Restrictive Agreements No Loan Party will directly or indirectly enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon: (a) the ability of such Loan Party to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its property or assets in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable; or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary thereof to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any shares of its Capital Stock to such Loan Party or to make or repay loans or advances to a Loan Party or to guarantee Indebtedness of the Loan Parties; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by Applicable Law, by any Loan Document, or under any documents relating to joint ventures of any Loan Party to the extent that such joint ventures are not prohibited hereunder, (ii) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of assets or equity permitted hereunder by a Loan Party or a Subsidiary pending such sale, provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the assets of the Loan Party or Subsidiary that are to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (iii) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to customary provisions in contracts or leases restricting the assignment or subleasing or sublicensing thereof, (v) the foregoing shall not apply to any agreement relating to Indebtedness under the Indentures, the Term Loan, the Permanent Financing Facility, the CMBS Facilities, the Supplemental Real Estate Facilities (or any facilities replacing or refinancing such facilities), or Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries (other than the Canadian Loan Parties) permitted hereunder (solely to the extent such restrictions are limited to the such Foreign Subsidiaries, (vi) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to licenses or contracts which, by the terms of such licenses and contracts, prohibit the granting of Liens on the rights contained therein, and (vii) the foregoing shall not apply to any restrictions in existence prior to the time any such Person became a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of any such acquisition.
