AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of May 3, 2013 among HMS HOLDINGS CORP., The GUARANTORS Party Hereto, The LENDERS Party Hereto and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent
Exhibit 10.1
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of
May 3, 2013
among
The GUARANTORS Party Hereto,
The LENDERS Party Hereto
and
CITIBANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
$500,000,000
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.,
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC
and
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
Fifth Third Bank
SunTrust Bank
Union Bank
US Bank National Association,
as Co-Syndication Agents
Compass Bank
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
RBS Citizens, N.A.
TD Bank, N.A.,
as Co-Documentation Agents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I | ||
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DEFINITIONS | ||
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SECTION 1.01. |
Defined Terms |
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SECTION 1.02. |
Terms Generally |
24 |
SECTION 1.03. |
Accounting Terms; GAAP |
25 |
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ARTICLE II | ||
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THE CREDITS | ||
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SECTION 2.01. |
Commitments |
25 |
SECTION 2.02. |
Loans and Borrowings |
25 |
SECTION 2.03. |
Requests for Borrowings |
26 |
SECTION 2.04. |
Swingline Loans |
26 |
SECTION 2.05. |
Letters of Credit |
28 |
SECTION 2.06. |
Funding of Borrowings |
31 |
SECTION 2.07. |
Interest Elections |
31 |
SECTION 2.08. |
Termination and Reduction of the Commitments |
32 |
SECTION 2.09. |
Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt |
33 |
SECTION 2.10. |
Prepayment of Loans |
33 |
SECTION 2.11. |
Fees |
34 |
SECTION 2.12. |
Interest |
35 |
SECTION 2.13. |
Alternate Rate of Interest |
36 |
SECTION 2.14. |
Increased Costs |
36 |
SECTION 2.15. |
Break Funding Payments |
37 |
SECTION 2.16. |
Taxes |
37 |
SECTION 2.17. |
Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs |
40 |
SECTION 2.18. |
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
41 |
SECTION 2.19. |
Increase in Commitments |
42 |
SECTION 2.20. |
Defaulting Lenders |
44 |
SECTION 2.21. |
Extension Offers |
45 |
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ARTICLE III | ||
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GUARANTEE | ||
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SECTION 3.01. |
Guarantee |
47 |
SECTION 3.02. |
Obligations Unconditional |
47 |
SECTION 3.03. |
Reinstatement |
47 |
SECTION 3.04. |
Subrogation |
48 |
SECTION 3.05. |
Remedies |
48 |
SECTION 3.06. |
Instrument for the Payment of Money |
48 |
SECTION 3.07. |
Continuing Guarantee |
48 |
SECTION 3.08. |
Rights of Contribution |
48 |
SECTION 3.09. |
General Limitation on Guaranteed Obligations |
49 |
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ARTICLE IV | ||
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | ||
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SECTION 4.01. |
Organization; Powers |
49 |
SECTION 4.02. |
Authorization; Enforceability |
49 |
SECTION 4.03. |
Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts |
49 |
SECTION 4.04. |
Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change; No Default |
49 |
SECTION 4.05. |
Properties |
50 |
SECTION 4.06. |
Litigation and Environmental Matters |
50 |
SECTION 4.07. |
Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations |
51 |
SECTION 4.08. |
Investment Company Act Status |
51 |
SECTION 4.09. |
Taxes |
51 |
SECTION 4.10. |
ERISA |
51 |
SECTION 4.11. |
Disclosure |
51 |
SECTION 4.12. |
Use of Credit |
51 |
SECTION 4.13. |
Labor Matters |
51 |
SECTION 4.14. |
Indebtedness |
52 |
SECTION 4.15. |
Liens |
52 |
SECTION 4.16. |
Subsidiaries |
52 |
SECTION 4.17. |
Solvency |
52 |
SECTION 4.18. |
[Reserved] |
52 |
SECTION 4.19. |
Anti-Terrorism Laws |
52 |
SECTION 4.20. |
Security Documents |
52 |
SECTION 4.21. |
Insurance |
53 |
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ARTICLE V | ||
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CONDITIONS | ||
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SECTION 5.01. |
Conditions of Initial Credit Extensions |
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SECTION 5.02. |
Each Credit Event |
54 |
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ARTICLE VI | ||
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS | ||
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SECTION 6.01. |
Financial Statements and Other Information |
55 |
SECTION 6.02. |
Notices of Material Events |
56 |
SECTION 6.03. |
Existence; Conduct of Business |
56 |
SECTION 6.04. |
Payment of Taxes and Other Obligations |
56 |
SECTION 6.05. |
Maintenance of Properties |
56 |
SECTION 6.06. |
Maintenance of Insurance |
56 |
SECTION 6.07. |
Books and Records |
57 |
SECTION 6.08. |
Inspection Rights |
57 |
SECTION 6.09. |
Lender Meetings |
57 |
SECTION 6.10. |
[Reserved] |
57 |
SECTION 6.11. |
Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations |
57 |
SECTION 6.12. |
Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit |
57 |
SECTION 6.13. |
Additional Guarantors; Further Assurances |
57 |
SECTION 6.14. |
Qualified ECP Guarantors |
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ARTICLE VII | ||
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS | ||
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SECTION 7.01. |
Indebtedness |
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SECTION 7.02. |
Liens |
60 |
SECTION 7.03. |
Mergers, Consolidations, Etc. |
60 |
SECTION 7.04. |
Dispositions |
61 |
SECTION 7.05. |
Lines of Business |
61 |
SECTION 7.06. |
Investments and Acquisitions |
62 |
SECTION 7.07. |
Restricted Payments |
62 |
SECTION 7.08. |
Transactions with Affiliates |
63 |
SECTION 7.09. |
Restrictive Agreements |
63 |
SECTION 7.10. |
Swap Agreements |
64 |
SECTION 7.11. |
Financial Covenants |
64 |
SECTION 7.12. |
Sale-Leasebacks |
64 |
SECTION 7.13. |
Modifications of Organizational Documents and Certain Other Agreements |
64 |
SECTION 7.14. |
Prepayments, Etc. of Certain Indebtedness |
64 |
SECTION 7.15. |
Fiscal Year |
65 |
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ARTICLE VIII | ||
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT | ||
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SECTION 8.01. |
Events of Default |
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ARTICLE IX | ||
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THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT | ||
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SECTION 9.01. |
Appointment and Authority |
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SECTION 9.02. |
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent Individually |
67 |
SECTION 9.03. |
Duties of the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent; Exculpatory Provisions |
68 |
SECTION 9.04. |
Reliance by Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent |
68 |
SECTION 9.05. |
Delegation of Duties |
69 |
SECTION 9.06. |
Resignation of Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent |
69 |
SECTION 9.07. |
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent and Other Lender Parties |
70 |
SECTION 9.08. |
Withholding Taxes |
71 |
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ARTICLE X | ||
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MISCELLANEOUS | ||
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SECTION 10.01. |
Notices |
72 |
SECTION 10.02. |
Posting of Approved Electronic Communications |
73 |
SECTION 10.03. |
[Reserved] |
74 |
SECTION 10.04. |
Treatment of Information |
74 |
SECTION 10.05. |
Waivers; Amendments |
75 |
SECTION 10.06. |
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
77 |
SECTION 10.07. |
Successors and Assigns |
78 |
SECTION 10.08. |
Survival |
80 |
SECTION 10.09. |
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
81 |
SECTION 10.10. |
Severability |
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SECTION 10.11. |
Right of Setoff |
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SECTION 10.12. |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process |
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SECTION 10.13. |
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
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SECTION 10.14. |
Headings |
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SECTION 10.15. |
Confidentiality |
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SECTION 10.16. |
USA PATRIOT Act |
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SECTION 10.17. |
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
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SECTION 10.18. |
Interest Rate Limitation |
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SECTION 10.19. |
Acknowledgments Relating to the Restatement Date |
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SECTION 10.20. |
Original Credit Agreement Superseded |
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SCHEDULE 1.01 |
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Commitments |
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SCHEDULE 1.02 |
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Immaterial Subsidiaries |
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SCHEDULE 4.06(a) |
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Litigation |
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SCHEDULE 4.06(b) |
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Disclosed Matters |
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SCHEDULE 4.16 |
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Subsidiaries |
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SCHEDULE 7.01 |
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Existing Indebtedness |
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SCHEDULE 7.02 |
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Existing Liens |
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SCHEDULE 7.06 |
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Existing Investments |
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SCHEDULE 7.09 |
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Restrictive Agreements |
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EXHIBIT A |
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Form of Assignment and Assumption |
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EXHIBIT B-1 |
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Form of Revolving Credit Note |
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EXHIBIT B-2 |
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Form of Swingline Loan Note |
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EXHIBIT C |
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[Reserved] |
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EXHIBIT D |
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Form of Subsidiary Joinder Agreement |
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EXHIBIT E |
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Form of Opinion of Counsel to the Loan Parties |
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EXHIBIT F-1 |
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Form of Perfection Certificate |
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EXHIBIT F-2 |
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Form of Perfection Certificate Supplement |
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EXHIBIT G |
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Form of Solvency Certificate |
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of May 3, 2013, among HMS HOLDINGS CORP. (the “Borrower”), the GUARANTORS party hereto, the LENDERS party hereto, and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Guarantors, the lenders party thereto as of the Restatement Date and the Administrative Agent are party to that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2011 (the “Original Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the lenders thereunder made certain loans and other extensions of credit to the Borrower;
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Lenders party hereto and the other parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement in its entirety on and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein;
WHEREAS, the parties hereto intend that (a) the Obligations (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties under the Original Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) (the “Original Obligations,” and such other Loan Documents, the “Original Loan Documents”) that remain unpaid and outstanding on and after the Restatement Date shall continue to exist under and be evidenced by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined below), (b) any letters of credit outstanding under the Original Credit Agreement as of the Restatement Date (the “Original Letters of Credit”) shall be Letters of Credit outstanding hereunder and as defined herein, (c) the grants of security interests and Liens under and pursuant to the Loan Documents shall continue unaltered to secure, guarantee, support and otherwise benefit the Obligations of the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties under this Agreement, and each other Loan Document shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with its terms except as expressly amended thereby or hereby, and the parties hereto hereby ratify and confirm the terms thereof as being in full force and effect and unaltered by this Agreement except as expressly amended thereby or hereby and (d) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents do not constitute a novation or termination of the Original Obligations;
WHEREAS, the Loan Parties and each Lender who has executed this Agreement agree that upon the effectiveness of this Agreement all of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitments (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) shall be converted into Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder; and
WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement and are willing to continue and extend such credit to the Borrower and each Issuing Lender is willing to issue letters of credit for the account of the Borrower and the other parties hereto are willing to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement, in each case on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement and the Original Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
“ABR,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
“Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Borrower or any other Loan Party of (a) all of the Capital Stock of any other Person, (b) all or substantially all of the assets of any other Person or (c) assets constituting one or more divisions, lines of business or business units of any other Person.
“Activities” has the meaning specified in Section 9.02(b).
“Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Administrative Agent” means Citi, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder, and each other person appointed as the successor pursuant to Section 10.07.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.
“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 0.50% and (c) the one-month LIBO Rate (determined as of such day) plus 1.00%. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“Agents” means, individually and collectively as the context may require, the Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, the Joint Lead Arangers, the Joint Bookrunners, the Syndication Agents and the Documentation Agent.
“Agent’s Group” has the meaning specified in Section 9.02(b).
“Agreement” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any Requirement of Law related to terrorism financing or money laundering including the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (“USA PATRIOT Act”) of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56), The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act (also known as the “Bank Secrecy Act”, 31 U.S.C. §§ 5311-5330 and 12 U.S.C. §§ 1818(s), 1820(b) and 1951-1959), the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., as amended) and Executive Order 13224 (effective September 24, 2001).
“Applicable Percentage” means (a) with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of Sections 2.04 or 2.05 or in respect of any indemnity claim under Section 10.06(b) arising out of an action or omission of the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Lender under this Agreement, the percentage of the total Revolving Credit Commitments represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and (b) with respect to any Lender in respect of any indemnity claim under Section 10.06(b) arising out of an action or omission of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, the percentage of the total Commitments or Loans of all Classes hereunder represented by the aggregate amount of such Lender’s Commitments or Loans of all Classes hereunder. With respect to the Revolving Credit Lenders, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined on the basis of the percentage of the total Revolving Credit Exposures represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure.
“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any ABR Loan or Eurodollar Loan, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “ABR Spread”, “Eurodollar Spread” or “Commitment Fee,” respectively, based upon the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the most recent determination date; provided that from the Restatement Date until the delivery of the Borrower’s consolidated financial statements for the quarter ending on or nearest to June 30, 2013, the “Applicable Rate” shall be the applicable rate per annum set forth below in Level II:
Consolidated Leverage |
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ABR |
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Eurodollar |
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Commitment |
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Level I |
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Greater than or equal to 2.75:1.00 |
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1.25 |
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2.25 |
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0.50 |
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Level II |
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Greater than or equal to 2.00:1.00 but less than 2.75:1.00 |
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1.00 |
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2.00 |
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0.50 |
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Level III |
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Greater than or equal to 1.00:1.00 but less than 2.00:1.00 |
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0.75 |
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1.75 |
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0.50 |
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Level IV |
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Less than 1.00:1.00 |
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0.50 |
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1.50 |
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0.375 |
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For purposes of the foregoing, (i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall be determined as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower based upon the Borrower’s consolidated financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) (and the related compliance certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c)), and (ii) each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the date three Business Days after delivery to the Administrative Agent of such consolidated financial statements and compliance certificate indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change; provided that the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Level I (A) at any time that an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (B) if the Borrower fails to deliver the consolidated financial statements (and related compliance certificate) required to be delivered by it pursuant to Section 6.01(a), (b) and/or (c), during the period from the expiration of the time for delivery thereof specified in such sections until such financial statements and compliance certificate are delivered.
In the event that the Administrative Agent and the Borrower determine that any financial statements previously delivered were incorrect or inaccurate (regardless of whether this Agreement or the Commitments are in effect when such inaccuracy is discovered), and such inaccuracy, if corrected, would have led to the application of a higher Applicable ABR Rate for any period (an “Applicable Period”) than the Applicable Rate actually applied for such Applicable Period, then (i) the Borrower shall as soon as practicable deliver to the Administrative Agent the corrected financial statements for such Applicable Period, (ii) the Applicable Rate shall be determined as if the applicable level for such higher Applicable Rate were applicable for such Applicable Period, and (iii) the Borrower shall within three (3) Business Days of demand thereof by the Administrative Agent pay to the Administrative Agent the accrued additional amount owing as a result of such increased Applicable Rate for such Applicable Period, which payment shall be promptly applied by the Administrative Agent in accordance with this Agreement. This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent and Lenders with respect to Section 2.12(c) and Article VIII. The Borrower’s obligations under this paragraph shall survive the termination of the Commitments and the repayment in cash in full of all other Obligations hereunder for the limited period ending on the date that is the later to occur of (x) one year following the date upon which such termination and repayment occurred and (y) two months following the date upon which the Borrower’s annual audited financial statements, which include the period during which such termination and repayment occurred, become publicly available.
“Approved Electronic Communications” means each Communication that any Loan Party is obligated to, or otherwise chooses to, provide to the Administrative Agent pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein, including any financial statement, financial and other report, notice, request, certificate and other information material; provided, however, that, solely with respect to delivery of any such Communication by any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent and without limiting or otherwise affecting either the Administrative Agent’s right to effect delivery of such Communication by posting such Communication to the Approved Electronic Platform or the protections afforded hereby to the Administrative Agent in connection with any such posting, “Approved Electronic Communication” shall exclude (i) any notice of borrowing, letter of credit request, swing loan
request, notice of conversion or continuation, and any other notice, demand, communication, information, document and other material relating to a request for a new, or a conversion of an existing, Borrowing, (ii) any notice pursuant to Section 2.10 and any other notice relating to the payment of any principal or other amount due under any Loan Document prior to the scheduled date therefor, (iii) all notices of any Default or Event of Default and (iv) any notice, demand, communication, information, document and other material required to be delivered to satisfy any of the conditions set forth in Article V or any other condition to any Borrowing or other extension of credit hereunder or any condition precedent to the effectiveness of this Agreement.
“Approved Electronic Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(a).
“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
“Arrangers” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated.
“Asset Sale” means any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of property (excluding any such Disposition permitted by clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of Section 7.04) which yields gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (valued at the initial principal amount thereof in the case of non-cash proceeds consisting of notes or other debt securities and valued at fair market value in the case of other non-cash proceeds) in excess of $5,000,000.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.07), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Available Amount” means, at any time, an amount, not less than zero in the aggregate, determined on a cumulative basis, equal to, without duplication:
(a) the Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount at such time, plus
(b) the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents received from Equity Issuances (plus any proceeds of the exercise of warrants or options or restricted stock described in the parenthetical to clause (a)(ii) in the definition of Equity Issuance exercised in respect of Capital Stock) after the Restatement Date, minus
(c) any amount of the Available Amount used to make Investments pursuant to Section 7.06(h) after the Restatement Date and prior to such time, minus
(d) any amount of the Available Amount used to make Restricted Payments pursuant to Section 7.07(b) after the Restatement Date and prior to such time, minus
(e) any amount of the Available Amount used to make payments or distributions in respect of Junior Indebtedness pursuant to Section 7.14 after the Restatement Date and prior to such time, minus
(f) any amount of the Available Amount used to make Investments, Restricted Payments or make payments or distributions in respect of Junior Indebtedness since the Effective Date and prior to the Restatement Date.
“Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.
“Borrower” means HMS Holdings Corp., a New York corporation.
“Borrowing” means (a) all ABR Loans (other than Swingline Loans) of the same Class made, converted or continued on the same date, (b) all Eurodollar Loans of the same Class that have the same Interest Period or (c) a Swingline Loan.
“Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, expenditures (including the aggregate amount of Capital Lease Obligations incurred during such period) made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to acquire or construct fixed assets, plant and equipment (including renewals, improvements and replacements, but excluding repairs) during such period computed in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the foregoing.
“Cash Collateralize” means, in respect of an obligation, provide and pledge (as a first priority perfected security interest) cash collateral in Dollars, at a location and pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (and “Cash Collateralization” has a corresponding meaning).
“Cash Equivalent” means:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or by any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America), in each case maturing within two years from the date of acquisition thereof;
(b) investments in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit rating obtainable from S&P or from Moody’s;
(c) investments in certificates of deposit, bank notes, deposit notes, banker’s acceptances, overnight deposits and time deposits maturing within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000;
(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) of this definition and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) of this definition;
(e) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) have the highest rating obtainable from S&P or from Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000; and
(f) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States of America or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof having one of the two highest rating categories obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition.
“Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the date hereof), of shares representing more than 30% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the Borrower; or (b) occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons who were neither (i) nominated by the board of directors of the Borrower nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated.
“Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, treaty, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, treaty, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Lender (or, for purposes of Section 2.14(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives concerning capital adequacy promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices (or any successor or similar authority) of the United States financial regulatory authorities shall be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
“Citi” means Citibank, N.A.
“Class,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Credit Loans, Incremental Revolving Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Swingline Loans and, when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Credit Commitment or Incremental Term Loan Commitment.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Collateral” means the Security Agreement Collateral, the Mortgaged Property, and all property of any kind and nature subject or purported to be subject from time to time to a lien pursuant to any Security Document.
“Collateral Agent” means Citi in its capacity as collateral agent for the Secured Parties.
“Commitment” means a Revolving Credit Commitment, an Incremental Term Loan Commitment or a Letter of Credit Commitment, or any combination thereof (as the context requires).
“Commitment Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a).
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Communications” means each notice, demand, communication, information, document and other material provided for hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise transmitted between the parties hereto relating this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, any Loan Party or its Affiliates, or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, including, without limitation, all Approved Electronic Communications.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus, without duplication and to the extent reflected as a charge in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of:
(a) (i) income tax expense,
(ii) Consolidated Interest Expense, amortization or writeoff of debt discount and debt issuance costs and commissions, discounts and other fees and charges associated with Indebtedness (including the Loans),
(iii) depreciation and amortization expense, including amortization of intangibles (including, but not limited to, goodwill) and organization costs,
(iv) non-cash expenses or losses (including any non-cash stock-based compensation expense relating to stock options and restricted stock granted to employees or directors),
(v) restructuring charges or reserves,
(vi) synergies projected by the Borrower in good faith to be realized as a result of actions taken or to be taken in connection with the Transactions or any Permitted Acquisition (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as though such items had been realized on the first day of such period) and; provided that (x) the aggregate amount of add backs made pursuant to this clause (vi) shall not exceed an amount equal to 10% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the determination date (without giving effect to any adjustments pursuant to this clause (vi), but after giving Pro Forma Effect to any Material Acquisition or Material Disposition) and (y)(A) such add backs shall be net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period that are otherwise included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA from such actions, (B) a duly completed certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent together with the certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c), certifying that (i) such synergies are reasonably anticipated to be realized within the timeframes set forth in clause (ii) below and factually supportable as determined in good faith by the Borrower, and (ii) such actions have been taken or are to be taken within 12 months after the consummation of the acquisition or implementation of such initiative relating to such acquisition, which is expected to result in such synergies, (C) no synergies shall be added pursuant to this clause (vi) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges otherwise added to calculate Consolidated EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period and (D) projected amounts of synergies (and not yet realized) may no longer be added in calculating Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this clause (vi) to the extent occurring more than four full fiscal quarters after the specified action taken in order to realize such synergies and
(vii) cash Transaction Costs, and minus
(b) (i) to the extent included in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of (x) extraordinary or non-recurring income or gains (including, whether or not otherwise includable as a separate item in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, gains on the sales of assets outside of the ordinary course of business) and (y) other non-cash income and
(ii) cash payments made during such period in respect of items described in clause (a)(iv) above subsequent to the fiscal quarter in which the relevant non-cash expenses or losses were reflected as a charge in the statement of Consolidated Net Income, all as determined on a consolidated basis.
For the purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters (each, a “Reference Period”) for any determination of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio, (x) if at any time during such Reference Period or subsequent to such Reference Period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the date of determination the Borrower or any
Subsidiary shall have made any Material Disposition, Consolidated EBITDA for such Reference Period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if positive) attributable to the property that is the subject of such Material Disposition for such Reference Period or increased by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if negative) attributable thereto for such Reference Period and (y) if during such Reference Period or subsequent to such Reference Period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the date of determination the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have made a Material Acquisition, Consolidated EBITDA for such Reference Period shall be calculated after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto as if such Material Acquisition occurred on the first day of such Reference Period. As used in this definition, “Material Acquisition” means any Acquisition that involves the payment of consideration by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in excess of $5,000,000; and “Material Disposition” means any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of property that yields gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in excess of $5,000,000.
“Consolidated Funded Debt” means, at any date, all Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that matures more than one year from the date of its creation or matures within one year from such date but is renewable or extendible, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period of more than one year from such date, including all current maturities and current sinking fund payments in respect of such Indebtedness whether or not required to be paid within one year from the date of its creation and, in the case of the Borrower, Indebtedness in respect of the Loans, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, it being understood that any Indebtedness of such Person in respect of the undrawn portion of any letter of credit shall not constitute Consolidated Funded Debt of such Person.
“Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio” means, at any date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on or most recently ended prior to such date, to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, total interest expense (including that attributable to Capital Lease Obligations) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing and net costs under Swap Agreements in respect of interest rates to the extent such net costs are allocable to such period in accordance with GAAP) determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Leverage Ratio” means, at any date, the ratio of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Consolidated Funded Debt on such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on or most recently ended prior to such date.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or loss) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions, and (b) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Loan Party) to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by the terms of any Contractual Obligation (other than under any Loan Document) or Requirement of Law applicable to such Subsidiary.
“Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio” means, at any date, the ratio of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Consolidated Funded Debt secured by a Lien on such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on or most recently ended prior to such date.
“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount” means, at any date, an amount, determined on a cumulative basis equal to the aggregate cumulative sum of 50% of Excess Cash Flow for each Fiscal Year (but not less than zero with respect to any Fiscal Year) ending after the Effective Date and prior to such date.
“Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both, would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
“Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, a Lender as to which the Administrative Agent has notified the Borrower that (i) such Lender has failed for three or more Business Days to comply with its obligations under this Agreement to make a Loan, make a payment to the Issuing Lender in respect of a LC Disbursement or make a payment to the Swingline Lender in respect of a Swingline Loan (each, a “funding obligation”), (ii) such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, or has stated publicly, that it will not comply with any such funding obligation hereunder, or has defaulted on its funding obligations under any other loan agreement or credit agreement, (iii) such Lender has, for three or more Business Days, failed to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent, in response to a written request of the Administrative Agent, that it will comply with its funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (iii) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (iv) a Lender Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to such Lender (provided that neither the reallocation of funding obligations provided for in Section 2.20 as a result of a Lender’s being a Defaulting Lender nor the performance by a Non-Defaulting Lender of such reallocated funding obligations will by themselves cause the relevant Defaulting Lender to become a Non-Defaulting Lender). Any determination that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under clauses (i) through (iv) above will be made by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion acting in good faith. The Administrative Agent will promptly send to all parties hereto a copy of any notice to the Borrower provided for in this definition.
“Disclosed Matters” means the actions, suits and proceedings disclosed in Schedule 4.06(a) and the environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 4.06(b).
“Disposition” means, with respect to any property, any sale, lease, sale and leaseback, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof (excluding the sale by the Borrower of its own Indebtedness or Capital Stock).
“Dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower organized or incorporated under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Do Not Have Unreasonably Small Capital” means that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole is a going concern and has sufficient capital to ensure that it will continue to be a going concern for such period.
“Effective Date” means December 16, 2011.
“Embargoed Person” means any party that (i) is publicly identified on the most current list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” published by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) or resides, is organized or chartered, or has a place of business in a country or territory subject to OFAC sanctions or embargo programs or (ii) is publicly identified as prohibited from doing business with the United States under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Trading With the Enemy Act, or any other Requirement of Law.
“Engagement Letter” means the confidential engagement letter, dated as of April 8, 2013, among the Borrower and the Arrangers.
“Environmental Laws” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Equity Issuance” means (a) any issuance or sale by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the date hereof of (i) any of its Capital Stock, (ii) any warrants or options exercisable in respect of its Capital Stock (other than any warrants, options or restricted stock issued to directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to benefit plans established in the ordinary course of business and any Capital Stock of the Borrower issued upon the exercise of such warrants or options) or (iii) any other security or instrument representing an equity interest (or the right to obtain any equity interest, other than convertible debt) in the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or (b) the receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the date hereof of any capital contribution (whether or not evidenced by any equity security issued by the recipient of such contribution); provided that Equity Issuance shall not include (v) any such issuance or sale by any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, (w) any capital contribution by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Subsidiary of the Borrower, (x) any such issuance under any Plan, or (y) any such issuance of Capital Stock of the Borrower as consideration for any Acquisition permitted under Section 7.06(g), or (z)(i) any issuance of mandatorily redeemable preferred Capital Stock or (ii) Capital Stock that is convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness.
“Equity Rights” means, with respect to any Person, any subscriptions, options, warrants, commitments, preemptive rights or agreements of any kind (including any shareholders’ or voting trust agreements) for the issuance, sale, registration or voting of, or securities convertible into, any additional shares of Capital Stock of any class or type of such Person.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) with respect to any Plan, the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code); (e) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (f) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan or the occurrence of any event or condition which could reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan; (g) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (h) the withdrawal of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which such entity was a “substantial employer” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated
as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (i) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in “endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA); (j) a failure to make a required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan or (k) the occurrence of a nonexempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could reasonably be expected to result in liability to the Borrower.
“Eurodollar,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate.
“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VIII.
“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any Fiscal Year of the Borrower (an “Excess Cash Flow Period”), the sum of (i) Consolidated Net Income for such Fiscal Year of the Borrower as shown on the financial statements for such Fiscal Year delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) plus (ii) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash charges to the extent deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such Fiscal Year, plus (iii) decreases in Working Capital for such Fiscal Year, minus, without duplication:
(a) scheduled principal payments in respect of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in each case made with Internally Generated Cash during such Fiscal Year; minus
(b) Capital Expenditures, Permitted Acquisitions and Investments permitted by Section 7.06(h), in each case made with Internally Generated Cash during such Fiscal Year; minus
(c) increases to Working Capital for such Fiscal Year; minus
(d) without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in the prior Fiscal Year or such Fiscal Year, to the extent set forth in a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Administrative Agent at or before the time the certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c), the aggregate amount that shall be required to be paid in cash in respect of Capital Expenditures to be made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary during the 90 days following such Excess Cash Flow Period pursuant to binding contracts (the “Contract Amount”) entered into prior to or during such Fiscal Year; provided that to the extent the aggregate amount of Internally Generated Cash actually utilized to finance such Capital Expenditures during such 90-day period is less than the Contract Amount, the amount of such shortfall shall be added to Excess Cash Flow for the Excess Cash Flow Period following such Excess Cash Flow Period.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Issuing Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its net income (however denominated) and franchise
taxes imposed on it, in each case, by a jurisdiction as a result of such recipient being organized or having its principal office or applicable Lending Office in such jurisdiction or as a result of any other present or former connection between such recipient and such jurisdiction (other than any connection arising solely from such recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, and/or enforced, any Loan Documents), (b) any branch profits tax under Section 884(a) of the Code, or any similar tax, imposed by any jurisdiction described in clause (a), (c) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.18(b)), any U.S. federal withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Non-U.S. Lender pursuant to Requirements of Law in effect at the time such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), except to the extent that such Non-U.S. Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, immediately prior to the designation of such new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.16 (a) or (c), (d) any United States federal withholding tax imposed pursuant to FATCA and (e) any withholding taxes attributable to the failure of a Lender to comply with Section 2.16(e).
“Existing Term Loan Facility” means all Term Loans (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) under the Original Credit Agreement.
“Extended Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extended Revolving Credit Facility” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extended Revolving Credit Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extending Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extension” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extension Offer” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Facility” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Fair Value” means the amount at which the assets (both tangible and intangible), in their entirety, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, within a commercially reasonable period of time, each having reasonable knowledge of the relevant facts, with neither being under any compulsion to act.
“FATCA” means current Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the current Code, in each case, or any amended or successor version of the Code that is substantively comparable.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Fiscal Year” means any of the annual accounting periods of Borrower ending on December 31 of each year.
“Flood Insurance Laws” means, collectively, (i) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statue thereto, (iii) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 as now or hereafter in
effect or any successor statute thereto and (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state, local or otherwise, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor 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 any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.
“Guarantors” means, except to the extent prohibited or restricted by applicable law or by contract existing on the Effective Date or, with respect to Subsidiaries acquired after the Effective Date, existing when such Subsidiary was acquired (including any requirement to obtain the consent of any governmental authority or third party) or resulting in material adverse tax consequences as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent, all of the existing and future, direct and indirect, wholly owned Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower except (i) any Subsidiaries of Foreign Subsidiaries that are controlled foreign corporations within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code (“CFCs”), (ii) any wholly owned Domestic Subsidiary that has no material assets other than the equity of CFCs and (iii) any captive insurance companies, not-for-profit subsidiaries, special purpose entities and Immaterial Subsidiaries.
“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01.
“Hazardous Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“Historical Financial Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04(a).
“Identified Contingent Liabilities” means the maximum estimated amount of liabilities reasonably likely to result from pending litigation, asserted claims and assessments, guaranties, uninsured risks and other contingent liabilities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole after giving effect to the Transactions (including all fees and expenses related thereto but exclusive of such contingent liabilities to the extent reflected in Stated Liabilities).
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means (a) as of the Restatement Date, any Subsidiary listed in Schedule 1.02 hereto and (b) at any time thereafter, any Subsidiary designated as such by the Borrower in a certificate delivered by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent (and which designation has not been rescinded in a subsequent certificate of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent); provided that neither the assets of, nor the aggregate revenues
of, all Immaterial Subsidiaries may exceed 5% of the consolidated revenues or consolidated total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP, in each case determined as of the end of the fiscal quarter or Fiscal Year most recently ended (and, with respect to any such determination of revenues, for the period of four fiscal quarters then ended).
“Increase Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(a).
“Increase Joinder” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(c).
“Incremental Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(a).
“Incremental Revolving Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(a).
“Incremental Revolving Loan” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(c).
“Incremental Term Loan” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(c).
“Incremental Term Loan Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(a).
“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (e) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (f) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (g) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (h) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, (j) the liquidation value of all mandatorily redeemable preferred Capital Stock of such Person and (k) all obligations of Swap Agreements to the extent required to be reflected on a balance sheet of such Person. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.06(b).
“Information Memorandum” means that certain information memorandum relating to this Agreement dated as of April 8, 2013.
“Initial Revolving Credit Facility” means the Revolving Credit Commitments created on the Restatement Date that have not been extended pursuant to Section 2.21.
“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07.
“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline Loan), each Quarterly Date, (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of any Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period and (c) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months (or with the consent of each affected Lender, nine or twelve months), as the Borrower may elect; provided that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing, and the date of a Borrowing comprising Loans of any Class that have been converted or continued shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
“Internally Generated Cash” means any cash of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is not generated from a Disposition, a Recovery Event, an incurrence of Indebtedness or an Equity Issuance.
“Investment” means, by any Person, (a) the amount paid or committed to be paid, or the value of property or services contributed or committed to be contributed, by such Person for or in connection with the acquisition by such Person of any stock, bonds, notes, debentures, partnership or other ownership interests or other securities of any other Person and (b) the amount of any advance, loan or extension of credit by such Person, to any other Person, or guaranty or other similar obligation of such Person with respect to any Indebtedness of such other Person (other than Indebtedness constituting trade payables, lease obligations, performance obligations and other payables in the ordinary course of business), and (without duplication) any amount committed to be advanced, loans, or extended by such Person to any other Person, or any amount the payment of which is committed to be assured by a guaranty or similar obligation by such Person for the benefit of, such other Person.
“IP Security Agreements” means that certain Trademark Security Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2011, by HealthDataInsights, Inc. in favor of the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties) and that certain Copyright Security Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2011, by HealthDataInsights, Inc. in favor of the Administrative Agent.
“Issuing Lender” means Citi and its successors, in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or one or more Lenders reasonably acceptable to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and any such Lender.
“Junior Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations under the Loan Documents.
“LC Disbursement” means a payment made by the Issuing Lender pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.
“Lender Party” means any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swingline Lender.
“Lender Party Appointment Period” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.06(a).
“Lender Insolvency Event” means that (i) a Lender or its Parent Company is insolvent, or is generally unable to pay its debts as they become due, or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due, or makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or (ii) such Lender or its Parent Company is the subject of a bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, liquidation or similar proceeding, or a receiver, trustee, conservator, intervenor or sequestrator or the like has been appointed for such Lender or its Parent Company, or such Lender or
its Parent Company has taken any action in furtherance of or indicating its consent to or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment.
“Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 1.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or an instrument entered into pursuant to Section 10.07, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lender.
“Letter of Credit” means any standby letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.
“Letter of Credit Documents” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, collectively, any application therefor and any other agreements, instruments, guarantees or other documents (whether general in application or applicable only to such Letter of Credit) governing or providing for (a) the rights and obligations of the parties concerned or at risk with respect to such Letter of Credit or (b) any collateral security for any of such obligations, each as the same may be modified and supplemented and in effect from time to time.
“Letter of Credit Sublimit Amount” means $20,000,000.
“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, the rate appearing on Reuters Screen Libor 01 for the applicable interest period (or on any successor or substitute page of such screen, or any successor to or substitute for such screen, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such screen, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, three Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, three Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Letter of Credit Documents, the promissory notes (if any) executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2.09(f), the Security Documents, any Increase Joinder, any Extension Offer and each certificate, agreement or document executed by a Loan Party and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with or pursuant to any of the foregoing.
“Loan Parties” means the Borrower and the Guarantors.
“Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.
“Margin Stock” means “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulations T, U and X of the Board.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations, property or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their respective obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (c) the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder or thereunder.
“Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $15,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.
“Material Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not an Immaterial Subsidiary.
“Minimum Extension Condition” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(b).
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
“Mortgage” means an agreement, including, but not limited to, a mortgage, deed of trust or any other document, creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property, which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, in each case, with such schedules and including such provisions as shall be necessary to conform such document to applicable local or foreign law or as shall be customary under applicable local or foreign law.
“Mortgaged Property” means (a) each Real Property identified as a Mortgaged Property on Schedule 7(a) to the Perfection Certificate dated the Effective Date, if applicable, and (b) each Real Property, if any, which shall be subject to a Mortgage delivered after the Effective Date pursuant to Section 6.13.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means in connection with any Asset Sale or any Recovery Event, the proceeds thereof in the form of cash and Cash Equivalents (including any such proceeds received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or the sale or disposition of any non-cash consideration or otherwise, but only as and when received and excluding the portion of such deferred payment constituting interest) of such Asset Sale or Recovery Event, net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, investment banking fees, amounts required to be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by a Lien expressly permitted hereunder on any asset which is the subject of such Asset Sale or Recovery Event (other than any Lien pursuant to a Security Document) and other customary costs, fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith and net of taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements) and net of amounts deposited in escrow in connection therewith or reasonably expected to be paid as a result of any purchase price adjustment, indemnities or reserves related thereto (such amounts shall be Net Cash Proceeds to the extent and at the time released or not required to be so used).
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, a Revolving Credit Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender.
“Non-Excluded Taxes” means all Taxes other than Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes.
“Non-U.S. Lender” means any Lender that is not a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“Obligations” means, collectively, (a) all of the Indebtedness, liabilities and obligations of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Swingline Lender and/or the Issuing Lender arising under the Loan Documents (including all reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit), in each case whether fixed, contingent (including without limitation those Obligations incurred as a Guarantor pursuant to Article III), now existing or hereafter arising, created, assumed, incurred or acquired, and whether before or after the occurrence of any Event of Default under clause (h) or (i) of Article VIII and including any obligation or liability in respect of any breach of any representation or warranty, funding losses and all interest and fees accruing after the commencement of an insolvency proceeding, whether or not allowed or allowable in any such proceeding, (b) all obligations of any
Loan Party owing to any Lender, Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent or any Affiliate of any Lender, Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent under any treasury management services agreement, any service terms or any service agreements, including electronic payments service terms and/or automated clearing house agreements, and all overdrafts on any account which any Loan Party maintains with any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender and (c) all obligations of any Loan Party owing to any Lender, Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent or any Affiliate of any Lender, Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent (or any Person that was a Lender, Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or an Affiliate thereof at any time when it entered into such agreement) under (i) interest rate swap agreements (whether from fixed to floating or from floating to fixed), interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements, (ii) other agreements or arrangements designed to manage interest rates or interest rate risk and (iii) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or commodity prices; provided that Obligations shall in no event include any Excluded Swap Obligations.
“Original Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.
“Original Letters of Credit” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.
“Original Loan Documents” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.
“Original Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.
“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp or documentary Taxes or any other excise, property or similar Taxes arising from any payment made under this Agreement or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, excluding (1) any such Tax imposed on an assignment (other than an assignment pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.18(b)) of any interest in any Loan or Commitment hereunder (an “Assignment Tax”), but only to the extent such Assignment Tax is imposed as a result of a present or former connection between the assignor and/or assignee and the taxing jurisdiction (other than any connection arising solely from such assignor and/or assignee having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received a perfected security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, and/or enforced, any Loan Documents) and (2) any Excluded Taxes.
“Parent Company” means, with respect to a Lender, the bank holding company (as defined in Regulation Y of the Board), if any, of such Lender, and/or any Person owning, beneficially or of record, directly or indirectly, a majority of the shares of such Lender.
“Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(c)(i).
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.
“Perfection Certificate” means a certificate in the form of Exhibit F-1 or any other form approved by the Collateral Agent, as the same shall be supplemented from time to time by a Perfection Certificate Supplement or otherwise.
“Perfection Certificate Supplement” means a certificate supplement in the form of Exhibit F-2 or any other form approved by the Collateral Agent.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition provided that each of the following conditions shall be met:
(a) before and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(b) the Borrower would be in compliance (on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such Acquisition and any other Acquisition, Disposition, debt incurrence, debt retirement) with the covenants contained in Section 7.11 recomputed as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available;
(c) if such Acquisition involves the acquisition of Capital Stock of a Person, such Acquisition shall result in the issuer of such Capital Stock becoming a Guarantor to the extent required by Section 6.13; and
(d) such acquisition shall result in the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, being granted a security interest in any Capital Stock or any assets so acquired to the extent required by Section 6.13.
“Permitted Acquisition Consideration” means, in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, the aggregate amount (as valued at the fair market value of such Permitted Acquisition at the time such Permitted Acquisition is made) of, without duplication: (a) the purchase consideration paid or payable in cash for such Permitted Acquisition, whether payable at or prior to the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition or deferred for payment at any future time, whether or not any such future payment is subject to the occurrence of any contingency, and including any and all payments representing the purchase price and any assumptions of Indebtedness and/or Guaranteed Obligations, “earn outs” and other agreements to make any payment the amount of which is, or the terms of payment of which are, in any respect subject to or contingent upon the revenues, income, cash flow or profits (or the like) of any Person or business and (b) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness incurred or assumed in connection with such Permitted Acquisition.
“Permitted Liens” means:
(a) Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;
(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 30 days or are being contested in compliance with Section 6.04 and which proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the property or assets subject to such lien;
(c) pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations;
(d) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(e) judgment liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (k) of Article VIII; and
(f) easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
provided that the term “Permitted Liens” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Present Fair Salable Value” means the amount that could be obtained by an independent willing seller from an independent willing buyer if the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole are sold with reasonable promptness in an arm’s-length transaction under present conditions for the sale of comparable business enterprises insofar as such conditions can be reasonably evaluated.
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by Citi as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.
“Pro Forma Basis” and “Pro Forma Effect” mean, for purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA, Consolidated Funded Debt and Consolidated Interest Expense for any Reference Period during which one or more Material Acquisition or Material Disposition occurs or which is the Reference Period ending immediately prior to the date of determination with respect to a Material Acquisition or Material Disposition occurring on or prior to or simultaneously with the date of determination, that such Material Acquisition or Material Disposition (and all other Material Acquisition or Material Disposition that have been consummated during the applicable period) shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable Reference Period and all income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the assets or Person disposed of in a Material Disposition shall be excluded and all Indebtedness repaid or discharged in connection with such Material Disposition shall be excluded and all income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the assets or Person acquired in a Material Acquisition and all Indebtedness incurred or assumed in connection with such Material Acquisition shall be included.
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Loan Party that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Guarantee or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other person as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Quarterly Dates” means the last Business Day of March, June, September and December in each year.
“Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any mineral or other estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned, leased, or operated by any person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership or operation thereof.
“Recovery Event” means any settlement of or payment in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim (but not to the extent such claim compensates for any loss of revenues or interruption of business or operations caused thereby) or any condemnation proceeding awards or other compensation received in respect thereof relating to any asset or property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with a value in excess of $10,000,000.
“Reference Period” has the meaning set forth in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA.
“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b)(iv).
“Reinvestment Deferred Amount” means, with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection therewith which are not applied to prepay the Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 2.10(b) as a result of the delivery of a Reinvestment Notice.
“Reinvestment Event” means any Asset Sale or Recovery Event in respect of which the Borrower has delivered a Reinvestment Notice.
“Reinvestment Notice” means a written notice executed by a Responsible Officer stating that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and that the Borrower or any Subsidiary intends and expects to use all or a specified portion of the Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale or Recovery Event to reinvest in its business.
“Reinvestment Prepayment Amount” means, with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the Reinvestment Deferred Amount relating thereto less any amount expended prior to the relevant Reinvestment Prepayment Date to reinvest in the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s business.
“Reinvestment Prepayment Date” means, with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the earlier of (a) the date occurring twelve months after such Reinvestment Event; provided that such twelve month period shall increase to eighteen months with respect to any Reinvestment Deferred Amount if the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary has contractually committed within such twelve month period to use such Reinvestment Deferred Amount to reinvest in its business and (b) the date on which the Borrower shall have determined not to, or shall have otherwise ceased to, reinvest in the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s business with all or any portion of the relevant Reinvestment Deferred Amount.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective managers, administrators, trustees, partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, fund managers and advisors of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures, outstanding Incremental Term Loans and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures, outstanding Incremental Term Loans and unused Revolving Credit Commitments at such time. The “Required Lenders” of a particular Class of Loans means Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures, outstanding Incremental Term Loans and/or unused Commitments of such Class, as applicable, representing more than 50% of the total Revolving Credit Exposures, outstanding Incremental Term Loans and/or unused Commitments of such Class, as applicable, at such time.
“Required Revolving Credit Lenders” means, at any time, Revolving Credit Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Revolving Credit Commitments at such time. The “Required Revolving Credit Lenders” of a particular Class of Loans means Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and/or unused Commitments of such Class, as applicable, representing more than 50% of the total Revolving Credit Exposures and/or unused Commitments of such Class, as applicable, at such time.
“Requirement of Law” means, as to any Person, the certificate of incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president or chief financial officer of the Borrower, but in any event, with respect to financial matters, the chief financial officer of the Borrower.
“Restatement Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 5.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 10.05).
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement,
acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Capital Stock of the Borrower or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Capital Stock of the Borrower.
“Restricting Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(a).
“Revolving Credit,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans constituting such Borrowing, are made pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Revolving Credit Availability Period” means the period from and including the Restatement Date to but excluding the earlier of the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08, (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 10.07 and (c) reduced pursuant to Section 2.10. The initial amount of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment is set forth on Schedule 1.01 under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment,” or in the Assignment and Assumption or other instrument pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Revolving Credit Commitment, as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments is $500,000,000.
“Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date” means (x) with respect to Revolving Credit Loans May 3, 2018 and (y) with respect to Extended Revolving Credit Loans the date specified in the applicable Extension Offer applicable to such Extended Revolving Credit Loans.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans, (b) the LC Exposure of such Lender and (c) the Swingline Exposure of such Lender at such time.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means an Initial Revolving Credit Facility or an Extended Revolving Credit Facility, and “Revolving Credit Facilities” means all of them, collectively.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means a Lender with a Revolving Credit Commitment or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving Credit Exposure.
“Revolving Credit Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.
“Sale/Leaseback Transaction” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.12.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any regulatory body that succeeds to the functions thereof.
“Secured Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“Security Agreement” means that certain Security Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2011, between the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent.
“Security Agreement Collateral” means all property from time to time pledged or granted as collateral pursuant to the Security Agreement.
“Security Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, each IP Security Agreement, each Mortgage, each Subsidiary Joinder Agreement, any security, pledge or similar agreement entered into pursuant to Section 6.13 in favor of the Administrative Agent, and all UCC financing statements required by the terms of any such agreement to be filed with respect to the security interests created pursuant thereto.
“Solvency Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G.
“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person at any time, that (a) the Fair Value and Present Fair Salable Value of the assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole exceed their Stated Liabilities and Identified Contingent Liabilities, (b) such Person and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole Do Not Have Unreasonably Small Capital, (c) such Person and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole will be able to pay their Stated Liabilities and Identified Contingent Liabilities as they mature, and (d) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are not “insolvent” within the meaning given to that term under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
“Stated Liabilities” means the recorded liabilities (including contingent liabilities that would be recorded in accordance with GAAP) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, as of the date hereof after giving effect to the consummation of the Transactions, determined in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
“Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
“Stock Repurchase” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.07(c).
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held. Unless otherwise specified, “Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Subsidiary Joinder Agreement” means a Subsidiary Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit D executed and delivered by a Domestic Subsidiary that, pursuant to Section 6.13(a), is required to become a “Guarantor” hereunder and a “Securing Party” under the Security Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent.
“Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be a Swap Agreement.
“Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total Swingline Exposure at such time.
“Swingline Lender” means Citi or any other Revolving Credit Lender that becomes the Administrative Agent or agrees, with the approval of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to act as the Swingline Lender hereunder, in each case in its capacity as the Swingline Lender hereunder.
“Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Tax Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(c).
“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other similar charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Total Leverage Incurrence Test” means, with respect to the most recent Reference Period, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) shall be no greater than 3.00 to 1.00.
“Transaction Costs” means any fees and expenses related to the entry into the Loan Documents and incurrence of the Loans in connection therewith on the Restatement Date.
“Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is intended to be a party, the borrowing of Loans hereunder and the use of proceeds thereof, and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder.
“Type,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.
“U.S. Lender” means a Lender that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time (except as otherwise specified) in any applicable state or jurisdiction.
“United States Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(e)(2)(C).
“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
“Working Capital” means, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis and calculated in accordance with GAAP, as of any date of determination, the excess of (a) current assets (other than cash and cash equivalents and taxes and deferred taxes) over (b) current liabilities, excluding, without duplication, (i) the current portion of any long-term Indebtedness, (ii) outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans, (iii) the current portion of current taxes and deferred income taxes and (iv) the current portion of accrued Consolidated Interest Expense.
SECTION 1.02. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement,
instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then the parties will negotiate in good faith the terms of such amendment and, until such amendment is effective, such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount (or the accreted value thereof in the case of Indebtedness issued at a discount) thereof and the effects of FASB ASC 825 and FASB ASC 470-20 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded.
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Credit Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (i) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment or (ii) the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the total Revolving Credit Commitments. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Credit Loans.
SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings.
(a) Obligations of Lenders. Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments of the applicable Class. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.
(b) Type of Loans. Subject to Section 2.13, each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or of Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(c) Minimum Amounts; Limitation on Number of Borrowings. Each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of $3,000,000 or a larger multiple of $500,000. Each ABR Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount equal to $1,000,000 or a larger multiple of $250,000; provided that an ABR Borrowing may be in an
aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused amount of the total Revolving Credit Commitment or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(f). Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is a multiple of $250,000 and not less than $250,000. Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of six Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding.
(d) Limitations on Interest Periods. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request (or to elect to convert to or continue as a Eurodollar Borrowing) any Revolving Credit Eurodollar Borrowing if the Interest Period requested therefor would end after the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date.
SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings.
(a) Notice by the Borrower. To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (ii) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of an ABR Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(f) may be given not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower.
(b) Content of Borrowing Requests. Each telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing;
(ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
(iv) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period therefor, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period” and permitted under Section 2.02(d); and
(v) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.06.
(c) Notice by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section (but in any event on the same Business Day such Borrowing Request is received by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
(d) Failure to Elect. If no election as to the Type of a Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans.
(a) Agreement to Make Swingline Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Credit Availability Period, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $25,000,000 or (ii) the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the total Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required
to make a Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.
(b) Notice of Swingline Loans by Borrower. To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by telecopy), not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the day of a proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of the requested Swingline Loan. The Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from the Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a credit to an account of the Borrower with the Swingline Lender (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), by remittance to the Issuing Lender) by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.
(c) Participations by Lenders in Swingline Loans. The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the Revolving Credit Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Revolving Credit Lenders will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Revolving Credit Lender, specifying in such notice such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph in compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Revolving Credit Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Credit Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Credit Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the Administrative Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.
(d) If the maturity date shall have occurred in respect of any Revolving Credit Facility at a time when another Revolving Credit Facility is in effect with a longer maturity date, then on the earliest occurring maturity date all then outstanding Swingline Loans shall be repaid in full on such date (and there shall be no adjustment to the participations in such Swingline Loans as a result of the occurrence of such maturity date); provided, however, that if on the occurrence of such earliest maturity date (after giving effect to any repayments of Revolving Credit Loans and any reallocation of Letter of Credit participations as contemplated in Section 2.05(e)), there shall exist sufficient unutilized Revolving Credit Commitments so that the respective outstanding Swingline Loans could be incurred pursuant the Revolving Credit Commitments that will remain in effect after the occurrence of such maturity date, then there shall be an automatic adjustment on such date of the participations in such Swingline Loans and same shall be deemed to have been incurred solely pursuant to the relevant Revolving Credit Commitments that will remain in effect, and such Swingline Loans shall not be so required to be repaid in full on such earliest maturity date.
SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit.
(a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, in addition to the Loans provided for in Section 2.01, the Borrower may request the Issuing Lender to issue, at any time and from time to time during the Revolving Credit Availability Period, Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars for the Borrower’s account in such form as is acceptable to the Issuing Lender in its reasonable determination. Letters of Credit issued hereunder shall constitute utilization of the Commitments.
(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal or Extension. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent) to the Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent (reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (d) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the Issuing Lender, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the Issuing Lender’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, the Issuing Lender relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.
(c) Limitations on Amounts. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the total LC Exposure shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit Amount and (ii) the total Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the total Revolving Credit Commitments.
(d) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date.
(e) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) by the Issuing Lender in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Lender or the Revolving Credit Lenders, the Issuing Lender hereby grants to each Revolving Credit Lender, and each Revolving Credit Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Lender, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments.
In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for account of the Issuing Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Lender promptly upon the request of the Issuing Lender at any time from the time of such LC Disbursement until such LC Disbursement is reimbursed by the Borrower or at any time after any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each such payment shall be made in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Lender the
amounts so received by it from the Revolving Credit Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Lender or, to the extent that the Revolving Credit Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Lender, then to such Revolving Credit Lenders and the Issuing Lender as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Lender for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Credit Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated under paragraph (f) of this Section) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.
(f) Reimbursement. If the Issuing Lender shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse the Issuing Lender in respect of such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives notice of such LC Disbursement, provided that, if such LC Disbursement is not less than $100,000, the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Credit Borrowing or a Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Credit Borrowing or Swingline Loan.
If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof.
(g) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (f) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the Issuing Lender under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Credit Lenders nor the Issuing Lender, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Lender; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Lender from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Lender’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Lender (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Lender shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.
(h) Disbursement Procedures. The Issuing Lender shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. The Issuing Lender shall
promptly after such examination notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Lender has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Lender and the Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.
(i) Interim Interest. If the Issuing Lender shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Credit Loans; provided that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section, then Section 2.12(c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for account of the Issuing Lender, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section to reimburse the Issuing Lender shall be for account of such Revolving Credit Lender to the extent of such payment.
(j) Replacement of Issuing Lender. The Issuing Lender may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Lender and the successor Issuing Lender thereto. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Credit Lenders of any such replacement of the Issuing Lender. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for account of the replaced Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.11(b). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of the replaced Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Lender” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Lender, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Lenders, as the context shall require. After the replacement of the Issuing Lender hereunder, the replaced Issuing Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
(k) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Revolving Credit Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Revolving Credit Loans has been accelerated, Revolving Credit Lenders representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure) demanding Cash Collateralization pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to 105% of the total LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to any Loan Party described in clause (h) or (i) of Article VIII. Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Loan Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Lender for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Revolving Credit Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Revolving Credit Lenders representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Loan Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. If the Borrower is required to Cash Collateralize hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived.
(l) Provisions Related to Multiple Revolving Credit Facilities. If the maturity date in respect of any Revolving Credit Facilities occurs prior to the expiration of any Letter of Credit, then (i) if one or more other Revolving
Credit Facilities in respect of which the maturity date shall not have occurred are then in effect, such Letters of Credit shall automatically be deemed to have been issued (including for purposes of the obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders to purchase participations therein and to make Revolving Credit Loans and payments in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and (d)) under (and ratably participated in by Lenders pursuant to) the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such non-terminating Revolving Credit Facilities up to an aggregate amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of the unutilized Revolving Credit Commitments thereunder at such time (it being understood that no partial face amount of any Letter of Credit may be so reallocated) and (ii) to the extent not reallocated pursuant to immediately preceding clause (i), the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize any such Letter of Credit in accordance with Section 2.05(k). Commencing with the maturity date of any Revolving Credit Facility, the sublimit for Letters of Credit shall be agreed with the Lenders under the extended Revolving Credit Facilities.
SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings.
(a) Funding by Lenders. Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon, New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders; provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that ABR Revolving Credit Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Lender.
(b) Presumption by the Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.
SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections.
(a) Elections by the Borrower. The Loans constituting each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a Borrowing of a different Type or to continue such Borrowing as a Borrowing of the same Type and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods, all as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans of the respective Class constituting such Borrowing, and the Loans of such Class constituting each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued and which shall accrue interest based only at the Alternate Base Rate.
(b) Notice of Elections. To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be
confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower.
(c) Content of Interest Election Requests. Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and
(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period” and permitted under Section 2.02(d).
If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(d) Notice by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders. Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) Failure to Elect; Events of Default. If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of the Commitments.
(a) Scheduled Termination. Unless previously terminated, the Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate on the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date.
(b) Voluntary Termination or Reduction. The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitment pursuant to this Section shall be in an amount that is $1,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 2.10, the total Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the total Revolving Credit Commitments. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments under this paragraph (b) at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of such termination may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective
date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permanent.
SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.
(a) Repayment.
(i) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for account of each Revolving Credit Lender the full outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans, and each such Revolving Credit Loan shall mature, on the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date.
(ii) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date and the seventh consecutive Business Day on which the Swingline Loan remains outstanding, the full outstanding principal amount of such Swingline Loan.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Maintenance of Records by Lenders. Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(d) Maintenance of Records by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.
(e) Effect of Entries. The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (c) or (d) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(f) Promissory Notes. Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note of the Borrower. In such event, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note(s) payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 or B-2, as appropriate, and such note(s) shall be evidence of such Loans (and all amounts payable in respect thereof). Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 10.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the payee named therein (or, if requested by such payees, to such payee and its registered assigns).
SECTION 2.10. Prepayment of Loans.
(a) Optional Prepayments. The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to the requirements of paragraph (c) of this Section.
(b) Mandatory Commitment Reductions and Prepayments. If after the date hereof the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall receive Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale or Recovery Event then, unless a Reinvestment Notice shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent in respect thereof within five Business Days after such Asset Sale or Recovery Event, the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be reduced by an amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, on each Reinvestment Prepayment
Date, an amount equal to the Reinvestment Prepayment Amount with respect to the relevant Reinvestment Event shall be applied toward the permanent reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments; provided, further, that if after giving effect to any such reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments the Revolving Credit Exposure would exceed the total Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall repay the Revolving Credit Loans in an amount equal to such excess; and provided, further, that if the property subject to such Asset Sale or Recovery Event constituted Collateral, then all property purchased with Reinvestment Prepayment Amount pursuant to this subsection shall be made subject to the Lien of the applicable Security Documents in favor of the Collateral Agent, for its benefit and for the benefit of the other Secured Parties in accordance with Section 6.13.
(c) Notices, Etc. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date, the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory prepayment, a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment; provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.08, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.08. Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Borrowing of any Class, the Administrative Agent shall advise the applicable Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02, except as necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing of any Class shall be applied ratably to the Loans of such Class included in such Borrowing and (unless the Borrower shall otherwise direct) shall be made, first, to ABR Loans and, second, to Eurodollar Loans. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12.
SECTION 2.11. Fees.
(a) Commitment Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender a commitment fee (the “Commitment Fee”), which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate for the Commitment Fee on the average daily unused amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the date the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate and the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date. Accrued Commitment Fees shall be payable on each Quarterly Date and on the earlier of the date the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate and the Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof. The Commitment Fee shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). For purposes of computing the Commitment Fee, the Revolving Credit Commitment of a Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to be used to the extent of the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and LC Exposure of such Revolving Credit Lender (and the Swingline Exposure of such Revolving Credit Lender shall be disregarded for such purpose).
(b) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Revolving Credit Loans on the average daily amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Lender a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate of 0.125% per annum on the average daily amount of the total LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure in respect of Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Lender, as well as the Issuing Lender’s standard fees with respect to the issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Lender pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(c) Administrative Agent Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(d) Payment of Fees. All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Lender, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of commitment fees and participation fees, to the Lenders entitled thereto. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
(e) Defaulting Lender. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, during such period as a Lender is a Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender will not be entitled to any fees accruing during such period pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and 2.11(b) (without prejudice to the rights of the Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders in respect of such fees), provided that (i) to the extent that a portion of the LC Exposure or the Swingline Exposure of such Defaulting Lender is reallocated to the Non-Defaulting Lenders pursuant to Section 2.20(a), the fees pursuant to Section 2.11(b) that would have accrued for the benefit of such Defaulting Lender will instead accrue for the benefit of and be payable to such Non-Defaulting Lenders, pro rata in accordance with their respective Commitments, and (ii) to the extent any portion of such LC Exposure or the Swingline Exposure cannot be so reallocated, such fees pursuant to Section 2.11(b) will instead accrue for the benefit of and be payable to the Issuing Lender and the Swingline Lender as their interests appear (and the pro rata payment provisions of Section 2.17 will automatically be deemed adjusted to reflect the provisions of this Section).
SECTION 2.12. Interest.
(a) ABR Loans. The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for ABR Borrowings.
(b) Eurodollar Loans. The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate for Eurodollar Borrowings.
(c) Default Interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration, by mandatory prepayment or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2.00% per annum plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section and (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2.00% per annum plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(d) Payment of Interest. Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Credit Loan prior to the end of the Revolving Credit Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion
of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.
(e) Computation. All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing:
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period; or
(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their respective Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or the continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and such Borrowing (unless prepaid) shall be continued as, or converted to, an ABR Borrowing and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing.
SECTION 2.14. Increased Costs.
(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate) or the Issuing Lender; or
(ii) subject any Lender or Issuing Lender to any Tax (other than Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes indemnified by Section 2.16 and any Excluded Taxes); or
(iii) impose on any Lender or the Issuing Lender or the London interbank market any other condition affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or the Issuing Lender of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the Issuing Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender or the Issuing Lender determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s holding company, if any, as a
consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or the Issuing Lender or such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Lender or such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates from Lenders. A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Lender setting forth the amount or amounts, necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 180 day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION 2.15. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.10(c) and is revoked in accordance therewith) or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss (other than any loss of anticipated profits), cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss (other than any loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.16. Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall (except to the extent required by any Requirement of Law) be paid free and clear of, and without any deduction or withholding on account of, any Taxes; provided that if any Loan Party or any other applicable withholding agent shall be required by any Requirement of Law to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any such payment, then (i) the applicable Loan Party shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of any such requirement; (ii) the applicable withholding agent shall make such deduction or withholding and timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority any such Tax; and (iii) if the Tax in question is a Non-Excluded Tax or Other Tax, the sum payable by such Loan Party shall be increased to the extent necessary
so that after all required deductions of Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes have been made (including any deductions or withholdings of Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes attributable to any amounts payable under this Section 2.16) the Administrative Agent or Lender (as applicable) receives a net payment equal to the payment it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been required or made.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower. The Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Lender and Administrative Agent (each, a “Tax Indemnitee”), within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes payable by such Tax Indemnitee (including any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes imposed on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.16), and any reasonable expenses related thereto, whether or not such Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided that, if the Borrower determines in its good faith judgment that a reasonable basis exists for contesting any Non-Excluded Tax or Other Tax, the Tax Indemnitee shall reasonably cooperate with the Borrower (at the Borrower’s expense) in pursuing a refund of such Non-Excluded Tax or Other Tax (and any refund received shall be payable to the Borrower to the extent provided in Section 2.16(f)); provided, further, that (1) no such cooperation shall be required to the extent the Tax Indemnitee determines in good faith that such cooperation or pursuing such refund would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Tax Indemnitee and (2) no Tax Indemnitee shall be required to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to any Loan Party or any other Person. A reasonably detailed certificate as to the amount of such liability and the reasons therefor delivered by the Tax Indemnitee, or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of another Tax Indemnitee, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes by any Loan Party or by the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Borrower, as the case may be, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or the Borrower (as the case may be).
(e) Tax Forms. Each Lender shall, at such times as are reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with any properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by any Requirement of Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent certifying as to any entitlement of such Lender to an exemption from, or reduction in, any withholding Tax with respect to any payments to be made to such Lender under any Loan Document. Each such Lender shall, whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders any such documentation (including any specific documentation required below in this Section 2.16(e)) obsolete, expired, invalid or inaccurate in any respect, deliver promptly to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent updated or other appropriate documentation (including any new documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its inability to do so.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(1) Each U.S. Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement two properly completed and duly signed original copies of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding.
(2) Each Non-U.S. Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) whichever of the following is applicable:
(A) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of IRS Form W-8BEN (or any successor forms) claiming eligibility for the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party, and such other documentation as required under the Code,
(B) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of IRS Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms),
(C) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 871(h) or Section 881(c) of the Code, (A) two properly completed and duly signed certificates (any such certificate, a “United States Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (B) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of IRS Form W-8BEN (or any successor forms),
(D) to the extent a Non-U.S. Lender is not the beneficial owner (for example, where the Non-U.S. Lender is a partnership or a participating Lender), two properly completed and duly signed original copies of IRS Form W-8IMY (or any successor forms) of the Non-U.S. Lender, accompanied by a Form W-8ECI, W-8BEN, United States Tax Compliance Certificate, Form W-9, Form W-8IMY or any other required information (or any successor forms) from each beneficial owner that would be required under this Section 2.16(e) if such beneficial owner were a Lender, as applicable (provided that if the Non-U.S. Lender is a partnership and not a participating Lender, and one or more beneficial owners are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, the United States Tax Compliance Certificate may be provided by such Non-U.S. Lender on behalf of such beneficial owners), or
(E) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of any other form prescribed by applicable U.S. federal income tax laws as a basis for claiming a complete exemption from, or a reduction in, United States federal withholding tax on any payments to such Lender under the Loan Documents.
(3) If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Sections 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA, to determine whether such Lender has or has not complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA and, if necessary, to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause (e), a Lender shall not be required to deliver any documentation that such Lender is not legally eligible to deliver.
(f) Refunds. If a Tax Indemnitee determines, in its good faith judgment, that it has received a refund (in cash or as an offset against other cash Tax liabilities) of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has received additional amounts or indemnification payments under this Section 2.16, then it shall pay over the amount of such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Loan Party under this Section 2.16 with respect to the Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Tax Indemnitee (including any Taxes imposed with respect to such refund) and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Tax Indemnitee, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Tax Indemnitee in the event the Tax Indemnitee is required to repay such refund to the applicable Governmental Authority. This subsection shall not be construed to require a Tax Indemnitee to make available
its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to, any Loan Party or any other Person.
(g) General. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “Lender” shall, for all purposes of this Section 2.16, include any Swingline Lender and any Issuing Lender.
SECTION 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs.
(a) Payments by the Borrower. The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16, or otherwise) or under any other Loan Document (except as otherwise expressly provided therein) prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at an account maintained with the Administrative Agent as notified to the Borrower and the Lenders, except as otherwise expressly provided in the relevant Loan Document and except payments to be made directly to the Issuing Lender or the Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 10.06, which shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder and under any other Loan Document shall be made in Dollars.
(b) Application of Insufficient Payments. If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties.
(c) Pro Rata Treatment. Except to the extent otherwise provided herein: (i) each Borrowing of a particular Class shall be made from the applicable Lenders, pro rata according to the amounts of the respective Commitments of such Class and shall be allocated pro rata among the applicable Lenders according to the amounts of their respective Commitments of such Class (in the case of the making of Loans) or their respective Loans of such Class that are to be included in such Borrowing (in the case of conversions and continuations of Loans), (ii) each payment of commitment fees under Section 2.11 shall be made for account of the Revolving Credit Lenders, and each termination or reduction of the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments under Section 2.08 shall be applied to the Revolving Credit Commitments, pro rata according to the respective Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders; (iii) each payment or prepayment of principal of Loans of any Class by the Borrower shall be made for account of the applicable Lenders pro rata accordi