notes in excess of the Hold Notice Ceiling, the Trustee shall, upon written instructions from the Company, give written notice to Electing Holders, not later than 5:00 p.m. New York time on the fifteenth day prior to the Interest Reset Date, of the amount of such Notes that, pursuant to this paragraph 6(b), will be Remarketed Notes, subject to the remarketing procedures set forth in this paragraph 6 for such Interest Reset Date.
     (c) The Spread on all Notes, whether or not they are Remarketed Notes, will be subject to any Dealer Spread Adjustment that occurs pursuant to this paragraph 6. In the case of a Failed Remarketing, the Company shall be obligated to purchase, and certain Holders shall be obligated to sell, Notes on the relevant Interest Reset Date as set forth in section (g) of this paragraph 6.
     (d) On the sixth Market Day prior to each Interest Reset Date to which this paragraph 6 applies (each, a “Calculation Date”), the Calculation Agent shall take the following actions (all underlined times noted below are indicative and all references to a specific time are references to New York City time):

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     (i) 9:00 a.m.: The Company shall provide to the Calculation Agent the name of a Reference Dealer, and shall provide, for such Reference Dealer so named, the name of, and telephone and facsimile numbers and email addresses for, one individual who will represent such Reference Dealer; in addition, the Calculation Agent shall select two additional Reference Dealers such that there are a total of three Reference Dealers with respect to such Calculation Date (which Reference Dealer(s) may be (or include) AIG-FS at the Calculation Agent’s option);
     (ii) 9:15 a.m.: The Calculation Agent promptly shall contact each of the Reference Dealers and request that each Reference Dealer provide to the Calculation Agent the following firm bid for the benefit of Holders of Remarketed Notes (which bid shall remain firm for 30 minutes): a firm bid (on an all-in basis) to purchase, for settlement on the related Interest Reset Date, the Remarketed Notes from their respective Holders for a purchase price equal to the principal amount of the Remarketed Notes plus (except where the Interest Reset Date is also an Interest Payment Date) the amount of Accrued Interest applicable to the Remarketed Notes, each as of the applicable Interest Reset Date, for settlement on the Interest Reset Date, which bid shall designate the Spread proposed by the Reference Dealer (the “Dealer Designated Spread”) to be effective for the Interest Period commencing on such Interest Reset Date.
     (e) Provided that neither a Market Disruption Event nor a Failed Remarketing has occurred, on the second London Banking Day prior to the applicable Interest Reset Date, the following actions shall occur:
          (i) The Calculation Agent shall notify the Company of the “Final Dealer Designated Spread”, which shall be the lowest Dealer Designated Spread received by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the procedures set forth in this paragraph 6.
          (ii) The Spread shall equal, for the Interest Period commencing on such Interest Reset Date, the Final Dealer Designated Spread.
          (iii) The Reference Dealer providing the Final Dealer Designated Spread shall be deemed the "Final Dealer”, provided that if two or more Reference Dealers shall have quoted the Final Dealer Designated Spread, the Company shall determine which of the Reference Dealers is the Final Dealer or the Final Dealers (and in the latter case, the allocation of Remarketed Notes to be made between them).
          (iv) The Company shall notify the Trustee that the Final Dealer(s) will purchase, on the Interest Reset Date, the Remarketed Notes at a price equal to the principal amount of the Remarketed Notes, plus (except where the Interest Reset Date is also an Interest Payment Date) the amount of Accrued Interest applicable to the Remarketed Notes, each as of the applicable Interest Reset Date (such sum, the “Final Dealer Purchase Price”).
     (f) Each Holder of Remarketed Notes shall sell its Remarketed Notes to the Final Dealers on the Interest Reset Date for a price equal to the percentage of the Final Dealer

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Purchase Price applicable to such Holder’s Remarketed Notes, and in the case of more than one Final Dealer, according to the allocation designated by the Company under clause (e)(iii) above.
     (g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Calculation Agent determines that, on the applicable Calculation Date, (i) a Market Disruption Event has occurred or is continuing or (ii) no Reference Dealer has provided a firm bid in a timely manner in accordance with this paragraph 6 in a manner satisfactory to the Calculation Agent in its sole discretion (any such occurrence described in this clause (ii), a “Failed Remarketing”), the steps contemplated above shall be taken on the next Market Day on which the Calculation Agent determines that no Market Disruption Event or Failed Remarketing has occurred and is continuing. If the Calculation Agent determines in its sole discretion that a Market Disruption Event and/or a Failed Remarketing has occurred or is continuing for at least four consecutive Market Days starting on the applicable Calculation Date, then (A) the Calculation Agent shall notify the Company of such determination promptly after the close of business on such fourth Market Day and (B) the Company shall be obligated to purchase, and Holders shall be obligated to sell, those Notes that would have been otherwise deemed Remarketed Notes had such Failed Remarketing not occurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if with respect to a particular Interest Reset Date to which the preceding sentence applies, Electing Holders had delivered Hold Notices with respect to Notes representing less than 20% of the outstanding Stated Principal Amount of Notes (the “Hold Notice Floor”), the Company shall be obligated to purchase all Notes, and all Holders, including those Electing Holders who have delivered Hold Notices not meeting the Hold Notice Floor, shall be obligated to sell all Notes, on the relevant Interest Reset Date. The Company shall repurchase Notes pursuant to this section (g) on the applicable Interest Reset Date from the Holders thereof at a purchase price equal to the Stated Principal Amount plus (except where the Interest Reset Date is also an Interest Payment Date) Accrued Interest and any accrued but unpaid interest on the Stated Principal Amount that has not been included in Accrued Interest in accordance with the procedures set forth in paragraph 4 hereof (the “Repurchase Price”). For the avoidance of doubt, for those Notes as to which (x) Hold Notices have been delivered and (y) the Hold Notice Floor has been met or exceeded, the Spread shall equal, for the Interest Period commencing on such Interest Reset Date, the Spread in effect during the immediately preceding Interest period (except in the case of the initial Interest Reset Date, wherein the Spread shall be 8 basis points). With respect to those Notes that will be repurchased by the Company pursuant to this section (g), the Company shall give notice to the Holder that this Note will be repurchased by the Company on the applicable Interest Reset Date at the price specified above, from the Holder on such Interest Reset Date, such notice to be given no later than such second London Banking Day prior to the Interest Reset Date in the manner described below.
     (h) Unless otherwise expressly stated in this paragraph 6, each notice, bid or offer required by this paragraph 6 to be given by the Reference Dealers shall be given telephonically and shall be confirmed as soon as possible by fax (or such other means as

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the Calculation Agent may determine) to each of the Trustee, the Calculation Agent and the Company.
     7. Settlement Procedures. For as long (but only for as long) as this Note or any portion hereof is issued in the form of a Global Note, the provisions of paragraph 7(a) through 7(f) below, inclusive, shall apply with respect to this Note or such portion, as the case may be.
     (a) If, on any Interest Reset Date, the Remarketed Notes are purchased by the respective Final Dealer(s) pursuant to paragraph 6 hereof,
all beneficial interests in the Remarketed Notes held by or through Agent Members (as defined below) shall be transferred to Depositary
account(s) designated by such Final Dealer(s). The transfers shall be made automatically, without any action on the part of any holder or beneficial owner, by book entry through the facilities of the Depositary. Such Final Dealer(s) shall be obligated to make payment of the relevant percentage of the Final Dealer Purchase Price for the Remarketed Notes to the Depositary or its nominee, for credit to the account(s) of the Agent Member(s) by or through which beneficial interests in the Remarketed Notes are held, by the close of business on the applicable Interest Reset Date. Each such transfer shall be made against the corresponding payment, and each such payment shall be made against the corresponding transfer, in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures. In all cases, the Company shall remain obligated to make payment of accrued and unpaid interest on this Note if such Interest Reset Date shall also be an Interest Payment Date (including Accrued Interest if such Interest Payment Date is also the Conversion Date), with interest payable on the applicable (or any prior) Interest Payment Date being payable to the Holder of this Note on the corresponding Regular Record Date.
     (b) If the Final Dealer(s) (or any of them, if more than one) fails to pay the applicable purchase price for the Remarketed Notes which it is obligated to purchase on the applicable Interest Reset Date, then a Failed Remarketing shall be deemed to have occurred, and the Company will be obligated to pay, not later than two Business Days following the applicable Interest Reset Date, the Redemption Amount for the Remarketed Notes or, if the Hold Notice Floor is not met, the Repurchase Price for the Notes calculated as of the date of purchase, with settlement otherwise occurring as described in paragraph 7(a); provided that if the Company concludes, with the concurrence of the Calculation Agent, that any such failure was solely the result of an operational or administrative error, and the Final Dealer(s) in question makes payment of the Final Dealer Purchase Price (together with interest thereon, as determined by the Calculation Agent, to account for the delay) not later than such second Business Day, no Failed Remarketing shall be deemed to have occurred and settlement shall take place on such second Business Day as though it was the Interest Reset Date.
     (c) As used herein, (i) “Agent Member” means, at any time, any person who is a member of, or participant in, the Depositary at such time and (ii) “Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any payment, transfer or other transaction to be

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effected with respect to a Global Note, through the facilities of the Depositary at any time, the policies and procedures of the Depositary applicable to such transaction, as in effect at such time.
     (d) If the Company is required to purchase the Remarketed Notes or the Notes, then, on the applicable Interest Reset Date, all beneficial interests in the Remarketed Notes or the Notes held by or through Agent Members shall be transferred to a Depositary account designated by the Company. The transfers shall be made automatically, without any action on the part of any Holder or beneficial owner of the Remarketed Notes or the Notes, by book entry through the facilities of the Depositary. The Company shall be obligated to make payment of the Redemption Amount for the Remarketed Notes or the Repurchase Price for the Notes to the Depositary or its nominee, for credit to the accounts of the Agent Members by or through which beneficial interests in the Remarketed Notes or the Notes are held, by the close of business on the applicable Interest Reset Date. Each such transfer shall be made against the corresponding payment, and each such payment shall be made against the corresponding transfer, in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures. If the Company fails to pay the Redemption Amount for the Remarketed Notes or Repurchase Price for the Notes when such payment is due, interest will continue to accrue on the Remarketed Notes or the Notes (including on Accrued Interest) from such Interest Reset Date to the date the payment is made, at the rate in effect immediately prior to such Interest Reset Date plus one percent, and shall be payable as part of such Redemption Amount or Repurchase Price, in the same manner and for credit to the same accounts as such Redemption Amount or Repurchase Price. Whether or not the Company purchases the Remarketed Notes, the Company shall remain obligated to make payment of accrued and unpaid interest on this Note on the applicable Interest Reset Date, if it shall also be an Interest Payment Date (including Accrued Interest if such Interest Payment Date is also the Conversion Date), with interest being payable to the Holder on the corresponding Regular Record Date as provided herein.
     (e) The transactions described in paragraphs 7(a) and 7(b) above shall be executed on the applicable Interest Reset Date through the facilities of the Depositary in accordance with its Applicable Procedures, and the accounts of the respective Agent Members shall be debited and credited and beneficial interests in the Remarketed Notes shall be delivered by book entry as necessary to effect the purchases and sales provided for above. Unless the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures require otherwise, such transactions shall settle, and all other payments in respect of the Notes shall be made, in immediately available funds through DTC’s Same-Day Funds Settlement System. Notwithstanding any provision hereof or of the Indenture, neither the Company, the Trustee nor the Calculation Agent, nor any agent of any such person, shall have any responsibility with respect to the Applicable Procedures or for any payments, transfers or other transactions, or any notices or other communications, among the Depositary, its Agent Members, any other direct or indirect participants therein and any beneficial owners of a Global Note. For all purposes of this Note and the Indenture, any payment or notice to be made or given with respect to this Note by the Company or the Calculation

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Agent shall be deemed made or given when made or given to the Depositary or its nominee, in accordance with its Applicable Procedures.
     (f) The settlement procedures described in this paragraph 7 may be modified, notwithstanding any contrary terms of the Notes or the Indenture, to the extent required by the Depositary. In addition, notwithstanding any contrary terms of the Notes or the Indenture, the Company may modify the settlement procedures described in this paragraph 7 in order to facilitate the settlement process.
     If any Notes are issued in non-book-entry form, the Company shall modify the procedures contemplated by the provisions of paragraph 7(a) through 7(e) above, inclusive, so as to ensure that Interest Reset Date settlements of transactions in such Notes are effected in as comparable a manner as practical, provided that such modified procedures shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of the outstanding Notes in any material respect.
     The settlement procedures contained in this paragraph 7 may be modified, regardless of any contrary terms of this Note or the Indenture, to the extent required by DTC or, if the book-entry system is no longer available for the Notes at the relevant time, to the extent required to facilitate these transactions in non-book-entry form. In addition, the Calculation Agent may modify the settlement procedures contained in this paragraph 7 in order to facilitate the settlement process.
     8. Sinking Fund. The Notes do not have the benefit of any sinking fund obligation.
     9. Defeasance. The defeasance provisions in Article Thirteen of the Indenture apply to the Notes. Pursuant to these provisions, the entire indebtedness of this Note or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note may be defeased at any time, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
     10. Events of Default; Remedies. (a) If an Event of Default with respect to Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
     (b) As set forth in, and subject to, the provisions of the Indenture, no Holder of this Note will have any right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for any remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default, the Holders of not less than 25% of the outstanding Stated Principal Amount of Notes shall have made written request, and offered reasonable indemnity, to the Trustee to institute such proceeding as trustee, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in outstanding Stated Principal Amount of Notes a direction inconsistent with such request and shall have failed to institute such proceeding within 60 days; provided, however, that such

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limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by the Holder hereof for the enforcement of payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or any interest of this Note on or after the respective due date expressed herein.
     11. Covenants. The Notes are entitled to the benefits of the covenants of the Company set forth in Article Ten of the Indenture.
     12. Rule 144A Information. At any time when the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, upon the request of a Holder of a Note or of a beneficial owner of an interest in a Global Note, the Company will promptly furnish or cause to be furnished Rule 144A Information (as defined below) to such Holder or beneficial owner, or to a prospective purchaser of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Global Note designated by such Holder or beneficial owner of such interest in order to permit compliance by such Holder or beneficial owner with Rule 144A under the Securities Act. “Rule 144A Information” shall be such information as is specified pursuant to paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto), as such provision (or successor provision) may be amended from time to time.
     13. Payment. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
     14. Form; Denomination. The Notes of this series are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in denominations of $100,000 and any multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
     15. Registration; Transfer & Exchange. (a) As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and interest on this Note are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
     (b) No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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(c) Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 2.4 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication of the Notes
     The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
     This is one of the Notes of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK                      ,
As Trustee
 
 
  By:      
    Authorized Signatory   
       
 
Section 2.5 Title and Terms
     The Notes shall be issued in one series. The aggregate principal amount of the Notes that may initially be authenticated and delivered under this First Supplemental Indenture is limited to $500,000,000, except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306 or 906 of the Existing Indenture or Article Two of this First Supplemental Indenture. The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, issue additional notes having the same ranking, interest rate, Stated Maturity and CUSIP number and terms as to status, redemption or otherwise as the Notes, in which event such notes and the Notes shall constitute one series for all purposes under the Indenture, including without limitation, amendments, waivers and redemptions.
     The Stated Maturity of the Notes shall be December 19, 2046.
     The Company shall have no obligation to redeem or purchase the Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provision, or at the option of a Holder thereof, except as otherwise contemplated by paragraphs (6) and (7) on the Form of Reverse of the Notes.
     The Notes shall be subject to the defeasance and discharge provisions of Section 1302 of the Existing Indenture and the defeasance of certain obligations and certain events of default provisions of Section 1303 of the Existing Indenture.

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     The Notes shall be issuable only in fully registered form without coupons and only in denominations of $100,000 and multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
     The Notes shall be executed, authenticated, delivered and dated in accordance with Section 303 of the Existing Indenture.
Section 2.6 Transfer and Exchanges; Restricted Notes Legends
     (a) Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Transfers and exchanges of Notes and beneficial interests in a Global Note of the kinds specified in this Section 2.6(a) shall be made only in accordance with this Section 2.6(a). A Note that is not a Global Note may be transferred, in whole or in part, to a Person who takes delivery in the form of another Note that is not a Global Note as provided in Section 305 of the Existing Indenture, provided that the Trustee shall have received a Restricted Notes Certificate, satisfactory to the Company and duly executed by the transferor Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, in which case the transferee Holder shall take delivery in the form of a Restricted Note.
     (b) Restricted Notes Legends. The Notes and their Successor Notes shall bear the Restricted Notes Legend, subject to the following:
     (i) a Note or any portion thereof which is exchanged, upon transfer or otherwise, for a Global Note or any portion thereof shall bear the Restricted Notes Legend borne by such Global Note while represented thereby;
     (ii) a new Note which is not a Global Note and is issued in exchange for another Note (including a Global Note) or any portion thereof, upon transfer or otherwise, shall bear the Restricted Notes Legend borne by such other Note, provided that, if such new Note is required pursuant to Section 2.6(a) to be issued in the form of a Restricted Note, it shall bear the Restricted Notes Legend; and
     (iii) a new Note which does not bear a Restricted Notes Legend may be issued in exchange for or in lieu of a Note (other than a Global Note) or any portion thereof which bears such a legend if, in the judgment of the Company, placing such a legend upon such new Note is not necessary to ensure compliance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and the Trustee, at the direction of the Company, shall authenticate and deliver such a new Note as provided in this Article Two.

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ARTICLE THREE
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 3.1 Relationship to Existing Indenture
     The First Supplemental Indenture is a supplemental indenture within the meaning of the Existing Indenture. The Existing Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this First Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified, confirmed and approved and, with respect to the Notes, the Existing Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this First Supplemental Indenture, shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 3.2 Modification of the Existing Indenture
     Except as expressly modified by this First Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of the Existing Indenture shall govern the terms and conditions of the Notes.
Section 3.3 Governing Law
     This instrument shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 3.4 Counterparts
     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 3.5 Trustee Makes No Representation
     The recitals contained herein are made by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By   /s/ ROBERT A. GENDER    
    Name:   Robert A. Gender   
    Title:   Vice President and Treasurer   
 
Attest:
/s/ KATHLEEN E. SHANNON
 
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
 
 
  By   /s/ JULIE SALOVITCH-MILLER  
    Name:   JULIE SALOVITCH-MILLER  
    Title:   VICE PRESIDENT  
 

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ANNEX A — Form of Restricted
Notes Certificate
RESTRICTED NOTES CERTIFICATE
The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West
New York, New York 10286
Attn: Corporate Trust Administration
Re:   Resetable Floating Rate Notes Due 2046 of American International Group, Inc. (the “Notes”)
     Reference is made to the Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006, between American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”) and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, as supplemented (the “Indenture”). Terms used herein and defined in the Indenture or in Rule 144A or Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), are used herein as so defined.
     This certificate relates to U.S.$                     principal amount of Notes, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the “Specified Securities”):
     CUSIP No(s).
     CERTIFICATE No(s).                     
     The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the “Undersigned”) hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the Specified Securities, (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial owners of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so or (iii) it is the Holder of a Global Note and has received a certification to the effect set forth below. Such beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the “Owner”. If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Note, they are held through the Depositary or an Agent Member in the name of the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner. If the Specified Securities are not represented by a Global Note, they are registered in the name of the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner.
     The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be transferred to a person (the “Transferee”) who will take delivery in the form of a Restricted Note. In connection with such transfer, the Owner hereby certifies that such transfer is being effected in accordance with Rule 144A or Rule 144 under the Securities Act and all applicable securities laws of the states of the United States and other jurisdictions. Accordingly, the Owner hereby further certifies as follows:
     (1) Rule 144A Transfers. If the transfer is being effected in accordance with Rule 144A:

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     (A) the Specified Securities are being transferred to a person that the Owner and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believe is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, acquiring for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer; and
     (B) the Owner and any person acting on its behalf have taken reasonable steps to ensure that the Transferee is aware that the Owner may be relying on Rule 144A in connection with the transfer; and
     (2) Rule 144 Transfers. If the transfer is being effected pursuant to Rule 144:
the transfer is occurring after a holding period of at least one year (computed in accordance with paragraph (d) of Rule 144) has elapsed since the Specified Securities were last acquired from the Company or from an affiliate of the Company, whichever is later, and is being effected in accordance with the applicable amount, manner of sale and notice requirements of Rule 144.
     This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company.
Dated:
 
(Print the name of the Undersigned, as such term is defined in the third paragraph of this certificate.)
         
     
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
(If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or fiduciary, the title of the person signing on behalf of the Undersigned must be stated.)

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ANNEX B — Form of
Notice (including Exhibit A)
American International Group, Inc.
INSTRUCTION TO DTC PARTICIPANTS
                           , 20      [Date of Mailing]
[N.B.: Insert date that is 45 days prior to each Interest Reset Date beginning with or following 12/19/07]
URGENT — IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUESTED
DEADLINE FOR RESPONSE:                            , 20      [DATE]
[N.B.: Insert date 30 days prior to Interest Reset Dates beginning with or following 6/19/07]
The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) has identified you as a DTC Participant through which beneficial interests in the American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”) $500,000,000 Resetable Floating Rate Notes Due December 19, 2046, Cusip No. 026874BC0 (the “Notes”) are held. Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Notes.
Pursuant to paragraph 6(a) of the Notes, for as long (but only for as long) as the Notes or any portion thereof are issued in the form of a Global Note, each beneficial owner of the Notes shall have the right to propose a Holder Designated Spread to be the Spread applicable for one or more consecutive Interest Periods (beginning with or following the Interest Period scheduled to begin on December 19, 2007) by notice given to the Trustee not more than 40 days nor fewer than 30 days prior to the Interest Reset Date in respect of such Interest Period. A beneficial owner may give such notice in respect of Notes beneficially owned by it by causing the Agent Member/DTC Participant through which such beneficial owner holds such Notes to provide to the Trustee, on behalf of such beneficial owner, a notice including such beneficial owner’s Holder Designated Spread. Such notice from the Agent Member/DTC Participant must be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
     Pursuant to paragraph 7(b) of the Notes, in the event the Spread is not adjusted pursuant to the Holder Spread Adjustment procedure set forth in paragraph 6 of the Notes, each Holder of the Notes may elect to retain all or a portion of its Notes by providing a Hold Notice to the Trustee not later than 20 days prior to such Interest Reset Date. For as long as the Notes are issued in the form of a Global Note, such notice must be given to the Trustee by the Depositary, or its nominee, as Holder of the Notes. In order to facilitate such notice, the Agent Member/DTC Participant must provide, on behalf of beneficial owners, Hold Notice information to the Depositary in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures and by providing to the Trustee a notice including such Hold Notice information. Such notice from the Agent Member/DTC Participant must be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

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     It is important that beneficial owners of the Notes receive a copy of the enclosed materials and that you coordinate with them as soon as possible. The beneficial owners’ rights to propose a Holder Designated Spread and to submit Hold Notice information depend upon your providing the notices described above to the Trustee by                           , 20      [Deadline For Response]. Please forward a copy of the enclosed materials to each beneficial owner that holds interests in the Notes through you. A separate Notice in the form of Exhibit A should be provided by you to the Trustee for each beneficial owner that holds interests in the Notes through you. If you require more copies of this material or have any questions pertaining to this matter, please contact the Trustee.

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American International Group, Inc.
Notice to Beneficial Holders of Holders’ Rights to Provide Holder Designated Spreads and Hold Notices
                           , 20      [Date]
[N.B.: Not less than 40 days prior to the Interest Reset Date]
URGENT — IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUESTED
Reference is hereby made to the American International Group, Inc. (the “Company”) $500,000,000 Resetable Floating Rate Notes Due December 19, 2046, Cusip No. 026874BC0 (the “Notes”). Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Notes.
Pursuant to paragraph 6(a) of the Notes, for as long as the Notes or any portion thereof are issued in the form of a Global Note, each beneficial owner of the Notes shall have the right to propose a Holder Designated Spread to be the Spread applicable for one or more consecutive Interest Periods (beginning with or following the Interest Period scheduled to begin on December 19, 2007) by notice given to the Trustee not more than 40 days nor fewer than 30 days prior to the Interest Reset Date in respect of such Interest Period. You, as a beneficial owner, may give such notice in respect of Notes beneficially owned by you by causing the Agent Member/DTC Participant through which you hold such Notes to provide to the Trustee, on your behalf, a notice including your Holder Designated Spread. Such notice from the Agent Member/DTC Participant must be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
Pursuant to paragraph 7(b) of the Notes, in the event the Spread is not adjusted pursuant to the Holder Spread Adjustment procedure set forth in paragraph 6 of the Notes, each Holder of the Notes may elect to retain all or a portion of its Notes by providing a Hold Notice to the Trustee not later than 20 days prior to such Interest Reset Date. For as long as the Notes are issued in the form of a Global Note, such notice must be given to the Trustee by the Depositary, or its nominee, as Holder of the Notes. In order to facilitate such notice, the Agent Member/DTC Participant must provide, on your behalf, Hold Notice information to the Depositary in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures and by providing to the Trustee a notice including your Hold Notice information. Such notice from the Agent Member/DTC Participant must be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
If you, as a beneficial owner of Notes, wish to provide a Holder Designated Spread and/or Hold Notice information, it is important that you forward such information to the Agent Member/DTC Participant through which you hold such Notes as soon as possible and request that such Agent Member/DTC Participant submit a notice in the form of Exhibit A on your behalf. Your rights to propose a Holder Designated Spread and to submit Hold Notice information depend upon the Agent Member/DTC Participant

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providing the notices described above to the Trustee on your behalf by                           , 20      [Deadline For Response]. Please provide to your Agent Member/DTC Participant the information that it will need to complete Exhibit A on your behalf. Do not forward Exhibit A directly to the Trustee as Exhibit A must be forwarded by your Agent Member/DTC Participant. If you have any questions pertaining to this matter, please contact your Agent Member/DTC Participant.

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Exhibit A
FORM OF LETTER FROM AGENT MEMBERS
The Bank of New York,
As Trustee
101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West
New York, New York 10286
The Depository Trust Company
55 Water Street
New York, New York 10041
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the note (Cusip No. 026874BC0 ) registered in the name of Cede & Co. as nominee of the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), representing $500,000,000 stated principal amount of Resetable Floating Rate Notes due December 19, 2046 (the “Notes”) of American International Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).
The undersigned hereby confirms that it is a DTC participant (DTC Participant No.                     ) and that $                     in aggregate outstanding Stated Principal Amount of the Notes is held through the undersigned. The undersigned acknowledges that the Company, the Calculation Agent, the Trustee and others will rely upon the information contained herein.
This letter relates to                     ** stated principal amount of the Notes held by us on behalf of the beneficial owner of such Notes.
On behalf of and upon the instructions of the beneficial owner of such Notes, the undersigned hereby provides the following information pursuant to paragraphs 6 and 7 of the Notes:
The beneficial owner wishes to propose a Holder Designated Spread. Yes      ** No      **
If yes, proposed Holder Designated Spread:      ** per cent. (      ** basis points)
If yes, proposed number of Interest Periods for which Holder Designated Spread is to apply:      

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The beneficial owner wishes to deliver a Hold Notice. Yes      ** No      **
If yes, principal amount for which Hold Notice is applicable:                     **
         
    Very truly yours,
 
       
    [Name of DTC Participant]
 
       
 
  By:    
 
       
 
       
 
  Title:    
 
       
 
       
 
  Date:    
 
       
 
**   Denotes information to be provided by the beneficial owner to the Agent Member.

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AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
Second Supplemental
Indenture
Dated as of January 18, 2007
 
(Supplemental to Indenture Dated as of October 12, 2006)
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee

 


 

     SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of January 18, 2007 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”), between American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called “Trustee”);
R E C I T A L S:
     WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to The Bank of New York, as trustee, an Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Base Indenture”) (the Base Indenture, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, including by this Second Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of the Company’s unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein and therein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as provided in the Indenture, and the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, to the Base Indenture, establishing a series of Securities under the Base Indenture;
     WHEREAS, Section 901(5) of the Base Indenture permits the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions in the Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding;
     WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Base Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture, on January 18, 2007, the Company intends to issue $10,000,000 principal amount of its Securities to be known as its US Dollar Zero Coupon Callable Notes due January 18, 2047 (the “Notes”), to be issued as part of its Medium-Term Notes, Series AIG-FP;
     WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee wish to amend the terms of Section 1104 of the Base Indenture as it applies to the Notes to reduce the minimum period for the giving of a notice of redemption to Holders of Securities pursuant to Article 11 of the Base Indenture;
     WHEREAS, pursuant to resolutions of (i) the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on March 15, 2006 and (ii) the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on December 14, 2006, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Second Supplemental Indenture; and

 


 

     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Second Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms have been done;
     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     The Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 Relation to Base Indenture
     This Second Supplemental Indenture constitutes a part of the Base Indenture in respect of the Notes, but shall not modify, amend or otherwise affect the Base Indenture insofar as it relates to any other Securities.
Section 1.2 Definitions
     For all purposes of this Second Supplemental Indenture, the capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Base Indenture have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Base Indenture.
ARTICLE TWO
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE SECURITIES
Section 2.1 Notice of Redemption
     The first paragraph of Section 1104 of the Base Indenture is amended and restated as follows:
     Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 10 days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.

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ARTICLE THREE
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 3.1 Relationship to Base Indenture
     The Second Supplemental Indenture is a supplemental indenture within the meaning of the Base Indenture. The Base Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Second Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified, confirmed and approved and, as supplemented and amended by this Second Supplemental Indenture, shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 3.2 Modification of the Base Indenture
     Except as expressly modified by this Second Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of the Base Indenture shall continue to apply to each Security issued thereunder.
Section 3.3 Governing Law
     This instrument shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 3.4 Counterparts
     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 3.5 Trustee Makes No Representation
     The recitals contained herein are made by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Second Supplemental Indenture.

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     In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have caused this Second Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By   /s/ ROBERT A. GENDER  
    Name:   Robert A. Gender  
    Title:   Vice President and Treasurer  
 
Attest:
/s/ KATHLEEN E. SHANNON
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
 
 
  By   /s/ JULIE SALOVITCH-MILLER  
    Name:   Julie Salovitch-Miller  
    Title:   VICE PRESIDENT  
 


 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
Third Supplemental
Indenture
Dated as of March 23, 2007
 
(Supplemental to Indenture Dated as of October 12, 2006)
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee


 

     THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of March 23, 2007 (the “Third Supplemental Indenture”), between American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called “Trustee”);
R E C I T A L S:
     WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to The Bank of New York, as trustee, an Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Base Indenture”) (the Base Indenture, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, including by this Third Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of the Company’s unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein and therein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as provided in the Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, to the Base Indenture, establishing a series of Securities under the Base Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, to the Base Indenture, amending the redemption provisions of the Base Indenture in connection with a specific issuance of securities;
     WHEREAS, Section 901(5) of the Base Indenture permits the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions in the Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding;
     WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Base Indenture and this Third Supplemental Indenture, on March 23, 2007, the Company intends to issue $15,000,000 principal amount of its Securities to be known as its CMS Curve Accrual Notes due March 23, 2022 (the “Notes”), to be issued as part of its Medium-Term Notes, Series AIG-FP;
     WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee wish to amend the terms of Section 1104 of the Base Indenture as it applies to the Notes to reduce the minimum period for the giving of a notice of redemption to Holders of Securities pursuant to Article 11 of the Base Indenture;
     WHEREAS, pursuant to resolutions of (i) the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on March 15, 2006 and (ii) the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on


 

December 14, 2006, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Third Supplemental Indenture; and
     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Third Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms have been done;
     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     The Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 Relation to Base Indenture
     This Third Supplemental Indenture constitutes a part of the Base Indenture in respect of the Notes, but shall not modify, amend or otherwise affect the Base Indenture insofar as it relates to any other Securities.
Section 1.2 Definitions
     For all purposes of this Third Supplemental Indenture, the capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Base Indenture have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Base Indenture.
ARTICLE TWO
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE SECURITIES
Section 2.1 Notice of Redemption
     The first paragraph of Section 1104 of the Base Indenture is amended and restated as follows:
     Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 5 days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.

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ARTICLE THREE
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 3.1 Relationship to Base Indenture
     The Third Supplemental Indenture is a supplemental indenture within the meaning of the Base Indenture. The Base Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Third Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified, confirmed and approved and, as supplemented and amended by this Third Supplemental Indenture, shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 3.2 Modification of the Base Indenture
     Except as expressly modified by this Third Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of the Base Indenture shall continue to apply to each Security issued thereunder.
Section 3.3 Governing Law
     This instrument shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 3.4 Counterparts
     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 3.5 Trustee Makes No Representation
     The recitals contained herein are made by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Third Supplemental Indenture.

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     In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have caused this Third Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By   /s/ ROBERT A. GENDER  
    Name:   Robert A. Gender  
    Title:   Vice President and Treasurer  
 
Attest:
/s/ KATHLEEN E. SHANNON
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
 
 
  By   /s/ JULIE SALOVITCH-MILLER  
    Name:   Julie Salovitch-Miller  
    Title:   VICE PRESIDENT  
 


 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
Fourth Supplemental
Indenture
Dated as of April 18, 2007
 
(Supplemental to Indenture Dated as of October 12, 2006)
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee

 


 

     FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of April 18, 2007 (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”), between American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called “Trustee”);
R E C I T A L S:
     WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to The Bank of New York, as trustee, an Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006 (the “Base Indenture”) (the Base Indenture, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, including by this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of the Company’s unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein and therein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as provided in the Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, to the Base Indenture, establishing a series of Securities under the Base Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, to the Base Indenture, amending the redemption provisions of the Base Indenture in connection with a specific issuance of securities, and the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23, 2007, amending the redemption provisions of the Base Indenture in connection with a specific issuance of securities;
     WHEREAS, the Company has established the following series under the Indenture: Medium-Term Notes, Series G; Medium-Term Notes, Series AIG-FP; and Medium-Term Notes, Series MP, Matched Investment Program (each an “Existing Series”);
     WHEREAS, Section 901(5) of the Base Indenture permits the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions in the Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding;
     WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee wish to amend the terms of Sections 301 and 1104 of the Base Indenture to allow the Company to reduce the minimum period for the giving of a notice of redemption to Holders of Securities pursuant to Article 11 of the Base Indenture;
     WHEREAS, the changes contemplated in this Fourth Supplemental Indenture comply with the requirements of Section 901(5) of the Base Indenture;

 


 

     WHEREAS, pursuant to resolutions of (i) the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on March 15, 2006 and (ii) the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted at a meeting duly called on December 14, 2006, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture; and
     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Fourth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms have been done;
     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     The Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 Relation to Base Indenture
     This Fourth Supplemental Indenture constitutes a part of the Base Indenture in respect of Securities issued on or after the date hereof, including additional Securities issued under an Existing Series, but shall not modify, amend or otherwise affect the Base Indenture insofar as it relates to any other Securities, including any existing Securities issued under an Existing Series.
Section 1.2 Definitions
     For all purposes of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Base Indenture have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Base Indenture.
ARTICLE TWO
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE SECURITIES
Section 2.1 Notice of Redemption
     The first paragraph of Section 1104 of the Base Indenture is amended and restated as follows:
     Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 5 Business Days

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nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
Section 2.2 Terms of the Securities
     Section 301(7) of the Base Indenture is amended and restated as follows:
     (7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which (including the notice period, if different from the notice period set forth in Section 1104) any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
ARTICLE THREE
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 3.1 Relationship to Base Indenture
     The Fourth Supplemental Indenture is a supplemental indenture within the meaning of the Base Indenture. The Base Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified, confirmed and approved and, as supplemented and amended by this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 3.2 Modification of the Base Indenture
     Except as expressly modified by this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of the Base Indenture shall continue to apply to each Security issued thereunder.
Section 3.3 Governing Law
     This instrument shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York.
Section 3.4 Counterparts
     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

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Section 3.5 Trustee Makes No Representation
     The recitals contained herein are made by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture.

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     In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have caused this Fourth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By   /s/ ROBERT A. GENDER  
    Name:   Robert A. Gender  
    Title:   Vice President and Treasurer  
 
Attest:
/s/ KATHLEEN E. SHANNON
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
 
 
  By   /s/ JULIE SALOVITCH-MILLER  
    Name:   Julie Salovitch-Miller  
    Title:   VICE PRESIDENT  
 

EX-4.4
 

Exhibit 4.4
 
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
Trustee
 
Subordinated Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture
Dated as of                      
 
 

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
             
        Page  
PARTIES       1
   
 
       
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY     1  
   
 
       
       ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION     1  
   
 
       
Section 101.  
Definitions
    1  
   
Act
    2  
   
Affiliate
    2  
   
Board of Directors
    2  
   
Board Resolution
    2  
   
Business Day
    2  
   
Commission
    2  
   
Company
    2  
   
Company Request; Company Order
    2  
   
Corporate Trust Office
    2  
   
corporation
    3  
   
Covenant Defeasance
    3  
   
Defaulted Interest
    3  
   
Defeasance
    3  
   
Depositary
    3  
   
Event of Default
    3  
   
Exchange Act
    3  
   
Expiration Date
    3  
   
Global Security
    3  
   
Holder
    3  
   
Indenture
    3  
   
interest
    4  
   
Interest Payment Date
    4  
   
Investment Company Act
    4  
   
Maturity
    4  
   
Notice of Default
    4  
   
Officers’ Certificate
    4  
   
Opinion of Counsel
    4  
   
Original Issue Discount Security
    4  
   
Outstanding
    4  
   
Paying Agent
    5  
   
Person
    5  
   
Place of Payment
    5  
   
Predecessor Security
    5  
   
Redemption Date
    6  
   
Redemption Price
    6  
   
Regular Record Date
    6  
   
Securities
    6  
   
Securities Act
    6  
 
Note:   This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 


 

             
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Security Register and Security Registrar
    6  
   
Senior Debt
    6  
   
Special Record Date
    6  
   
Stated Maturity
    7  
   
Subsidiary
    7  
   
Trust Indenture Act
    7  
   
Trustee
    7  
   
U.S. Government Obligation
    7  
   
Vice President
    7  
Section 102.  
Compliance Certificates and Opinions
    7  
Section 103.  
Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
    8  
Section 104.  
Acts of Holders; Record Dates
    8  
Section 105.  
Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company
    10  
Section 106.  
Notice to Holders; Waiver
    10  
Section 107.  
Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
    11  
Section 108.  
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
    11  
Section 109.  
Successors and Assigns
    11  
Section 110.  
Separability Clause
    11  
Section 111.  
Benefits of Indenture
    11  
Section 112.  
Governing Law
    11  
Section 113.  
Legal Holidays
    12  
   
 
       
ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS     12  
   
 
       
Section 201.  
Forms Generally
    12  
Section 202.  
Form of Face of Security
    13  
Section 203.  
Form of Reverse of Security
    14  
Section 204.  
Form of Legend for Global Securities
    18  
Section 205.  
Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
    18  
   
 
       
ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES     18  
   
 
       
Section 301.  
Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series
    18  
Section 302.  
Denominations
    21  
Section 303.  
Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
    22  
Section 304.  
Temporary Securities
    23  
Section 305.  
Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
    23  
Section 306.  
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
    25  
Section 307.  
Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
    25  
Section 308.  
Persons Deemed Owners
    26  
Section 309.  
Cancellation
    27  
Section 310.  
Computation of Interest
    27  
Section 311.  
CUSIP Numbers
    27  
Section 312.  
Original Issue Discount
    27  
   
 
       
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE     28  
   
 
       
Section 401.  
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
    28  
Section 402.  
Application of Trust Money
    29  

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ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES     29  
   
 
       
Section 501.  
Events of Default
    29  
Section 502.  
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
    30  
Section 503.  
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
    31  
Section 504.  
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
    32  
Section 505.  
Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
    32  
Section 506.  
Application of Money Collected
    32  
Section 507.  
Limitation on Suits
    33  
Section 508.  
Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
    33  
Section 509.  
Restoration of Rights and Remedies
    33  
Section 510.  
Rights and Remedies Cumulative
    34  
Section 511.  
Delay or Omission Not Waiver
    34  
Section 512.  
Control by Holders
    34  
Section 513.  
Waiver of Past Defaults
    34  
Section 514.  
Undertaking for Costs
    35  
Section 515.  
Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws
    35  
   
 
       
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE     35  
   
 
       
Section 601.  
Certain Duties and Responsibilities
    35  
Section 602.  
Notice of Defaults
    35  
Section 603.  
Certain Rights of Trustee
    36  
Section 604.  
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
    37  
Section 605.  
May Hold Securities
    37  
Section 606.  
Money Held in Trust
    37  
Section 607.  
Compensation and Reimbursement
    37  
Section 608.  
Conflicting Interests
    38  
Section 609.  
Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
    38  
Section 610.  
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
    38  
Section 611.  
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
    40  
Section 612.  
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
    41  
Section 613.  
Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
    41  
   
 
       
ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY     41  
   
 
       
Section 701.  
Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
    41  
Section 702.  
Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders
    41  
Section 703.  
Reports by Trustee
    42  
Section 704.  
Reports by Company
    42  
   
 
       
ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE     42  
   
 
       
Section 801.  
Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
    42  
Section 802.  
Successor Substituted
    43  

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ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES     43  
   
 
       
Section 901.  
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
    43  
Section 902.  
Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders
    44  
Section 903.  
Execution of Supplemental Indentures
    46  
Section 904.  
Effect of Supplemental Indentures
    46  
Section 905.  
Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
    46  
Section 906.  
Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
    46  
Section 907.  
Subordination Unimpaired
    46  
   
 
       
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS     46  
   
 
       
Section 1001.  
Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
    46  
Section 1002.  
Maintenance of Office or Agency
    47  
Section 1003.  
Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust
    47  
Section 1004.  
Statement by Officers as to Default
    48  
Section 1005.  
Existence
    48  
Section 1006.  
Waiver of Certain Covenants
    48  
   
 
       
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES     49  
   
 
       
Section 1101.  
Applicability of Article
    49  
Section 1102.  
Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
    49  
Section 1103.  
Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
    49  
Section 1104.  
Notice of Redemption
    50  
Section 1105.  
Deposit of Redemption Price
    50  
Section 1106.  
Securities Payable on Redemption Date
    51  
Section 1107.  
Securities Redeemed in Part
    51  
   
 
       
ARTICLE TWELVE SINKING FUNDS     51  
   
 
       
Section 1201.  
Applicability of Article
    51  
Section 1202.  
Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities
    52  
Section 1203.  
Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
    52  
   
 
       
ARTICLE THIRTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE     52  
   
 
       
Section 1301.  
Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
    52  
Section 1302.  
Defeasance and Discharge
    53  
Section 1303.  
Covenant Defeasance
    53  
Section 1304.  
Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
    53  
Section 1305.  
Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions
    55  
Section 1306.  
Reinstatement
    56  
   
 
       
ARTICLE FOURTEEN SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES     56  
   
 
       
Section 1401.  
Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt
    56  
Section 1402.  
Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
    57  
Section 1403.  
Prior Payment to Senior Debt Upon Acceleration of Securities
    58  

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Section 1404.  
No Payment When Senior Debt in Default
    58  
Section 1405.  
Payment Permitted in Certain Situations
    59  
Section 1406.  
Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt
    59  
Section 1407.  
Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights
    60  
Section 1408.  
Trustee to Effectuate Subordination
    60  
Section 1409.  
No Waiver of Subordination Provisions
    60  
Section 1410.  
Notice to Trustee
    61  
Section 1411.  
Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent
    61  
Section 1412.  
Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt
    61  
Section 1413.  
Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights
    62  
Section 1414.  
Article Applicable to Paying Agents
    62  
   
 
       
TESTIMONIUM     62  
SIGNATURES     62  
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS     63  

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Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
     
Trust Indenture    
Act Section   Indenture Section
§ 310(a)(1)  
609
(a)(2)  
609
(a)(3)  
Not Applicable
(a)(4)  
Not Applicable
(b)  
608
   
610
§ 311(a)  
613
(b)  
613
§ 312(a)  
701
   
702
(b)  
702
(c)  
702
§ 313(a)  
703
(b)  
703
(c)  
703
(d)  
703
§ 314(a)  
704
(a)(4)  
101
   
1004
(b)  
Not Applicable
(c)(1)  
102
(c)(2)  
102
(c)(3)  
Not Applicable
(d)  
Not Applicable
(e)  
102
§ 315(a)  
601
(b)  
602
(c)  
601
(d)  
601
(e)  
514
§ 316(a)  
101
(a)(1)(A)  
502
   
512
(a)(1)(B)  
513
(a)(2)  
Not Applicable
(b)  
508
(c)  
104
§ 317(a)(1)  
503
(a)(2)  
504
(b)  
1003
§ 318(a)  
107
 
Note:   This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 


 

     SUBORDINATED JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT INDENTURE, dated as of                      , between American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
     The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided, including Securities issued to evidence loans made to the Company of the proceeds from the issuance from time to time by the AIG Capital Trust I, a Delaware statutory trust, or the AIG Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust (each an “Issuer Trust”), of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of such Issuer Trusts.
     All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, 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;
     (2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
     (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation;
     (4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture; and

 


 

     (5) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
     “Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
     “Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
     “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Business Day”, when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
     “Capital Securities” means preferred undivided beneficial interests in the assets of an Issuer Trust.
     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
     “Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.
     “Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman, its Vice Chairman, its President or one of its Vice Presidents (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and by its Treasurer, one of its Assistant Treasurers, its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee in New York, New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.

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     “corporation” means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.
     “Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
     “Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
     “Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
     “Depositary” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, any Person that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.
     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 204 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
     “Guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the Company guaranteeing, or having the economic effect of guaranteeing, any indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including without limitation, any obligation of such Person, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such indebtedness or obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment of such indebtedness or obligation, (ii) to purchase property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the holders of such indebtedness or obligation of the payment of such indebtedness or obligation, or (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such indebtedness or obligation.
     “Guarantee Agreement” means, with respect to an Issuer Trust, the Guarantee Agreement, dated as of                     , for the benefit of the holders of Capital Securities issued by such Issuer Trust, as the same may be amended from time to time.
     “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
     “Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.

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     “interest”, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.
     “Interest Payment Date”, when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
     “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Issuer Trust” has the meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
     “Junior Subordinated Indenture” means the Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2007, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2007, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007 and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 7, 2007, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee, as the same may be amended from time to time.
     “Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
     “Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(4).
     “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman, a Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
     “Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
     “Outstanding”, when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
     (1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
     (2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided

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that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
     (3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1302; and
     (4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
     “Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
     “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
     “Place of Payment”, when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in

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exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
     “Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Responsible Officer” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any vice president, any assistant vice president, any senior trust officer or assistant trust officer, any trust officer, or any other officer associated with the corporate trust department of the 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 such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
     “Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.
     “Senior Debt” means all indebtedness and obligations (other than the Securities, but including any debentures, notes or other evidence of indebtedness issued under the Senior Indenture, Senior Subordinated Indenture or Junior Subordinated Indenture) of, or Guaranteed or assumed by, the Company that (i) are for borrowed money (ii) are evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, or (iii) represent obligations to policyholders of insurance or investment contracts, in each case, whether outstanding on the date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred, assumed or Guaranteed, and all amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of such indebtedness and obligations, unless in any such case the instrument by which such indebtedness or obligations are created, incurred, assumed or Guaranteed by the Company, or are evidenced, provides that they are subordinated, or are not superior, in right of payment to the Securities.
     “Senior Indenture” means an Indenture, dated as of                      , between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee, as the same may be amended from time to time.
     “Senior Subordinated Indenture” means a Subordinated Indenture, dated as of                      , between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee, as the same may be amended from time to time.
     “Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.

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     “Stated Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
     “Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
     “Trust Agreement” means, with respect to an Issuer Trust, the amended and restated trust agreement of such Issuer Trust, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time.
     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
     “Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
     “U.S. Government Obligation” has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
     “Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”.
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
     Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.
     Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates provided for in Section 1004) shall include,
     (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

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     (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
     (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, such individual has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
     (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
     In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
     Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
     Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

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     The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
     The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
     The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this

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paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.
     Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
     (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
     (2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention: Secretary, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
     Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his or her address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by

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mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
     In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
     If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
     The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 109. Successors and Assigns.
     All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 110. Separability Clause.
     In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.
     Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 112. Governing Law.
     This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York.

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Section 113. Legal Holidays.
     In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity; provided, however, that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to the date of such payment.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally.
     The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.
     The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

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Section 202. Form of Face of Security.
     [Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
American International Group, Inc.
 
     
No.                        $                     
     American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                                          , or registered assigns, the principal sum of                                           Dollars on                                           [if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — , and to pay interest thereon from                        or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on                      and                       in each year, commencing                      , at the rate of                     % per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable, insert — , provided that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of                      % per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the                       or                        (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture].
     [If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of                      % per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on demand.]
     Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert — any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York], in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and

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private debts [if applicable, insert — ; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].
     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
Dated:
             
    American International Group, Inc.    
 
           
 
  By        
 
   
 
   
Attest:
                    
Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
     This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of                     , 20___ (herein called the “Indenture”, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, the holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert — , [initially] limited in aggregate principal amount to $                     ][, provided that the Company may, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time, increase the initial principal amount.]
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’ notice by mail, [if applicable, insert — (1) on                        in any year commencing with the year                       and ending with the year                       through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after                      ,       ], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert — on or before                       ,      %, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning                       of the years indicated,

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    Redemption       Redemption
Year   Price   Year   Price
             
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to      % of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert — (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’ notice by mail, (1) on                       in any year commencing with the year     and ending with the year       through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after                     ], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning                       of the years indicated,
         
    Redemption Price    
    For Redemption   Redemption Price For
    Through Operation   Redemption Otherwise
    of the   Than Through Operation
Year   Sinking Fund   of the Sinking Fund
         
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to    % of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
     [If applicable, insert — Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to                     , redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [if applicable, insert — Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than    % per annum.]
     [If applicable, insert — The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on                      in each year beginning with the year       and ending with the year       of [if applicable,

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insert — not less than $                       (“mandatory sinking fund”) and not more than] $                      aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert — , in the inverse order in which they become due].]
     [If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
     The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or hereafter created, incurred, assumed or Guaranteed, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions.
      [If applicable, insert — The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
     [If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
     [If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to — insert formula for determining the amount. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]
     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities

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of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
     As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
     The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $      and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
      No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
     Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be

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overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
Section 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
     Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
     THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
Section 205. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
     The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
     This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
     
Dated:   The Bank of New
    York,
    As Trustee
     
    By                                                               
    Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
     The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
     The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,

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     (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);
     (2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or 1203 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
     (3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;
     (4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable;
     (5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
     (6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
     (7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
     (8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
     (9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;
     (10) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to a financial or economic measure or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
     (11) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent

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thereof in the currency of the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;
     (12) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);
     (13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;
     (14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);
     (15) if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease any Securities of the series pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 shall be evidenced; whether any Securities of the series other than Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate are to be subject to Section 1302 or Section 1303; or, in the case of Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or any specified part, shall not be defeasible pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 or both such Sections;
     (16) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 204 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
     (17) any amendments or modifications to the subordination provisions in Article Fourteen;
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of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;
     (19) any addition to, deletion from or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the series; and
     (20) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).
     All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at one time and, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a series of Securities, additional Securities of a series may be issued, at the option of the Company, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time.
     If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
     The Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior Debt as provided in Article Fourteen.
Section 302. Denominations.
     The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
     The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, one of its Vice Chairman, its President, its Treasurer or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
     Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

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     At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
     (1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
     (2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
     (3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
     Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, including in the event that the size of a series of Outstanding Securities is increased as contemplated by Section 301, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
     Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
     No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in

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Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
     Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
     If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
     The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
     At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

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     All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
     Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107 or 1203 not involving any transfer.
     If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
     The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:
     (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable or no longer permitted under applicable law to continue as Depositary for such Global Security, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security, (C) the Company so directs the Trustee by a Company Order or (D) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
     (3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.

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     (4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906, 1107 or 1203 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
     If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
     If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
     In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
     Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
     Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued 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 or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
     Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

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     Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
     (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section 106, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
     (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
     Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
     Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest on such Security and for

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all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 309. Cancellation.
     All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary procedures.
Section 310. Computation of Interest.
     Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 311. CUSIP Numbers.
     The Company in issuing any series of the Securities may use CUSIP numbers, if then generally in use, and thereafter with respect to such series, the Trustee may use such numbers in any notice of redemption with respect to such series, provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities of that series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities of that series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
Section 312. Original Issue Discount.
     If any of the Securities is an Original Issue Discount Security, the Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on such Outstanding Original Issue Discount Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
     This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
     (1) either
     (A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
     (B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
     (i) have become due and payable, or
     (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
     (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
    and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
     (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
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Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
Section 402. Application of Trust Money.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default.
     “Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article Fourteen or be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
     (1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
     (2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that series at its Maturity, and continuance of such default for a period of five days; or
     (3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series, and the continuance of such default for a period of five days; or
     (4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
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applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
     (6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or
     (7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable.
     At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
     (1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
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     (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
     (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and
     (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel;
     and
     (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
     The Company covenants that if
     (1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
     (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof and such default continues for a period of five days,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

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Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
     In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
     No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
     All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 506. Application of Money Collected.
     Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
     FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607; and
     SECOND: Subject to Article Fourteen, to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest, respectively.

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Section 507. Limitation on Suits.
     No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
     (1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
     (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
     (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
     (4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
     (5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.
     Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or date for repayment, as the case may be) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
     If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

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Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
     Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
     No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 512. Control by Holders.
     The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that
     (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and
     (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
     The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
     (1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series, or
     (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
     Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

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Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.
     In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess reasonable costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.
Section 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
     The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
     The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 602. Notice of Defaults.
     If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.

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Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
     Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
     (1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be 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 or presented by the proper party or parties;
     (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
     (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;
     (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of 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 reliance thereon;
     (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
     (6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
     (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the 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; and
     (8) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder.

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Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
     The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 605. May Hold Securities.
     The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 606. Money Held in Trust.
     Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
     The Company agrees
     (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
     (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
     (3) to indemnify the Trustee 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 the trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
     When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

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     The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
Section 608. Conflicting Interests.
     If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series or a trustee under the Trust Agreement or the Guarantee Agreement with respect to an Issuer Trust.
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
     There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and has its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
     No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.
     The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

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     If at any time:
     (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
     (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
     (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
     If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

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Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
     Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
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Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
     Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion, consolidation or sale to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
     If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
     The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
     (1) semi-annually either (i) not later than March 31 and September 30 in each year in the case of any series of Securities consisting solely of Original Issue Discount Securities which by their terms do not bear interest prior to Maturity, or (ii) not more than 15 days after each Regular Record Date in the case of Securities of any other series, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the preceding March 16 or September 15 or as of such Regular Record Date, as the case may be; and
     (2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
     excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
     The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

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     The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
     Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
     The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
     A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 704. Reports by Company.
     The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act.
     Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
     The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
     (1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory

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to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
     (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
Section 802. Successor Substituted.
     Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
     Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, 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 herein and in the Securities; or
     (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of some or all of the Holders of all or any series of Securities or of particular Securities within a series as may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
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may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities); or
     (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or
     (5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding; or
     (6) to secure the Securities; or
     (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
     (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611; or
     (9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (9) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
     With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that if the Board Resolutions and supplemental indenture shall expressly provide that any provisions to be changed or eliminated shall apply to fewer than all the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under a particular series under this Indenture, then, to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any such consent may be given by Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under such series to which such change or elimination shall

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apply; provided, further, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby (whether or not such affected Securities comprise all Securities under this Indenture or under a particular series),
     (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or
     (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
     (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section 1006, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8).
     A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more identified series of Securities or particular Securities within an identified series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series, or Holder of particular Securities within a series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed to affect only the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of the identified series or of particular Securities within the identified series, and shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of any other Securities.
     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
     After a supplemental indenture under this Section 902 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Trustee a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture or a copy of such supplemental indenture and the Trustee shall mail such notice or supplemental indenture to Holders affected thereby. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, or any failure of the Company to mail such supplemental indenture, shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

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Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
     In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
     Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
     Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
     Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
Section 907. Subordination Unimpaired.
     This Indenture may not be amended at any time to alter the subordination, as provided herein, of any of the Securities then Outstanding without the written consent of each holder of Senior Debt then outstanding that would be adversely affected thereby.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
     The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.

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Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
     The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
     The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
     If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.
     The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by

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the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
     Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
     The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
Section 1005. Existence.
     Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
     Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the Company may, with respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(19), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in Section 1005 if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.
     Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
     The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
     If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
     The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
     The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.

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     For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.
     Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
     All notices of redemption shall state:
     (1) the Redemption Date;
     (2) the Redemption Price;
     (3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed;
     (4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;
     (5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
     (6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case; and
     (7) if applicable, the CUSIP numbers of the Securities of that series.
     Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and, unless otherwise specified or contemplated by Section 301, shall be irrevocable.
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
     Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date or the Securities of the series provide otherwise) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

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Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
     Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together, if applicable, with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
     If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
     Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
Section 1201. Applicability of Article.
     The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
     The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any series of Securities is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. If provided for by the terms of any series of Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of the series as provided for by the terms of such Securities.

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Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
     The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
     Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 1301. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
     Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, Sections 1302 and 1303 shall apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, in either case, denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article; and the Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Section 1302 and 1303 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, designated pursuant to Section 301 as being defeasible pursuant to such Section 1302 or 1303, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article. Any such election to have or not to have Sections 1302 and 1303 apply, as the case may be, shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.

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Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.
     Upon the Company’s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, or if this Section shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations, and the provisions of Article Fourteen shall cease to be effective, with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section applied to the Securities of any series notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section 1303 applied to such Securities.
Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance.
     Upon the Company’s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, or if this Section shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under any covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(19), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 501(4) (with respect to any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(19), 901(2) or 901(7)) and 501(7) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default and (3) the provisions of Article Fourteen shall cease to be effective, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(4)), whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section by reason of any reference in any such Section or to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
     The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 1302 or 1303 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be:
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trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
     (2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
     (3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.

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     (4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
     (5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(5) and (6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).
     (6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).
     (7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
     (8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
     (9) No event or condition shall exist that, pursuant to the provisions of Article Fourteen, would prevent the Company from making payments of the principal of (and any premium) or interest on the Securities of such series on the date of such deposit or at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until such 90th day shall have ended).
     (10) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with (in each case, subject to the satisfaction of the condition in clause (5)).
Section 1305.  Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. Money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the

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proceeds thereof) so held in trust shall not be subject to the provisions of Article Fourteen, provided that the applicable conditions of Section 1304 have been satisfied.
     The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
     Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.
Section 1306. Reinstatement.
     If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 1401. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt.
     The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article, the indebtedness represented by the Securities and the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on each and all of the Securities are hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a deposit referred to in Section 1304(1) is made pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 with respect to any Securities (and provided all other conditions set out in Section 1302 or 1303, as applicable, shall have been satisfied with respect to such Securities), then, when the 90th day after such deposit has ended, no money or U.S. Government Obligations so deposited, and no proceeds thereon, will be subject to any rights of holders of Senior Debt, including any such rights arising under this Article Fourteen.

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Section 1402. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
     In the event of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding in connection therewith, relative to the Company or to its creditors, as such, or to its assets, or (b) any liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, or (c) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of the Company, then and in any such event the holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Debt (including any interest accruing thereon after the commencement of any such case or proceeding), or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt, before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities, and to that end the holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive, for application to the payment thereof, any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any such payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities, which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities in any such case, proceeding, liquidation, dissolution or other winding up event.
     In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any such payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities, before all Senior Debt is paid in full or payment thereof provided for, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment or distribution, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment or distribution shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other Person making payment or distribution of assets of the Company for application to the payment of all Senior Debt remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Debt in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Debt. Any taxes that have been withheld or deducted from any payment or distribution in respect of the Securities, or any taxes that ought to have been withheld or deducted from any such payment or distribution that have been remitted to the relevant taxing authority, shall not be considered to be an amount that the Trustee or the Holder of any Security receives for purposes of this Section.
     For purposes of this Article only, the words “cash, property or securities” shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation or other entity provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment which are subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Debt which may at the time be outstanding to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article. The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, or the conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, another Person upon the terms and conditions set forth in Article Eight, or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following any such conveyance or transfer, shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding up, liquidation, reorganization, assignment

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for the benefit of creditors or marshalling of assets and liabilities of the Company for the purposes of this Section if the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease of such properties and assets substantially as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions set forth in Article Eight.
Section 1403. Prior Payment to Senior Debt Upon Acceleration of Securities.
     In the event that any Securities are declared due and payable before their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Debt or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents, before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment (including any payment which may be payable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities) by the Company on account of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with Article Twelve by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 1202 Securities which have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such declaration of acceleration.
     In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
Section 1404. No Payment When Senior Debt in Default.
     Subject to the last paragraph of this Section, (a) (i) in the event and during the continuation of any default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Debt beyond any applicable grace period with respect thereto, or (ii) in the event that any event of default with respect to any Senior Debt shall have occurred and be continuing permitting the holders of such Senior Debt (or a trustee on behalf of the holders thereof) to declare such Senior Debt due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable(provided that, in the case of Clause (i) or Clause (ii), if such default in payment or event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist and any such declaration of acceleration shall have been rescinded or annulled, then such default in payment or event of default, as the case may be, shall be deemed not to have occurred for the purpose of this Section) or (b) in the event any judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any such default in payment or event of default that shall be deemed to have occurred for the purpose of this Section, then no payment (including any payment which may be payable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities) shall be made by the Company on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with Article Twelve by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 1202 Securities which have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such default in payment or event of default.

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     In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
     No default in payment or event of default with respect to any Senior Debt shall be deemed to be a default in payment or event of default of the kind specified in Clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) of this Section, and no judicial proceeding with respect to any such default in payment or event of default shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding of the kind specified in Clause (b) of this Section, if (x) the Company shall be disputing the occurrence or continuation of such default in payment or event of default, or any obligation purportedly giving rise to such default in payment or event of default, and (y) no final judgment holding that such default in payment or event of default has occurred and is continuing shall have been issued. For this purpose, a “final judgment” means a judgment that is issued by a court having jurisdiction over the Company, is binding on the Company, is in full force and effect and is not subject to judicial appeal or review (including because the time within which a party may seek appeal or review has expired), provided that, if any such judgment has been issued but is subject to judicial appeal or review, it shall nevertheless be deemed to be a final judgment unless the Company shall in good faith be prosecuting such appeal or a proceeding for such review.
Section 1405. Payment Permitted in Certain Situations.
     Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except during the pendency of any case, proceeding, dissolution, liquidation or other winding up, assignment for the benefit of creditors or other marshalling of assets and liabilities of the Company referred to in Section 1402 or under the conditions described in Section 1403 or 1404, from making payments at any time of or on account of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of the Securities, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge that such payment would have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article.
Section 1406. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt.
     Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Debt or the provision for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Debt pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably with the holders of indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are subordinated to the Senior Debt and is entitled to like rights of subrogation) to the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and securities applicable to the Senior Debt until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article, and no payments over pursuant

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to the provisions of this Article to the holders of Senior Debt by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior Debt.
Section 1407. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
     The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the one hand and the holders of Senior Debt on the other hand. Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall (a) impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional (and which, subject to the rights under this Article of the holders of Senior Debt, is intended to rank equally with all other general obligations of the Company), to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders of Senior Debt; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Debt to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
Section 1408. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
     Each Holder of a Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
Section 1409. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
     No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any non-compliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
     Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Securities and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior Debt, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior Debt or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Debt or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Debt; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the collection

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of Senior Debt; and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.
Section 1410. Notice to Trustee.
     The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior Debt or from any trustee therefor; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist.
     Subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee therefor). In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
Section 1411. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
     Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution, winding up or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of Senior Debt and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.
Section 1412. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt.
     The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt and shall not be liable to any such holders or creditors if it shall in good faith pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company or to any other Person cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.

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Section 1413. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights.
     The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Debt which may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
     Nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
Section 1414. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
     In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee.

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     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 

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EX-4.6
 

Exhibit 4.6
 
AIG PROGRAM FUNDING, INC.
Issuer
AND
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
Guarantor
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
Trustee
 
Indenture
Dated as of                , 2007
 
 

 


 

AIG Program Funding, Inc.
Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
         
Trust Indenture        
Act Section   Indenture Section    
§ 310(a)(1)
      609
(a)(2)
      609
(a)(3)
      Not Applicable
(a)(4)
      Not Applicable
(b)
      608
 
      610
§ 311(a)
      613
(b)
      613
§ 312(a)
      701
 
      702
(b)
      702
(c)
      702
§ 313(a)
      703
(b)
      703
(c)
      703
(d)
      703
§ 314(a)
      704
(a)(4)
      101
 
      1004
(b)
      Not Applicable
(c)(1)
      102
(c)(2)
      102
(c)(3)
      Not Applicable
(d)
      Not Applicable
(e)
      102
§ 315(a)
      601
(b)
      602
(c)
      601
(d)
      601
(e)
      514
§ 316(a)
      101
(a)(1)(A)
      502
 
      512
(a)(1)(B)
      513
(a)(2)
      Not Applicable
(b)
      508
(c)
      104
§ 317(a)(1)
      503
(a)(2)
      504
(b)
      1003
§ 318(a)
      107
 
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
             
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Parties     1  
Recitals of the Company     1  
Recitals of the Guarantor     1  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    1  
   
 
       
Section 101.  
Definitions
    1  
Section 102.  
Compliance Certificates and Opinions
    6  
Section 103.  
Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
    7  
Section 104.  
Acts of Holders; Record Dates
    7  
Section 105.  
Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Company and Guarantor
    9  
Section 106.  
Notice to Holders; Waiver
    9  
Section 107.  
Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
    9  
Section 108.  
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
    10  
Section 109.  
Successors and Assigns
    10  
Section 110.  
Separability Clause
    10  
Section 111.  
Benefits of Indenture
    10  
Section 112.  
Governing Law
    10  
Section 113.  
Legal Holidays
    10  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS
    10  
   
 
       
Section 201.  
Forms Generally
    10  
Section 202.  
Form of Face of Security
    11  
Section 203.  
Form of Reverse of Security
    12  
Section 204.  
Form of Legend for Global Securities
    15  
Section 205.  
Form of Guarantee
    16  
Section 206.  
Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
    17  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES
    18  
   
 
       
Section 301.  
Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series
    18  
Section 302.  
Denominations
    20  
Section 303.  
Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
    20  
Section 304.  
Temporary Securities
    22  
Section 305.  
Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
    22  
Section 306.  
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
    24  
Section 307.  
Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
    24  
Section 308.  
Persons Deemed Owners
    25  
Section 309.  
Cancellation
    26  
Section 310.  
Computation of Interest
    26  
Section 311.  
CUSIP Numbers
    26  
Section 312.  
Original Issue Discount
    26  

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ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
    26  
   
 
       
Section 401.  
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
    26  
Section 402.  
Application of Trust Money
    27  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES
    28  
   
 
       
Section 501.  
Events of Default
    28  
Section 502.  
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
    29  
Section 503.  
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
    30  
Section 504.  
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
    30  
Section 505.  
Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
    31  
Section 506.  
Application of Money Collected
    31  
Section 507.  
Limitation on Suits
    31  
Section 508.  
Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
    32  
Section 509.  
Restoration of Rights and Remedies
    32  
Section 510.  
Rights and Remedies Cumulative
    32  
Section 511.  
Delay or Omission Not Waiver
    32  
Section 512.  
Control by Holders
    32  
Section 513.  
Waiver of Past Defaults
    33  
Section 514.  
Undertaking for Costs
    33  
Section 515.  
Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws
    33  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE
    33  
   
 
       
Section 601.  
Certain Duties and Responsibilities
    33  
Section 602.  
Notice of Defaults
    34  
Section 603.  
Certain Rights of Trustee
    34  
Section 604.  
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
    35  
Section 605.  
May Hold Securities
    35  
Section 606.  
Money Held in Trust
    35  
Section 607.  
Compensation and Reimbursement
    35  
Section 608.  
Conflicting Interests
    36  
Section 609.  
Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
    36  
Section 610.  
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
    37  
Section 611.  
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
    38  
Section 612.  
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
    39  
Section 613.  
Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
    39  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
    40  
   
 
       
Section 701.  
Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
    40  
Section 702.  
Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders
    40  
Section 703.  
Reports by Trustee
    40  
Section 704.  
Reports by Company
    41  

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ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
    41  
   
 
       
Section 801.  
Company and Guarantor May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
    41  
Section 802.  
Successor Substituted
    41  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
    42  
   
 
       
Section 901.  
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
    42  
Section 902.  
Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders
    43  
Section 903.  
Execution of Supplemental Indentures
    44  
Section 904.  
Effect of Supplemental Indentures
    44  
Section 905.  
Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
    44  
Section 906.  
Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
    44  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS
    45  
   
 
       
Section 1001.  
Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
    45  
Section 1002.  
Maintenance of Office or Agency
    45  
Section 1003.  
Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust
    45  
Section 1004.  
Statement by Officers as to Default
    46  
Section 1005.  
Existence
    46  
Section 1006.  
Waiver of Certain Covenants
    46  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
    47  
   
 
       
Section 1101.  
Applicability of Article
    47  
Section 1102.  
Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
    47  
Section 1103.  
Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
    47  
Section 1104.  
Notice of Redemption
    48  
Section 1105.  
Deposit of Redemption Price
    48  
Section 1106.  
Securities Payable on Redemption Date
    49  
Section 1107.  
Securities Redeemed in Part
    49  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE TWELVE SINKING FUNDS
    49  
   
 
       
Section 1201.  
Applicability of Article
    49  
Section 1202.  
Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities
    50  
Section 1203.  
Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
    50  
   
 
       
   
ARTICLE THIRTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
    50  
   
 
       
Section 1301.  
Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
    50  
Section 1302.  
Defeasance and Discharge
    50  
Section 1303.  
Covenant Defeasance
    51  
Section 1304.  
Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
    51  
Section 1305.  
Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions
    53  
Section 1306.  
Reinstatement
    53  

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ARTICLE FOURTEEN GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
    54  
   
 
       
Section 1401.  
Guarantee
    54  
Section 1402.  
Execution of Guarantee
    55  

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     INDENTURE, dated as of _________, 2007, among AIG Program Funding, Inc., a [corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware] (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Guarantor”), having its principal office at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).
Recitals of the Company
     The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
     All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
Recitals of the Guarantor
     The Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the Guarantee of the Securities provided for herein.
     All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Guarantor, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
     Now, Therefore, This Indenture Witnesseth:
     For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
Section 101. Definitions.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, 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;
     (2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
     (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation;

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     (4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture; and
     (5) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
     “Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
     “Authorized Officer” means any person (whether designated by name or the persons for the time being holding a designated office) appointed by or pursuant to a Board Resolution for the purpose, or a particular purpose, of this Indenture, provided that written notice of such appointment shall have been given to the Trustee.
     “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or the Guarantor, as the context requires, or any duly authorized committee of that board.
     “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or Guarantor to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Business Day”, when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
     “Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.
     “Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its President, its Chief Financial Officer, its Chief Operating Officer or a Vice President or any executive officer (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee in New York, New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.

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     “corporation” means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.
     “Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
     “Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
     “Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
     “Depositary” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, any Person that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.
     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 204 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
     “Guarantee” means a guarantee by the Guarantor on the terms set forth in Article Fourteen.
     “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
     “Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.
     “interest”, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.
     “Interest Payment Date”, when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
     “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
     “Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(4).
     “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer or a Vice President or any executive officer, and by the Treasurer, an

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Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, and in each case delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable.
     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company or the Guarantor, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
     “Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
     “Outstanding”, when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
     (1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
     (2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
     (3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1302; and
     (4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have

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been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
     “Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
     “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
     “Place of Payment”, when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
     “Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Responsible Officer”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means any vice president, any assistant vice president, any senior trust officer or assistant trust officer, any trust officer, or any other officer associated with the corporate trust department of the 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 such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
     “Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.
     “Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.

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     “Stated Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
     “Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
     “Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
     “U.S. Government Obligation” has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
     “Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”.
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
     Upon any application or request by the Company or the Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company or the Guarantor, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.
     Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates provided for in Section 1004) shall include,
     (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
     (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
     (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, such individual has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

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     (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
     In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
     Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or the Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company or the Guarantor stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or the Guarantor, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
     Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
     (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company or the Guarantor or both. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and the Guarantor, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
     (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
     (c) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand,

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authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     (d) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     (e) With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record date may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.
     (f) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.

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     (g) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
     (h) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company or the Guarantor in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Company and Guarantor.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
     (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or the Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
     (2) the Company or the Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention Secretary, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be.
Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
     Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his or her address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders.
     Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
     In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
     If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

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Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
     The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 109. Successors and Assigns.
     All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company or the Guarantor shall bind its respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 110. Separability Clause.
     In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities or the Guarantee shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.
     Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities or the Guarantee, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 112. Governing Law.
     This Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantee shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
Section 113. Legal Holidays.
     In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any), need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity; provided, however, that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to the date of such payment.
ARTICLE TWO
Security Forms
Section 201. Forms Generally.
     The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be

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determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.
     The securities of each series shall bear the Guarantee in substantially the form set forth in Section 205, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture.
     The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Section 202. Form of Face of Security.
[Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
[Insert title of Securities]
     CUSIP No. _________    
     
     No. _________   $_________
     AIG Program Funding, Inc., a [corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware] (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to _________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of _________ Dollars on _________ [if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — , and to pay interest thereon from _________ or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on _________ and _________ in each year, commencing _________, at the rate of _____% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable, insert — , provided that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of ______% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the _________ or _________ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior

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to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture].
     [If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of ______% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on demand.]
     Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert — any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in _________, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [if applicable, insert — ; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].
     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
     In Witness Whereof, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
     Dated:
                     
            AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
 
                   
 
          By        
 
             
 
Attest:
   
 
                   
 
  Attest:                
 
                   
 
 
 
               
Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
     This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of _________ (herein called the “Indenture”, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, American International Group, Inc. (the “Guarantor”) and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert — , [initially] limited in

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aggregate principal amount to _________ ][, provided that the Company may, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time, increase the initial principal amount].
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’ notice by mail, [if applicable, insert — (1) on _________ in any year commencing with the year _________ and ending with the year _________ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after ______, _________ ], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert — on or before _________, ______%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning _________ of the years indicated,
                         
Year   Redemption Price     Year     Redemption Price  
 
                       
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ______% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert — (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’ notice by mail, (1) on _________ in any year commencing with the year _________ and ending with the year _________ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after _________], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning _________ of the years indicated,
                           
    Redemption Price For     Redemption Price For Redemption  
    Redemption Through     Otherwise Than Through Operation  
Year   Operation of the Sinking Fund     of the Sinking Fund  
 
               
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ______% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]

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     [If applicable, insert — Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to _________, redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [if applicable, insert — Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than ______% per annum.]
     [If applicable, insert — The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on _________ in each year beginning with the year _________ and ending with the year _________ of [if applicable, insert — not less than $_________ (“mandatory sinking fund”) and not more than] $_________ aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert — , in the inverse order in which they become due].]
     [If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
     [If applicable, insert — The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
     [If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
     [If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to — insert formula for determining the amount. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]
     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.
     The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

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     As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
     The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $___ and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
     No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
     Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
Section 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
     Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

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THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
Section 205. Form of Guarantee.
GUARANTEE OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
     For value received, American International Group, Inc (the “Guarantor”) unconditionally guarantees to the Holder of the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed (the “Holder”), the prompt payment when due of all present and future payment obligations of AIG Program Funding, Inc. (the “Company”) to the Holder arising out of the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed (hereinafter the “Obligations”).
     The Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall not be affected by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection or extent of any collateral therefor or by any other circumstance relating to the Obligations that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defense to the Guarantor not available to the Company. The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may resort to the Guarantor for payment of any of the Obligations whether or not the Holder shall have resorted to any collateral therefor or shall have proceeded against the Company or any other obligor principally or secondarily obligated with respect to any of the Obligations. The Holder shall not be obligated to file any claim relating to the Obligations in the event that the Company becomes subject to a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, and the failure of the Holder to so file shall not affect the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder. In the event that any payment to the Holder in respect of any Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason whatsoever, the Guarantor shall remain liable hereunder with respect to such Obligations as if such payment had not been made. The Guarantor reserves the right to (a) set-off against any payment owing hereunder any amounts owing by the Holder to the Company and (b) assert defenses which the Company may have to payment of any Obligations other than defenses arising from the bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company and other defenses expressly waived hereby.
     The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may at any time and from time to time, either before or after the maturity thereof, without notice to or further consent of the Guarantor, extend the time of payment of, exchange or surrender any collateral for, or renew any of the Obligations, and may also make any agreement with the Company or with any other party to or person liable on any of the Obligations or interested therein, for the extension, renewal, payment, compromise, discharge or release thereof, in whole or in part, or for any modification of the terms thereof or of any agreement between the Holder and the Company or any such other party or person without in any way impairing or affecting this Guarantee. The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee and of the Obligations, presentment, demand for payment, notice of dishonor and protest.
     The Guarantor agrees to pay on demand all fees and out of pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of the Holder’s counsel) in any way relating to the enforcement or protection of the rights of the Holder hereunder; provided, that the Guarantor shall not be liable for any expenses of the Holder if no payment under this Guarantee is due.

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     Upon payment of any of the Obligations, the Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holder against the Company with respect to such Obligations, and the Holder agrees to take at the Guarantor’s expense such steps as the Guarantor may reasonably request to implement such subrogation.
     This Guarantee is absolute and unconditional and shall remain in full force and effect and be binding upon the Guarantor, its successors and assigns until all of the Obligations have been satisfied in full. If any of the present or future Obligations are guaranteed by persons, partnerships or corporations in addition to the Guarantor, the death, release or discharge, in whole or in part, or the bankruptcy, liquidation or dissolution of one or more of them shall not discharge or affect the liabilities of the Guarantor under this Guarantee.
     No failure on the part of the Holder to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right, remedy or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Holder of any right, remedy or power hereunder preclude any other or future exercise of any right, remedy or power. Each and every right, remedy and power hereby granted to the Holder or allowed it by law or other agreement shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any other, and may be exercised by the Holder at any time or from time to time.
     The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee, presentment to or demand of payment from anyone whomsoever liable upon any of the Obligations, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of any sale of collateral security and all other notices whatsoever.
     This Guarantee is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture, dated ___, 2007 among AIG Program Funding[, Inc.], American International Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, and each Holder, by accepting the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions.
     This Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by manual signature.
     This Guarantee shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor has caused this Guarantee to be duly executed.
             
    AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.    
 
           
 
  By        
 
     
 
   
 
           
 
  By        
 
     
 
   
Section 206. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
     The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
     This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

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    The Bank of New York,    
 
      As Trustee    
 
           
 
  By        
 
     
Authorized Officer
   
 
           
ARTICLE THREE
The Securities
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
     The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
     The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,
     (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);
     (2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or 1203 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
     (3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;
     (4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable;
     (5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
     (6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
     (7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which (including the notice period, if different from the notice period set forth in Section 1104) any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole

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or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
     (8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
     (9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;
     (10) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to a financial or economic measure or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
     (11) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;
     (12) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);
     (13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;
     (14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);
     (15) if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease any Securities of the series pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 shall be evidenced; whether any Securities of the series other than Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate are to be subject to Section 1302 or Section 1303; or, in the case of Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole

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or any specified part, shall not be defeasible pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 or both such Sections;
     (16) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 204 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
     (17) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;
     (18) any addition to, deletion from or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the series; and
     (19) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).
     All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at one time and, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a series of Securities, additional Securities of a series may be issued, at the option of the Company, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time.
     If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
Section 302. Denominations.
     The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
     The Securities and the Guarantee to be endorsed thereon shall be executed (i) on behalf of the Company, by its Chairman, one of its Vice Chairmen, its President, its Treasurer or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries and (ii) on behalf of the

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Guarantor, by its President or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities or the Guarantee may be manual or facsimile.
     Securities or a Guarantee bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company or the Guarantor shall bind the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
     At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company and having the Guarantee endorsed thereon, to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
     (1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
     (2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
     (3) that such Securities and the Guarantee, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantor, as the case may be, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities, the Guarantee and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
     Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, including in the event that the size of a series of Outstanding Securities is increased as contemplated by Section 301, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
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     No Security or Guarantee endorsed thereon shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security and the Guarantee endorsed thereon have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security and the Guarantee endorsed thereon shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
     Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and having endorsed thereon the Guarantee substantially of the tenor of the definitive Guarantee in lieu of which it is issued duly executed by the Guarantor and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities or Guarantee may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or Guarantee, as the case may be.
     If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and having endorsed thereon the Guarantee executed by the Guarantor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
     The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
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having endorsed thereon the Guarantee executed by the Guarantor, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive and having endorsed thereon the Guarantee executed by the Guarantor.
     All Securities and the Guarantee endorsed thereon issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company and the Guarantor, respectively, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange and the Guarantee thereof.
     Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107 or 1203 not involving any transfer.
     If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
     The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:
     (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable or no longer permitted under applicable law to continue as Depositary for such Global Security, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security, (C) the Company so directs the Trustee by a Company Order or (D) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
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Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.
     (4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906, 1107 or 1203 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
     If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount having the Guarantee endorsed thereon and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
     If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount having the Guarantee endorsed thereon and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
     In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
     Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
     Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and the Guarantee endorsed thereon, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and the Guarantor, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued 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 or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
     Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

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     Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
     (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section 106, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
     (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
     Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
     Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any agent of the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

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Section 309. Cancellation.
     All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company or the Guarantor may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company or the Guarantor may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary procedures.
Section 310. Computation of Interest.
     Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 311. CUSIP Numbers
     The Company in issuing any series of the Securities may use CUSIP numbers, if then generally in use, and thereafter with respect to such series, the Trustee may use such numbers in any notice of redemption with respect to such series, provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities of that series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities of that series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
Section 312. Original Issue Discount
     If any of the Securities is an Original Issue Discount Security, the Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on such Outstanding Original Issue Discount Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
     This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
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     (A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company or the Guarantor and thereafter repaid to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
     (B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
          (i) have become due and payable, or
          (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
          (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company or the Guarantor, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
     (2) the Company or the Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
     Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
Section 402. Application of Trust Money.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company or the Guarantor acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.

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ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
Section 501. Events of Default.
     “Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series or the Guarantee thereof, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
     (1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
     (2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that series at its Maturity, and continuance of such default for a period of five days; or
     (3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series, and the continuance of such default for a period of five days; or
     (4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company or the Guarantor in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by the Trustee or to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
     (5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company or the Guarantor bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or the Guarantor under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of their respective property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of their affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
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reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or the Guarantor in furtherance of any such action; or
     (7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company and the Guarantor (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable.
     At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
     (1) the Company or the Guarantor has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
     (A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
     (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
     (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and
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     (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
     No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
     The Company covenants that if
     (1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
     (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof and such default continues for a period of five days,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
     In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company or the Guarantor (or any other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
     No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on

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behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
     All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities or the Guarantee may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 506. Application of Money Collected.
     Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
     First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607; and
     Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest, respectively.
Section 507. Limitation on Suits.
     No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
     (1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
     (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
     (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
     (4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
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it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.
     Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or date for repayment, as the case may be) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
     If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
     Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
     No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 512. Control by Holders.
     The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that
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     (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
     The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
     (1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series, or
     (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
     Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.
     In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess reasonable costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or the Guarantor.
Section 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
     Each of the Company and the Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the Company and the Guarantor (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
     The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that

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repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 602. Notice of Defaults.
     If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
     Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
     (1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be 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 or presented by the proper party or parties;
     (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
     (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;
     (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of 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 reliance thereon;
     (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
     (6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee

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shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
     (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the 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; and
     (8) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder.
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
     The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or the Guarantee. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 605. May Hold Securities.
     The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company or the Guarantor, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company and the Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 606. Money Held in Trust.
     Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be.
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
     The Company and, failing which, after reasonable demand, the Guarantor agree
     (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
     (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and

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     (3) to indemnify the Trustee 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 the trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
     When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
     The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
Section 608. Conflicting Interests.
     If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series or a trustee under the Indenture, dated as of April 15, 1983, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 9, 1986, between the Guarantor and the Trustee; the Indenture, dated as of July 15, 1989, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 15, 2003, between the Guarantor and the Trustee; the Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23, 2007, and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2007, between the Guarantor and the Trustee, and the Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2007, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2007, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007, and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 7, 2007, between the Guarantor and the Trustee, as amended or supplemented.
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
     There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and has its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

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Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
     No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.
     The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     If at any time:
     (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
     (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
     (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
     If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent

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supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

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     Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
     No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
     Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion, consolidation or sale to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
     If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).

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ARTICLE SEVEN
Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
     The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
     (1) semi-annually either (i) not later than March 31 and September 30 in each year in the case of any series of Securities consisting solely of Original Issue Discount Securities which by their terms do not bear interest prior to Maturity, or (ii) not more than 15 days after each Regular Record Date in the case of Securities of any other series, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the preceding March 16 or September 15 or as of such Regular Record Date, as the case may be; and
     (2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
     The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
     The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
     Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
     The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
     A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.

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Section 704. Reports by Company.
     The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports as may be required by the Trust Indenture Act.
     Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute a representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the reports, information or documents. The Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).
ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
Section 801. Company and Guarantor May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
     Neither the Company nor the Guarantor shall consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
     (1) in case the Company or the Guarantor shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company or the Guarantor is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company or the Guarantor substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of, in the case of the Company, all the obligations on all the Securities and in the case of the Guarantor, all obligations under the Guarantee, and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to be performed or observed;
     (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
     (3) the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
Section 802. Successor Substituted.
     Upon any consolidation of the Company or the Guarantor with, or merger of the Company or the Guarantor into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company or the Guarantor substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor

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Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company or the Guarantor is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities or the Guarantee, as the case may be.
ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
     Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
     (1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or the Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or the Guarantor herein and in the Securities or the Guarantee; or
     (2) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantor for the benefit of some or all of the Holders of all or any series of Securities or of particular Securities within a series as may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
     (3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of some or all of the Holders of all or any series of Securities or of particular Securities within a series as may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities); or
     (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or
     (5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding; or
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     (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
     (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611; or
     (9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (9) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
     With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that if the Board Resolutions and supplemental indenture shall expressly provide that any provisions to be changed or eliminated shall apply to fewer than all the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under a particular series under this Indenture, then, to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any such consent may be given by Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under such series to which such change or elimination shall apply; provided, further, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby (whether or not such affected Securities comprise all Securities under this Indenture or under a particular series),
     (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date); or
     (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture; or
     (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section 1006, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each

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Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8).
     A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more identified series of Securities or particular Securities within an identified series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series, or Holder of particular Securities within a series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed to affect only the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of the identified series or of particular Securities within the identified series, and shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of any other Securities.
     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
     After a supplemental indenture under this Section 902 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Trustee a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture or a copy of such supplemental indenture and the Trustee shall mail such notice or supplemental indenture to Holders affected thereby. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, or any failure of the Company to mail such supplemental indenture, shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
     In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
     Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
     Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
     Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company and the Guarantor shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the

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opinion of the Trustee and the Company and the Guarantor, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company, the Guarantee endorsed thereon may be executed by the Guarantor and such Securities may be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
     The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
     The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company or the Guarantor in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
     The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
     If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

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     The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.
     The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
     Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
     The Company and the Guarantor will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
Section 1005. Existence.
     Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
     Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the Company and the Guarantor may, with respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(18), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in Section 1005, if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the

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Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Redemption of Securities
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.
     Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
     The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
     If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
     The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

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     The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.
     Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 5 Business Days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
     All notices of redemption shall state:
     (1) the Redemption Date;
     (2) the Redemption Price;
     (3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed;
     (4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;
     (5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
     (6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case; and
     (7) if applicable, the CUSIP numbers of the Securities of that series.
     Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and, unless otherwise specified or contemplated by Section 301, shall be irrevocable.
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
     Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the

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Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date or the Securities of the series provide otherwise) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
     Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together, if applicable, with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
     If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
     Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor with the Guarantee endorsed thereon, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
Sinking Funds
Section 1201. Applicability of Article.
     The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
     The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any series of Securities is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. If provided for by the terms of any series of Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of the series as provided for by the terms of such Securities.

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Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
     The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
     Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
Section 1301. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
     Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, Sections 1302 and 1303 shall apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, in either case, denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article; and the Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Sections 1302 and 1303 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, designated pursuant to Section 301 as being defeasible pursuant to such Section 1302 or 1303, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article. Any such election to have or not to have Sections 1302 and 1303 apply, as the case may be, shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.
     Upon the Company’s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, or if this Section shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, each of the Company and the Guarantor shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Securities and the corresponding Guarantees, as applicable, as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Defeasance means

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that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section applied to the Securities of any series notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section 1303 applied to such Securities.
Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance.
     Upon the Company’s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, or if this Section shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, (1) the Company and the Guarantor shall be released from each of their obligations under any covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(18), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 501(4) (with respect to any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(18), 901(2) or 901(7)) and 501(7) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company and the Guarantor may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(4)), whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
     The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 1302 or Section 1303 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be:
     (1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct

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obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
     (2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
     (3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.
     (4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
     (5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(5) and (6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).
     (6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).

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     (7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
     (8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
     (9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with (in each case, subject to the satisfaction of the condition in clause (5)).
Section 1305.   Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
     The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
     Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.
Section 1306. Reinstatement.
     If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.

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ARTICLE FOURTEEN
Guarantee of Securities
Section 1401. Guarantee.
     The Guarantor unconditionally guarantees to the Trustee and each Holder of the Securities, the prompt payment when due of all present and future payment obligations of the Company to the Holder arising out of the Securities (for the purposes of this Section 1401, the “Obligations”).
     The Guarantor’s obligations with respect to any Obligation shall not be affected by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection or extent of any collateral therefor or by any other circumstance relating to the Obligations that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defense to the Guarantor not available to the Company. The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may resort to the Guarantor for payment of any of the Obligations whether or not the Holder shall have resorted to any collateral therefor or shall have proceeded against the Company or any other obligor principally or secondarily obligated with respect to any of the Obligations. The Holder shall not be obligated to file any claim relating to the Obligations in the event that the Company becomes subject to a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, and the failure of the Holder to so file shall not affect the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder. In the event that any payment to the Holder in respect of any Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason whatsoever, the Guarantor shall remain liable hereunder with respect to such Obligations as if such payment had not been made. The Guarantor reserves the right to (a) set-off against any payment owing hereunder any amounts owing by the Holder to the Company and (b) assert defenses which the Company may have to payment of any Obligations other than defenses arising from the bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company and other defenses expressly waived hereby.
     The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may at any time and from time to time, either before or after the maturity thereof, without notice to or further consent of the Guarantor, extend the time of payment of, exchange or surrender any collateral for, or renew any of the Obligations, and may also make any agreement with the Company or with any other party to or person liable on any of the Obligations or interested therein, for the extension, renewal, payment, compromise, discharge or release thereof, in whole or in part, or for any modification of the terms thereof or of any agreement between the Holder and the Company or any such other party or person without in any way impairing or affecting this Guarantee. The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee and of the Obligations, presentment, demand for payment, notice of dishonor and protest.
     The Guarantor agrees to pay on demand all fees and out of pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of the Holder’s counsel) in any way relating to the enforcement or protection of the rights of the Holder hereunder; provided, that the Guarantor shall not be liable for any expenses of the Holder if no payment under this Guarantee is due.
     Upon payment of any of the Obligations, the Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holder against the Company with respect to such Obligations, and the Holder agrees to take at the Guarantor’s expense such steps as the Guarantor may reasonably request to implement such subrogation.
     This Guarantee is absolute and unconditional and shall remain in full force and effect and be binding upon the Guarantor, its successors and assigns until all of the Obligations have been satisfied in full. If any of the present or future Obligations are guaranteed by persons, partnerships or corporations in addition to the Guarantor, the death, release or discharge, in whole or in part, or the bankruptcy,

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liquidation or dissolution of one or more of them shall not discharge or affect the liabilities of the Guarantor under this Guarantee.
     No failure on the part of the Holder to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right, remedy or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Holder of any right, remedy or power hereunder preclude any other or future exercise of any right, remedy or power. Each and every right, remedy and power hereby granted to the Holder or allowed it by law or other agreement shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any other, and may be exercised by the Holder at any time or from time to time.
     The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee, presentment to or demand of payment from anyone whomsoever liable upon any of the Obligations, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of any sale of collateral security and all other notices whatsoever.
Section 1402. Execution of Guarantee.
     To evidence its guarantee to the Holders specified in Section 1401, the Guarantor hereby agrees to execute the Guarantee in substantially the form set forth in Section 205 to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. The Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Security such Guarantee. Each such Guarantee shall be signed on behalf of the Guarantor, by any two Authorized Officers, prior to the authentication of the Security on which it is endorsed, and the delivery of such Security by the Trustee, after the due authentication thereof by the Trustee hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee on behalf of the Guarantor. Any such signature upon the Guarantee may be a manual or facsimile signature of any present, past or future such Authorized Officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced below the Guarantee, and in case any such Authorized Officer who shall have signed the Guarantee shall cease to be such Authorized Officer before the Security on which such Guarantor is endorsed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Company, such Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed the Guarantee had not ceased to be such Authorized Officer of the Guarantor.
 

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     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
     In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
             
    AIG PROGRAM FUNDING, INC.    
 
           
 
  By        
 
     
 
   
 
           
    AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
as Guarantor
   
 
           
 
  By        
 
     
 
   
 
           
    THE BANK OF NEW YORK
   
 
           
 
  By        
 
     
 
   

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EX-4.7
 

Exhibit 4.7
 
 
AIG PROGRAM FUNDING, INC.
Issuer
AND
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
Guarantor
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
Trustee
 
Warrant Indenture
                Dated as of ___________                
 
 
 

 


 

AIG Program Funding[, Inc.]
Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
     
Trust Indenture    
Act Section   Indenture Section
§ 310(a)(1)
  609
(a)(2)
  609
(a)(3)
  Not Applicable
(a)(4)
  Not Applicable
(b) 
  608
 
  610
§ 311(a)
  613
(b)
  613
§ 312(a)
  701
 
  702
(b)
  702
(c)
  702
§ 313(a)
  703
(b)
  703
(c)
  703
(d)
  703
§ 314(a)
  704
(a)(4)
  101
 
  1004
(b)
  Not Applicable
(c)(1)
  102
(c)(2)
  102
(c)(3)
  Not Applicable
(d)
  Not Applicable
(e)
  102
§ 315(a)
  601
(b)
  602
(c)
  601
(d)
  601
(e)
  513
§ 316(a)
  101
(a)(1)(A)
  511
(a)(1)(B)
  512
(a)(2)
  Not Applicable
(b)
  507
(c)
  104
§ 317(a)(1)
  502
(a)(2)
  503
(b)
  1003
§ 318(a)
  107
 
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
         
Parties
    1  
Recitals of the Company
    1  
 
       
ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    1  
 
       
Section 101. Definitions
    1  
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions
    8  
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
    8  
Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates
    9  
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company and the Guarantor
    11  
Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver
    12  
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
    12  
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
    12  
Section 109. Successors and Assigns
    12  
Section 110. Separability Clause
    13  
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture
    13  
Section 112. Characterization of Universal Warrants
    13  
Section 113. Governing Law
    13  
Section 114. Legal Holidays
    13  
 
       
ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS
    14  
 
       
Section 201. Forms Generally
    14  
Section 202. Form of Face of Call Warrant
    14  
Section 203. Form of Reverse of Call Warrant
    16  
Section 204. Form of Face of Put Warrant
    23  
Section 205. Form of Reverse of Put Warrant
    25  
Section 206. Form of Legend for Global Securities
    30  
Section 207. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
    31  
Section 208. Form of Guarantee
    31  
Section 209. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
    33  
 
       
ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES
    34  
 
       
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series
    34  
Section 302. Denominations
    37  

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Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
    38  
Section 304. Temporary Securities
    39  
Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
    40  
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
    42  
Section 307. Persons Deemed Owners
    43  
Section 308. Cancellation
    44  
Section 309. Calculation Agent
    44  
Section 310. CUSIP Numbers
    44  
 
       
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
    45  
 
       
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
    45  
Section 402. Application of Trust Money and Warrant Property
    46  
 
       
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES
    46  
 
       
Section 501. Events of Default
    46  
Section 502. Collection of Amounts Due and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
    48  
Section 503. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
    48  
Section 504. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
    49  
Section 505. Application of Money Collected
    49  
Section 506. Limitation on Suits
    50  
Section 507. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Money or Warrant Property Due with Respect to Securities and to Exercise
    51  
Section 508. Restoration of Rights and Remedies
    51  
Section 509. Rights and Remedies Cumulative
    51  
Section 510. Delay or Omission Not Waiver
    51  
Section 511. Control by Holders
    52  
Section 512. Waiver of Past Defaults
    52  
Section 513. Undertaking for Costs
    53  
Section 514. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
    53  
 
       
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE
    53  
 
       
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities
    53  
Section 602. Notice of Defaults
    54  
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee
    54  
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
    55  

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Section 605. May Hold Securities
    55  
Section 606. Money or Warrant Property Held in Trust
    56  
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement
    56  
Section 608. Conflicting Interests
    57  
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
    57  
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
    58  
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
    59  
Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
    60  
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
    61  
 
       
ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
    61  
 
       
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
    61  
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders
    61  
Section 703. Reports by Trustee
    62  
Section 704. Reports by Company
    62  
 
       
ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
    62  
 
       
Section 801. Company and Guarantor May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
    62  
Section 802. Successor Substituted
    63  
 
       
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
    64  
 
       
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
    64  
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders
    65  
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures
    67  
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures
    67  
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
    67  
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
    68  
 
       
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS
    68  
 
       
Section 1001. Payment or Delivery of Money or Warrant Property
    68  
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency
    68  
Section 1003. Money and Warrant Property for Payments and Deliveries to be Held in Trust
    69  
Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default
    70  
Section 1005. Existence
    70  

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Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants
    70  
 
       
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
    71  
 
       
Section 1101. Applicability of Article
    71  
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
    71  
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
    72  
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption
    72  
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price
    73  
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date
    74  
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part
    74  
 
       
ARTICLE TWELVE
    74  
 
       
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
    74  
 
       
Section 1201. Guarantee
    74  
Section 1202. Execution of Guarantee
    76  

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     WARRANT INDENTURE, dated as of _________, 2007, among AIG Program Funding, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, American International Group, Inc., a corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Guarantor”), having its principal office at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York 10270, and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).
Recitals of the Company
     The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its Universal Warrants, as hereinafter defined (herein sometimes called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
     All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
Recitals of the Guarantor
     The Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the Guarantee of the Securities provided for herein.
     All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Guarantor, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
Section 101. Definitions.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

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     (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;
     (2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
     (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation;
     (4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture;
     (5) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
     (6) when used with respect to any Security, the words “exercise” and “exercised” are intended to refer to the right of the Holder or the Company to exercise such Security and to receive in exchange money or Warrant Property in accordance with such terms as may hereafter be specified for such Security as contemplated by Section 301, and these words are not intended to refer to any right of the Holder or the Company to exchange such Security for other Securities of the same series and like tenor pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or another similar provision of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires; and references herein to the terms of any Security that may be exercised mean such terms as may be specified for such Security as contemplated in Section 301.
     “Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

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     “Applicable Procedures” of a Depositary means, with respect to any matter at any time, the policies and procedures of such Depositary, if any, that are applicable to such matter at such time.
     “Authorized Officer” means any person (whether designated by name or the persons for the time being holding a designated office) appointed by or pursuant to a Board Resolution for the purpose, or a particular purpose, of this Indenture, provided that written notice of such appointment shall have been given to the Trustee.
     “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or the Guarantor, as the context requires, or any duly authorized committee of that board.
     “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or Guarantor to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Business Day” when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
     “Calculation Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 309.
     “Call Warrants” has the meaning specified in Section 301(5).
     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
     “Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.
     “Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its President, its Chief Financial Officer, its Chief Operating Officer or a Vice President or any executive officer (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or any Person designated by one of them in writing as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and delivered to the Trustee.

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     “Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee in New York, New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.
     “corporation” means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint stock company or business trust.
     “Depositary” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, any Person that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.
     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Expiration Date”, when used with respect to Securities of any series, means the date on which the right to exercise the Securities of such series shall expire.
     “Final Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 206 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
     “Guarantee” means a guarantee by the Guarantor on the terms set forth in Article Fourteen.
     “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
     “Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(2).
     “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer or a Vice President or any executive officer, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or the Guarantor, as

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applicable, in each case delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable.
     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
     “Outstanding”, when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
     (1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
     (2) Securities for whose payment, redemption, or settlement money or Warrant Property in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
     (3) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
     (4) Securities as to which any money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable upon exercise thereof has been paid or delivered (or such payment or delivery has been duly provided for), or as to which any other particular conditions have been satisfied, in each case as may be provided for such Securities as contemplated in Section 301;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in

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relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
     “Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay or deliver any money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable on behalf of the Company upon exercise, redemption or settlement of such Securities and includes any warrant agent appointed by the Company with respect to such series.
     “Payment or Settlement Date”, when used with respect to any Security, means the date when any money or Warrant Property with respect to such Security becomes payable or deliverable upon exercise, redemption or settlement of such Security in accordance with its terms.
     “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
     “Place of Payment”, when used with respect to the Securities of any series and subject to Section 1002, means the place or places where any money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable upon exercise or redemption of such Securities is payable or deliverable as specified, as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Put Warrants” has the meaning specified in Section 301(5).
     “Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Responsible Officer”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means any vice president, any assistant vice president, any senior trust officer or assistant trust officer, any trust officer, or any other officer associated with the corporate trust department of the 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 such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

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     “Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
     “Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.
     “Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
     “Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
     “Universal Warrants” means warrants, issued by the Company and authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, to purchase or sell, or whose cash value is determined by reference to or is linked to the performance, level or value of, one or more of the following: (i) securities of one or more issuers, including the common or preferred stock or other securities of the Company or debt or equity securities of third parties, (ii) one or more currencies, (iii) one or more commodities, (iv) any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument (including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance) and/or (v) one or more indices or baskets of the items described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).
     “Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”.
     “Warrant Property”, when used with respect to a Security, means the property described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of the definition of Universal Warrants.

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Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
     Upon any application or request by the Company or the Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company or the Guarantor, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.
     Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates provided for in Section 1004) shall include,
     (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
     (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
     (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, such individual has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
     (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
     In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
     Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or the Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such

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officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company or the Guarantor stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or the Guarantor, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
     Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company or the Guarantor or both. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and the Guarantor, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
     The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
     The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

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     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
     The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Final Date by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Final Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 506(2) or (iii) any direction referred to in Section 511, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Final Date by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set

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pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Final Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the “Final Date” and from time to time may change the Final Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Final Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Final Date. If a Final Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Final Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Final Date as provided in this paragraph.
     Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Securities may do so with regard to all or any lesser number of such Securities or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any lesser number of such Securities.
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company and the Guarantor.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
     (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or the Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
     (2) the Company or the Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention Secretary, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be.

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Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
     Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his or her address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
     In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
     If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
     The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 109. Successors and Assigns.
     All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company or the Guarantor shall bind its respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

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Section 110. Separability Clause.
     In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities or the Guarantee shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.
     Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities or the Guarantee, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 112. Characterization of Universal Warrants
     By executing this Indenture, the Company intends that the characterization, for accounting and other purposes, of the Universal Warrants, whether as indebtedness or debt for borrowed money or as any other type of obligation which is not indebtedness or debt for borrowed money, shall not be affected by the fact that the Universal Warrants have been issued under an indenture, as opposed to any other instrument, or as a result of any of the terms and definitions used hereunder with respect to Universal Warrants.
Section 113. Governing Law.
     This Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantee shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
Section 114. Legal Holidays.
     In any case where the Payment or Settlement Date, or Redemption Date of any Security or any date on which a Holder of any Security has the right to exercise such Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment or delivery of any money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable with respect to such Security or exercise of such Security need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Payment or Settlement Date or Redemption Date or on the date for exercise, as the case may be. No interest shall accrue on any money or Warrant Property during any such delay in payment.

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ARTICLE TWO
Security Forms
Section 201. Forms Generally.
     The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.
     The securities of each series shall bear the Guarantee in substantially the form set forth in Section 208, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture.
     The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Section 202. Form of Face of Call Warrant.
     [Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]

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AIG PROGRAM FUNDING[, INC.]
[Insert title of Securities]
CUSIP No ______
No. ______
NUMBER OF WARRANTS EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE: [If Warrant is a Global Security, insert— UP TO] ______
[CASH SETTLEMENT VALUE PER WARRANT
(OR METHOD OF DETERMINING SAME):](1)
[WARRANT PROPERTY: ](2)
[AMOUNT OF WARRANT PROPERTY
PURCHASABLE PER WARRANT:](2)
CALL PRICE PER WARRANT:
[FORM OF PAYMENT OF
CALL PRICE: ] (1)
FORM OF SETTLEMENT:
DATES OF EXERCISE:
OTHER TERMS:
 
(1)   Applies if the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive the Cash Settlement Value.
 
(2)   Applies if the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive Warrant Property.
     This certificate certifies that _________, or registered assigns, is the Holder of the number of [Designation of Universal Warrants][If Warrant is not a Global Security, insert — specified above] [If Warrant is a Global Security, insert — specified on Schedule A hereto] (herein called the “Warrants”). Upon receipt by the Trustee of this certificate, the exercise notice on the reverse hereof (or an exercise notice in substantially identical form delivered herewith) (the “Exercise Notice”), duly completed, executed and delivered on a Date of Exercise specified above and the Call Price per Warrant set forth above, in the form set forth above, for each Warrant to be exercised at the Place of Payment, each

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Warrant evidenced hereby entitles the Holder hereof to receive, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Indenture referred to below, from AIG Program Funding[, Inc.], [a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware] (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture), [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive Warrant Property, insert — the amount and form of property (the “Warrant Property”)] [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive the Cash Settlement Value, insert — the Cash Settlement Value specified above.] [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive Warrant Property, insert — Until duly and properly exercised, Warrants will not entitle the Holders thereof to any of the rights of the holders of any of the Warrant Property.]
     Any payments of money due on this Warrant will be made at the office or agency maintained for that purpose in New York, New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as is legal tender for payment of public or private debts, against surrender of this Warrant in the case of any payment due on the Payment or Settlement Date; provided that if this Warrant is a Global Security, payment may be made pursuant to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary as permitted in said Indenture.
     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Warrant shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
Dated:
         
  AIG PROGRAM FUNDING[, INC.]
 
 
  By      
       
       
 
Attest:                                         
Section 203. Form of Reverse of Call Warrant.
     This Warrant is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company, issued and to be issued in one or more series under the Warrant Indenture, dated as of _________ (herein called the “Indenture”, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), anong the Company,

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American International Group, Inc. (the “Guarantor”) and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert — , limited in number to _________ Warrants].
     [If applicable, insert— The Warrants of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than _________ days’ nor more than _________ days’ notice, at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after, 20_________], as a whole [or in part], at the election of the Company, at the following redemption prices: _________]
     [If the Warrant is subject to partial redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Warrant in part only, a new Warrant or Warrants of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
     The Warrants are unsecured contractual obligations of the Company and rank pari passu with the Company’s other unsecured contractual obligations and with the Company’s unsecured and unsubordinated debt.
     Subject to the provisions hereof and the Indenture, all or any of the Warrants evidenced by this certificate may be exercised on any of the dates of exercise set forth on the face hereof by delivering or causing to be delivered this Warrant (in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary, if this Security is a Global Security), the Exercise Notice, duly completed and executed and the Call Price, in the form set forth on the face hereof, for each such Warrant] to the Corporate Trust Office, in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which is, on the date hereof (unless otherwise specified herein), The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Tender Department, or at such other address as the Trustee may specify from time to time, with a copy of the Exercise Notice, duly completed and executed, to the Calculation Agent, _________, Attention:
     Each Warrant entitles the Holder thereof to receive, upon exercise, [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive the Cash Settlement Value, insert — the Cash Settlement Value] [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive Warrant Property, insert — — the Warrant Property] set forth on the face hereof.
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and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in number of the Warrants at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected; provided, however, that if any provisions to be changed or eliminated shall affect fewer than all the Outstanding Warrants under the Indenture or under a particular series under this Indenture, then, to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any such consent may be given by Holders of not less than a majority in number of the Outstanding Warrants under such series affected by such change or elimination.
     The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in number of the Warrants of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Warrants of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences; provided, however, that if such provisions and defaults and their consequences affect fewer than all the Outstanding Warrants of a series, then to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any waiver of compliance with such provisions and defaults and their consequences may be given by the Holders of specified percentages of the Outstanding Warrants of such series affected by such provisions and defaults and their consequences on behalf of the Holders of all the affected Warrants of such series. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Warrant shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Warrant and of any Warrants issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Warrant.
     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Warrant or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay or deliver the [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive the Cash Settlement Value, insert — Cash Settlement Value] [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive Warrant Property, insert — Warrant Property] when due with respect to this Warrant at the time and place herein prescribed.
     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Warrant is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Warrant for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any Place of Payment with respect to this Warrant, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Warrants of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same number of Warrants, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

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     The Warrants of this series are issuable only in registered form in denominations of ___ Warrants and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Warrants of this series are exchangeable for a like number of Warrants of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
     No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
     Prior to due presentment of this Warrant for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Warrant is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not any payment or delivery of the [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive the Cash Settlement Value, insert — Cash Settlement Value] [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may receive Warrant Property, insert — Warrant Property] with respect to this Warrant be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     [If Warrant is a Global Security, insert — This Warrant is a Global Security and is subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to Global Securities, including the limitations in Section 305 thereof on transfers and exchanges of Global Securities.]
     This Warrant and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
     All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
[Designation of Universal Warrants]
Exercise Notice
The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street,
Corporate Trust Administration
New York, New York 10286
Attn:

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with a copy to:
[Insert name and address of Calculation Agent]
         
Attn:
  Tel.:    
 
  Tel.:    
 
  Fax:    
 
 
  Re:   Call Warrants on _________ expiring _________, 20______, issued by AIG Program Funding[, Inc.] and described in the prospectus supplement dated _________ to the prospectus dated _________, 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     The undersigned is, or is acting on behalf of, the beneficial owner of such number of the Warrants referenced above as is specified at the end of this Exercise Notice. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise such number of Warrants. The exercise is to be effective on the Business Day on which the Trustee has received this Exercise Notice, together with all other items required to be delivered on exercise, and the Calculation Agent has received a copy of this Exercise Notice, unless all required items have not been received by 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on that Business Day, in which case the exercise will be effective as of the next Business Day. We understand, however, that no exercise shall be effective unless it is effective, as provided above, no later than the Business Day before the Expiration Date. The effective date will be the exercise notice date.
     If the Warrants to be exercised are in global form, the undersigned is delivering this Exercise Notice to the Trustee and to the Calculation Agent, in each case by facsimile transmission to the relevant number stated above, or such other number as the Trustee or Calculation Agent may have designated for this purpose to the Holder. [If applicable, insert — In addition, the cash amount equal to the Call Price per Warrant times the number of Warrants indicated below] [If applicable, insert — In addition, the beneficial interest in the number of Warrants indicated below are being transferred on the books of the Depositary to an account of the Trustee at the Depositary.]
     If the Warrants to be exercised are not in global form, the undersigned or the beneficial owner is the Holder of the Warrants and is delivering this Exercise Notice to the Trustee and to the Calculation Agent by facsimile transmission as described above. In addition, [If applicable, insert — the cash amount equal to the Call Price per Warrant times the number of Warrants indicated below and] the certificate representing the Warrant [is] [are] being delivered to the Trustee.

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     If the undersigned is not the beneficial owner of the Warrant to be exercised, the undersigned hereby represents that it has been duly authorized by the beneficial owner to act on behalf of the beneficial owner.
     Terms used and not defined in this notice have the meanings given to them in the Warrant or the Indenture specified in the Warrant. The exercise of the Warrant will be governed by the terms of the Warrant and the Indenture.
     The Calculation Agent should note receipt of the copy of this Exercise Notice, in the place provided below, on the Business Day of receipt, noting the date and time of receipt. The consideration to be delivered or paid in the requested exercise should be made on the [fifth] Business Day after the exercise notice date in accordance with the terms of the warrant.
Number of Warrants to be exercised:
(must be a number greater than or equal to)
Form of Settlement:
Very truly yours,
(Name of beneficial owner or Person
authorized to act on its behalf)
(Title)
(Telephone No.)
(Fax No.)
Receipt of the above Exercise Notice is hereby noted:
, as Calculation Agent
         
By:
       
 
 
 
(Title)
   
 
       
Date and time of receipt:    
 
  (Date)
(Time)
   

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[If Security is a Global Security, insert this Schedule A.]
SCHEDULE A
[Designation of Universal Warrants]
GLOBAL
UNIVERSAL WARRANT
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OR EXERCISES
     The initial number of Universal Warrants represented by this Global Security is _________ (the “Warrants”). In accordance with the Warrant Indenture, dated as of _________, 20 _________, as amended or supplemented, among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, [if applicable, insert — and the Unit Agreement, dated as of _________, 20 _________, among the Company, the Guarantor and _________, as Unit Agent], the following [(A) exchanges of [the number of Warrants previously represented hereby and indicated below for a like number of Warrants represented by a Global Security that has been separated from a Unit (a “Warrant”)](1) [the number of Warrants previously represented by a Global Security that is part of a Unit (an “Attached Warrant”) and indicated below for a like number of Warrants represented by this Global Security](2) or (B)] reductions in the number of Warrants represented hereby as a result of the exercise of the number of such Warrants indicated below have been made:
         
          [Reduced                              
          Number     [Number of Attached     [Increased           Reduced     Notation
Date of         Outstanding     Warrants Exchanged     Number of           Number     Exchanged
[Exchange   [Number     Following     for Warrants     Outstanding     Number of     Outstanding Made by or for  
   or] (1)   Exchanged     Such     represented by this     Following Such     Warrants     Following Such     on Behalf of
Exercise   Warrants](1)     Exchange](1)     Global Warrant](2) Exchange](2)     Exercised     Exercise     Trustee
 
(1)   Applies only if this Global Security is part of a Unit.
 
(2)   Applies only if this Global Security has been separated from a Unit.

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Section 204. Form of Face of Put Warrant.
     [Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
AIG PROGRAM FUNDING[, INC.]
No. _________ CUSIP No.
NUMBER OF WARRANTS EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE: [If Warrant is a Global Security, insert— UP TO]
[CASH SETTLEMENT VALUE PER WARRANT
(OR METHOD OF DETERMINING SAME): ](1)
[WARRANT PROPERTY:](2)
[AMOUNT OF WARRANT PROPERTY DELIVERABLE BY HOLDER UPON EXERCISE PER WARRANT:](2)
PUT PRICE PER WARRANT:
[METHOD OF DELIVERY OF ANY WARRANT PROPERTY TO BE DELIVERED FOR SALE UPON EXERCISE OF WARRANTS: ] (2)
DATES OF EXERCISE:
OTHER TERMS:
 
(1)   Applies if the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may elect to receive the Cash Settlement Value upon exercise the Warrants.
 
(2)   Applies if the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may deliver Warrant Property to exercise the Warrants.
     This certificate certifies that _________, or registered assigns, is the Holder of the number of [Designation of Universal Warrants] (herein called the “Warrants”) [If Warrant is not a Global Security, insert — specified above] [If Warrant is a Global Security, insert — specified on Schedule A hereto]. Upon receipt by the Trustee of this certificate, the exercise notice on the reverse hereof (or an exercise notice in substantially identical form delivered herewith) (the “Exercise Notice”), duly completed, executed and delivered on a Date of Exercise specified above [If applicable — and the Warrant Property in the form deliverable, as set forth above], for each Warrant to be exercised, delivered as set forth above at the Place of Payment, each Warrant evidenced hereby entitles the Holder hereof to receive, subject to

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the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Indenture referred to below, from AIG Program Funding, [Inc.], a [corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware] (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture), [If terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may elect to receive the Cash Settlement Value upon exercise the Warrants, insert — the Cash Settlement Value] [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may deliver Warrant Property to exercise the Warrants insert — Put Price per Warrant specified above.] [If applicable insert — Unless otherwise indicated above, a Warrant will not require or entitle a Holder thereof to sell or deliver to the Company, nor will the Company be under any obligation to, nor will it, purchase or take delivery from any Holder of any Warrant Property.]
     Upon exercise of a Warrant, the Company will make only a cash payment in the amount of the [Cash Settlement Value] [Put Price] per Warrant. Holders of Warrants will not receive any interest on the [Cash Settlement Value] [Put Price].
     Any payments of money due on this Warrant will be made at the office or agency maintained by the Company for that purpose in New York, New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as is legal tender for payment of public or private debts, against surrender of this Warrant in the case of any payment due on the Payment or Settlement Date; provided that if this Warrant is a Global Security, payment may be made pursuant to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary as permitted in said Indenture.
     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Warrant shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
Dated:
         
  AIG PROGRAM FUNDING[, INC.]
 
 
  By:      
       
       
 

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Attest:
___________________________
Section 205. Form of Reverse of Put Warrant.
     This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company, issued and to be issued in one or more series under the Warrant Indenture, dated as of _________ (herein called the “Indenture”, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Warrants and of the terms upon which the Warrants are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Warrant is one of the series designated on the face hereof [If applicable, insert — , limited in number to ______ Warrants].
     [If applicable, insert— The Warrants of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than ______ days’ nor more than ______ days’ notice, at any time [If applicable, insert— on or after _________, 20 , as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following redemption prices: _________]
     [If the Security is subject to partial redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Warrant in part only, a new Warrant or Warrants of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
     The Warrants are unsecured contractual obligations of the Company and rank pari passu with the Company’s other unsecured contractual obligations and with the Company’s unsecured and unsubordinated debt.
     Subject to the provisions hereof and the Indenture, all or any of the Warrants evidenced by this certificate may be exercised on any of the dates of exercise set forth on the face hereof by delivering or causing to be delivered this Warrant (in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary, if this Warrant is a Global Security) the Exercise Notice, duly completed and executed to the Corporate Trust Office, in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which is, on the date hereof (unless otherwise specified herein), 101 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10286, Attention: Tender Department, or at such other address as the Trustee may specify from time to time, with a copy to the Calculation Agent, Attention: .

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     Each Warrant entitles the Holder thereof to receive, upon exercise, the [If the terms of the Warrant contemplate that the holder may elect to receive the Cash Settlement Value, insert — Cash Settlement Value] [If the terms of the Warrants contemplate that the holder may deliver Warrant Property, insert — Put Price] set forth on the face hereof.
     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company, the rights and obligations of American International Group, Inc. (the “Guarantor”), and the rights of the Holders of the Warrants of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in number of the Warrants at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected; provided, however, that if any provisions to be changed or eliminated shall affect fewer than all the Outstanding Warrants under the Indenture or under a particular series under this Indenture, then, to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any such consent may be given by Holders of not less than a majority in number of the Outstanding Warrants under such series affected by such change or elimination.
     The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in number of the Warrants of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Warrants of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences; provided, however, that if such provisions and defaults and their consequences affect fewer than all the Outstanding Warrants of a series, then, to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any waiver of compliance with such provisions and defaults and their consequences may be given by the Holders of specified percentages of the Outstanding Warrants of such series affected by such provisions and defaults and their consequences on behalf of the Holders of all the affected Warrants of such series. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Warrant shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Warrant and of any Warrant issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Warrant.
     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Warrant or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay or deliver the money when due with respect to this Warrant at the time and place herein prescribed.
     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Warrant is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Warrant for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any Place of Payment with respect to this Warrant, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and

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the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Warrants of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same number of Warrants, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
     The Warrants of this series are issuable only in registered form in denominations of ______ Warrants and any multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Warrants of this series are exchangeable for a like number of Warrants of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
     No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
     Prior to due presentment of this Warrant for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee, the Calculation Agent and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Warrant is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not any payment or delivery of money with respect to this Warrant be overdue, and none of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     [If the Warrant is a Global Security, insert — This Warrant is a Global Security and is subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to Global Securities, including the limitations in Section 305 thereof on transfers and exchanges of Global Securities.]
     This Warrant and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
     All terms used in this Warrant which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
[Designation of Universal Warrants]
Exercise Notice
The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street
Corporate Trust Administration
New York, New York 10286
Attn:

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with a copy to:
[Insert name and address of Calculation Agent.]
         
Attn:
      Tel.:
 
      Tel.:
 
       
Fax:
       
 
       
 
  Re:   Put Warrants on _________ expiring _________, 20 _________, issued by AIG Program Funding, [Inc.] and described in the prospectus supplement dated _________ to the prospectus dated _________, 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     The undersigned is, or is acting on behalf of, the beneficial owner of such number of the Warrants referenced above as is specified at the end of this Exercise Notice. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise such number of the Warrants. The exercise is to be effective on the Business Day on which the Trustee has received this Exercise Notice, together with all other items required to be delivered on exercise, and the Calculation Agent has received a copy of this Exercise Notice, unless all required items have not been received by 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on that Business Day, in which case the exercise will be effective as of the next Business Day. We understand, however, that no exercise shall be effective unless it is effective, as provided above, no later than the Business Day before the Expiration Date. The effective date will be the exercise notice date.
     If the Warrants to be exercised are in global form, the undersigned is delivering this Exercise Notice to the Trustee and to the Calculation Agent, in each case by facsimile transmission to the relevant number stated above, or such other number as the Trustee or Calculation Agent may have designated for this purpose to the Holder. In addition, the beneficial interest in the number of Warrants indicated below is being transferred on the books of the Depositary to an account of the Trustee at the Depositary.
     If the Warrants to be exercised are not in global form, the undersigned or the beneficial owner is the Holder of the Warrants and is delivering this Exercise Notice to the Trustee and to the Calculation Agent by facsimile transmission as described above. In addition, the certificate representing the Warrants is being delivered to the Trustee.
     If the undersigned is not the beneficial owner of the Warrant to be exercised, the undersigned hereby represents that it has been duly authorized by the beneficial owner to act on behalf of the beneficial owner.

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     Terms used and not defined in this notice have the meanings given to them in the Warrant or the Indenture specified in the Warrant. The exercise of the Warrant will be governed by the terms of the Warrant and the Indenture.
     The Calculation Agent should note receipt of the copy of this Exercise Notice, in the place provided below, on the Business Day of receipt, noting the date and time of receipt. The consideration to be delivered or paid in the requested exercise should be made on the [fifth] Business Day after exercise notice date in accordance with the terms of the warrant.
Number of Warrants to be exercised:
(must be a number greater than or equal to)
Means of Payment: [Cash Settlement Value] [Put Price]:
Very truly yours,
(Name of beneficial owner or Person
authorized to act on its behalf)
(Title)
(Telephone No.)
(Fax No.)
     Receipt of the above exercise notice is hereby noted: _________, as Calculation Agent
         
By:
       
 
 
(Title)
   
 
       
Date and time of receipt:    
 
  (Date)    
 
  (Time)    
[If Security is a Global Security, insert this Schedule A.]
[Designation of Universal Warrants]

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SCHEDULE A
GLOBAL
UNIVERSAL WARRANT
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OR EXERCISES
     The initial number of Universal Warrants represented by this Global Security is _________ (the “Warrants”). In accordance with the Warrant Indenture, dated as of _________, as amended or supplemented, between the Company, American International Group, Inc., as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, [If applicable, insert — and the Unit Agreement, dated as of _________, 20 ______, between the Company and _________, as Unit Agent], the following [if applicable, insert — (A) exchanges [of the number of Warrants previously represented hereby and indicated below for a like number of Warrants represented by a Global Security that has been separated from a Unit (a “Warrant”)](1) [the number of Warrants previously represented by a Global Security that is part of a Unit (an “Attached Warrant”) and indicated below for a like number of Warrants represented by this Global Security](2) or (B)] reductions in the number of Warrants represented hereby as a result of the exercise of the number of such Warrants indicated below have been made:
                             
 
              [Increased            
 
      [Reduced       Number           Notation
 
      Number   [Number of Attached   Outstanding       Reduced   Exchanged
Date of
      Outstanding   Warrants Exchanged for   Following   Number of   Number   Made by or for
[Exchange
  [Number   Following Such   Warrants represented by   Such   Warrants   Following   on Behalf of
or] Exercise
  Warrants] (1)   Exchange] (1)   this Global Warrant](2)   Exchange](2)   Exercised   Such Exercise   Trustee
 
(1)   Applies only if this Global Security is part of a Unit.
 
(2)   Applies only if this Global Security has been separated from a Unit.
Section 206. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
     Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
     THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A

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DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
Section 207. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
     The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
     This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
         
Dated:  The Bank of New York,  
                 As Trustee
 
 
  By      
    Authorized Signatory   
       
 
Section 208. Form of Guarantee.
GUARANTEE OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
     For value received, American International Group, Inc (the “Guarantor”) unconditionally guarantees to the Holder of the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed (the “Holder”), the prompt payment when due of all present and future payment obligations of AIG Program Funding, Inc. (the “Company”) to the Holder arising out of the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed, including any such payment obligations arising out of judgments entered by a court with respect to such Security (hereinafter, the “Obligations”).
     The Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall not be affected by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection or extent of any collateral therefor or by any other circumstance relating to the Obligations that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defense to the Guarantor not available to the Company. The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may resort to the Guarantor for payment of any of the Obligations whether or not the Holder shall have resorted to any collateral therefor or shall have proceeded against the Company or any other obligor principally or secondarily obligated with respect to any of the Obligations. The Holder shall not be obligated to file any claim relating to the

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Obligations in the event that the Company becomes subject to a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, and the failure of the Holder to so file shall not affect the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder. In the event that any payment to the Holder in respect of any Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason whatsoever, the Guarantor shall remain liable hereunder with respect to such Obligations as if such payment had not been made. The Guarantor reserves the right to (a) set-off against any payment owing hereunder any amounts owing by the Holder to the Company and (b) assert defenses which the Company may have to payment of any Obligations other than defenses arising from the bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company and other defenses expressly waived hereby.
     The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may at any time and from time to time, either before or after the maturity thereof, without notice to or further consent of the Guarantor, extend the time of payment of, exchange or surrender any collateral for, or renew any of the Obligations, and may also make any agreement with the Company or with any other party to or person liable on any of the Obligations or interested therein, for the extension, renewal, payment, compromise, discharge or release thereof, in whole or in part, or for any modification of the terms thereof or of any agreement between the Holder and the Company or any such other party or person without in any way impairing or affecting this Guarantee. The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee and of the Obligations, presentment, demand for payment, notice of dishonor and protest.
     The Guarantor agrees to pay on demand all fees and out of pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of the Holder’s counsel) in any way relating to the enforcement or protection of the rights of the Holder hereunder; provided, that the Guarantor shall not be liable for any expenses of the Holder if no payment under this Guarantee is due.
     Upon payment of any of the Obligations, the Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holder against the Company with respect to such Obligations, and the Holder agrees to take at the Guarantor’s expense such steps as the Guarantor may reasonably request to implement such subrogation.
     This Guarantee is absolute and unconditional and shall remain in full force and effect and be binding upon the Guarantor, its successors and assigns until all of the Obligations have been satisfied in full. If any of the present or future Obligations are guaranteed by persons, partnerships or corporations in addition to the Guarantor, the death, release or discharge, in whole or in part, or the bankruptcy, liquidation or dissolution of one or more of them shall not discharge or affect the liabilities of the Guarantor under this Guarantee.
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right, remedy or power hereunder preclude any other or future exercise of any right, remedy or power. Each and every right, remedy and power hereby granted to the Holder or allowed it by law or other agreement shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any other, and may be exercised by the Holder at any time or from time to time.
     The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee, presentment to or demand of payment from anyone whomsoever liable upon any of the Obligations, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of any sale of collateral security and all other notices whatsoever.
     This Guarantee is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture, dated ___, 2007 among AIG Program Funding[, Inc.], American International Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, and each Holder, by accepting the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions.
     This Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Security upon which this Guarantee is endorsed shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by manual signature.
     This Guarantee shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor has caused this Guarantee to be duly executed.
         
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By      
       
       
 
     
  By      
       
       
 
Section 209. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
     The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
     This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
The Bank of New York,
As Trustee

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  By      
    Authorized Officer   
       
 
ARTICLE THREE
The Securities
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
     The aggregate number of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
     The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,
     (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);
     (2) any limit upon the aggregate number of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
     (3) the money payable or receivable or specific Warrant Property purchasable or deliverable by or on behalf of the Holder upon exercise of the Securities of the series, and the amount thereof (or the method for determining the same);
     (4) the price at which the Securities of the series will be issued and, if other than U.S. dollars, the coin or currency or composite currency in which such issue price will be payable;
     (5) whether the Securities of the series are warrants that grant the Holder of the warrant the right to purchase the Warrant Property (including warrants that may be settled by means of net cash settlement or cashless exercise) (“Call Warrants”), warrants that grant the Holder of the warrant the right to sell the Warrant Property (including

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warrants that may be settled by means of net cash settlement or cashless exercise) (“Put Warrants”) or any other type of warrants;
     (6) the price at which and, if other than U.S. Dollars, the coin or currency or composite currency with which the Warrant Property may be purchased or sold by or on behalf of the Holder upon exercise of the Securities of the series (or the method for determining the same);
     (7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which (including the notice period, if different from the notice period set forth in Section 1104) any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
     (8) whether the exercise price for the Securities of the series may be paid in cash or by cashless exercise effected by the exchange of any such Securities or other securities of the Company, or both, or otherwise, whether such exercise price may be netted against any money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable by the Company with respect to such Securities and the method of exercise of such Securities;
     (9) if the Securities of the series are Call Warrants, whether the exercise of such Securities is to be settled by payment in cash or delivery of the Warrant Property by the Company or both or otherwise, and whether the election of such form of settlement is to be at the option of the Holder of the Company;
     (10) if the Securities of the series are Put Warrants, whether the exercise of such Securities is to be settled by payment in cash or delivery of the Warrant Property by the Holder or both, or otherwise, and whether the election of such form of settlement is to be at the option of the Holder or of the Company;
     (11) the date on which the right to exercise the Securities of the series shall commence and the Expiration Date of the series or, if the Securities of the series are not continuously exercisable throughout such period, the specific date or dates on which they will be exercisable;
     (12) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective

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Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 206, any addition to, elimination of or other change in the circumstances set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and any other provisions governing exchanges or transfers or any such Global Security;
     (13) any warrant agent, Depositaries, Paying Agents, transfer agents or registrars or any determination agents, Calculation Agents or other agents with respect to Securities of the series;
     (14) whether the Securities of the series will be issued separately or together as a unit (a “Unit”) with one or more other securities of the Company or any other person and, if the Securities of the series are to be issued as components of Units, whether and on what terms the Securities of the series may be separated from the other components of such Units prior to the Expiration Date of such Securities;
     (15) the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;
     (16) the Place of Payment with respect to Securities of the series, if other than the Corporate Trust Office;
     (17) any addition to, deletion from or other change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the series;
     (18) any provisions necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance, payment or exercise of any Securities of the series that may be exercised for Warrant Property, whether in addition to or in lieu of, any payment of money or delivery of other property and whether at the option of the Company or otherwise;
     (19) any addition to, deletion from or other change in the Events of Default which applies to Securities of the series, including making Events of Default inapplicable or changing the remedies available to Holders of the Securities of the series upon an Event of Default; and

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     (20) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).
     All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at one time and, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a series of Securities, additional Securities of a series may be issued, at the option of the Company, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time.
     If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
     The Securities are unsecured contractual obligations of the Company and shall rank pari passu with the Company’s other unsecured contractual obligations and with the Company’s unsecured and unsubordinated debt except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
     Until duly and properly exercised, no Call Warrant shall entitle the Holder or any beneficial owner thereof to any of the rights of a holder or beneficial owner of Warrant Property, including the right to receive the payment or any dividends on, principal of, or premium or interest on Warrant Property or to vote or to enforce any rights under any documents governing Warrant Property.
Section 302. Denominations.
     The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of 100 Warrants and any integral multiple thereof.

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Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
     The Securities and the Guarantee to be endorsed thereon shall be executed (i) on behalf of the Company, by its Chairman, one of its Vice Chairmen, its President, its Treasurer or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries and (ii) on behalf of the Guarantor, by its President or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities or the Guarantee may be manual or facsimile.
     Securities or a Guarantee bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company or the Guarantor shall bind the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
     At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company and having the Guarantee endorsed thereon, to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
     (1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
     (2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
     (3) that such Securities and the Guarantee, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantor, as the case may be, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,

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moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
     Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, including in the event that the size of a series of Outstanding Securities is increased as contemplated by Section 301, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
     Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
     No Security or Guarantee endorsed thereon shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security and the Guarantee endorsed thereon have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security and the Guarantee endorsed thereon shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
     Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and having endorsed thereon the Guarantee substantially of the tenor of the definitive Guarantee in lieu of which it is issued duly executed by the Guarantor and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other

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variations as the officers executing such Securities or Guarantee may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or Guarantee, as the case may be.
     If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and of a like aggregate number of Securities and having endorsed thereon the Guarantee executed by the Guarantor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
     The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate number of Securities.
     At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate number of Securities and having endorsed thereon the Guarantee executed by the Guarantor, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive and having endorsed thereon the Guarantee executed by the Guarantor.

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     All Securities and the Guarantee endorsed thereon issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company and the Guarantor, respectively, evidencing the same contractual obligation, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange and the Guarantee thereof.
     Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
     If the Securities of any series are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing or during such period as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
     The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:
     (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable or no longer permitted under applicable law to continue as Depositary for such Global Security, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global

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Security, (C) the Company so directs the Trustee by a Company Order or (D) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
     (3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.
     (4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
     In the event that upon any exercise of Securities evidenced by a certificate the number of Securities exercised shall be less than the total number of Securities evidenced by such certificate, there shall be issued to the Holder thereof or his assignee a new certificate evidencing the number of Securities of the same series and of like tenor not exercised, provided that in the case of Securities evidenced by one or more Global Securities, in lieu of issuing such new certificate the Trustee shall note the cancellation of such exercised Securities and the number of such Securities not exercised and remaining Outstanding by notation on such Global Security(ies).
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
     If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and number of Securities having the Guarantee endorsed thereon and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
     If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and number of Securities having the Guarantee endorsed thereon and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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     In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has been or is about to be exercised or deemed to be exercised, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, direct the Trustee to treat the same as if it had received the Security together with an irrevocable notice in proper form in respect thereof.
     Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
     Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and the Guarantee endorsed thereon, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and the Guarantor, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued 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 or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 307. Persons Deemed Owners.
     Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment or delivery of any money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable with respect to such Security, exercising such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such payment or delivery with respect to such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any agent of the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company or Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy, or other authorization furnished by a Depositary or impair, as between a Depositary and holders of beneficial interests in any Global Security, the operation of the Applicable Procedures.

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Section 308. Cancellation.
     All Securities surrendered for exercise, redemption or registration of transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company or the Guarantor may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company or the Guarantor may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary procedures.
Section 309. Calculation Agent.
     Pursuant to Section 301, the Company may, in connection with any series of Securities, appoint a Calculation Agent to make any calculations as may be required pursuant to the terms of such series of Securities. Any such Calculation Agent shall act as an independent expert, and the Company may provide that the Calculation Agent’s calculations and determinations under this Indenture shall, absent manifest error, be final and binding on the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of such series.
Section 310. CUSIP Numbers.
     The Company in issuing any series of the Securities may use CUSIP numbers, if then generally in use, and thereafter with respect to such series, the Trustee may use such numbers in any notice of redemption with respect to such series, provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities of that series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities of that series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

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ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
     This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
     (1) either
     (A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or settled as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment or settlement money or Warrant Property has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company or the Guarantor and thereafter repaid or redelivered to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
     (B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
     (i) have been exercised,
     (ii) will be automatically exercised at their Expiration Date within one year, or
       (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company or the Guarantor in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds or trust property in trust for the purpose, money or Warrant Property in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire contractual obligation on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for all

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amounts of money or Warrant Property due with respect to such Securities to the date of such deposit or the Payment or Settlement Date or Redemption Date of such Securities, as the case may be;
     (2) the Company or the Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
     Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607 and, if money or Warrant Property shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.
Section 402. Application of Trust Money and Warrant Property.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and Warrant Property deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment or delivery, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company or the Guarantor acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of all amounts of money or Warrant Property due with respect to such Securities for whose payment or settlement such money or Warrant Property has been deposited with the Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
Section 501. Events of Default.
     Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series or the Guarantee thereof, “Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to any Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

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     (1) Default by the Company or Guarantor in the payment or delivery of any money or Warrant Property in respect of such Security (but not such a default in respect of any other Security of that or any other series) in accordance with its terms and continuance of such default for a period of five days; or
     (2) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company or the Guarantor in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a Security or Securities other than such Security), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by the Trustee or to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in number of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
     (3) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company or the Guarantor bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or the Guarantor under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of their respective property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of their affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
     (4) the commencement by the Company or the Guarantor of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or

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the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or the Guarantor in furtherance of any such action; or
     (5) any other Event of Default provided with respect to such Security or Securities of that series.
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of any Security, a failure by the Company to perform any obligation or otherwise observe any covenant in any Security or in this Indenture insofar as it applies to any Security shall not constitute a default unless all conditions precedent to the Company’s obligation to be satisfied by the Holder of such Security shall have been satisfied.
Section 502. Collection of Amounts Due and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
     The Company covenants that if default is made by the Company in the payment or delivery of any money or Warrant Property in respect of any Security in accordance with its terms, upon satisfaction by the Holder thereof of all conditions precedent to the Company’s obligations to make such payment or delivery to be satisfied by such Holder, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holder of such Security, the whole amount of money or Warrant Property then due and payable on such Security and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
     If an Event of Default with respect to any Security occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holder of such Security by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 503. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
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intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys, Warrant Property or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
     No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.
Section 504. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
     All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities or the Guarantee may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 505. Application of Money Collected.
     Any money or Warrant Property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money or Warrant Property on account of amounts when due with respect to the Securities, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
     First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607;
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in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money or Warrant Property has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities; and
     Third: To the Company.
Section 506. Limitation on Suits.
     No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
     (1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
     (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in number of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
     (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
     (4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
     (5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.

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Section 507. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Money or Warrant Property Due with Respect to Securities and to Exercise.
     Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive, upon satisfaction by such Holder of all conditions precedent, payment or delivery of the money or Warrant Property due with respect to such Security on the Payment or Settlement Date (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or date for repayment, as the case may be) of such Security and to exercise such Security in accordance with its terms and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, or delivery, and such right to exercise and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 508. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
     If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 509. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
     Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment or settlement of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 510. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
     No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

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Section 511. Control by Holders.
     The Holders of a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that
     (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and
     (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 512. Waiver of Past Defaults.
     Subject to the provisions of the next following paragraph, the Holders of not less than a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default by the Company hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
     (1) in the payment or delivery of the money or Warrant Property due on any Security of such series or in respect of any Holder’s right to exercise any Security, or
     (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
     If any default referred to in the preceding paragraph affects fewer than all the Outstanding Securities of a series, then to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any waiver with respect to any such default and its consequences may be given by the Holders of not less than a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of such series affected by such default on behalf of the Holders of all the affected Securities of such series.
     Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

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Section 513. Undertaking for Costs.
     In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess reasonable costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.
Section 514. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
     Each of the Company and the Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the Company and the Guarantor (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
     The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.

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Section 602. Notice of Defaults.
     If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(2) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
     Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
     (1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, warrant or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
     (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
     (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;
     (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of 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 reliance thereon;
     (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security

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or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
     (6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, warrant or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
     (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the 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; and
     (8) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder.
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
     The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or the Guarantee. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 605. May Hold Securities.
     The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar, any Calculation Agent or any other agent of the Company or Guarantor, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company and the Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, any Calculation Agent or such other agent.

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Section 606. Money or Warrant Property Held in Trust.
     Money or Warrant Property held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds, securities or other property except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money or Warrant Property received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be.
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
     The Company and, failing which, after reasonable demand, the Guarantor agree
     (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
     (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
     (3) to indemnify the Trustee 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 the trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
     When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(3) or Section 501(4), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or sate bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
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Section 608. Conflicting Interests.
     If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series or a trustee under the Indenture, dated as of April 15, 1983, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 9, 1986, between the Guarantor and the Trustee; the Indenture, dated as of July 15, 1989, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 15, 2003, between the Company and the Trustee; the Indenture, dated as of October 12, 2006, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 18, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23, 2007, and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2007, between the Guarantor and the Trustee, and the Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2007, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2007,, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007, and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 7, 2007, between the Guarantor and the Trustee, as amended or supplemented.
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
     There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and has its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

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Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
     No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.
     The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed, at the expense of the Company, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     If at any time:
     (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
     (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
     (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 513, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

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     If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all money, Warrant Property and other property held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.

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     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all money, Warrant Property and other property held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
     Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
     No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
     Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall

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be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion, consolidation or sale to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
     If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).
ARTICLE SEVEN
Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
     The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
     (1) semi-annually, not later than March 31 and September 30 in each year a list, each in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series as of the preceding March 16 or September 15; and
     (2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
     The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

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     The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
     Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
     The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
     A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 704. Reports by Company.
     The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act.
     Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).
ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
Section 801. Company and Guarantor May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
     Neither the Company nor the Guarantor shall consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person unless:

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     (1) in case the Company or the Guarantor shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company or the Guarantor is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company or the Guarantor substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment or delivery of, in the case of the Company, money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable by the Company with respect to all the Securities in accordance with their terms and, in the case of the Guarantor, all obligations under the Guarantee, and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to be performed or observed.
     (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
     (3) the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
Section 802. Successor Substituted.
     Upon any consolidation of the Company or the Guarantor with, or merger of the Company or the Guarantor into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company or the Guarantor substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company or the Guarantor is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities or the Guarantee, as the case may be.

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ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
     Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
     (1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or the Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or the Guarantor herein and in the Securities or the Guarantee; or
     (2) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantor for the benefit of some or all of the Holders of all or any series of Securities or of particular Securities within a series as may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
     (3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of some or all of the Holders of all or any series of Securities or of particular Securities within a series as may be specified in the Board Resolutions (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series or such particular Securities); or
     (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or
     (5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor

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(ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding; or
     (6) to secure the Securities; or
     (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
     (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611;
     (9) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture with respect to any Securities that by their terms may be exercised for Warrant Property, in order to permit or facilitate the issuance, payment, settlement or exercise of such Securities; or
     (10) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (10) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
     With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that if the Board Resolutions and supplemental indenture shall expressly provide that any provisions to be changed or eliminated shall apply to fewer than all the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under a particular series under this Indenture, then, to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any such consent may be given by Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities hereunder or under such series to which such

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change or elimination shall apply; provided, further, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby (whether or not such affected Securities comprise all Securities under this Indenture or under a particular series),
     (1) change the terms of any Security with respect to the Expiration Date, Payment or Settlement Date or exercise price thereof, or reduce the amount of money or reduce the amount or change the kind of Warrant Property payable or deliverable by the Company upon the exercise thereof or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any money payable or deliverable upon the exercise thereof is payable, or permit the Company to redeem any Security if, absent such supplemental indenture, the Company would not be permitted to do so, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery on or after the Payment or Settlement Date (or, in the case or redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) thereof, or impair the Holder’s right to exercise such Security on the terms provided therein; or
     (2) if any Security provides that the Holder may require the Company to repurchase such Security, impair such Holder’s right to require repurchase of such Security on the terms provided therein; or
     (3) reduce the percentage in number of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture; or
     (4) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 512 or Section 1006, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8).
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the Holders of Securities of such series, or Holder of particular Securities within a series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed to affect only the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of the identified series or of particular Securities within the identified series, and shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of any other Securities.
     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
     After a supplemental indenture under this Section 902 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Trustee a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture or a copy of such supplemental indenture and the Trustee shall mail such notice or supplemental indenture to Holders affected thereby. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, or any failure of the Company to mail such supplemental indenture, shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
     In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
     Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
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Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
     Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company and the Guarantor shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company and the Guarantor, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company, the Guarantee endorsed thereon may be executed by the Guarantor and such Securities may be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants
Section 1001. Payment or Delivery of Money or Warrant Property.
     The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay or deliver the money or Warrant Property payable or deliverable by the Company with respect to the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture upon satisfaction by the Holders of all conditions precedent to that payment or delivery.
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
     The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, where Securities of that series may be surrendered upon exercise, and where notices and demands to or upon the Company or the Guarantor in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
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from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
Section 1003. Money and Warrant Property for Payments and Deliveries to be Held in Trust.
     If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before the Payment or Settlement Date of the Securities of that series, but in the event that the Securities may be settled by means of cashless exercise, in no event prior to delivery by the holder of the money or Warrant Property contemplated to exercise such Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto money or Warrant Property sufficient to pay or deliver the money or Warrant Property becoming due on such date until such sums or property shall be paid or delivered to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, on or before the Payment or Settlement Date on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent money or Warrant Property sufficient to pay or deliver the money or Warrant Property becoming due with respect to such Securities on such date, such money or Warrant Property to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all money or Warrant Property held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.
     The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay or deliver, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay or deliver, to the Trustee all money or Warrant Property held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such money or Warrant Property to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon

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which such money or Warrant Property were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment or delivery by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money or Warrant Property.
     Any money or Warrant Property deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment or delivery of the amounts due on any Security of any series in accordance with its terms and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amounts have become due and payable or deliverable shall be paid or delivered to the Company by the Trustee or such Paying Agent on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money or property, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money or Warrant Property remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid or redelivered to the Company.
Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
     The Company and the Guarantor will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
Section 1005. Existence.
     Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
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respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(17), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in Section 1005, if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
     If any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant referred to in the preceding paragraph affects fewer than all the Outstanding Securities of a series, then to the extent not inconsistent with the Trust Indenture Act, any waiver with respect to any such term, condition or provision may be given by the Holders of at least a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities of such series affected by such term, condition or provision on behalf of the Holders of all the affected Securities of such series.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Redemption of Securities
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.
     Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Expiration Date shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
     The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, within the period specified in or pursuant to the Board Resolution establishing the term of the Securities to be redeemed or, if no such period is specified at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, and of the number of Securities of such series to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

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Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
     If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected within the period specified in or pursuant to the Board Resolution establishing the term of the Securities to be redeemed or, if no such period is specified not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate, provided that the unredeemed portion of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
     If any Security selected for partial redemption is exercised in part before termination of the exercise right with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the exercised portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which have been exercised during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection.
     The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the amount thereof to be redeemed.
     The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.
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Resolution establishing the terms of the Securities to be redeemed or, if no such period is specified, not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
     All notices of redemption shall identify the securities to be redeemed and shall state:
     (1) the Redemption Date;
     (2) the Redemption Price;
     (3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the amount of the particular Security to be redeemed;
     (4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed;
     (5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
     (6) if applicable, the terms of exercise, the date on which the right to exercise the Security to be redeemed will terminate and the place or place where such Securities may be surrendered for exercise; and
     (7) if applicable, the CUSIP numbers of the Securities to be redeemed.
     Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and, unless otherwise specified or contemplated by Section 301, shall be irrevocable.
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
     On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money or Warrant Property sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date, other than any Securities called for redemption on that date which have been exercised prior to the date of such deposit.

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     If any Security called for redemption is exercised, any money deposited with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such Security shall be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
     Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price.
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
     Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor with the Guarantee endorsed thereon, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in number equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
Guarantee of Securities
Section 1201. Guarantee.
     The Guarantor unconditionally guarantees to the Trustee and each Holder of the Securities, the prompt payment when due of all present and future payment obligations of the Company to the Holder arising out of the Securities, including any judgments entered by a court with respect to such Securities (for the purposes of this Section 1201, the “Obligations”).
     The Guarantor’s obligations with respect to any Obligation shall not be affected by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection or extent of any collateral therefor or by any other circumstance relating to the Obligations that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defense to the Guarantor not available to the Company. The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may resort to the Guarantor for payment of any of the Obligations whether or not the Holder shall have resorted to any

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collateral therefor or shall have proceeded against the Company or any other obligor principally or secondarily obligated with respect to any of the Obligations. The Holder shall not be obligated to file any claim relating to the Obligations in the event that the Company becomes subject to a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, and the failure of the Holder to so file shall not affect the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder. In the event that any payment to the Holder in respect of any Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason whatsoever, the Guarantor shall remain liable hereunder with respect to such Obligations as if such payment had not been made. The Guarantor reserves the right to (a) set-off against any payment owing hereunder any amounts owing by the Holder to the Company and (b) assert defenses which the Company may have to payment of any Obligations other than defenses arising from the bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company and other defenses expressly waived hereby.
     The Guarantor agrees that the Holder may at any time and from time to time, either before or after the maturity thereof, without notice to or further consent of the Guarantor, extend the time of payment of, exchange or surrender any collateral for, or renew any of the Obligations, and may also make any agreement with the Company or with any other party to or person liable on any of the Obligations or interested therein, for the extension, renewal, payment, compromise, discharge or release thereof, in whole or in part, or for any modification of the terms thereof or of any agreement between the Holder and the Company or any such other party or person without in any way impairing or affecting this Guarantee. The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee and of the Obligations, presentment, demand for payment, notice of dishonor and protest.
     The Guarantor agrees to pay on demand all fees and out of pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of the Holder’s counsel) in any way relating to the enforcement or protection of the rights of the Holder hereunder; provided, that the Guarantor shall not be liable for any expenses of the Holder if no payment under this Guarantee is due.
     Upon payment of any of the Obligations, the Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holder against the Company with respect to such Obligations, and the Holder agrees to take at the Guarantor’s expense such steps as the Guarantor may reasonably request to implement such subrogation.
     This Guarantee is absolute and unconditional and shall remain in full force and effect and be binding upon the Guarantor, its successors and assigns until all of the Obligations have been satisfied in full. If any of the present or future Obligations are guaranteed by persons, partnerships or corporations in addition to the Guarantor, the death, release or discharge, in whole or in part, or the bankruptcy, liquidation or dissolution of one or more of them shall not discharge or affect the liabilities of the Guarantor under this Guarantee.

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     No failure on the part of the Holder to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right, remedy or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Holder of any right, remedy or power hereunder preclude any other or future exercise of any right, remedy or power. Each and every right, remedy and power hereby granted to the Holder or allowed it by law or other agreement shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any other, and may be exercised by the Holder at any time or from time to time.
     The Guarantor waives notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee, presentment to or demand of payment from anyone whomsoever liable upon any of the Obligations, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of any sale of collateral security and all other notices whatsoever.
Section 1202. Execution of Guarantee.
To evidence its guarantee to the Holders specified in Section 1401, the Guarantor hereby agrees to execute the Guarantee in substantially the form set forth in Section 205 to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. The Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Security such Guarantee. Each such Guarantee shall be signed on behalf of the Guarantor, by any two Authorized Officers, prior to the authentication of the Security on which it is endorsed, and the delivery of such Security by the Trustee, after the due authentication thereof by the Trustee hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee on behalf of the Guarantor. Any such signature upon the Guarantee may be a manual or facsimile signature of any present, past or future such Authorized Officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced below the Guarantee, and in case any such Authorized Officer who shall have signed the Guarantee shall cease to be such Authorized Officer before the Security on which such Guarantor is endorsed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Company, such Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed the Guarantee had not ceased to be such Authorized Officer of the Guarantor.
 

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     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  AIG PROGRAM FUNDING, INC.
 
 
  By      
       
       
 
  AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
as Guarantor
 
 
  By      
       
       
 
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By      
       
       
 

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EX-5.1
 

Exhibit 5.1
June 22, 2007
American International Group, Inc.,
70 Pine Street,
New York, New York 10270.
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
70 Pine Street,
New York, New York 10270.
AIG Capital Trust I,
AIG Capital Trust II,
c/o American International Group, Inc.,
70 Pine Street,
New York, New York 10270.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     In connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) of (a) $22,000,000,000 aggregate amount of (i) senior and subordinated debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts, junior subordinated debentures, shares of preferred stock, par value $5.00 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), depositary shares (evidenced by depositary receipts) representing interests in shares of Preferred Stock, units composed of the foregoing and guarantees (“AIGPF Guarantees”) of AIGPF Securities (collectively, the “AIG Securities”) of American International Group, Inc. (“AIG”); (ii) senior debt

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -2-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
securities, purchase contracts, warrants and units composed of the foregoing (collectively, the “AIGPF Securities”) of AIG Program Funding, Inc. (“AIGPF”); (iii) capital securities (the “Capital Securities”) of AIG Capital Trust I and AIG Capital Trust II (each, a “Trust”); and (iv) the guarantees by AIG, on a subordinated basis, of the payment, to the extent the Trusts have available funds or assets, of accumulated and unpaid distributions on, and the redemption or liquidation price of, the Capital Securities (the “Trust Guarantees”), and (b) shares of common stock of AIG, par value $2.50 per share (the “Common Stock”), in an aggregate amount of $16,459,681,000, we, as your counsel, have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and such questions of law as we have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion.
     Upon the basis of such examination, we advise you that, in our opinion:
     (1) When the registration statement relating to the AIG Securities, Common Stock, Capital Securities, AIGPF Securities and Trust Guarantees (the “Registration Statement”) has become effective under the Act, the indentures (each, an “Indenture”) relating to the senior debt securities, subordinated debt securities, junior subordinated debentures and warrants of AIG and the senior debt securities and warrants of AIGPF, including the respective AIGPF Guarantees of AIG (each, an “Indenture Security”), have been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the terms of a particular Indenture Security and of its issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Indenture

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -3-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
under which it is to be issued so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG, and such Indenture Security has been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with such Indenture and issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, such Indenture Security will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of AIG, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     (2) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, a certificate of designation with respect to the Preferred Stock has been duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, the terms of the Preferred Stock and of its issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with AIG’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG, and the Preferred Stock has been duly issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Preferred Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -4-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
     (3) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the terms of the deposit agreement under which the depositary shares are to be issued (the “Deposit Agreement”) have been established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG, the Deposit Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the terms of the depositary shares and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Deposit Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG, the Preferred Stock represented by the depositary shares has been duly authorized and validly issued and is delivered to the depositary, and the depositary receipts evidencing the depositary shares have been duly issued against deposit of the Preferred Stock in accordance with the Deposit Agreement and issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the depositary receipts evidencing the depositary shares will be entitled to the rights specified in the Deposit Agreement, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -5-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
     (4) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the terms of the sale of the Common Stock have been duly established in conformity with AIG’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and the Common Stock has been duly issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Common Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
     (5) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the terms of a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) under which a particular warrant (a “Warrant”) is to be issued by either AIG or AIGPF have been duly established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over either AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, the Warrant Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the terms of such Warrant and of its issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Warrant Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon either AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over either AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and such Warrant has been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the Warrant Agreement and issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement,

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -6-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
such Warrant will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of either AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     (6) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the terms of the governing instrument or agreement under which a particular purchase contract (a “Purchase Contract”) is to be issued (the “Purchase Contract Agreement”) by either AIG or AIGPF have been duly established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, the Purchase Contract Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the terms of such Purchase Contract and of its issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Purchase Contract Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and such Purchase Contract has been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the Purchase Contract Agreement and issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, such Purchase Contract

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -7-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     (7) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the terms of a unit agreement under which a particular unit (a “Unit”) is to be issued (the “Unit Agreement”) by either AIG or AIGPF have been duly established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, the Unit Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the terms of such Unit and of its issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Unit Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, and such Unit has been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the Unit Agreement and issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, such Unit will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of AIG or AIGPF, as the case may be, subject to bankruptcy,

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -8-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     (8) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the guarantee agreement (the “AIGPF Guarantee Agreement”) under which a particular AIGPF Guarantee that is not an Indenture Security is to be issued has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the terms of such AIGPF Guarantee have been duly established in conformity with the AIGPF Guarantee Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG, the terms of the securities issued by AIGPF to which the AIGPF Guarantee relates and of their issuance and sale have been duly established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIGPF and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIGPF, and such AIGPF Securities have been duly executed and authenticated and issued and sold and as contemplated by the Registration Statement, such AIGPF Guarantee will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of AIG, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -9-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
     (9) When the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the guarantee agreement (the “Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement”) under which a particular Trust Guarantee is to be issued has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the amended and restated trust agreement (the “Amended and Restated Trust Agreement”) of the Trust issuing the Capital Securities to which such Trust Guarantee relates has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, the terms of such Trust Guarantee have been duly established in conformity with the Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon AIG and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over AIG, the terms of such Capital Securities and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Trust and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Trust, and such Capital Securities have been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement and issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, such Trust Guarantee will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of AIG, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -10-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     We note that, as of the date of this opinion, a judgment for money in an action based on an Indenture Security, Warrant or Purchase Contract denominated in a foreign currency or currency unit (collectively, the “Foreign Currency Securities”) in a Federal or state court in the United States ordinarily would be enforced in the United States only in United States dollars. The date used to determine the rate of conversion of the foreign currency or currency unit in which a particular Foreign Currency Security is denominated into United States dollars will depend upon various factors, including which court renders the judgment. In the case of a Foreign Currency Security denominated in a foreign currency, a state court in the State of New York rendering a judgment on such Foreign Currency Security would be required under Section 27 of the New York Judiciary Law to render such judgment in the foreign currency in which the Foreign Currency Security is denominated, and such judgment would be converted into United States dollars at the exchange rate prevailing on the date of entry of the judgment.
     The foregoing opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United States, the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.

 


 

American International Group, Inc.,   -11-
AIG Program Funding, Inc.    
AIG Capital Trust I and    
AIG Capital Trust II    
     We have relied as to certain matters on information obtained from public officials, officers of AIG, the sponsor of the Trusts and other sources believed by us to be responsible.
     We hereby consent to this filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the references to us under the heading “Validity of the Securities” in each of the prospectuses included in the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act.
         
  Very truly yours,
 
 
  /s/ SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP  
     
     
 

 

EX-5.2
 

Exhibit 5.2
Richards, Layton & Finger
A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
One Rodney Square
920 North King Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
(302) 651-7700
Fax: (302) 651-7701
www.rlf.com
June 22, 2007
AIG Capital Trust I
AIG Capital Trust II
c/o American International Group, Inc.
70 Pine Street
New York, NY 10270
          Re:     AIG Capital Trust I and AIG Capital Trust II
Ladies and Gentlemen:
          We have acted as special Delaware counsel for AIG Capital Trust I and AIG Capital Trust II, each a Delaware statutory trust (each, a “Trust” and collectively, the “Trusts”), in connection with the matters set forth herein. At your request, this opinion is being furnished to you.
          For purposes of giving the opinions hereinafter set forth, our examination of documents has been limited to the examination of originals or copies of the following:
  (a)   The Trust Agreement for each of the Trusts, each dated as of June 10, 2003 (collectively, the “Original Trust Agreements”), by and among American International Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as sponsor (the “Sponsor”), The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as property trustee (the “Property Trustee”), and The Bank of New York (Delaware), a Delaware banking corporation, as Delaware trustee (the “Delaware Trustee”);
 
  (b)   A certified copy of the Certificate of Trust for each of the Trusts (collectively, the “Certificates of Trust”), each as filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Secretary of State”) on June 10, 2003;

 


 

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  (c)   A form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for each Trust, among the Sponsor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the administrators named therein and the holders, from time to time, of the undivided beneficial ownership interests in the assets of such Trust (collectively, the “Amended and Restated Trust Agreements;” and, together with the Original Trust Agreements, the “Trust Agreements”);
 
  (d)   The Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), including a preliminary prospectus (the “Prospectus”), relating to, among other securities, the Capital Securities of each Trust representing preferred undivided beneficial ownership interests in the assets of each Trust, filed by the Sponsor and the Trusts with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on or about June 22, 2007; and
 
  (e)   A Certificate of Good Standing for each Trust, each dated June 22, 2007, obtained from the Secretary of State.
          Initially capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined are used as defined in the Trust Agreements, except that reference herein to any document shall mean such document as in effect on the date hereof.
          For purposes of this opinion, we have not reviewed any documents other than the documents listed in paragraphs (a) through (e) above. In particular, we have not reviewed any document (other than the documents listed in paragraphs (a) through (e) above) that is referred to in or incorporated by reference into the documents reviewed by us. We have assumed that there exists no provision in any document that we have not reviewed that bears upon or is inconsistent with the opinions stated herein. We have conducted no independent factual investigation of our own but rather have relied solely upon the foregoing documents, the statements and information set forth therein and the additional matters recited or assumed herein, all of which we have assumed to be true, complete and accurate in all material respects.
          With respect to all documents examined by us, we have assumed (i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as authentic originals, (ii) the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies or forms, and (iii) the genuineness of all signatures.
          For purposes of this opinion, we have assumed (i) that the Trust Agreements will constitute the entire agreement among the parties thereto with respect to the subject matter thereof, including with respect to the creation, operation and termination of each Trust, that the Certificates of Trust are in full force and effect and have not been further amended, and that the Trust Agreements will be in full force and effect and will be executed in substantially the forms reviewed by us, (ii) except to the extent provided in paragraph 1 below, the due creation or due organization or due formation, as the case may be, and valid existence in good standing of each party to the documents examined by us under the laws of the jurisdiction governing its creation, organization or formation, (iii) the legal capacity of natural persons who are parties to the

 


 

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documents examined by us, (iv) except to the extent provided in paragraph 2 below, that each of the parties to the documents examined by us has the power and authority to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, such documents, (v) except to the extent provided in paragraph 2 below, the due authorization, execution and delivery by all parties thereto of all documents examined by us, (vi) the receipt by each Person to whom Capital Securities are to be issued by the Trusts (collectively, the “Capital Security Holders”) of a Capital Security Certificate for such Capital Security and the payment for the Capital Security acquired by it, in accordance with the Trust Agreements and the Registration Statement, and (vii) that the Capital Securities are issued and sold to the Capital Security Holders in accordance with the Trust Agreements and the Registration Statement. We have not participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement or Prospectus and assume no responsibility for their contents.
          This opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Delaware (excluding the securities and blue sky laws of the State of Delaware), and we have not considered and express no opinion on the laws of any other jurisdiction, including federal laws and rules and regulations relating thereto. Our opinions are rendered only with respect to Delaware laws and rules, regulations and orders thereunder which are currently in effect.
          Based upon the foregoing, and upon our examination of such questions of law and statutes of the State of Delaware as we have considered necessary or appropriate, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications, limitations and exceptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
          1.      Each Trust has been duly created and is validly existing in good standing as a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, 12 Del. C. § 3801, et seq.
          2.      The Capital Securities of each Trust have been duly authorized by each Trust Agreement and, when executed and delivered to and paid for by the purchasers thereof in accordance with the applicable Trust Agreement and the Registration Statement, will be duly and validly issued and, subject to the qualifications set forth in paragraph 3 below, fully paid and non-assessable undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the applicable Trust.
          3.      The Capital Security Holders, as beneficial owners of the Trusts, will be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. We note that the Capital Security Holders may be obligated, pursuant to the Trust Agreement, to provide (A) indemnity or security in connection with and pay taxes or governmental charges arising from transfers or exchanges of Capital Security Certificates and the issuance of replacement Capital Security Certificates and (B) security or indemnity in connection with requests of or directions to the Property Trustee to exercise its rights and powers under the Trust Agreement.
          We consent to the filing of this opinion with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In addition, we hereby consent to the reference to us under the heading “Validity of the Securities” in the Prospectus. In giving the

 


 

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foregoing consents, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of Persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
     
 
  Very truly yours,
 
   
DKD/JWP
  /s/ RICHARDS, LAYTON & FINGER, P.A.

 

EX-23.1
 

Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated March 1, 2007 relating to the financial statements, financial statement schedules, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 of American International Group. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
June 22, 2007

EX-25.1
 

Exhibit 25.1
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2) o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York
(State of incorporation
if not a U.S. national bank)
  13-5160382
(I.R.S. employer
identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.
(Address of principal executive offices)
  10286
(Zip code)
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  13-2592361
(I.R.S. employer
identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street
New York, New York
(Address of principal executive offices)
  10270
(Zip code)
 
Senior Debt Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
 
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York,
N.Y. 10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.2
 

Exhibit 25.2
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2) o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street    
New York, New York   10270
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
Subordinated Debt Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y.
10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
   1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
   4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.3
 

Exhibit 25.3
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2) o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street    
New York, New York   10270
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
Junior Subordinated Debentures
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y.
10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
   1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
   4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.4
 

Exhibit 25.4
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)
     o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street    
New York, New York   10270
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
Subordinated Junior Subordinated Debentures
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.5
 

Exhibit 25.5
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)     o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street   10270
New York, New York   (Zip code)
(Address of principal executive offices)    
 
Warrants
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.6
 

Exhibit 25.6
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)     o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York
(State of incorporation
if not a U.S. national bank)
  13-5160382
(I.R.S. employer
identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.
(Address of principal executive offices)
  10286
(Zip code)
 
AIG Capital Trust I
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  16-6543022
(I.R.S. employer
identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street
New York, New York
(Address of principal executive offices)
  10270
(Zip code)
 
Capital Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
 
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

New York Clearing House Association
  Washington, D.C. 20429

New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/      BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.7
 

Exhibit 25.7
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)          o

 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
AIG Capital Trust II
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   16-6543023
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street    
New York, New York   10270
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
Capital Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
 
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.8
 

Exhibit 25.8
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation if not a U.S. national bank)   (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street
New York, New York
  10270
(Zip code)
(Address of principal executive offices)  
 
Guarantee of Capital Securities of AIG Capital Trust I
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
 
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.9
 

Exhibit 25.9
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)
o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street    
New York, New York   10270
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
Guarantee of Capital Securities of AIG Capital Trust II
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
 
Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y.
10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y. 12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form
 
      T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
             
    THE BANK OF NEW YORK    
 
           
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
 
           
 
      Name: BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
 
      Title: ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT    

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.10
 

Exhibit 25.10
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2) o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware    
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
 
70 Pine Street  
New York, New York   10270
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
Debt Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
 
Superintendent of Banks of the State of
New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y.
10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y.
12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y.
10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors

 

EX-25.11
 

Exhibit 25.11
 
 
FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2) o
 
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
     
New York   13-5160382
(State of incorporation   (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)   identification no.)
     
One Wall Street, New York, N.Y.   10286
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
AIG Program Funding, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware    
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
American International Group, Inc.
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   13-2592361
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)   identification no.)
     
70 Pine Street    
New York, New York   10270
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
 
Warrants
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

 


 

1.   General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:
  (a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
     
Name   Address
 
Superintendent of Banks of the State of
New York
  One State Street, New York, N.Y.
10004-1417, and Albany, N.Y.
12223
 
   
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  33 Liberty Street, New York, N.Y.
10045
 
   
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Washington, D.C. 20429
 
   
New York Clearing House Association
  New York, New York 10005
  (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
    Yes.
 
2.   Affiliations with Obligor.
 
    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
 
    None.
 
16.   List of Exhibits.
 
    Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).
  1.   A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-21672, Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)
 
  4.   A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-121195.)

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  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 333-106702.)
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 20th day of June, 2007.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
 
 
  By:   /S/ BEATA HRYNIEWICKA    
    Name:   BEATA HRYNIEWICKA   
    Title:   ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT   
 

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EXHIBIT 7
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of One Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31, 2007, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin
    1,859,000  
Interest-bearing balances
    12,315,000  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    1,572,000  
Available-for-sale securities
    20,948,000  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices
    491,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    153,000  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    0  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    31,479,000  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    289,000  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    31,190,000  
Trading assets
    3,171,000  
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)
    844,000  
Other real estate owned
    2,000  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    340,000  
Not applicable Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,714,000  
Other intangible assets
    966,000  
Other assets
    7,043,000  
 
     

 


 

         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
Total assets
    83,608,000  
 
     
 
       
LIABILITIES
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    26,775,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    16,797,000  
Interest-bearing
    9,978,000  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    33,309,000  
Noninterest-bearing
    702,000  
Interest-bearing
    32,607,000  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    712,000  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    129,000  
Trading liabilities
    2,321,000  
Other borrowed money:
       
(includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)
    3,621,000  
Not applicable
       
Not applicable
       
Subordinated notes and debentures
    2,255,000  
Other liabilities
    5,933,000  
 
     
Total liabilities
    75,055,000  
 
     
 
       
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    161,000  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    1,135,000  
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)
    2,143,000  
Retained earnings
    5,430,000  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -316,000  
Other equity capital components
    0  
Total equity capital
    8,392,000  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    83,608,000  
 
     

 


 

     I, Thomas P. Gibbons, Chief Financial Officer of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
         
  Thomas P. Gibbons,
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
     
     
     
 
     We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.
     
Thomas A. Renyi
   
Gerald L. Hassell
   
Catherine A. Rein
 
Directors