CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of May 12, 2015 among QUINTILES TRANSNATIONAL CORP. as the Borrower JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. as Administrative Agent JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. and MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC. as Swing Line Lenders JPMORGAN CHASE...
Exhibit 10.1
$1,950,000,000
Dated as of May 12, 2015
among
QUINTILES TRANSNATIONAL CORP.
as the Borrower
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
as Administrative Agent
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
and
XXXXXX XXXXXXX SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
as Swing Line Lenders
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, X.X.
XXXXXX XXXXXXX SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
and
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
as L/C Issuers
THE OTHER LENDERS PARTY HERETO
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES LLC
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
XXXXXX XXXXXXX SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.
PNC BANK CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
as Syndication Agent
and
BNP PARIBAS
COMPASS BANK DBA BBVA COMPASS
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED
XXXXXX XXXXXXX SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
SUNTRUST BANK
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Co-Documentation Agents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 | ||||||
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS | ||||||
Section 1.01 | Defined Terms |
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Section 1.02 | Other Interpretive Provisions |
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Section 1.03 | Accounting Terms |
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Section 1.04 | Pro Forma Calculations |
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Section 1.05 | Rounding |
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Section 1.06 | References to Agreements and Laws |
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Section 1.07 | Times of Day |
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Section 1.08 | Timing of Payment or Performance |
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Section 1.09 | Exchange Rates |
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Section 1.10 | Limited Condition Transactions |
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ARTICLE 2 | ||||||
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS | ||||||
Section 2.01 | The Loans |
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Section 2.02 | Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans |
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Section 2.03 | Letters of Credit |
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Section 2.04 | Swing Line Loans |
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Section 2.05 | Prepayments |
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Section 2.06 | Termination or Reduction of Commitments |
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Section 2.07 | Repayment of Loans |
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Section 2.08 | Interest |
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Section 2.09 | Fees |
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Section 2.10 | Computation of Interest and Fees |
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Section 2.11 | Evidence of Indebtedness |
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Section 2.12 | Payments Generally |
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Section 2.13 | Sharing of Payments |
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Section 2.14 | Incremental Facilities |
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Section 2.15 | Extensions of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments |
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Section 2.16 | Refinancing Amendments |
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Section 2.17 | Defaulting Lenders |
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Section 2.18 | Provisions Relating to Foreign Currency Loans |
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ARTICLE 3 | ||||||
TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY | ||||||
Section 3.01 | Taxes |
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Section 3.02 | Illegality |
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Section 3.03 | Inability to Determine Rates |
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Section 3.04 | Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans |
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Section 3.05 | Funding Losses |
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Section 3.06 | Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation |
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Section 3.07 | Replacement of Lenders Under Certain Circumstances |
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Section 3.08 | Survival |
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ARTICLE 4 | ||||||
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT | ||||||
Section 4.01 | Conditions to Initial (Closing Date) Credit Extension |
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Section 4.02 | Conditions to All Credit Extensions After the Closing Date |
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ARTICLE 5 | ||||||
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | ||||||
Section 5.01 | Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws |
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Section 5.02 | Authorization; No Contravention |
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Section 5.03 | Governmental Authorization; Other Consents |
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Section 5.04 | Binding Effect |
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Section 5.05 | Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect |
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Section 5.06 | Litigation |
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Section 5.07 | Ownership of Property; Liens |
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Section 5.08 | Environmental Compliance |
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Section 5.09 | Taxes |
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Section 5.10 | ERISA Compliance |
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Section 5.11 | Subsidiaries; Equity Interests |
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Section 5.12 | Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act |
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Section 5.13 | Disclosure |
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Section 5.14 | Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. |
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Section 5.15 | Solvency |
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Section 5.16 | Perfection, Etc. |
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Section 5.17 | Compliance with Laws Generally |
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Section 5.18 | Labor Matters |
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Section 5.19 | Senior Debt |
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Section 5.20 | Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions |
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Section 5.21 | PATRIOT Act |
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ARTICLE 6 | ||||||
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS | ||||||
Section 6.01 | Financial Statements |
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Section 6.02 | Certificates; Other Information |
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Section 6.03 | Notices |
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Section 6.04 | Payment of Obligations |
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Section 6.05 | Preservation of Existence, Etc. |
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Section 6.06 | Maintenance of Properties |
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Section 6.07 | Maintenance of Insurance |
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Section 6.08 | Compliance With Laws |
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Section 6.09 | Books and Records |
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Section 6.10 | Inspection Rights |
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Section 6.11 | Use of Proceeds |
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Section 6.12 | Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security |
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Section 6.13 | Compliance with Environmental Laws |
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Section 6.14 | Further Assurances |
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Section 6.15 | Designation of Subsidiaries |
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Section 6.16 | Maintenance of Ratings |
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Section 6.17 | Subordination of Loans |
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Section 6.18 | Post-Closing Matters |
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ARTICLE 7 | ||||||
NEGATIVE COVENANTS | ||||||
Section 7.01 | Liens |
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Section 7.02 | Investments |
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Section 7.03 | Indebtedness |
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Section 7.04 | Fundamental Changes |
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Section 7.05 | Dispositions |
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Section 7.06 | Restricted Payments |
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Section 7.07 | Change in Nature of Business |
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Section 7.08 | Transactions with Affiliates |
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Section 7.09 | Burdensome Agreements |
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Section 7.10 | Financial Covenant |
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Section 7.11 | Amendments of Certain Documents |
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Section 7.12 | Accounting Changes |
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Section 7.13 | Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness |
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Section 7.14 | Designated Senior Debt |
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Section 7.15 | Sale and Leaseback Transactions |
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ARTICLE 8 | ||||||
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES | ||||||
Section 8.01 | Events of Default |
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Section 8.02 | Remedies upon Event of Default |
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Section 8.03 | Application of Funds |
117 | ||||
Section 8.04 | Borrower’s Right to Cure |
118 | ||||
ARTICLE 9 | ||||||
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS | ||||||
Section 9.01 | Appointment and Authority |
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Section 9.02 | Rights as a Lender |
119 | ||||
Section 9.03 | Exculpatory Provisions |
119 | ||||
Section 9.04 | Reliance by Administrative Agent |
120 | ||||
Section 9.05 | Delegation of Duties |
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Section 9.06 | Resignation of Successor Administrative Agent |
121 | ||||
Section 9.07 | Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders |
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Section 9.08 | Collateral and Guaranty Matters |
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Section 9.09 | No Other Duties, Etc. |
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Section 9.10 | Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents |
123 | ||||
Section 9.11 | Withholding Tax |
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Section 9.12 | Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim |
124 | ||||
Section 9.13 | Right to Indemnity |
124 | ||||
ARTICLE 10 | ||||||
MISCELLANEOUS | ||||||
Section 10.01 | Amendments, Etc. |
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Section 10.02 | Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies |
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Section 10.03 | No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
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Section 10.04 | Attorney Costs, Expenses and Taxes |
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Section 10.05 | Indemnification by the Borrower |
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Section 10.06 | Marshalling; Payments Set Aside |
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Section 10.07 | Successors and Assigns |
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Section 10.08 | Confidentiality |
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Section 10.09 | Setoff |
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Section 10.10 | Interest Rate Limitation |
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Section 10.11 | Counterparts |
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Section 10.12 | Integration |
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Section 10.13 | Survival of Representations and Warranties |
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Section 10.14 | Severability |
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Section 10.15 | Tax Forms |
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Section 10.16 | GOVERNING LAW |
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Section 10.17 | WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY |
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Section 10.18 | Binding Effect |
145 | ||||
Section 10.19 | USA PATRIOT Act Notice |
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Section 10.20 | Currency of Payment |
145 | ||||
Section 10.21 | No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship |
146 |
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SCHEDULES
Schedule I | Guarantors | |
Schedule 1.01A | Competitors | |
Schedule 1.01B | Revolving Credit Commitments | |
Schedule 1.01C | Term A Commitments | |
Schedule 1.01D | Term B Commitments | |
Schedule 1.01E | Local Counsel to the Loan Parties | |
Schedule 5.06 | Litigation | |
Schedule 5.08 | Environmental Matters | |
Schedule 5.11 | Subsidiaries | |
Schedule 6.15 | Unrestricted Subsidiaries | |
Schedule 6.18 | Post-Closing Matters | |
Schedule 7.01(b) | Existing Liens | |
Schedule 7.02(f) | Existing Investments | |
Schedule 7.02(u) | Specified Investments | |
Schedule 7.03(b) | Existing Indebtedness | |
Schedule 7.08 | Affiliate Transactions | |
Schedule 7.09 | Burdensome Agreements | |
Schedule 10.02 | Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices |
EXHIBITS
A-1 | Form of Committed Loan Notice | |
A-2 | Form of Prepayment Notice | |
A-3 | Form of Request for L/C Issuance | |
B | Form of Swing Line Loan Notice | |
C-1 | Form of Term Note | |
C-2 | Form of Revolving Credit Note | |
D | Form of Compliance Certificate | |
E | Form of Assignment and Assumption | |
F | Form of Guaranty | |
G | Form of Security Agreement | |
H | Form of Joinder Agreement | |
I | Form of L/C Issuer Agreement | |
J | Form of Administrative Questionnaire | |
K | Form of Specified Discount Prepayment Notice | |
L | Form of Specified Discount Prepayment Response | |
M | Form of Discount Range Prepayment Notice | |
N | Form of Discount Range Prepayment Offer | |
O | Form of Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice | |
P | Form of Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer | |
Q | Form of Acceptance and Prepayment Notice | |
R | Form of Affiliated Lender Assignment and Assumption | |
S-1 | US Tax Certificate (for Non-US Lenders That Are Not Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes) | |
S-2 | US Tax Certificate (for Non-US Lenders That Are Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes) | |
S-3 | US Tax Certificate (for Non-US Participants That Are Not Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes) | |
S-4 | US Tax Certificate (for Non-US Participants That Are Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes) | |
T-1 | Perfection Certificate | |
T-2 | Perfection Certificate Supplement | |
U | Form of Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement | |
V | Form of Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement | |
W | Form of Solvency Certificate | |
X | Form of Intercompany Note | |
Y | Form of Prepayment Option Notice |
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This CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of May 12, 2015, among Quintiles Transnational Corp., a North Carolina corporation (the “Borrower”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, each a “Lender”), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, a Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
The Borrower has requested that (a) the Term A Lenders make Term A Loans to the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount of $850,000,000, (b) the Term B Lenders make Term B Loans to the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount of $600,000,000, and (c) from time to time, the Revolving Credit Lenders lend to the Borrower and the L/C Issuers issue Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries under a $500,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility.
The proceeds of the Term A Loans and the Term B Loans will be used by the Borrower, together with the Senior Notes and cash on hand, to finance the repayment of all amounts outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement, for other general corporate purposes, corporate transactions and Restricted Payments, and to pay the Transaction Expenses. The proceeds of Revolving Credit Loans made after the Closing Date will be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the financing of Permitted Acquisitions, corporate transactions and Restricted Payments. Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit will be used for general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
The applicable Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend and the L/C Issuers have indicated their willingness to issue Letters of Credit, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“Acceptable Discount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(B).
“Acceptable Prepayment Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(C).
“Acceptance and Prepayment Notice” means an irrevocable written notice from a Company Party accepting Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment at the Acceptable Discount specified therein pursuant to Section 10.07(l)(iv) substantially in the form of Exhibit Q.
“Acceptance Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(B).
“Accepting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).
“Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a) the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any permitted successor administrative agent.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify in writing to the Borrower, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire substantially in the form of Exhibit J.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any 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. “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.
“Affiliated Lender” means a Lender that is (a) a Sponsor or Affiliate of a Sponsor or (b) an Affiliate of any Loan Party (excluding, in each case (i) any Investment Fund, (ii) any Affiliate of any Sponsor that would not constitute a Sponsor pursuant to the definition thereof and (iii) the Borrower, its parent company or any of their respective Subsidiaries).
“Agent-Related Person” means the Administrative Agent, together with its Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of such Persons and Affiliates.
“Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, each Co-Documentation Agent, and the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any).
“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery, anti-money laundering or corruption.
“Applicable Discount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(B).
“Applicable Rate” means a percentage per annum equal to:
(i) with respect to the Term B Loans, 2.50% per annum for Eurodollar Rate Loans and 1.50% per annum for Base Rate Loans;
(ii) with respect to the Term A Loans, Revolving Credit Loans, unused Revolving Credit Commitments, Letter of Credit fees and Revolving Credit Commitment Fees, the following percentages per annum, based upon the Total Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02 means a percentage per annum equal to:
Applicable Rate |
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Pricing Level | Total Leverage Ratio |
Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans and Letter of Credit Fees |
Revolving Credit Loans that are Base Rate Loans |
Term A Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans |
Term A Loans that are Base Rate Loans |
Revolving Credit Commitment Fee Rate |
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1 |
³ 3.00:1.00 | 2.00 | % | 1.00 | % | 2.00 | % | 1.00 | % | 0.300 | % | |||||||||||
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< 3.00:1.00 | 1.75 | % | 0.75 | % | 1.75 | % | 0.75 | % | 0.300 | % |
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Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Total Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02; provided that Pricing Level 1 shall apply (x) as of the first Business Day after the date on which a Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered but was not delivered, and shall continue to so apply to and including the date on which such Compliance Certificate is so delivered (and thereafter the Pricing Level otherwise determined in accordance with this definition shall apply) and (y) at the option of the Administrative Agent or the Required Term A Lenders, with respect to the Term A Loans, or the Required Revolving Lenders, with respect to the Revolving Credit Loans, Revolving Credit Commitment Fee Rate and Letter of Credit fees, as of the first Business Day after an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and shall continue to so apply to but excluding the date on which such Event of Default is cured or waived (and thereafter the Pricing Level otherwise determined in accordance with this definition shall apply); provided, further, that prior to delivery of the Compliance Certificate with respect to the first fiscal quarter beginning after the Closing Date, Pricing Level 2 shall apply. Notwithstanding the foregoing, during any period in which the senior secured facility ratings of the Loans are Baa3 (stable) or better from Xxxxx’x and BBB- (stable) or better from S&P (together, an “Investment Grade Rating”), the Applicable Rate with respect to Revolving Credit Loans and the Term A Loans shall be reduced to (A) 0.50% for Base Rate Loans and (B) 1.50% for Eurodollar Rate Loans; provided that each change in the Applicable Margin with respect to Revolving Credit Loans and the Term A Loans resulting from a change in such rating shall be effective, in the case of an upgrade, during the period commencing on the date of delivery by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent of written notice thereof and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change and, in the case of a downgrade, during the period commencing on the date of the public announcement thereof and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change; provided, further, that at any time that an Investment Grade Rating is not in effect the Revolving Credit Loans and the Term A Loans shall be subject to the grid above.
(iii) In the event that the Administrative Agent and the Borrower determine in good faith that any financial statement or Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.02 is inaccurate (regardless of whether this Agreement or the Term A Loans are still outstanding or the Revolving Credit Commitments are in effect, as applicable, when such inaccuracy is discovered), and such inaccuracy, if corrected, would have led to a higher Applicable Rate on either or both of the Term A Loans or the Revolving Credit Loans for any period (an “Applicable Period”) than the Applicable Rate applied for such Applicable Period, then (i) the Borrower shall immediately deliver to the Administrative Agent a correct Compliance Certificate for such Applicable Period, (ii) the Applicable Rate shall be determined by reference to the corrected Compliance Certificate (but in no event shall the Lenders owe any amounts to the Borrower), and (iii) the Borrower shall within three Business Days of demand therefor by the Administrative Agent pay to the Administrative Agent the additional interest 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 the terms hereof; provided that any non-payment as a result of any such inaccuracy shall not in any event be deemed retroactively to be an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.01(a), and such amount payable shall be calculated without giving effect to any additional interest payable on overdue amounts under Section 2.08(b) if paid promptly on demand. This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder.
“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such Class, (b) with respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i) the applicable L/C Issuer and (ii) if any Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders and (c) with respect to the Swing Line Facility, (i) the applicable Swing Line Lender and (ii) if any Swing Line Loans are outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Approved Domestic Bank” has the meaning specified in clause (b) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents.”
“Approved Foreign Bank” has the meaning specified in clause (f) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents.”
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“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered, advised or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises or manages a Lender.
“Arrangers” means X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC, Barclays Bank PLC, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc., Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., and PNC Capital Markets LLC, each in its capacity as a joint lead arranger and/or joint bookrunner for the Facilities.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit E or in another form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other external counsel.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
“Auction Agent” means (a) the Administrative Agent or (b) any other financial institution or advisor employed by the Borrower reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (whether or not an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent) to act as an arranger in connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment pursuant to Section 10.07(l); provided that the Borrower shall not designate the Administrative Agent as the Auction Agent without the written consent of the Administrative Agent (it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to agree to act as the Auction Agent).
“Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).
“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 NYFRB Bank Rate in effect on such day plus 1⁄2 of 1.00% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one month Interest Period on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1.00%; provided that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the Eurodollar Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day, subject to the interest rate floor set forth in the definition of the term “Eurodollar Rate”. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Bank Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Bank Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.
“Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment” means the offer by a Company Party to make a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a specified discount to par pursuant to Section 10.07(l)(ii).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by a Company Party of offers for, and the corresponding acceptance by a Company Party to make, a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a specified range at a discount to par pursuant to Section 10.07(l)(iii).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by a Company Party of offers for, and the subsequent acceptance, if any, by the Company Party to make, a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a discount to par pursuant to Section 10.07(l)(iv).
“Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a New Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Swing Line Borrowing, a Term Borrowing, or a New Term Borrowing, as the context may require.
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“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in when used in relation to the Borrower, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located, and if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in respect of any such Eurodollar Rate Loan, or any other dealings to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in Dollars are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
“Calculation Date” means (a) the last Business Day of each calendar month and (b) solely with respect to any Foreign Currency Borrowing, the Business Day immediately preceding the date on which such Borrowing is to be made.
“Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Capitalized Lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Capitalized Leases” means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases on a balance sheet of the lessee.
“Cash Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).
“Cash Collateral Account” means a deposit account at a commercial bank selected by the Administrative Agent in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, and otherwise established in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Cash Collateralize” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).
“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens (other than Liens permitted pursuant to any Loan Document):
(a) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States, any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof, having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof;
(b) time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is a Lender or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and is a member of the Federal Reserve System and (ii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000 (any such bank being an “Approved Domestic Bank”), in each case with maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof;
(c) commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by an Approved Domestic Bank (or by the parent company thereof) or any variable rate note issued by, or guaranteed by a domestic corporation rated “A-2” (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or “P-2” (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moody’s, in each case with maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof;
(d) repurchase agreements entered into by any Person with a bank or trust company (including any of the Lenders) having capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000 for direct obligations issued by or fully guaranteed by the United States;
(e) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in (i) money market mutual or similar funds the portfolios of which are limited such that not less than 95% of such investments are of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this definition and (ii) money market funds that (A) comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (B) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moody’s and (C) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000;
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(f) solely with respect to any Non-U.S. Subsidiary, non-Dollar denominated (i) certificates of deposit of, bankers acceptances of, or time deposits with, any commercial bank which is organized and existing under the laws of the country in which such Non-U.S. Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business (provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), and whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof or from Xxxxx’x is at least “P-2” or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an “Approved Foreign Bank”) and maturing within one year of the date of acquisition and (ii) equivalents of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank; and
(g) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the government or any agency or instrumentality of the United Kingdom or any member nation of the European Union whose legal tender is the euro and which are denominated in pounds sterling or euros or any other foreign currency comparable in tenor to those referred to above and customarily used by corporations for cash management purposes in any jurisdiction outside the United States to the extent reasonably required in connection with any business conducted by any Restricted Subsidiary organized in such jurisdiction, having (i) one of the two highest ratings from either Xxxxx’x or S&P and (ii) maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United Kingdom or any such member nation of the European Union is pledged in support thereof.
“Cash Management Obligations” means obligations owed by any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary to any Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender in respect of any overdraft and related liabilities arising from treasury, depository and cash management services or any automated clearing house transfers of funds or in respect of any credit card or similar services.
“Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or real property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, fixed assets or real property.
“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 9601, et. seq.
“CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
“Change of Control” means the earliest to occur of:
(a) the Borrower becomes aware of (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or any successor provision (the “Exchange Act”), proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), other than one or more Permitted Holders, in a single transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other business combination or purchase of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), directly or indirectly, of Equity Interests representing more than the greater of (x) thirty-five percent (35%) of the total voting power of all of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower and (y) the percentage of the total voting power of all of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower owned, directly or indirectly, beneficially by the Permitted Holders, or
(b) during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months, the board of directors of the Borrower shall cease to consist of a majority of the Continuing Directors.
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“Class” (a) when used with respect to Lenders, refers to whether such Lenders are Revolving Credit Lenders, New Revolving Credit Lenders, Foreign Currency Lenders, Term A Lenders, Term B Lenders, New Term Lenders, Extended Term Lenders or Extending Revolving Credit Lenders (b) when used with respect to Commitments, refers to whether such Commitments are Revolving Credit Commitments, New Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Term A Commitments, Term B Commitments, Other Term Loan Commitments, New Term Commitments and (c) when used with respect to Loans or a Borrowing, refers to whether such Loans, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Credit Loans, Foreign Currency Loans, Term A Loans or Term B Loans, in each case, under this Agreement as originally in effect or pursuant to Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16, of which such Loan, Borrowing or Commitment shall be a part.
“Closing Date” means May 12, 2015 or, if later, the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 4.01.
“Closing Date Funding Fees” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(c)(ii).
“Code” means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Co-Documentation Agents” means BNP Paribas, Compass Bank dba BBVA Compass, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Pierce, Fenner, & Xxxxx Incorporated, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc., PNC Bank, National Association, SunTrust Bank, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, LTD. and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, each in its capacity as a co-documentation agent for the Facilities.
“Collateral” means all of the “Collateral” referred to in the Collateral Documents and all other property of any Loan Party, now existing or hereafter acquired, that may at any time be or become subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Collateral Documents in order to secure the Secured Obligations.
“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, if any, the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, if any, each Intellectual Property Security Agreement, the Mortgages, if any, and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties as security for the Secured Obligations, including collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties pursuant to Sections 4.01, 6.12 and 6.14.
“Commitment” means a Term Commitment or a Revolving Credit Commitment, as the context may require.
“Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Borrowing with respect to a given Class of Loans, (b) a conversion of Loans of a given Class from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans of a given Class, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.
“Commodity Exchange Act” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Guaranty.
“Company Parties” means the collective reference to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, and “Company Party” means any one of them.
“Compensation Period” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(c)(ii).
“Competitors” means those Persons who are direct competitors of the Borrower and listed on Schedule 1.01A.
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
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“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, the sum of (a) Consolidated Net Income, plus (b) an amount which, in the determination of Consolidated Net Income for such period, has been deducted or netted from gross revenues (except with respect to subclauses (ix) and (xi) below) for, without duplication,
(i) interest expense and, to the extent not reflected in such interest expense, any losses with respect to obligations under any Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments (including any applicable termination payment) entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, any bank and financing fees, any costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit, bankers’ acceptance or any similar facilities or financing and Swap Contracts,
(ii) provision for taxes based on income or profits or capital, including, without limitation, federal, state, provincial, franchise, excise, withholding and similar taxes, including any penalties and interest relating to any tax examinations,
(iii) the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including expenses related to Capitalized Leases,
(iv) to the extent permitted hereunder, any costs and expenses incurred in connection with any Investment, Disposition, Equity Issuance or Debt Issuance (including fees and expenses related to the Facilities and any amendments, supplements and modifications thereof), including the amortization of deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses (in each case, whether or not consummated),
(v) [reserved],
(vi) any costs, charges, accruals and reserves in connection with any integration, transition, facilities openings, vacant facilities, consolidations, relocations, closings, permitted acquisitions, Joint Venture investments and Dispositions, business optimization (including relating to systems design, upgrade and implementation costs), entry into new markets, including consulting fees, restructuring, severance and curtailments or modifications to pension or postretirement employee benefit plans;
(vii) the amount of any expense or deduction associated with income of any Restricted Subsidiaries attributable to non-controlling interests or minority interest of third parties,
(viii) any non-cash charges, losses or expenses (including tax reclassification related to tax contingencies in a prior period and, subject to clause (d) below, including accruals and reserves in respect of potential or future cash items), but excluding, any non-cash charges relating to write-offs or write-downs of inventory or accounts receivable or representing amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid but not expensed in a prior period,
(ix) cash actually received (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenditures) during such period, and not included in Consolidated Net Income in any period, to the extent that the non-cash gain relating to such cash receipt or netting arrangement was deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to paragraph (c) below for any previous period and not added back,
(x) unusual or non-recurring losses or charges, and
(xi) the amount of “run-rate” cost savings and synergies projected by the Borrower in good faith to be realized as a result of specified actions taken or expected in good faith to be taken within 12 months following the end of such period (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that such cost savings and synergies are reasonably identifiable, factually supportable and certified by the chief financial officer or treasurer of the Borrower (it is understood and agreed that “run-rate” means the full recurring benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken or expected to be taken, provided that such benefit is expected to be realized within 12 months of taking such action), minus
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(c) an amount which, in the determination of Consolidated Net Income for such period, has been included for non-cash income during such period (other than with respect to (A) amortization of unfavorable operating leases and (B) payments actually received and the reversal of any accrual or reserve to the extent not previously added back in any prior period), minus (d) all cash payments made during such period on account of non-cash charges added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (b)(viii) above in such period or in a prior period; minus (e) the amount of income consisting of or associated with losses of any Restricted Subsidiary attributable to non-controlling interests or minority interests of third parties, minus (f) non-recurring or unusual gains.
The aggregate amount of add backs made pursuant to clauses (vi) and (xi) above (together with any cost savings or synergies added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to Section 1.04(d)) in any Test Period shall not exceed 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA (prior to giving effect to such addbacks) for any Test Period.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, with respect to any Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the amount by which (i) interest expense in respect of Indebtedness (less payments received, and plus payments made, pursuant to interest rate Swap Contracts) for such period (including the interest component under Capitalized Leases), but excluding, to the extent included in interest expense, (u) commissions, discounts, yield and other fees and charges (including any interest expense) related to any Qualified Securitization Financing, (v) fees and expenses associated with the consummation of the Transactions, (w) annual agency fees paid to the Administrative Agent, (x) costs associated with obtaining Swap Contracts, (y) fees and expenses associated with any Debt Issuance and any prepayment, redemption, repurchase or other satisfaction or retirement of indebtedness (whether or not consummated and including premium and prepayment penalties), and (z) pay-in-kind interest expense, accretion of original issue discount or discounted liabilities or other non-cash interest expense (including as a result of the effects of purchase accounting, accrual of discounted liabilities and movement of xxxx to market valuation of obligations under Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments), exceeds (ii) interest income for such period, in each case as determined in accordance with GAAP, to the extent the same are paid or payable (or received or receivable) in cash with respect to such period. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, for the purposes of determining Consolidated Interest Expense for any period ending prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, Consolidated Interest Expense shall be an amount equal to actual Consolidated Interest Expense from the Closing Date through the date of determination multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is 365 and the denominator of which is the number of days from the Closing Date through the date of determination.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, with respect to any Person, net income attributable to such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that Consolidated Net Income for any such period shall exclude, without duplication,
(i) any net after-tax extraordinary gains, losses or charges,
(ii) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle(s) during such period,
(iii) any net after-tax gains or losses realized upon the Disposition of assets outside the ordinary course of business (including any gain or loss realized upon the Disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person) and any net gains or losses on disposed, abandoned and discontinued operations (including in connection with any disposal thereof) and any accretion or accrual of discounted liabilities,
(iv) (A) the net income (or loss) of (1) solely for purposes of determining the amount available under clause (a) of the definition of Cumulative Amount, any Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Loan Party) to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted without any prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to such Subsidiary or its stockholders (which has not been legally waived) and (2) any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary, except in each case to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or converted to cash or Cash Equivalents) to such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries by such
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Person during such period and (B) the income or loss of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of such Person or is merged into or consolidated with such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person or the date that such other Person’s assets are acquired by such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person,
(v) non-cash compensation charges, including any such charges arising from stock options, restricted stock grants or other equity incentive programs of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parents in connection with the Transactions,
(vi) (A) any charges or expenses pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement, any stock subscription or shareholder agreement or any distributor equity plan or agreement and (B) any charges, costs, expenses, accruals or reserves in connection with the rollover, acceleration or payout of Equity Interests held by management of the Company Parties; provided, however, that in order to exclude from Consolidated Net Income any cash charges, cash costs and cash expenses arising under (A) or (B) they must be funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower or Net Cash Proceeds of an issuance of Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower,
(vii) any net income or loss attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness,
(viii) effects of any adjustments (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Subsidiaries of the Borrower) in the inventory, property and equipment, software, goodwill, other intangible assets, in-process research and development, deferred revenue, debt line items, any earn-out obligations and any other non-cash charges (other than the amortization of unfavorable operating leases) in such Person’s consolidated financial statements pursuant to GAAP resulting from the application of purchase accounting in relation to any consummated acquisition or any Joint Venture investments or the amortization or write-off of any such amounts,
(ix) any impairment charge or asset write-off or write-down, including impairment charges or asset write-offs or write-downs related to intangible assets, long-lived assets, investments in debt and equity securities or obligations (including any losses with respect to obligations of customers, account debtors and suppliers in bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceedings) or as a result of a change in law or regulation, in each case, pursuant to GAAP,
(x) any net gain or loss resulting from currency translation gains or losses related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including any net loss or gain resulting from hedge agreements for currency exchange risk) and any foreign currency translation gains or losses,
(xi) any net unrealized gains and losses resulting from obligations under Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk and the application of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging,” as such Topic may be amended, updated, or supplemented from time to time, and
(xii) Transaction Expenses paid on or prior to September 30, 2015.
In addition, to the extent not already included in the Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing (but without duplication of any of the foregoing exclusions and adjustments), Consolidated Net Income shall include the amount of proceeds received from business interruption insurance in respect of expenses, charges or losses with respect to business interruption and reimbursements of any expenses and charges to the extent reducing Consolidated Net Income that are actually received and covered by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions or, so long as the Borrower has made a determination that there exists reasonable expectation that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such determination (with a reversal in the applicable future period for any amount so included to the extent not so reimbursed within such 365-day period), in connection with any investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted hereunder.
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“Consolidated Scheduled Funded Debt Payments” means, as of any date for the applicable period ending on such date with respect to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of all scheduled payments of principal on Consolidated Total Debt made during such period (including the implied principal component of payments made on Capitalized Leases during such period) as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Senior Secured Debt” means, as of any date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of Consolidated Total Debt outstanding on such date that is secured by a Lien on any asset or property of any Loan Party.
“Consolidated Total Debt” means, as of any date of determination, the aggregate stated balance sheet amount of Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding the effects of any discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of purchase accounting in connection with any Permitted Acquisition) consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, obligations in respect of Capitalized Leases and letters of credit to the extent of amounts outstanding under standby letters of credit and unreimbursed for more than 10 days and obligations in respect of Indebtedness evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments; provided that (i) solely for purposes of Sections 7.02(z), 7.06(k) and 7.13(v), Consolidated Total Debt shall be calculated to subtract the lesser of (x) unrestricted cash and cash equivalents (determined in accordance with GAAP) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on such date and (y) $400.0 million and (ii) Consolidated Total Debt shall not include (i) Indebtedness in respect of obligations of the type described in clauses (b), (c), (d) and (g) of the definition of “Indebtedness” or clause (e) or (h) thereof to the extent relating to such clause (b), (c), (d) or (g), except in the case of any letter of credit, except to the extent of amounts outstanding under standby letters of credit and unreimbursed for more than 10 days or (ii) any Qualified Securitization Financing.
“Consolidated Working Capital” means, as at any date of determination, the excess of Current Assets over Current Liabilities.
“Consolidated Working Capital Adjustment” means, for any period on a consolidated basis, the amount (which may be a negative number) by which Consolidated Working Capital as of the beginning of such period exceeds (or is less than) Consolidated Working Capital as of the end of such period; provided, that there shall be excluded the effect of any Disposition or acquisition during such period, and the application of purchase accounting.
“Continuing Directors” means the directors (or managers) of the Borrower on the Closing Date and each other director (or manager), if, in each case, such other directors’ or managers’ nomination for election to the board of directors (or board of managers) of the Borrower is endorsed by a majority of the then-Continuing Directors or such other director receives the endorsement by the Permitted Holders of his or her election by the stockholders of the Borrower.
“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” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Affiliate.”
“Controlled Investment Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person, other than any Sponsor, which directly or indirectly is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person and is organized by such Person (or any Person controlling such Person) primarily for making direct or indirect equity or debt investments in the Borrower and/or other companies.
“Copyright Security Agreement” means the Copyright Security Agreement among the Borrower, the other Grantors named therein and the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date.
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“Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” means (a) Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, (b) Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt, (c) Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt or (d) other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment (including, without limitation, Other Term Loans and Other Revolving Credit Loans), in each case, issued, incurred or otherwise obtained (including by means of the extension or renewal of existing Indebtedness) in exchange for, or to extend, renew, replace or refinance, in whole or part, existing Term Loans or existing Revolving Credit Loans (or unused Revolving Credit Commitments), or any then-existing Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (“Refinanced Debt”); provided that (i) such Indebtedness has a later maturity and a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Refinanced Debt, (ii) such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount of the Refinanced Debt plus accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) thereon and reasonable fees and expenses associated with the refinancing, (iii) such Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, defeased or satisfied and discharged on a dollar-for-dollar basis, and all accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) in connection therewith shall be paid, on the date such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is issued, incurred or obtained and (iv) the aggregate unused revolving commitments under such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall not exceed the unused Revolving Credit Commitments being replaced.
“Credit Extension” means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
“Cumulative Amount” means, on any date of determination (the “Reference Date”), the sum of (without duplication):
1. $300,000,000; plus
(b) Cumulative Consolidated Net Income, provided that for purposes of Section 7.06(f) and Section 7.13, the amount in this clause (b) shall only be available if the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have a Total Leverage Ratio of not greater than 5.75 to 1.00 as of the end of the Test Period then last ended, in each case, after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, payment, prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance or satisfaction; plus
(c) Eligible Equity Proceeds other than to the extent (x) used in a Cure Amount or (y) applied to fund (i) termination fees added back to Consolidated EBITDA under clause (v) of the definition thereof and (ii) charges, costs and expenses excluded from Consolidated Net Income pursuant to clause (vi)(B) thereof to the extent Not Otherwise Applied; plus
(d) to the extent not included in clause (b) above, the aggregate amount received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from cash dividends and distributions received from any Unrestricted Subsidiaries and Net Cash Proceeds in connection with the Disposition of its Equity Interests in any Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case, during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Reference Date, in each case to the extent that the Investment corresponding to the designation of such Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any subsequent Investment in such Unrestricted Subsidiary, was made in reliance on the Cumulative Amount pursuant to Section 7.02(m); plus
(e) to the extent not included in clause (b) above, the aggregate amount of cash Returns to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of Investments made pursuant to Section 7.02(m)(y); minus
(f) the aggregate amount of (1) Restricted Payments made using the Cumulative Amount pursuant to Section 7.06(f)(ii), (2) Investments made using the Cumulative Amount pursuant to Section 7.02(m), (3) prepayments made using the Cumulative Amount pursuant to Section 7.13(i)(B) during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Reference Date (without taking account of the intended usage of the Cumulative Amount on such Reference Date) and (4) Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section 7.06(j).
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“Cumulative Consolidated Net Income” means 50% of the cumulative Consolidated Net Income (or if such cumulative Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, 100% of such loss) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries since the beginning of the fiscal quarter including the Closing Date to the end of the last fiscal period for which financial statements have been provided to the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b).
“Cure Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 8.04(a).
“Cure Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 8.04(a).
“Current Assets” means, at any time, the consolidated current assets (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Current Liabilities” means, at any time, the consolidated current liabilities of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such time, but excluding, without duplication, (a) the current portion of any long-term Indebtedness, (b) outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans (c) the current portion of interest, (d) the current portion of any Capitalized Leases, (e) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes, (f) liabilities in respect of unpaid earnouts, (g) the current portion of any other long-term liabilities and (h) deferred revenue.
“Debt Issuance” means the issuance or incurrence by any Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness for borrowed money.
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, general assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, examinership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Declining Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).
“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to (a) the Base Rate plus (b) the Applicable Rate applicable to Base Rate Loans that are Term Loans plus (c) 2.0% per annum; provided that with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2.0% per annum, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
“Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, a Lender as to which the Administrative Agent has notified the Borrower that (i) such Lender has failed for two or more Business Days to comply with its obligations under this Agreement to make a Term Loan, Revolving Credit Loan, make a payment to an L/C Issuer in respect of an L/C Obligation and/or make a payment to a Swing Line Lender in respect of a Swing Line Loan (each a “Lender Funding Obligation”), in each case, required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower promptly in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, (ii) such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, or has stated publicly, that it will not comply with any such Lender Funding Obligation hereunder, or has defaulted on its Lender Funding Obligations under any other loan agreement or credit agreement or other similar agreement in which it commits to extend credit (absent a good faith dispute), (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 (based on the reasonable belief that it may not fulfill its Lender Funding Obligations), that it will comply with its Lender Funding Obligations hereunder (absent a good faith dispute); provided that any such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender under this clause (iii) upon receipt of such confirmation by the Administrative Agent, or (iv) a Lender Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to such Lender (provided that neither the reallocation of Lender Funding Obligations provided for in Section 2.17 as a result of a Lender’s being a Defaulting Lender nor the performance by Non-Defaulting Lenders of such reallocated Lender Funding Obligations will by themselves cause the relevant Defaulting Lender to become a Non-Defaulting Lender). The Administrative Agent will promptly send to all parties hereto a copy of any notice to the Borrower provided for in this definition.
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“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the fair market value (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) of non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with a Disposition pursuant to Section 7.05(k) that is designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer, setting forth the basis of such valuation (which amount will be reduced by the fair market value of the portion of the non-cash consideration converted to cash or Cash Equivalents within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the consummation of the applicable Disposition).
“Designated Prepayment Amount” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.05(b)(ix).
“Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(ii)(B).
“Discount Range” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(A).
“Discount Range Prepayment Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(A).
“Discount Range Prepayment Notice” means an irrevocable written notice of the Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 10.07(l)(iii) substantially in the form of Exhibit M.
“Discount Range Prepayment Offer” means the irrevocable written offer by a Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit N, submitted in response to an invitation to submit offers following the Auction Agent’s receipt of a Discount Range Prepayment Notice.
“Discount Range Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(A).
“Discount Range Pro-Rata Factor” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(C).
“Discounted Prepayment Determination Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(C).
“Discounted Prepayment Effective Date” means in the case of the Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment or Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers, the second Business Day following the receipt by the applicable Company Party of notice from the Auction Agent in accordance with Section 10.07(l)(ii)(C), Section 10.07(l)(iii)(C) or Section 10.07(l)(iv)(C), as applicable.
“Discounted Term Loan Prepayment” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(i).
“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition of any property by any Person (including any sale and leaseback transaction and any sale of Equity Interests, but excluding any issuance by such Person of its own Equity Interests), including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.
“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable, the termination of the Commitments and the termination of, or backstop on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of, all outstanding Letters of Credit), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the
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Latest Maturity Date; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because it may be required to be repurchased by such parent, the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations.
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Dollar Equivalent” means, on any date of determination, (a) with respect to any amount in Dollars, such amount and (b) with respect to any amount in Pounds Sterling, Euros or Yen, the equivalent in Dollars of such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 1.04 using the Exchange Rate with respect to either Pounds Sterling, Euros or Yen, as the case may be, at the time in effect under the provisions of such Section.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender; (b) an Affiliate of a Lender; (c) an Approved Fund; and (d) an Affiliated Lender to the extent contemplated by Section 10.07(k); and (e) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by (i) the Administrative Agent, (ii) in the case of any assignment of a Revolving Credit Commitment, each L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, and (iii) unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under Section 8.01(a), Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g)(i), the Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided, that under no circumstances shall any Competitor be an assignee without the prior written consent of the Borrower, except that the Borrower’s consent shall not be required with respect to an assignment of Revolving Credit Commitments if an Event of Default in respect of Section 8.01(a), Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g)(i) has occurred and is continuing.
“Eligible Equity Proceeds” means the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof from any sale or issuance of any Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) or from any capital contributions in respect of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds or capital contributions are directly or indirectly contributed to, and actually received by, the Borrower as cash common equity (or, if only a portion thereof is so contributed and received, to the extent of such portion).
“Environment” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, soil and subsurface strata, and natural resources, such as wetlands, flora and fauna.
“Environmental Laws” means the common law and any and all applicable Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution, the protection of the Environment or of public health (to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials) or the management, storage, treatment, transport, distribution, Release or threat of Release of any Hazardous Materials.
“Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required by a Governmental Authority under any Environmental Law.
“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities but excluding debt securities convertible into or exchangeable for any of the foregoing).
“Equity Issuance” means any issuance for cash by any Person to any other Person of (a) its Equity Interests, (b) any of its Equity Interests pursuant to the exercise of options or warrants, (c) any of its Equity Interests pursuant to the conversion of any debt securities to equity or (d) any options or warrants relating to its Equity Interests. A Disposition of Equity Interests shall not be deemed to be an Equity Issuance.
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“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) under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code solely for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).
“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it 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; (c) a determination that any Pension Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any liability with respect to a complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, 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); (e) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Pension Plan amendment as a termination under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due, upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; (h) with respect to a Pension Plan, the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA, whether or not waived, or the failure to make any contribution to a Multiemployer Plan or (i) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction with respect to any Pension Plan maintained or contributed to by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could result in liability to the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.
“Euro” or “€” means the single currency of the European Union as constituted by the treaty of European Union and as referred to in the EMU Legislation.
“Eurodollar Rate” means, for any Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for Dollars for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; in each case the “LIBO Screen Rate”) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement; provided further that if the Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for such Interest Period (an “Impacted Interest Period”) then the Eurodollar Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate; provided that if any Interpolated Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement; provided further that, solely with respect to the Term B Loans, in no event shall the Eurodollar Rate be less than 0.75%.
“Eurodollar Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Eurodollar Rate.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
“Excess Cash Flow” means, with respect to any fiscal year of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, an amount equal to the excess of:
(a) the sum, without duplication, of: (i) Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower for such period, (ii) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash charges (including depreciation and amortization) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, but excluding any such non-cash charges representing an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period, (iii) the Consolidated Working Capital Adjustment for such period, (iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash loss on Dispositions by the
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Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (v) expenses deducted from Consolidated Net Income during such period in respect of expenditures made during any prior period for which a deduction from Excess Cash Flow was made in such period pursuant to clause (b)(viii), (ix) or (x) below, and (vi) cash income or gain (actually received in cash) excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Net Income for such period pursuant to the definition thereof, over
(b) the sum, without duplication (whether in the same period or prior periods), of:
(i) an amount equal to (A) the amount of all non-cash gains, income and credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income (excluding any such non-cash gain, income or credit to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated Net Income in any prior period), and (B) all cash expenses, charges and losses excluded in calculating Consolidated Net Income pursuant to the definition of Consolidated Net Income,
(ii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (viii) below in prior fiscal years, the amount of capital expenditures and acquisitions (including Permitted Acquisitions and acquisitions of intellectual property) by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries accrued or made in cash during such period, to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash Flow,
(iii) Consolidated Scheduled Funded Debt Payments and the aggregate amount of all principal prepayments of long-term Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including the amount of any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii) to the extent required due to a Disposition that resulted in an increase to such Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase), but excluding (A) all prepayments of Term Loans other than scheduled amortization and mandatory prepayments described in the parenthetical clause above, (B) all prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, (C) all prepayments in respect of any other revolving credit facility, except to the extent there is an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder and (D) prepayments of Indebtedness funded with the Cumulative Amount, made during such period, in each case to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash Flow,
(iv) cash payments by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of long-term liabilities other than Indebtedness to the extent such payments are not expensed during such period or are not deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash Flow,
(v) the amount of Investments made in cash pursuant to Sections 7.02(b), 7.02(c)(iii), 7.02(m)(x), 7.02(n), 7.02(u), 7.02(v), 7.02(y) and 7.02(z) made during such period to the extent that such Investments were financed with Internally Generated Cash Flow, plus any Returns of such Investment,
(vi) the amount of Restricted Payments paid in cash during such period pursuant to Sections 7.06(e), 7.06(f)(i), 7.06(h), 7.06(i) and 7.06(k) made during such period, to the extent that such Restricted Payments were financed with Internally Generated Cash Flow,
(vii) to the extent not expensed during such period or are not deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income, the aggregate amount of expenditures, fees, costs and expenses paid in cash by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries with Internally Generated Cash Flow of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (including expenditures for payment of financing fees),
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(viii) the aggregate consideration required to be paid in cash by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to binding contracts (the “Contract Consideration”) entered into prior to or during such period relating to Permitted Acquisitions (including with respect to any earnout payments thereunder for the period under which such earnout obligations are payable), capital expenditures or acquisitions of intellectual property or other assets to be completed or made during the Test Period following the end of such period; provided that, to the extent the aggregate amount of Internally Generated Cash Flow actually utilized to finance such Permitted Acquisitions, capital expenditures or acquisitions of intellectual property or other assets during such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters is less than the Contract Consideration, the amount of such shortfall shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow at the end of such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters,
(ix) the amount of cash taxes paid in such period (and tax reserves set aside and payable within 12 months of such period) to the extent they exceed the amount of tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period,
(x) to the extent not expensed during such period or not deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income, cash costs and expenses during such period in connection with, and any payments of, Transaction Expenses,
(xi) the amount of Consolidated Net Income attributable to investments in Samsung JV, NQ Fund, Quest Diagnostic JV and any other permitted joint venture or any Unrestricted Subsidiary, except to the extent actually paid to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in the form of a cash dividend or distribution during such period; and
(xii) the amount of any increase (but not any decrease) in advances from customers accounted for as unearned income in accordance with GAAP.
“Exchange Rate” means, on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any other currency, the rate at which such other currency may be exchanged into Dollars, as set forth at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day on the Telerate Page for such currency. In the event that such rate does not appear on any Telerate Page, the Exchange Rate shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower or, in the absence of such an agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such currency are then being conducted, at or about 10:00 a.m., local time, on such date for the purchase of Dollars for delivery two Business Days later; provided that if at the time of any such determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the Administrative Agent may use any reasonable method it deems appropriate to determine such rate, and such determination shall be presumed correct in the absence of facts or circumstances indicating that it has been made in error.
“Excluded Assets” means, (a) any real property or real property interests (including leasehold interests) other than Material Real Property, (b) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title and letter-of-credit rights (except to the extent constituting a supporting obligation for other Collateral as to which perfection of the security interest in such letter of credit rights is accomplished solely by the filing of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement), (c) any assets if the granting of a security interest in such asset would be prohibited by applicable Law (other than proceeds and receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Uniform Commercial Code notwithstanding such prohibition), (d) any lease, license or other agreement or any property subject to a purchase money security interest, Capital Lease Obligation or similar arrangements, in each case, to the extent permitted under this Agreement to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement, purchase money, Capital Lease Obligation or a similar arrangement or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than the Borrower or a Guarantor), (e) Equity Interests (i) constituting margin stock, (ii) in any entity that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary if the granting of a security interest in such Equity Interests would be prohibited by organizational or governance documents of such entity or would trigger a termination pursuant to any “change of control” or similar provision in such documents (other than the proceeds thereof), and (iii) that are voting Equity Interests in any Subsidiary described in clause (c) of the definition of Excluded Subsidiary in excess of 65% of the voting Equity Interests in such Subsidiary, (f) any property and assets the pledge of which would require the consent, approval, license or authorization of
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any Governmental Authority that has not been obtained, (g) assets in circumstances where the Administrative Agent and the Borrower agree in writing that the cost, burden or consequences (including adverse tax consequences) of obtaining or perfecting a security interest in such assets is excessive in relation to the practical benefit afforded thereby, (h) any IP Rights to the extent that the attachment of the security interest thereto, or any assignment thereof, would result in the forfeiture, invalidation or unenforceability of the Grantors’ rights in such property including, without limitation, any License pursuant to which Grantor is Licensee under terms which prohibit the granting of a security interest or under which granting such an interest would give rise to a breach or default by Grantor, any Trademark applications filed in the USPTO on the basis of such Grantor’s “intent-to-use” such Trademark, unless and until acceptable evidence of use of such Trademark has been filed with the USPTO pursuant to Section 1(c) or Section 1(d) of the Xxxxxx Act (15 U.S.C. 1051, et seq.), to the extent that granting a lien in such Trademark application prior to such filing would adversely affect the enforceability or validity of such Trademark application, (i) such other assets to the extent subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in the Collateral Documents or, to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction, as agreed between the Administrative Agent and the applicable Loan Party in writing, and (j) Securitization Assets, any subordinated note issued by any Securitization Subsidiary and the Equity Interests of any Securitization Subsidiary; provided that, in the case of clauses (d), (e)(ii) and (f), such exclusion shall not apply to (i) to the extent the prohibition is ineffective under applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code or other Law or (ii) to proceeds and receivables of the assets referred to in such clause, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code or other Law notwithstanding such prohibition. For purposes of this definition, any capitalized term used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Security Agreement.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary, (b) any Domestic Subsidiary that is prohibited by contractual requirements (other than contractual requirements entered into by such Subsidiary to avoid guaranteeing the Obligations) or applicable Law from guaranteeing the Obligations, (c) (i) any Foreign Subsidiary or (ii) any Domestic Subsidiary that is (A) a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary that is a controlled foreign corporation within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code (a “CFC”) or (B) a disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes and has no material assets other than Equity Interests of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs, (d) any Immaterial Subsidiary, (e) any special purpose securitization vehicle (or similar entity), including any Securitization Subsidiary, and (f) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent (confirmed in writing by notice to the Borrower), the cost or other consequences (including any adverse tax consequences to the Borrower or such Subsidiary) of providing a Guarantee of the Obligations of the Borrower hereunder shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Guaranty.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any Agent, any Lender (including any Swing Line Lender or L/C Issuer) 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) any Taxes imposed on or measured by its net income (however denominated) or overall gross income and franchise (and similar) Taxes imposed on it in lieu of net income taxes by a jurisdiction as a result of such recipient being organized or resident in, maintaining a Lending Office in, doing business in or having another present or former connection with, such jurisdiction (other than a business or connection deemed to arise solely by virtue of the Loan Documents or any transactions occurring pursuant thereto);
(b) any branch profits tax under Section 884(a) of the Code, or any similar tax, imposed by any other jurisdiction described in clause (a) above;
(c) in the case of a Non-US Lender (other than a Non-US Lender becoming a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 3.07), any United States federal withholding tax that is imposed pursuant to any Law in effect at the time such recipient becomes a party to this Agreement, changes its applicable Lending Office or changes its place of organization (or where the Non-US Lender is a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, pursuant to a law in effect on the later of the date on which such Non-US
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Lender becomes a party hereto or the date on which the affected partner becomes a partner of such Non-US Lender), except, in the case of a Non-US Lender that designates a new Lending Office or changes its place of organization or is an assignee, to the extent that such Non-US Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, immediately prior to the time of designation of a new Lending Office or change of its place of organization (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from a Loan Party with respect to such United States federal withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.01;
(d) any Taxes attributable to a recipient’s failure to comply with Section 10.15(a) or (c);
(e) any United States federal withholding taxes imposed under Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code as of the date hereof, or any amended version or successor provision that is substantively comparable thereto, and, in each case, any regulations promulgated thereunder and any interpretation or other guidance issued in connection therewith (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such regulations, interpretations and other guidance promulgated or issued after the date hereof);
(f) any U.S. federal backup withholding taxes imposed under Section 3406 of the Code; or
(g) any interest, additions to tax or penalties in respect of the foregoing.
“Existing Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of June 8, 2011, among the Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, the lenders from time to time party thereto and the other parties thereto, as amended, restated, supplemented or modified from time to time.
“Extended Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15(a).
“Extended Term Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15(a).
“Extending Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15(a).
“Extending Term Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15(a).
“Extension” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15(a).
“Extension Offer” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15(a).
“Facility” means the Term Loan A Facility, the Term Loan B Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Sublimit, the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Other Term Loans or the Other Revolving Credit Loans, as the context may require.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the federal funds effective rate.
“Financial Covenant Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01(b).
“Foreign Benefit Arrangement” means any employee benefit arrangement mandated by non-US law that is maintained or contributed to by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries
“Foreign Currency Borrowing” means Foreign Currency Loans made on the same day by the Foreign Currency Lenders ratably according to their respective Foreign Currency Sublimits then in effect.
“Foreign Currency Exposure” means, with respect to any Foreign Currency Lender at any time, the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all Foreign Currency Loans made by such Foreign Currency Lender and outstanding at such time. The Foreign Currency Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender at any time
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shall be the sum of (without duplication) (A) its Pro Rata Share of the Foreign Currency Exposure of all Foreign Currency Lenders at such time and (B) the Foreign Currency Exposure of all Foreign Currency Lenders that has been converted into Revolving Dollar Loans pursuant to Section 2.18 and in respect of which such Revolving Credit Lender has made, or is required to make, payments to the Foreign Currency Lenders under such Section 2.18.
“Foreign Currency Lender” means each Revolving Credit Lender (or Affiliate of a Revolving Credit Lender) identified on Schedule 1.01B on the date hereof as a “Foreign Currency Lender” with the Foreign Currency Sublimit set forth thereon and any other Revolving Credit Lender that (a) agrees, with the approval of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld (provided, however, that after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default in respect of Section 8.01(a), Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g)(i), such approval by the Borrower shall not be required), to act, or cause one of its Affiliates to act, as a Foreign Currency Lender with a Foreign Currency Sublimit agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (provided, however, that no Revolving Credit Lender or Affiliate thereof shall become a Foreign Currency Lender to the extent, after giving effect to such Revolving Credit Lender or Affiliate thereof becoming a Foreign Currency Lender with the proposed Foreign Currency Sublimit, the aggregate Foreign Currency Sublimit amount would exceed the Maximum Foreign Currency Sublimit) and (b) whether directly or through an Affiliate thereof, at the time of such agreement by such Foreign Currency Lender, can, on its own, make Foreign Currency Loans to the Borrower the interest payments with respect to which can be made free of withholding taxes.
“Foreign Currency Loans” means the Revolving Credit Loans made by the Foreign Currency Lender in Pounds Sterling, Euros or Yen pursuant to Section 2.01(b)(ii).
“Foreign Currency Ratable Portion” means, with respect to any Foreign Currency Lender (a) at any time prior to the reduction of the Foreign Currency Sublimits to zero, the percentage obtained by dividing (i) the Foreign Currency Sublimit of such Lender in effect at such time by (ii) the aggregate Foreign Currency Sublimits of all Foreign Currency Lenders in effect at such time and (b) at any time thereafter, the percentage obtained by dividing (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Foreign Currency Loans outstanding at such time and owing to such Foreign Currency Lender by (ii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Foreign Currency Loans outstanding at such time.
“Foreign Currency Sublimit” means, with respect to each Foreign Currency Lender, the Dollar amount set forth opposite such Foreign Currency Lender’s name on Schedule 1.01B under the caption “Foreign Currency Sublimit,” as amended to reflect each Assignment and Assumption executed by such Foreign Currency Lender and as such amount may be reduced pursuant to this Agreement. The aggregate Foreign Currency Sublimits on the Closing Date shall be the Maximum Foreign Currency Sublimit.
“Foreign Excess Cash Flow” means the Excess Cash Flow of the Non-U.S. Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis as if a separate consolidated group, without regard to the Borrower or the Domestic Subsidiaries.
“Foreign Plan” means any employee benefit plan maintained or contributed to by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries primarily to provide pension benefits to employees employed outside the United States.
“Foreign Plan Event” means (i) the failure of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to make its required contributions in respect of any Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement when such contributions are made; (ii) the failure of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to administer any Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement in accordance with its terms and all applicable laws; (iii) the occurrence of an act or omission in respect of any Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement which could give rise to the imposition on the Borrower or any Subsidiary of fines, penalties or related charges under applicable laws; (iv) the assertion of a material claim (other than a routine claim for benefits) against the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of a Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement; (v) the imposition of a Lien in respect of any Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement; or (vi) any event or condition which might constitute grounds for termination, in whole or in part, of any Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement, or the appointment of a trustee to administer any Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower which is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
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“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.
“Granting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).
“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, without duplication, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
“Guarantors” means (a) each Restricted Subsidiary listed as such on Schedule I that shall have Guaranteed the Obligations of the Borrower pursuant to the Guaranty and (b) at any time thereafter, shall include each other Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that shall be required to become a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.12.
“Guaranty” means the Guaranty made by the Guarantors in favor of the Secured Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit F, together with each other guaranty and guaranty supplement in respect of the Obligations of the Borrower delivered pursuant to Section 6.12.
“Hazardous Materials” means all substances, materials, wastes, chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, constituents or compounds, in any form, regulated, or which can give rise to liability, under any Environmental Law, including medical waste, petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials and polychlorinated biphenyls.
“Hedge Bank” means any Person that was a Lender, the Administrative Agent or an Arranger or an Affiliate of a Lender, the Administrative Agent or an Arranger in its capacity as a party to a Secured Hedge Agreement, at the time such Hedge Agreement was entered into.
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“Holdings” means Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc.
“Holdings Dissolution Transactions” means any transaction or series of transactions that do not constitute a Change of Control and result in the dissolution of Holdings or the merger of Holdings into the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower.
“Honor Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
“Identified Participating Lenders” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(C).
“Identified Qualifying Lenders” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(C).
“IFRS” means international accounting standards within the meaning of the IAS Regulation 1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements.
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means each Restricted Subsidiary designated in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent as an Immaterial Subsidiary; provided that (i) all Immaterial Subsidiaries, taken together, shall not have revenues for any fiscal year of the Borrower or total assets as of the last day of any fiscal year in an amount that is equal to or greater than 5.0% of the consolidated revenues or total assets, as applicable, of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for, or as of the last day of, such fiscal year, as the case may be, and (ii) to the extent such limitation would be exceeded, the Borrower shall designate Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent to no longer be Immaterial Subsidiaries so that such limitation would not be exceeded. Any Restricted Subsidiary that executes a Guaranty of the Obligations shall not be deemed an Immaterial Subsidiary and shall be excluded from the calculations above.
“Immediate Family Member” means with respect to any individual, such individual’s child, stepchild, grandchild or more remote descendant, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, former spouse, qualified domestic partner, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law and daughter-in-law (including adoptive relationships) and any trust, partnership or other bona fide estate-planning vehicle the only beneficiaries of which are any of the foregoing individuals or any private foundation or fund that is controlled by any of the foregoing individuals or any donor-advised fund of which any such individual is the donor.
“Impacted Interest Period” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of “Eurodollar Rate.”
“Increased Amount Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) the maximum amount of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person, but excluding any portion of such maximum amount that is secured by Cash Collateral;
(c) current net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any earn-out obligation until such obligation appears in the liabilities section of the balance sheet of such Person, and (iii) liabilities associated with customer prepayments and deposits);
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(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f) all Attributable Indebtedness;
(g) all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests; and
(h) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (x) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (y) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.08.
“Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means, collectively, the Patent Security Agreement, the Trademark Security Agreement and the Copyright Security Agreement, substantially in the forms attached to the Security Agreement together with each other intellectual property security agreement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.12 or the Security Agreement.
“Intercompany Note” means a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit X.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter, or with the consent of all relevant Lenders, twelve months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice; provided that:
(a) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(b) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and
(c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
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“Internally Generated Cash Flow” means funds not constituting (i) proceeds of Debt Issuances (excluding borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility, any other revolving lines of credit and any Qualified Securitization Financing), (ii) proceeds of Equity Issuances or (iii) a reinvestment by Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition or any Casualty Event pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii)(B).
“Interpolated Rate” means, at any time, for any Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the LIBO Screen Rate) determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for the longest period for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available for Dollars) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period; and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that LIBO Screen Rate is available for Dollars) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.
“Investment” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or debt or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of Indebtedness of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs debt of the type referred to in clause (h) of the definition of “Indebtedness” set forth in this Section 1.01 in respect of such Person or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment, less any Returns in respect of such Investment.
“Investment Fund” means an Affiliate of one or more of the Sponsors (other than a natural person) that is primarily engaged in, or advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and with respect to which the Sponsors do not, directly or indirectly, actually direct or cause the direction of the investment policies of such entity.
“Investors” means the Sponsors together with any other investors that made an equity co-investment directly or indirectly in the Borrower.
“IP Rights” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14.
“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Joinder Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit H.
“Joint Venture” means (a) any Person which would constitute an “equity method investee” of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) any Person in whom the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries beneficially owns any Equity Interest that is not a Subsidiary.
“Junior Financing” means (a) the Senior Notes, (b) any Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness, Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt, Permitted Second Lien Indebtedness and Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt and (c) any Permitted Refinancing in respect of any of the foregoing.
“Junior Financing Documentation” means any documentation governing any Junior Financing.
“Jurisdictional Requirements” has the meaning specified in Section 7.04(a).
“L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Pro Rata Share.
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“L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Revolving Credit Borrowing.
“L/C Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the renewal or increase of the amount thereof.
“L/C Issuer” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Barclays Bank PLC and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc., each acting on its own behalf or through one of its respective affiliates or branches, and each in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder and each other Revolving Credit Lender reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) that has entered into an L/C Issuer Agreement, in each case, in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. Each L/C Issuer may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such L/C Issuer, in which case the term L/C Issuer shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate. Neither JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc. nor any of their respective branches or affiliates shall be required to issue any commercial Letter of Credit hereunder.
“L/C Issuer Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit I, pursuant to which a Lender agrees to act as an L/C Issuer.
“L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including, without duplication, all L/C Borrowings.
“L/C Request” means a Request for L/C Issuance substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3 or in another form reasonably acceptable to the applicable L/C Issuer.
“Latest Maturity Date” means, at any date of determination, the latest maturity or expiration date applicable to any Loan or Commitment hereunder at such time, including the latest maturity or expiration date of any Term Loan or any New Term Commitment, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.
“Laws” means, collectively, all applicable international, foreign, Federal, state, commonwealth and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
“LCT Election” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.10.
“LCT Test Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.10.
“Lender” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement and, as the context requires, includes each L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.
“Lender Funding Obligation” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Defaulting Lender.”
“Lender Insolvency Event” means that (i) a Lender or its Parent Company is determined or adjudicated to be insolvent by a Governmental Authority, 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; provided that a Lender-Insolvency Event shall not be deemed to have occurred solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in any Lender or its Parent Company by a Governmental Authority or an instrumentality thereof.
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“Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Letter of Credit” or “L/C” means any letter of credit issued hereunder. A Letter of Credit may be a commercial letter of credit (if available to be issued by the applicable L/C Issuer) or a standby letter of credit.
“Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit substantially in the form from time to time in use by the applicable L/C Issuer.
“Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means the day that is five (5) Business Days prior to the scheduled Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).
“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means (i) as to any individual L/C Issuer, the amount set forth next to such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.01B under the caption “Letter of Credit Sublimit” and (ii) $35,000,000 in the aggregate. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.
“LIBO Screen Rate” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of “Eurodollar Rate.”
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
“Limited Condition Transaction” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.10.
“Limited Originator Recourse” means a letter of credit, cash collateral account or other credit enhancement issued or provided for a similar purpose in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness by a Securitization Subsidiary under a Qualified Securitization Financing.
“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower in the form of a Term Loan, a New Term Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan, a New Revolving Credit Loan, a Foreign Currency Loan or a Swing Line Loan.
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes, (c) the Guaranty, (d) the Collateral Documents, (e) each L/C Request and Letter of Credit Application and (f) any amendment or joinder to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor.
“Mandatory Prepayment Date” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.05(b)(ix).
“Master Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Swap Contract.”
“Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse effect on the business, operations, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) a material adverse effect on the ability of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) to pay the Obligations under any Loan Document or (c) a material adverse effect on the rights and remedies of the Lenders, taken as a whole, under any Loan Document.
“Material Intellectual Property” means (a) all registrations or pending applications for registration with the US Patent and Trademark Office for any patents and any trademarks or service marks; and (b) all registrations of copyrights with the US Copyright Office, in either case, that are material to the operation of the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
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“Material Real Property” means real property owned in fee by the Borrower or any Guarantor located in the United States with a fair market value in excess of $5,000,000.
“Maturity Date” means (a) with respect to the Term A Loan Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility, May 12, 2020 and (b) with respect to the Term B Loan Facility May 12, 2022; provided that the reference to Maturity Date with respect to Other Term Loans and Other Revolving Credit Loans shall be the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Refinancing Amendment, and with respect to Extended Term Loans and Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall be the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Extension Offer.
“Maximum Foreign Currency Sublimit” means US$75,000,000, as such amount may be reduced hereunder from time to time.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 10.10.
“Minimum Extension Condition” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15(b).
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Mortgage” means a deed of trust, deed of mortgage, trust deed or mortgage, as applicable, made by the Borrower or a Guarantor in favor or for the benefit of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in respect of Material Real Property in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.12; provided no mortgage shall contain any representations, warranties, covenants, undertakings or defaults other than by reference to the representation, warranties, covenants, undertakings or defaults set forth in this Agreement or in the Security Agreement or customary representations and warranties relating to the subject property as of the date of execution of the applicable Mortgage.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means:
(a) with respect to the Disposition of any asset (including issuance or Disposition of Equity Interests by or of Subsidiaries) by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any Casualty Event, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received and, with respect to any Casualty Event, any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event actually received by or paid to the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) minus (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien (other than a Lien that ranks pari passu with or subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations) on the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event and that is required to be repaid in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), together with any applicable premium, penalty, interest and breakage costs, (B) the out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees) actually incurred by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event, (C) taxes (or distributions for taxes) paid or reasonably estimated to be payable in connection therewith by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary and attributable to such Disposition or Casualty Event (including, where the proceeds are realized by a Subsidiary of the Borrower, any incremental foreign, state and/or local income taxes imposed as a result of distributing the proceeds in question from any Subsidiary to the Borrower); (D) any reserve for adjustment in respect of (1) the sale
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price of such asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP and (2) any liabilities associated with such asset or assets and retained by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries after such Disposition thereof, including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction, and it being understood that “Net Cash Proceeds” shall include, without limitation, any cash or Cash Equivalents (i) received upon the Disposition of any non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any such Disposition or Casualty Event and (ii) upon the reversal (without the satisfaction of any applicable liabilities in cash in a corresponding amount) of any reserve described in clause (D) above or, if such liabilities have not been satisfied in cash and such reserve not reversed within three hundred and sixty-five (365) days after such Disposition or Casualty Event, the amount of such reserve. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no proceeds shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a) in any fiscal year of the Borrower until the aggregate amount of all such proceeds in such fiscal year shall exceed $20,000,000 (and thereafter only proceeds in excess of such amount shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a)); provided that proceeds from Dispositions permitted under clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (h), (i), (l), (m), (n), and (o), and proceeds from Dispositions not exceeding $300,000,000 since the Closing Date under clause (q), of Section 7.05, shall not be included in the calculation of proceeds for purposes of this limitation;
(b) with respect to any Equity Issuance by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or any other Person, if the context so requires), the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such Equity Issuance minus (ii) all taxes (including, where the proceeds are realized by a Subsidiary of the Borrower, any incremental foreign, state and/or local income taxes imposed as a result of distributing the proceeds in question from any Subsidiary to the Borrower) and fees (including investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, commissions, costs and other out-of-pocket expenses (including attorneys’ fees) and other customary expenses) incurred by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Equity Issuance; and
(c) with respect to any Debt Issuance by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of the cash received in connection with such Debt Issuance minus (ii) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, commissions, costs and other out-of-pocket expenses (including attorneys’ fees) and other customary expenses, incurred by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Debt Issuance (including, where the proceeds are realized by a Subsidiary of the Borrower, any incremental foreign, state and/or local income taxes imposed as a result of distributing the proceeds in question from any Subsidiary to the Borrower).
“New Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous New Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the New Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.14.
“New Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“New Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“New Revolving Credit Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(c).
“New Revolving Credit Note” means, for each Class of New Revolving Credit Loans, a promissory note in substantially the form of Exhibit C-2 with, subject to Section 2.14, such changes as shall be agreed to by the Borrower and the New Revolving Credit Lenders providing such Class of New Revolving Credit Loans and reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“New Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous New Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the New Term Lenders pursuant to Section 2.14.
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“New Term Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“New Term Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“New Term Loan Facility” means the facility providing for the Borrowing of New Term Loans.
“New Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(c).
“New Term Note” means, for each Class of New Term Loans, a promissory note in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1 with, subject to Section 2.14, such changes as shall be agreed to by the Borrower and the New Term Lenders providing such Class of New Term Loans and reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(d)(iii).
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, a Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender.
“Non-Excluded Taxes” means any Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Non-US Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.15(a)(i).
“Non-U.S. Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that is or becomes organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Nonrenewal Notice Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).
“Not Otherwise Applied” means, with reference to any amount of Net Cash Proceeds of any transaction or event, that such amount was not previously applied in determining the permissibility of a transaction under the Loan Documents where such permissibility was (or may have been) contingent on the receipt or availability of such amount.
“Note” means a Term Note, a New Term Note, a Revolving Credit Note or a New Revolving Credit Note, as the context may require.
“Notice of Intent to Cure” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(b).
“NPL” means the National Priorities List maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency under CERCLA.
“NQ Fund” means NovaQuest Healthcare Investment Fund L.P., NovaQuest Pharma Opportunities Fund III, L.P. and/or NovaQuest Pharma Opportunities Fund IV, L.P.
“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“NYFRB Bank Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate for such day (or for any day that is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day); provided that if any such rate is not published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Bank Rate” means the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m. on such day to the Administrative Agent by a Federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided, further, that if any of the aforesaid rates shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Obligations” means (a) for purposes of this Agreement, all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement
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by or against any Loan Party of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding and (b) for purposes of the Collateral Documents and each Guaranty, (x) all “Obligations” as defined in clause (a) above, (y) all Secured Hedge Obligations and (z) all Cash Management Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents include (a) the obligation to pay principal, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, charges, expenses, fees, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) the obligation of any Loan Party to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no circumstances shall Excluded Swap Obligations constitute Obligations.
“Offered Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(A).
“Offered Discount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(A).
“Open Market Purchase” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(m).
“Organization Documents” means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-US jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement or the memorandum and articles of association (if applicable); and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.
“Other Applicable Indebtedness” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(ii)(A).
“Other Revolving Credit Commitments” means one or more Classes of revolving credit commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Other Revolving Credit Loans” means one or more Classes of Revolving Credit Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Other Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(b).
“Other Term Loan Commitments” means one or more Classes of term loan commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Other Term Loans” means one or more Classes of Term Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Outstanding Amount” means (a) with respect to the Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the amount thereof on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes thereto as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements of outstanding unpaid drawings under any Letters of Credit (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) or any reductions in the maximum amount available for drawing under Letters of Credit taking effect on such date.
“Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurodollar borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions (as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate (from and after such date as the NYFRB shall commence to publish such composite rate).
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“Parent Company” means, with respect to a Lender, the bank holding company (as defined in Federal Reserve Board Regulation Y), if any, of such Lender, and/or any Person owning, beneficially or of record, directly or indirectly, a majority of the economic or voting Equity Interests of such Lender.
“Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement” means an intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit U hereto.
“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(e); provided that in no circumstance shall a Competitor be a Participant.
“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(e).
“Participating Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(B).
“Patent Security Agreement” means the Patent Security Agreement among the Borrower, the other Grantors named therein and the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date.
“PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. No. 107-56 (signed into Law October 26, 2001)).
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.
“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five (5) plan years.
“Perfection Certificate” shall mean a certificate in the form of Exhibit T-1 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent, as the same shall be supplemented from time to time by a Perfection Certificate Supplement or otherwise.
“Perfection Certificate Supplement” shall mean a certificate supplement in the form of Exhibit T-2 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(i).
“Permitted Equity Issuance” means at any time, (a) any cash contribution to the common Equity Interests of the Borrower, and (b) any sale or issuance of any Equity Interests resulting in Eligible Equity Proceeds.
“Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt” means any secured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Borrower in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes or loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis (but without regard to the control of remedies) with the Obligations and is not secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (iii) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries that are Guarantors, (iv) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their representative) and the Administrative Agent shall be party to the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement and (v) has terms and conditions (other than pricing, discounts, fees, premiums and optional prepayment or redemption provisions) that in the good faith determination of the Borrower are no more restrictive taken as a whole, than those set forth in this Agreement taken as a whole.
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“Permitted Holders” means the Sponsors, members of management of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, and any group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision) of which any of the foregoing are members; provided that (i) in the case of such group and without giving effect to the existence of such group or any other group, the Sponsors and such members of management, collectively, have beneficial ownership of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Borrower (or any of its direct or indirect parent companies) held by such group and (ii) the voting power of the Voting Stock of the Borrower (or any of its direct or indirect parent companies) owned by the Sponsors shall be greater than the voting power of the Voting Stock of the Borrower (or any of its direct or indirect parent companies) owned by such members of management.
“Permitted Junior Debt Conditions” means that such applicable debt (i) is not scheduled to mature prior to the date that is 180 days after the Latest Maturity Date, (ii) does not mature or have scheduled amortization payments of principal or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligation (except customary asset sale or change of control provisions that provide for the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations), in each case prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (iii) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries that are Guarantors, (iv) has no financial maintenance covenants, other than in the case of any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is junior to the Liens securing the Obligations (in which event the financial maintenance covenants in the documentation governing such Indebtedness shall not be more restrictive than those set forth in this Agreement) and (v) has covenants and default and remedy provisions that in the good faith determination of the Borrower are no more restrictive taken as a whole, than those set forth in this Agreement.
“Permitted Pari Passu Notes” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower and Guarantors constituting notes (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) that (a) (i) is secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis to the liens securing the Obligations and is not secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) is not scheduled to mature prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date, (iii) does not mature or have scheduled amortization payments of principal or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligation (except customary asset sale or change of control provisions that provide for the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations), in each case prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (iv) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries that are Guarantors, (v) has no financial maintenance covenants, (vi) has terms and conditions (other than pricing, discounts, fees, premiums and optional prepayment or redemption provisions) that in the good faith determination of the Borrower are no more restrictive taken as a whole, than those set forth in this Agreement taken as a whole and (vii) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their representative) and the Administrative Agent shall be party to the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement.
“Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided that (a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder and as otherwise permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03, (b) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, (c) if the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended is contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension is contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms that in the good faith determination of the Borrower are at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended, taken as a whole, (d) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension is incurred by the Person or Persons who are the obligors on
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the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended or would otherwise be permitted to incur such Indebtedness (including any guarantees thereof pursuant to Section 7.02 and Section 7.03), (e) at the time thereof, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (f) such Indebtedness shall be unsecured if the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended is unsecured, (g) such Indebtedness is not secured by any additional property or collateral other than (i) property or collateral securing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended, (ii) after-acquired property that is affixed or incorporated into the property covered by the lien securing such Indebtedness and (iii) proceeds and products thereof and (h) if any Liens securing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended is secured by the Collateral on a second priority (or other junior priority) basis to the Liens securing the Obligations, the Liens securing such Indebtedness shall be secured by the Collateral on a second priority (or other junior priority) basis to the Liens securing the Obligations on terms that are at least as favorable to the Secured Parties as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended, taken as a whole.
“Permitted Second Lien Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower and Guarantors that (a) (i) is secured by the Collateral on a second priority (or other junior priority) basis to the liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt and is not secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) is on terms and conditions (including as to covenants) customary in the good faith determination of the Borrower for second lien notes issued under Rule 144A or other private placement transaction of the Securities Act, (iii) meets the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions and (iv) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their representative) and the Administrative Agent shall be party to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
“Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt” means secured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Borrower in the form of one or more series of second lien (or other junior lien) secured notes or second lien (or other junior lien) secured loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a second priority (or other junior priority) basis to the liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt and is not secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (provided, that such Indebtedness may be secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is junior to the Liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”), (iii), the holders of such Indebtedness (or their representative) and the Administrative Agent shall be party to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and (iv) meets the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions.
“Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness” means any unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower and Guarantors that (i) is on terms and conditions (including as to covenants) customary in the good faith determination of the Borrower for subordinated notes issued under Rule 144A or other private placement transaction under the Securities Act, expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of the Obligations on terms and conditions (including as to covenants) customary in the good faith determination of the Borrower for “high-yield” senior subordinated notes issued under Rule 144A or other private placement transaction under the Securities Act and (ii) meets the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions. For the avoidance of doubt, Disqualified Equity Interests shall not constitute Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness.
“Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness” means any unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower and Guarantors that (a) (i) is on terms and conditions (including as to covenants) customary in the good faith determination of the Borrower for senior notes issued under Rule 144A or other private placement transaction under the Securities Act and (ii) meets the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions or (b) is Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness. For the avoidance of doubt, Disqualified Equity Interests shall not constitute Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness.
“Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Borrower in the form of one or more series of senior unsecured notes or loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (ii) meets the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions.
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“Person” means any natural person or any corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Pledged Debt” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
“Pledged Equity” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
“Pound Sterling” or “£” means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.
“Prepayment Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a)(i), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.
“Prepayment Option Notice” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.05(b)(ix), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit Y.
“Prepayment Response Date” means, as the context requires, either the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date or the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date.
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate in effect at its office located at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx; 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,” “Pro Forma Compliance” and “Pro Forma Effect” means, for purposes of calculating the financial covenant set forth in Section 7.10, the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, the Total Leverage Ratio or any other financial ratio or test, such calculation shall be made in accordance with Section 1.04 hereof.
“Pro Rata Facilities Closing Date Funding Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(c)(ii).
“Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to each Lender at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the Commitments of such Lender under the applicable Facility or Facilities (or in the case of any Term Lender under any Term Loan Facility under which Term Loans have been made, the Outstanding Amount of such Lender’s Term Loans under such Facility) at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments under the applicable Facility or Facilities (or in the case of any Term Loan Facility under which Term Loans have been made, the Outstanding Amount of all Term Loans under such Facility) at such time; provided that if such Commitments have been terminated, then the Pro Rata Share of each Lender shall be determined based on the Pro Rata Share of such Lender immediately prior to such termination and after giving effect to any subsequent assignments made pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Property” means any right, title or interest in or to property or assets of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible and including any ownership interests of any Person.
“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.
“Qualified Securitization Financing” means any Securitization Financing of a Securitization Subsidiary that meets the following conditions: (a) such Qualified Securitization Financing (including financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions) is in the aggregate economically fair and reasonable to the Borrower and the Securitization Subsidiary, (b) all sales and/or contributions of Securitization Assets and related assets to the Securitization Subsidiary are made at fair market value and (c) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof, including any Standard Securitization Undertakings, shall be market terms, in each case as determined by the Borrower in good faith. The grant of a security interest in any Securitization Assets of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Securitization Subsidiary) to secure Indebtedness under this Agreement prior to engaging in any Securitization Financing shall not be deemed a Qualified Securitization Financing.
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“Qualifying Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(C).
“Quest Diagnostics JV” means a joint venture with Quest Diagnostics Inc. or any of its Affiliates relating to the global clinical trials laboratory services business, substantially consistent with the terms announced in the March 31, 2015 joint press release issued by Holdings and Quest Diagnostics Inc.
“Refinanced Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
“Refinancing Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower executed by each of (a) the Borrower, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each New Term Lender and New Revolving Credit Lender, as applicable, and (d) each existing Lender that agrees to provide any portion of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness being incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.16.
“Refinancing Transaction” means the repayment of all Indebtedness under the Existing Credit Agreement.
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(c).
“Registered Equivalent Notes” means, with respect to any notes originally issued in a Rule 144A or other private placement transaction under the Securities Act of 1933, substantially identical notes (having the same Guarantees) issued in a dollar-for-dollar exchange therefor pursuant to an exchange offer registered with the SEC.
“Rejection Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).
“Related Indemnitee” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” means any release, spill, emission, discharge, deposit, disposal, leaking, pumping, pouring, dumping, emptying, injection or leaching into the Environment, or into, from or through any structure or facility.
“Replacement Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
“Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.
“Repricing Transaction” means the prepayment or refinancing of all or a portion of the Term B Loans with the incurrence by any Loan Party of any long-term secured bank debt financing having an effective interest cost or weighted average yield (with the comparative determinations to be made by the Administrative Agent consistent with generally accepted financial practices, after giving effect to, among other factors, margin, interest rate floors, upfront or similar fee or “original issue discount” shared with all lenders of such loans or Loans, as the case may be, but excluding the effect of any arrangement, structuring, syndication or other fees payable in connection therewith that are not shared with all lenders of such loan or Loans, as the case may be, and without taking into account any fluctuations in the Eurodollar Rate) that is less than the interest rate for or weighted average yield (as determined by the Administrative Agent on the same basis) of the Term B Loans, including without limitation, as may be effected through any amendment to this Agreement relating to the interest rate for, or weighted average yield of, the Term B Loans.
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“Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a L/C Request and Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
“Required Financial Covenant Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Outstanding Amount of all Term A Loans, (b) aggregate unused Term A Commitments, (c) Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans and all L/C Obligations (with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition) and (d) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) the unused Term A Commitment and the portion of the Outstanding Amount of all Term A Loans held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Term A Lenders and (ii) the unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans and all L/C Obligations held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Financial Covenant Lenders; provided, further, that for all purposes under this Agreement and each other Loan Document, the “Required Financial Covenant Lenders” shall be calculated in accordance with Section 10.07(k).
“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition), (b) aggregate unused Term Commitments and (c) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Term Commitment, unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders; provided, further, that for all purposes under this Agreement and each other Loan Document, the “Required Lenders” shall be calculated in accordance with Section 10.07(k).
“Required Revolving Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Revolving Credit Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans and all L/C Obligations (with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans and all L/C Obligations held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Lenders; provided, further, that for all purposes under this Agreement and each other Loan Document, the “Required Revolving Lenders” shall be calculated in accordance with Section 10.07(k).
“Required Term A Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Outstanding Amount of all Term A Loans and (b) aggregate unused Term A Commitments; provided that the unused Term A Commitment and the portion of the Outstanding Amount of all Term A Loans held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Term A Lenders; provided, further, that for all purposes under this Agreement and each other Loan Document, the “Required Term A Lenders” shall be calculated in accordance with Section 10.07(k).
“Required Term Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Outstanding Amount of all Term Loans and (b) aggregate unused Term Commitments; provided that the unused Term Commitment and the portion of the Outstanding Amount of all Term Loans held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Term Lenders; provided, further, that for all purposes under this Agreement and each other Loan Document, the “Required Term Lenders” shall be calculated in accordance with Section 10.07(k).
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, chief accounting officer, treasurer or other similar officer of a Loan Party or, in the case of any Non-U.S. Subsidiary, any duly appointed authorized signatory or any director or managing member of such Person and, as to any document delivered on the Closing Date, any secretary or assistant secretary. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
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“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of the Borrower or any Restricted 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, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or any other return of capital to the stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Returns” means, with respect to any Investment, any dividends, distributions, interest, fees, premium, return of capital, repayment of principal, income, profits (from a Disposition or otherwise) and other amounts received or realized in respect of such Investment.
“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Dollar Loans of the same Type and, in the ease of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation to (a) make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b), (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, (c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans and (d) purchase participations in Foreign Currency Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name in Schedule 1.01B under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption or Joinder Agreement pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The Aggregate Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders shall be $500,000,000 on the Closing Date.
“Revolving Credit Commitment Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(a).
“Revolving Credit Commitment Period” means the period from and including the Closing Date to but not including the Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Facility or any earlier date on which the Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate as provided herein.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments and the aggregate amount of any New Revolving Credit Lenders’ New Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment, a New Revolving Credit Commitment, a Revolving Credit Loan or a New Revolving Credit Loan at such time.
“Revolving Credit Loans” means Foreign Currency Loans and Revolving Dollar Loans.
“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower (with such modifications thereto as may be necessary to reflect different Classes of Revolving Credit Loans) payable to any Revolving Credit Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-2 hereto, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrower to such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender to the Borrower.
“Revolving Dollar Lender” means each Revolving Credit Lender other than the Foreign Currency Lender.
“Revolving Dollar Loans” means the Revolving Credit Loans made by the Revolving Credit Lenders in Dollars to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b)(i).
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“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Samsung JV” means a joint venture with Samsung or any of its Affiliates relating to biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing services in South Korea.
“Sanctions” means all economic, trade or financial sanctions, restrictive measures or trade embargoes imposed, administered, enacted or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.
“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself or whose government is the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b).
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means an intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit V hereto.
“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract required or permitted under Article 6 or Article 7 that is entered into by and between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Hedge Bank.
“Secured Hedge Obligations” means the obligations of any Loan Party arising under any Secured Hedge Agreement.
“Secured Obligations” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Hedge Banks, Lenders or Affiliates of Lenders under Cash Management Obligations of a Loan Party, the Supplemental Administrative Agent, if any, and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933.
“Securitization Assets” means (a) the accounts receivable, notes receivable, other receivables (including, without limitation, unbilled receivables and unbilled services) or payment rights under contracts (including without limitation rights to royalty, milestone or completion payments), rights to future lease payments or residuals, or other rights to payment (in call cases, whether existing or arising in the future) similar or related thereto (“Receivables”) subject to a Qualified Securitization Financing and the proceeds thereof and (b) contract rights, lockbox accounts and records with respect to such Receivables and any other assets customarily transferred together with assets in the nature of Receivables in a securitization financing.
“Securitization Fees” means distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interest issued or sold in connection with, and other fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel) paid to a Person that is not a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with any Qualified Securitization Financing.
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“Securitization Financing” means any transaction or series of transactions (including factoring arrangements) that may be entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (a) a Securitization Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) or (b) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a Securitization Subsidiary), or may grant a security interest in, any Securitization Assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and any assets related thereto, including all collateral securing such Securitization Assets, all contracts and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such Securitization Assets, proceeds of such Securitization Assets and other assets that are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with asset securitization trans-actions involving Securitization Assets.
“Securitization Repurchase Obligation” means any obligation of a seller of Securitization Assets in a Qualified Securitization Financing to repurchase Securitization Assets arising as a result of a breach of a Standard Securitization Undertaking, including as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, offset or counterclaim of any kind as a result of any action taken by, any failure to take action by or any other event relating to the seller.
“Securitization Subsidiary” means a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Borrower (or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Qualified Securitization Financing in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower makes an Investment and to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower transfers Securitization Assets and related assets) that engages in no activities other than in connection with the financing of Securitization Assets of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, all proceeds thereof and all rights (contingent and other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and any business or activities incidental or related to such business, and which is designated by the board of directors of the Borrower or such other Person (as provided below) as a Securitization Subsidiary and (a) no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, other than another Securitization Subsidiary (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse), (ii) is recourse to or obligates the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse or (iii) subjects any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse, (b) with which none of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms which the Borrower reasonably believes to be no less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Borrower and (c) to which none of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results. Any such designation by the board of directors of the Borrower or such other Person shall be evidenced to the Administrative Agent by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a certified copy of the resolution of the board of directors of the Borrower or such other Person giving effect to such designation and a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing conditions.
“Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement among the Borrower, the other Grantors named therein and the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date and substantially in the form of Exhibit G, together with each related security agreement supplement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.12.
“Security Agreement Supplements” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement, if applicable.
“Senior Notes” shall mean the $800,000,000 of 4.875% senior notes due 2023 issued under the Senior Notes Indenture and outstanding as of the Closing Date.
“Senior Notes Indenture” shall mean the indenture for the Senior Notes, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Borrower and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.
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“Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Senior Secured Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period, in each case for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Solicited Discount Pro-Rata Factor” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(C).
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(A).
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice” means an irrevocable written notice of the Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 10.07(l)(iv) substantially in the form of Exhibit O.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer” means the irrevocable written offer by each Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit P, submitted following the Administrative Agent’s receipt of a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iv)(A).
“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
“SPC” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).
“Specified Asset Sale” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(v).
“Specified Discount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(ii)(A).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(ii)(A).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Notice” means an irrevocable written notice of the Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment made pursuant to Section 10.07(l)(ii) substantially in the form of Exhibit K.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response” means the irrevocable written response by each Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit L, to a Specified Discount Prepayment Notice.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(ii)(A).
“Specified Discount Pro-Rata Factor” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(ii)(C).
“Specified Junior Financing Obligations” means any obligations in respect of any Junior Financing in respect of which any Loan Party is an obligor in a principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount.
“Specified Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, (a) each Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) whose total assets at the last day of the most recent Test Period were equal to or greater than 5.0% of Total Assets at such date or (ii) whose gross revenues for such Test Period were equal to or greater than 5.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP, and (b) each other Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that is the subject of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g)(i) and that, when such Restricted Subsidiary’s Total Assets or gross revenues are aggregated with the total assets or gross revenues, as applicable, of each other such Restricted Subsidiary that is the subject of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g)(i) would constitute a Specified Subsidiary under clause (a) above.
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“Specified Transaction” means any (a) Disposition of all or substantially all the assets of or all the Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary or of any business unit, line of business or division of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, (b) Permitted Acquisition, (c) Investment that results in a Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, (d) designation of any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case in accordance with Section 6.15 or (e) the proposed incurrence of Indebtedness or making of a Restricted Payment in respect of which compliance with the financial covenant set forth in Section 7.10 is by the terms of this Agreement required to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Sponsors” means, collectively, Xxxx Capital Investors LLC, TPG Capital LP, 3i Corporation, Xx. Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx and his Immediate Family Members, the Xxxxxxxx Family Limited Partnership, the GFEF Limited Partnership, GF Management Company, LLC and the Xxxxxxxx Family Foundation or their respective Affiliates (including, in each case, as applicable, related funds, general partners thereof and limited partners thereof, but solely to the extent any such limited partners are directly or indirectly participating as investors pursuant to a side-by-side investing arrangement, but not including, however, any portfolio company of any of the foregoing).
“Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and other obligations entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower that are reasonably customary in a Securitization Financing.
“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 percentage (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentage 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.
“Submitted Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(A).
“Submitted Discount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(l)(iii)(A).
“Subsequent Transaction” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.10.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“Supplemental Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 9.10 and “Supplemental Administrative Agents” shall have the corresponding meaning.
“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward contracts, future contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions,
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floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, sell buy back and buy sell back agreements, and securities lending and borrowing agreements or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the average amount(s) determined as the xxxx-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts for the preceding fifteen (15) Business Days, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Swing Line Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Swing Line Facility” means the revolving credit facility made available by the Swing Line Lenders pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Swing Line Lender” means (a) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc., each acting on its own behalf or through one of its respective affiliates or branches, and each in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder and (b) each Revolving Credit Lender that shall have become a Swing Line Lender hereunder as provided in Section 2.04(d), each in its capacity as a lender of Swing Line Loans hereunder.
“Swing Line Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).
“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Swing Line Sublimit” means (i) as to any individual Swing Line Lender, the amount set forth next to such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.01B under the caption “Swing Line Sublimit” and (ii) $25,000,000 in the aggregate. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.
“Syndication Agent” means Barclays Bank PLC as syndication agent under this Agreement.
“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, assessments, deductions, fees, withholdings or similar charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, and all liabilities (including interest, penalties or additions to tax) with respect to the foregoing.
“Term A Commitment” means, as to each Term A Lender, its obligation to make a Term A Loan to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Term A Lender’s name in Schedule 1.01C under the caption “Term A Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption or Joinder Agreement pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The aggregate amount of the Term A Commitments as of the Closing Date is $850,000,000.
“Term A Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Term A Commitment or a Term A Loan at such time.
“Term A Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a)(i).
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“Term A Loan Facility” means the facility providing for the Borrowing of Term A Loans.
“Term B Closing Date Funding Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(c)(i).
“Term B Commitment” means, as to each Term B Lender, its obligation to make a Term B Loan to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Term B Lender’s name in Schedule 1.01D under the caption “Term B Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption or Joinder Agreement pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The aggregate amount of the Term B Commitments as of the Closing Date is $600,000,000.
“Term B Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Term B Commitment or a Term B Loan at such time.
“Term B Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a)(ii).
“Term B Loan Facility” means the facility providing for the Borrowing of Term B Loans.
“Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Term Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Term Commitment” means a Term A Commitment, a Term B Commitment or a New Term Commitment.
“Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Term Commitment or a Term Loan at such time.
“Term Loan Facilities” means the Term A Facility, Term B Loan Facility and each of the New Term Loan Facilities.
“Term Loans” means Term A Loans, Term B Loans, New Term Loans, Other Term Loans and Extended Term Loans.
“Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1 hereto, evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Term Lender resulting from the Term Loans made by such Term Lender.
“Test Period” means a period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters.
“Threshold Amount” means $50,000,000.
“Total Assets” means the total assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as shown on the most recent balance sheet of the Borrower delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) or, for the period prior to the time any such statements are so delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), the financial statements delivered prior to the Closing Date.
“Total Leverage Ratio” means as of the end of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower for the Test Period ending on such date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period, in each case for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations.
“Trademark Security Agreement” means the Trademark Security Agreement among the Borrower, the other Grantors named therein and the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date.
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“Transaction Expenses” means the fees, costs and expenses incurred or payable by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof in connection with the Transactions, including any such fees, costs and expenses paid in cash, termination payments or other fees, costs and expenses related to terminating Swap Contracts in effect prior to the Closing Date, and payments to officers and directors as special or retention bonuses and charges for repurchases of, or modifications to, stock options.
“Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the execution and delivery and performance by the Loan Parties of each Loan Document to which they are a party executed and delivered or to be executed and delivered on or prior to the Closing Date, and the making of the initial Borrowings hereunder, (b) the completion of the Refinancing Transaction, (c) the issuance of the Senior Notes and the entry into the Senior Notes Indenture, (d) the consummation of any other transactions in connection with the foregoing and (e) the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing.
“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.
“Unfunded Advances/Participations” means (a) with respect to the Administrative Agent, the aggregate amount, if any (i) made available to the Borrower on the assumption that each Appropriate Lender has made its Pro Rata Share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent and (ii) with respect to which a corresponding amount shall not in fact have been made available to the Administrative Agent by any such Lender, (b) with respect to any Swing Line Lender, the aggregate amount, if any, of participations in respect of any applicable outstanding Swing Line Loan that shall not have been funded by the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with Section 2.04(b) and (c) with respect to any L/C Issuer, the aggregate amount of applicable L/C Borrowings.
“Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to the creation or perfection of a security interest in any item or items of Collateral.
“United States” and “US” mean the United States of America.
“Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (b) any Subsidiary of the Borrower designated by the board of directors of the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.15 on or subsequent to the date hereof and (c) any existing Unrestricted Subsidiaries set forth in Schedule 6.15.
“US Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.15(c).
“US Tax Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.15(a)(i).
“Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Equity Interests of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the board of directors or similar governing body of such Person.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
“Yen” or “¥” means the lawful currency of Japan.
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Section 1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions. With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a) The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
(b) The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.
(A) Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.
(B) The term “including” is by way of example and not limitation.
(c) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including”; the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”; and the word “through” means “to and including.”
(d) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(e) The term “manifest error” shall be deemed to include any clearly demonstrable error whether or not obvious on the face of the document containing such error.
(f) For purposes of determining compliance at any time with Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.05, 7.06, 7.08, 7.09 and 7.13, in the event that any Lien, Investment, Indebtedness, Disposition, Restricted Payment, affiliate transaction, Contractual Obligation or prepayment of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of transactions permitted pursuant to any clause of such Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.05, 7.06, 7.08, 7.09 and 7.13, such transaction (or portion thereof) at any time shall be permitted under one or more of such clauses as determined by the Borrower in its sole discretion at such time of determination.
(g) The term “parent company” means with respect to any reference Person the Person that owns all of the Equity Interests, directly or indirectly, of such reference Person.
Section 1.03 Accounting Terms.
(a) All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP, as in effect from time to time. 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.
(b) If at any time any change in GAAP (including without limitation modifications to or issuance of accounting standards under U.S. GAAP which create material changes to the financial statements such as the proposed lease accounting guidance and conversion to IFRS as described below) would affect the computation of any ratio, basket, covenant or requirement (including the computation of any financial covenant) set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such covenant to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP; provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio, basket, covenant or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP or the application thereof prior to such change therein and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a written reconciliation (which shall be required to be
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provided only once) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, between calculations of such covenant made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP. If the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that it is required to report under IFRS or has elected to do so through an early adoption policy, “GAAP” shall mean international financial reporting standards pursuant to IFRS (provided that after such conversion, the Borrower cannot elect to report under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles).
Section 1.04 Pro Forma Calculations.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, financial ratios and tests (including the Total Leverage Ratio and the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio) pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.04.
(b) In the event that the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary incurs, assumes, guarantees, redeems, repays, retires or extinguishes any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced) subsequent to the end of the Test Period for which such financial ratio or test is being calculated but prior to or simultaneously with the event for which such calculation is being made, then such financial ratio or test shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable Test Period.
(c) For purposes of calculating any financial ratio or test, Specified Transactions that have been made by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries during the applicable Test Period or subsequent to such Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which such calculation is being made shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Specified Transactions (and the change in Consolidated EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period. If since the beginning of any such Test Period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries since the beginning of such Test Period shall have made any Specified Transaction that would have required adjustment pursuant to this Section 1.04, then any applicable financial ratio or test shall be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Specified Transaction occurred at the beginning of the applicable Test Period.
(d) Whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a Specified Transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Borrower (including the “run-rate” cost savings and synergies resulting from such Specified Transaction that have been or are expected to be realized (“run-rate” means the full recurring benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken or expected to be taken (including any savings expected to result from the elimination of a public target’s compliance costs with public company requirements), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions), and any such adjustments included in the initial pro forma calculations shall continue to apply to subsequent calculations of such financial ratios or tests, including during any subsequent Test Periods in which the effects thereof are expected to be realized); provided that (i) such amounts are reasonably identifiable, and factually supportable, are projected by the Borrower in good faith to result from actions either taken or expected to be taken within 12 months after the end of such Test Period in which such Specified Transaction occurred and, in each case, certified by the chief financial officer or treasurer of the Borrower, (ii) no amounts shall be added pursuant to this clause (d) to the extent duplicative of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period and (iii) any increase to Consolidated EBITDA as a result of cost savings and synergies shall be subject to the limitations set forth in the penultimate sentence of the definition of Consolidated EBITDA.
(e) Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a Eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be determined to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Borrower or Restricted Subsidiary may designate.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing, when calculating the Total Leverage Ratio for purposes of the definition of “Applicable Rate,” Section 2.05(b)(i) and Section 7.10, (x) the events described in Sections 1.04(b), (c) and (d) above that occurred subsequent to the end of the Test Period shall not be given pro forma effect and (y) Section 1.04(e) shall not apply.
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(g) Any pro forma calculation required at any time prior to June 30, 2015, shall be made assuming that compliance with the Total Leverage Ratio set forth in Section 7.10 for the Test Period ending on June 30, 2015, is required with respect to the most recent Test Period prior to such time.
Section 1.05 Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement (or required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under this Agreement) shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up for 5).
Section 1.06 References to Agreements and Laws. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications not prohibited by any Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.
Section 1.07 Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to New York time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
Section 1.08 Timing of Payment or Performance. When the payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment (other than as described in the definition of Interest Period) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.
Section 1.09 Exchange Rates.
(a) Not later than 1:00 p.m. on each Calculation Date, the Administrative Agent shall (i) determine the Exchange Rate as of such Calculation Date with respect to Pounds Sterling, Euros or Yen and (ii) give written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower. The Exchange Rates so determined shall become effective on the first Business Day immediately following the relevant Calculation Date (a “Reset Date”) or other date of determination, shall remain effective until the next succeeding Reset Date, and shall for purposes of this Agreement (other than Section 2.18, Section 10.20 or any other provision expressly requiring the use of a current Exchange Rate) be the Exchange Rates employed in converting any amounts between U.S. Dollars and Pounds Sterling, Euros or Yen.
(b) Not later than 5:00 p.m. on each Reset Date and on each date on which Foreign Currency Loans are made, the Administrative Agent shall (i) determine the aggregate amount of the Dollar Equivalent of the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations and the Foreign Currency Sublimits and the Maximum Foreign Currency Sublimit then outstanding (after giving effect to any Loans made or repaid or Letters of Credit issued, drawn or expired on such date) and (ii) notify the Lenders and the Borrower of the results of such determination.
Section 1.10 Limited Condition Transactions.
(a) In connection with any action taken solely in connection with a Permitted Acquisition whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing, Investment or redemption or repayment of indebtedness requiring irrevocable notice in advance of such redemption or repayment (a “Limited Condition Transaction”), for purposes of (i) determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement (other than the Section 7.10) which requires the calculation of any financial ratio or test, including the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, Total Leverage Ratio and any other financial ratio (and for the avoidance of doubt, to also include any financial ratio or test set forth in Section 2.14 or (ii) testing availability under baskets set forth in this Agreement
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(including baskets measured as a percentage of Total Assets), in each case, at the option of the Borrower (the Borrower’s election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Transaction, an “LCT Election”), the date of determination of whether any such action is permitted hereunder shall be deemed to be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Transaction are entered into (the “LCT Test Date”), and if, after giving pro forma effect to the Limited Condition Transaction and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they had occurred on the first day of the most recent test period ending prior to the LCT Test Date (except with respect to any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness for purposes of the calculation of any leverage-based test or ratio, which shall in each case be treated as if they had occurred on the last day of such test period), the Borrower would have been permitted to take such action on the relevant LCT Test Date in compliance with such ratio, test or basket, such ratio, test or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has made an LCT Election and any of the ratios, tests or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCT Test Date are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio, test or basket, including due to fluctuations in the total assets of the Borrower or the person subject to such Limited Condition Transaction, at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets, tests or ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations.
(b) If the Borrower has made an LCT Election for any Limited Condition Transaction, then in connection with any calculation of any ratio, test or basket availability with respect to the incurrence of Indebtedness or Liens, the making of Restricted Payments, the making of any Investment, mergers, the conveyance, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower, the prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance or other satisfaction of Indebtedness, or the designation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary (a “Subsequent Transaction”) following the relevant LCT Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is consummated or the date that the definitive agreement or irrevocable notice for such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction, for purposes of determining whether such Subsequent Transaction is permitted under this Agreement, any such ratio, test or basket shall be required to be satisfied on a pro forma basis (i) assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated and (ii) assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have not been consummated.
ARTICLE 2
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 2.01 The Loans.
(a) The Term Borrowings.
(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term A Lender severally agrees to make a loan on the Closing Date to the Borrower (each, a “Term A Loan” and, collectively, the “Term A Loans”) in an amount in US Dollars equal to such Term A Lender’s Term A Commitment. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a)(i) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term A Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
(ii) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term B Lender severally agrees to make a loan on the Closing Date to the Borrower (each, a “Term B Loan” and, collectively, the “Term B Loans”) in an amount in US Dollars equal to such Term B Lender’s Term B Commitment. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a)(ii) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term B Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
(b) Revolving Credit Borrowings and Foreign Currency Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (i) each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make Revolving Dollar Loans from time to time, on any Business Day during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, (x) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans
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shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility and (y) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of Foreign Currency Loans, shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided further that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, the Borrower shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenant set forth in Section 7.10, and (ii) each Foreign Currency Lender severally agrees to make Foreign Currency Loans from time to time, on any Business Day during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Foreign Currency Sublimit; provided that after giving effect to any Foreign Currency Borrowing, (w) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Foreign Currency Loans shall not exceed the Maximum Foreign Currency Sublimit, (y) the Foreign Currency Exposure of any Foreign Currency Lender shall not exceed its Foreign Currency Sublimit, (x) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding issued by such Foreign Currency Lender shall not exceed such Foreign Currency Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans, the L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans shall not exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect; provided further that after giving to any Foreign Currency Borrowing, the Borrower shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenant set forth in Section 7.10. Within the limits of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(b), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b). Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans (other than Foreign Currency Loans) or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein; provided that all Revolving Credit Loans made by each of the Lenders pursuant to the same Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, consist entirely of Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type.
Section 2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a) Each Term Borrowing, each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each Foreign Currency Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Each such notice (other than a request in respect of a Foreign Currency Borrowing or conversion thereof) must be received by the Administrative Agent (i) not later than 11:00 a.m. three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans, continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans and (ii) not later than 11:00 a.m. on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. Each such notice with respect to a Foreign Currency Borrowing or the continuation thereof must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11 a.m. (London time) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans, continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans (five (5) Business Days in the case of Foreign Currency Borrowings denominated in Yen). Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Section 2.03(c)(i) and Section 2.04(c)(i), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $250,000 or a whole multiple of $50,000 in excess thereof (except, with respect to any Other Term Loans, to the extent otherwise provided in the applicable Refinancing Amendment). Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing, a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Foreign Currency Borrowing, a conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans are to be converted, (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto and (vi) the account of the Borrower to be credited with the proceeds of such Borrowing. If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one (1) month.
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(b) (i) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice (other than a request in respect of a Foreign Currency Borrowing), the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the amount of its Pro Rata Share of the applicable Class of Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of each Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. (with respect to Eurodollar Rate Loans) or 2:00 p.m. (with respect to Base Rate Loans) on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by wire transfer of such funds in accordance with instructions provided to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower.
(ii) Following the receipt of a Committed Loan Notice in respect of a Foreign Currency Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Foreign Currency Lender of the requested currency and the aggregate amount (in both the requested currency and the Dollar Equivalent thereof) of such Foreign Currency Borrowing and of the amount of such Foreign Currency Lender’s Foreign Currency Ratable Portion thereof. Each Foreign Currency Lender will make the amount of its Foreign Currency Ratable Portion of each such Foreign Currency Borrowing in the requested currency available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 11 a.m. (London time), on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by wire transfer of such funds in accordance with instructions provided to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan unless the Borrower pays the amount due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith. During the existence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may require that no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans (other than Foreign Currency Loans).
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. The determination of the Eurodollar Rate by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders of any change in the Administrative Agent’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the determination of such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all Foreign Currency Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than twenty (20) Interest Periods in effect.
(f) The failure of any Lender to make the Loan to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Loan on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
Section 2.03 Letters of Credit.
(a) The Letter of Credit Commitment.
(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars for the account of the Borrower (or any Restricted Subsidiary so long as the Borrower is a joint and several co-applicant, and references to the “Borrower” in this Section 2.03 shall be deemed to include
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reference to such Restricted Subsidiary) and to amend or renew Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to honor drafts under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Revolving Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower; provided that no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to make any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, and no Lender shall be obligated to participate in any Letter of Credit if, as of the date of such L/C Credit Extension, (v) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations would exceed the aggregate Letter of Credit Sublimit, (w) with respect to any Lender, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans, would exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, (x) with respect to any L/C Issuer or Lender, the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations would exceed such L/C Issuer’s Letter of Credit Sublimit, (y) with respect to any L/C Issuer, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Swing Line Loans, Letters of Credit and Revolving Credit Loans outstanding issued by such L/C Issuer would exceed such L/C Issuer’s Revolving Credit Commitment or (z) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans, the L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans would exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect; provided, further, that immediately after each L/C Credit Extension (except to the extent the Borrower has Cash Collateralized all Letters of Credit to at least 103% of their maximum stated amount), the Borrower shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenant set forth in Section 7.10 for the period then in effect. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed.
(ii) The L/C Issuers shall be under no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:
(A) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to the L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which, in each case, such L/C Issuer in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it;
(B) subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit, prior to giving effect to any automatic renewal, would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last renewal, unless the Required Lenders and the applicable L/C Issuer have approved such expiry date;
(C) the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Revolving Credit Lenders and the applicable L/C Issuer have approved such expiry date and no Revolving Credit Lender shall be required to participate in any such Letter of Credit issued without such approval;
(D) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate any Laws or one or more established policies of the applicable L/C Issuer;
(E) any Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender, unless the applicable L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it and the Borrower to eliminate such L/C Issuer’s risk with respect to the participation in Letters of Credit by all such Defaulting Lenders, including by Cash Collateralizing, or obtaining a backstop letter of credit from an issuer reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer to support, each such Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any Unreimbursed Amount;
(F) except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable L/C Issuer, such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount of less than $10,000;
(G) such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars; or
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(H) such Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing thereunder.
(iii) The L/C Issuers shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.
(b) Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Renewal Letters of Credit.
(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Borrower delivered to the applicable L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a L/C Request and Letter of Credit Application (or such other form as may be provided by the applicable L/C Issuer), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Such L/C Request and Letter of Credit Application must be received by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon (x) at least five (5) Business Days prior to the proposed issuance date or (y) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed date of amendment, as the case may be, or such later date and time as such L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in its sole discretion. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; and (G) such other matters as the applicable L/C Issuer may reasonably request. In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer: (A) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (B) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (D) such other matters as such L/C Issuer may reasonably request.
(ii) Promptly after receipt of any L/C Request and Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such L/C Request and Letter of Credit Application from the Borrower and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Upon receipt by the applicable L/C Issuer of confirmation from the Administrative Agent that the requested issuance or amendment is permitted in accordance with the terms hereof (such confirmation to be promptly provided by the Administrative Agent), then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, such L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Borrower or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be. Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the applicable L/C Issuer an unfunded risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share times the amount of such Letter of Credit.
(iii) If the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer may, in its sole and absolute discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic renewal provisions (each, an “Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent any such renewal at least once in each twelve month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Nonrenewal Notice Date”) in each such twelve month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the applicable L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to such L/C Issuer for any such renewal. Once an Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the applicable L/C Issuer to permit the renewal of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided that such L/C Issuer shall not permit any such renewal if (A) such L/C Issuer has determined that it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of Section 2.03(a)(ii) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which shall be in writing) on or before the day that is five (5) Business Days before the Nonrenewal Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Lenders have elected not to permit such renewal or (2) from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied.
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(iv) Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the applicable L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.
(c) Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.
(i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the applicable L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing thereof. Not later than 5:00 p.m. on the date of any payment by such L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an “Honor Date”), the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing; provided that if such notice is not provided to the Borrower prior to 11:00 a.m. on the Honor Date, then the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing on the next succeeding Business Day and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing fees in respect of any such Letter of Credit. If the Borrower fails to so reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Pro Rata Share thereof. In such event, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02(a) for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice). Any notice given by an L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may shall be in writing.
(ii) Each Revolving Credit Lender (including the Lender acting as an L/C Issuer) shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to such L/C Issuer.
(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the applicable L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such event, each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.
(iv) Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such amount shall be solely for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer.
(v) Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against such L/C Issuer, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
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(vi) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), such L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect. A certificate of the applicable L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) If, at any time after an L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), the Administrative Agent receives for the account of such L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s L/C Advance was outstanding) in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.
(ii) If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of an L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(d)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Pro Rata Share thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect.
(e) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit issued for its account and to repay each L/C Borrowing relating to any Letter of Credit issued for its account shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any term or provision therein;
(ii) the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the Borrower or applicable Restricted Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the applicable L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;
(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv) any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by such L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law;
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(v) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranty or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of such Letter of Credit; or
(vi) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder;
provided that the foregoing shall not excuse any L/C Issuer from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable Law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by such L/C Issuer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction). The Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit issued for its account and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the Borrower’s instructions or other irregularity, the Borrower will promptly notify such L/C Issuer. The Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against such L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.
(f) Role of L/C Issuer. Each Lender and the Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuers shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the L/C Issuers, any Agent-Related Person nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of the L/C Issuers shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable judgment; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit, L/C Request or Letter of Credit Application. The Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrower’s pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at Law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuers, any Agent-Related Person, nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of the L/C Issuers, shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (vi) of Section 2.03(e); provided that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower may have a claim against the L/C Issuers, and the L/C Issuers may be liable to the Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to special, indirect, consequential, punitive or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final, non-appealable judgment were caused by the applicable L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C Issuers may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuers shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(g) Cash Collateral. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent, (i) if the applicable L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 to a Revolving Credit Borrowing cannot then be met, or (ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any Letter of Credit may for any reason remain outstanding and partially or wholly undrawn, the Borrower shall promptly Cash Collateralize (x) in the case of clause (i), 100% and (y) in the case of clause (ii), 103%, in each case of the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations (such Outstanding Amount to be determined as of the date of such L/C Borrowing or the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, as the case may be) or, in the case of clause (ii), provide a back to back letter of credit in a face amount at least equal to 103% of the then undrawn amount of such Letter of Credit from an issuer and in form and substance satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer in its sole discretion. Any Letter of Credit that is so Cash Collateralized or in respect of which such a back-to-back letter of credit shall have been issued shall be deemed no longer outstanding for purposes of this Agreement. For purposes hereof, “Cash Collateralize” means (A) in the case of clause (ii) above, pledge and deposit
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with or deliver to the applicable L/C Issuer, as collateral for the L/C Obligations and (B) in all other cases to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of such L/C Issuer and the Lenders, as collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances (“Cash Collateral”) pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer and, in the case of clause of (B), the Administrative Agent (which documents are hereby consented to by the Lenders). Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings. Cash Collateral shall be maintained in deposit accounts designated by the Administrative Agent and which is under the sole dominion and control of such L/C Issuer and, in the case of clause of (B), the Administrative Agent. If at any time the applicable L/C Issuer and, in the case of clause of (B), the Administrative Agent determines that any funds held as Cash Collateral are subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the applicable L/C Issuer or Administrative Agent, as applicable, or claims of the depositary bank arising by operation of law or that the total amount of such funds is less than the amount required by the first sentence of this clause (g), the Borrower will, forthwith upon demand by the applicable L/C Issuer and, in the case of clause of (B), the Administrative Agent, pay to such L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, as additional funds to be deposited and held in the deposit accounts designated by such L/C Issuer and, in the case of clause of (B), the Administrative Agent as aforesaid, an amount equal to the excess of (x) 100% or 103%, as applicable, of such aggregate Outstanding Amount over (y) the total amount of funds, if any, then held as Cash Collateral that such L/C Issuer and, in the case of clause of (B), the Administrative Agent determines to be free and clear of any such right and claim. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit as Cash Collateral, such funds shall be applied, to the extent permitted under applicable Law, to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer. To the extent the amount of any Cash Collateral exceeds 100% or 103%, as applicable, of the then Outstanding Amount of such L/C Obligations and so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the excess shall be refunded to the Borrower.
(h) Applicability of ISP98 and UCP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued, (i) the rules of the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance) shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance) at the time of issuance shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit and on an exception basis only, shall apply to specific standby Letters of Credit as may be required by local law or statute.
(i) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share a Letter of Credit fee for each Letter of Credit issued equal to the Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans times the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. Such letter of credit fees shall be computed from the date of issuance thereof on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such letter of credit fees shall be due and payable on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit and on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand.
(j) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer. The Borrower shall pay directly to the applicable L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit issued equal to 0.125% per annum of the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. Such fronting fees shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such fronting fees shall be due and payable on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. In addition, the Borrower shall pay directly to the applicable L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees not related to the fronting fee and standard costs and charges are due and payable within five (5) Business Days of demand and are nonrefundable.
(k) Conflict with Letter of Credit Application. In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any L/C Request or Letter of Credit Application, the terms of this Agreement shall control.
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(l) Provisions Related to New Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Commitments. If the maturity date in respect of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments occurs prior to the expiration of any Letter of Credit, then (i) if one or more other tranches of Revolving Credit Commitments 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 tranches 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 2.03(g). Commencing with the maturity date of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments, the sublimit for Letters of Credit shall be agreed with the Lenders under the extended tranches.
Section 2.04 Swing Line Loans.
(a) The Swing Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the sole discretion of the applicable Swing Line Lender, each Swing Line Lender agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) in Dollars to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day (other than the Closing Date) during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of (i) such Swing Line Lender’s Swing Line Sublimit and (ii) the aggregate Swing Line Sublimit, in each case, notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of Loans and L/C Obligations of the Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lender’s Commitment; provided that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swing Line Loans issued by a Swing Line Lender shall not result in (x) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans exceeding such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, (y) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Swing Line Loans, Letters of Credit and Revolving Credit Loans outstanding issued by such Swing Line Lender exceeding such Swing Line Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment or (z) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans, the L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans exceeding the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect; provided further that the Borrower shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04. Each Swing Line Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan. Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the applicable Swing Line Lender an unfunded risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share and the amount of such Swing Line Loan.
(b) Borrowing Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable written notice to the applicable Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent. Each such notice must be received by the applicable Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $100,000, (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day and (iii) the account of the Borrower to be credited with the proceeds of such Swing Line Borrowing. Each such telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the applicable Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Promptly after receipt by a Swing Line Lender of any Swing Line Loan Notice, such Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, such Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the applicable Swing Line Lender has received notice (in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Revolving Credit Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of such proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A) directing such Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, such Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the Borrower. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.04 or elsewhere in this Agreement, no Swing Line Lender shall be obligated to make any Swing Line Loan at a time when a Revolving Credit
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Lender is a Defaulting Lender unless such Swing Line Lender has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it and the Borrower to eliminate such Swing Line Lender’s risk with respect to the Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ participation in such Swing Line Loans, including by Cash Collateralizing, or obtaining a backstop letter of credit from an issuer reasonably satisfactory to such Swing Line Lender to support, such Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Swing Line Loans.
(c) Refinancing of Swing Line Loans. Each Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably authorizes each Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Revolving Credit Lender make a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding which have been issued by such Swing Line Lender. Each such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02(a), without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. The applicable Swing Line Lender shall furnish the Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds for the account of such Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Committed Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the applicable Swing Line Lender.
(i) If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by such a Revolving Credit Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04(c), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the applicable Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by such Swing Line Lender that each of the Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in such Swing Line Loan and each such Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.
(ii) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(c) by the time specified in Section 2.04(c), such Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect. A certificate of a Swing Line Lender submitted to any Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (ii) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(iii) Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the applicable Swing Line Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice). No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to repay Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided herein.
(d) Repayment of Participations. At any time after any Revolving Credit Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the applicable Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, such Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its Pro Rata Share of such payment (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s risk participation was funded) in the same funds as those received by such Swing Line Lender.
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(i) If any payment received by the applicable Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by such Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to such Swing Line Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Federal Funds Effective Rate. The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the applicable Swing Line Lender.
(e) Interest for Account of Swing Line Lender. Each Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the Borrower for interest on the Swing Line Loans issued by such Swing Line Lender. Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Base Rate Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Pro Rata Share shall be solely for the account of the applicable Swing Line Lender.
(f) Payments Directly to Swing Line Lender. The Borrower shall make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans directly to the applicable Swing Line Lender.
(g) Provisions Related to New Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Commitments. If the maturity date shall have occurred in respect of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments at a time when another tranche or tranches of Revolving Credit Commitments is or are in effect with a longer maturity date, then on the earliest occurring maturity date all then outstanding Swing Line Loans shall be repaid in full on such date (and there shall be no adjustment to the participations in such Swing Line 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 2.03(l)), there shall exist sufficient unutilized Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or New Revolving Credit Commitments so that the respective outstanding Swing Line Loans could be incurred pursuant the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or New Revolving Credit Commitments which 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 Swing Line Loans and same shall be deemed to have been incurred solely pursuant to the relevant Extended Credit Revolving Commitments or New Revolving Credit Commitments, and such Swing Line Loans shall not be so required to be repaid in full on such earliest maturity date.
(h) Appointment of Additional Swing Line Lenders. The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, designate as additional Swing Line Lenders one or more Revolving Credit Lenders that agree to serve in such capacity as provided below. The acceptance by a Revolving Credit Lender of an appointment as a Swing Line Lender hereunder shall be evidenced by an agreement, which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such designated Swing Line Lender, and, from and after the effective date of such agreement, (i) such Revolving Credit Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of a Swing Line Lender under this Agreement and (ii) references herein to the term “Swing Line Lender” shall be deemed to include such Revolving Credit Lender in its capacity as a lender of Swing Line Loans hereunder.
Section 2.05 Prepayments.
(a) Optional.
(i) The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent (a “Prepayment Notice”), at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Loans made to the Borrower, in whole or in part without premium or penalty except as described in clause (iv) below; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., (1) three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans and (2) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (B) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof; and (C) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $250,000 or a whole multiple of $50,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid. The Administrative
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Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such prepayment. The Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. Each prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied among the Facilities in such amounts as the Borrower may direct in its sole discretion and, in the case of the Term Loan Facilities, in direct order of maturity or as otherwise directed by the Borrower. Other than as set forth in Section 10.07(l), each prepayment made by the Borrower in respect of a particular Facility shall be paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of (and to be promptly disbursed to) the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares.
(ii) The Borrower may, upon notice to the applicable Swing Line Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by such Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. on the date of the prepayment, and (B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower may rescind any notice of prepayment under Section 2.05(a)(i) or Section 2.05(a)(ii) if such prepayment would have resulted from (A) a refinancing of all of the Facilities, (B) issuance of New Term Loans and/or New Revolving Credit Commitments, which refinancing or issuance shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed or (C) the refinancing of all or a portion of the Facilities with Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, which refinancing shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed.
(iv) At the time of the effectiveness of any Repricing Transaction that (x) makes any prepayment of Term B Loans in connection with any Repricing Transaction, or (y) effects any amendment of this Agreement resulting in a Repricing Transaction and is consummated prior to the date that is six months after the Closing Date, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of each applicable Lender, a fee in an amount equal to, (I) in the case of clause (x), a prepayment premium of 1% of the amount of the Term B Loans being prepaid and (II) in the case of clause (y), a payment equal to 1% of the aggregate amount of the applicable Term B Loans outstanding immediately prior to such amendment. Such fees shall be due and payable upon the date of the effectiveness of such Repricing Transaction.
(b) Mandatory.
(i) Within five (5) Business Days after financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b), the Borrower shall cause to be prepaid an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to (A) 50% of Excess Cash Flow, if any, for the fiscal year of the Borrower covered by such financial statements (commencing with the fiscal year of the Borrower ending December 31, 2016) minus (B) the sum of (1) the amount of any voluntary prepayments of Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) during such fiscal year other than prepayments made with the Net Cash Proceeds from the incurrence of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (2) solely to the extent the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments are permanently reduced pursuant to Section 2.06 in connection therewith (and solely to the extent of the amount of such reduction), the amount of any voluntary prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) during such fiscal year and (3) for the fiscal year of the Borrower ending December 31, 2016, Foreign Excess Cash Flow, if positive; provided that such percentage shall be reduced to 25% if the Total Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the applicable fiscal year was less than 4.00:1.00; and provided, further, that no mandatory prepayment under this Section 2.05(b)(i) shall be required if the Total Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the applicable fiscal year was less than 3.25:1.00.
(ii) (A) If (x) the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary Disposes of any property or assets (other than any Disposition of any property or assets permitted by Xxxxxxx 0.00(x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (o), (q) (except as set forth in the proviso thereof)) or (y) any Casualty Event occurs, which results in the realization or receipt by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary of Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrower shall cause to be prepaid
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on or prior to the date which is ten (10) Business Days after the date of the realization or receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received; provided that no such prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(ii)(A) if, on or prior to such date, the Borrower shall have given written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intention to reinvest or cause to be reinvested all or a portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(ii)(B) (which election may only be made if no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing); provided further that if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, the Borrower is required to offer to repurchase Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt (or any Permitted Refinancing thereof that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations) pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing such Indebtedness with the net proceeds of such Disposition or Casualty Event (such Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt (or Permitted Refinancing thereof) required to be offered to be so repurchased, “Other Applicable Indebtedness”), then the Borrower may apply such Net Cash Proceeds on a pro rata basis (determined on the basis of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans and Other Applicable Indebtedness at such time; provided that the portion of such net proceeds allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount of such net proceeds required to be allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof, and the remaining amount, if any, of such net proceeds shall be allocated to the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof) to the prepayment of the Term Loans and to the repurchase of Other Applicable Indebtedness, and the amount of prepayment of the Term Loans that would have otherwise been required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(ii) shall be reduced accordingly; provided further that to the extent the holders of Other Applicable Indebtedness decline to have such indebtedness repurchased, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within 10 Business Days after the date of such rejection) be applied to prepay the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof.
(B) With respect to any Net Cash Proceeds realized or received with respect to any Disposition (other than any Disposition specifically excluded from the application of Section 2.05(b)(ii)(A)) or any Casualty Event, at the option of the Borrower, the Borrower may reinvest or cause to be reinvested all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in assets useful for its business within (x) twelve (12) months (or, in the case of a Disposition of property located outside the United States 540 days) following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) if the Borrower enters into a legally binding commitment to reinvest such Net Cash Proceeds within twelve (12) months following receipt thereof, within one hundred eighty (180) days of the date of such legally binding commitment (provided that this clause (y) shall not operate to reduce the timeframe for reinvestment from a minimum of twelve (12) months or, in the case of property located outside the Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 000 days following receipt of Net Cash Proceeds) and (ii) if any Net Cash Proceeds are not so reinvested within such reinvestment period or are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested at any time after delivery of a notice of reinvestment election, an amount equal to any such Net Cash Proceeds shall be promptly applied to the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05.
(iii) If for any reason the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans, the L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans at any time exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect, the Borrower shall promptly prepay Revolving Credit Loans or Swing Line Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iii) unless after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans such aggregate Outstanding Amount exceeds such aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect. In the event and on such occasion that the aggregate Foreign Currency Exposure exceeds the Maximum Foreign Currency Sublimit, the Borrower shall prepay Foreign Currency Borrowings in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however, that the Borrower may utilize Revolving Credit Loans or Swing Line Loans for such prepayment if the incurrence of such Loans would not cause the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans, the L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans to exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect.
(iv) If the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary incurs or issues any Indebtedness not expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03 (other than Section 7.03(u)(i) and (x) (other than, in the case of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(x), any refinancing of such Indebtedness incurred pursuant to such Section 7.03(x)), the Borrower shall cause to be prepaid an aggregate amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom upon incurrence of such Indebtedness.
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(v) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.05(b), (A) to the extent that (and for so long as) any of or all the (x) Foreign Excess Cash Flow giving rise to mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i) or (y) Net Cash Proceeds of any asset sale or other Disposition or any Casualty Event by a Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) giving rise to mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii) (each such Disposition and Casualty Event, a “Specified Asset Sale”), as applicable, are prohibited or delayed by applicable local Law from being repatriated to the jurisdiction of organization of the Borrower, the portion of such Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.05(b) but may be retained by the applicable Restricted Subsidiary so long as the applicable local Law will not permit such repatriation to the Borrower (the Borrower hereby agreeing to cause the applicable Restricted Subsidiary to promptly take all actions reasonably required by applicable local Law to permit such repatriation), and once such repatriation of any such affected Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, is permitted under the applicable local Law, such repatriation will be promptly effected and such repatriated Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, will be promptly (and in any event not later than five (5) Business Days after such repatriation) applied (net of additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the repayment of the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b), and (B) to the extent that the Borrower has determined in good faith that repatriation of any of or all the Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds of any Specified Asset Sale, as applicable, to the jurisdiction of organization of the Borrower would have a material adverse tax consequence with respect to such Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, the Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, so affected may be retained by the applicable Restricted Subsidiary; provided that, in the case of this clause (B), on or before the date on which any Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, so retained would otherwise have been required to be applied to prepayments pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i) or Section 2.05(b)(ii), as applicable, the Borrower causes to be applied an amount equal to such Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, to such prepayments as if such Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, had been received by the Borrower rather than such Restricted Subsidiary, less the amount of additional taxes that would have been payable or reserved against if such Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, had been so repatriated (or, if less, the Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable, that would be calculated if received by such Restricted Subsidiary (but without duplication of any taxes deducted in calculating such Foreign Excess Cash Flow or Net Cash Proceeds, as applicable)) in satisfaction of such prepayment requirement.
(vi) Except for any prepayments pursuant to Section 10.07(l) (which shall in each case be applied as provided in such Section, subject to Section 2.14 with respect to any New Term Loans and Section 2.16 with respect to any Other Term Loans), (A) each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be allocated among each Class of Term Loans pro rata based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans of each such Class and applied, first, in direct order of maturities, to the principal repayment installments of such Term Loans due within eight fiscal quarters of such prepayment, second, on a pro rata basis to the other principal repayment installments of such Term Loans other than the principal payment due on the Maturity Date and third, to the principal payment on the Maturity Date of such Term Loans; and unless otherwise provided herein, each such prepayment shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares (prior to giving effect to any rejection by any Term Lender of any such prepayment pursuant to clause (vii) below), subject to clause (vii) of this Section 2.05(b) and (B) on and after the borrowing of any New Term Loans or Other Term Loans, the prepayments referred to in this Section 2.05(b) shall be allocated among each Class of Term Loans pro rata based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans of each such Class unless otherwise agreed among the Borrower and the New Term Loan Lenders in accordance with Section 2.14(e)(v) or the Borrower and the lenders providing Other Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.16.
(vii) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans required to be made pursuant to clauses (i) through (v) of this Section 2.05(b) at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date of such prepayment. Each such notice shall specify the date of such prepayment and provide a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the contents of any such prepayment notice and of such Appropriate Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the prepayment. Any Term Lender (a “Declining Lender,” and any Term Lender which is not a Declining Lender, an “Accepting Lender”) may elect, by delivering not less than four (4) Business Days prior to the proposed prepayment date, a written notice (such notice, a “Rejection Notice”) that any mandatory prepayment otherwise required to be made with respect to the Term Loans held by such Term Lender pursuant to clauses (i) through (v) of this Section 2.05(b) not be made, in which event the portion of such prepayment which would otherwise have been applied to the Term Loans of the Declining Lenders shall instead be retained by the Borrower (for itself and on behalf of its Restricted Subsidiaries). If a Term Lender fails to deliver a Rejection Notice within the time frame specified above, any such failure will be deemed an acceptance of the total amount of such mandatory prepayment of Term Loans.
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(viii) All prepayments under this Section 2.05 shall be made together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurodollar Rate Loan pursuant to Section 3.05. Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Section 2.05(b), so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans is required to be made under this Section 2.05(b), other than on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the Borrower may, in its sole discretion, deposit the amount of any such prepayment otherwise required to be made thereunder into a Cash Collateral Account until the last day of such Interest Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05(b). Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall also be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of the outstanding Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05(b).
(ix) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.05(b) or in Section 2.09, with respect to the amount of any mandatory prepayment described in this Section 2.05(b) that is allocated to Term B Loans (such amount, the “Designated Prepayment Amount”), at any time when Term A Loans remain outstanding, the Borrower will, in lieu of applying such amount to the prepayment of Term B Loans, as provided in this Section 2.05(b), on the date specified in this Section 2.05(b) for such prepayment, give the Administrative Agent telephonic notice (promptly confirmed in writing) requesting that the Administrative Agent prepare and provide to each Term B Lender a notice (each, a “Prepayment Option Notice”) as described below. As promptly as practicable after receiving such notice from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent will send to each Term B Lender a Prepayment Option Notice, which shall be in the form of Exhibit Y, and shall include an offer by the Borrower to prepay on the date (each a “Mandatory Prepayment Date”) that is 10 Business Days after the date of the Prepayment Option Notice, the relevant Term Loans of such Lender by an amount equal to the portion of the Designated Prepayment Amount indicated in such Lender’s Prepayment Option Notice as being applicable to such Lender’s Term B Loans. On the Mandatory Prepayment Date, (i) the Borrower shall pay to the relevant Term B Lenders the aggregate amount necessary to prepay that portion of the outstanding relevant Term Loans as described above in respect of which such Lenders have accepted prepayment (it being understood that a failure to respond to a Prepayment Option Notice shall be deemed an acceptance of the prepayment referenced therein) and (ii) the Borrower shall pay to the Term A Lenders an amount equal to the portion of the Designated Prepayment Amount not accepted by the relevant Lenders, and such amount shall be applied to the prepayment of the Term A Loans; provided that if after the application of amounts pursuant to clause (ii), any portion of the Designated Prepayment Amount not accepted by the Term B Lenders shall remain, such amount shall be used to prepay the Term B Loans on a pro rata basis.
Section 2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Optional. The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused Commitments of any Class, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused Commitments of any Class; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent three (3) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount (A) of $500,000 or any whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or (B) equal to the entire remaining amount of the Commitments of any Class and (iii) if, after giving effect to any reduction of the Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit, as the case may be, exceeds the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments, such sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess. The amount of any such Commitment reduction shall not be applied to the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit unless otherwise specified by the Borrower or as required by the preceding sentence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may rescind or postpone any notice of termination of the Commitments if such termination would have resulted from a refinancing of all of the Facilities, which refinancing shall not be consummated or otherwise shall be delayed.
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(b) Mandatory.
(i) The Term A Commitment and Term B Commitment of each Term Lender shall be automatically and permanently reduced to $0 at 5:00 p.m. on the Closing Date upon funding the Term A Loans or Term B Loans, as applicable.
(ii) The Revolving Credit Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender shall be automatically and permanently reduced to $0 on the Maturity Date of the applicable Revolving Credit Facility.
(c) Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Appropriate Lenders of any termination or reduction of unused portions of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Swing Line Sublimit or the unused Commitments of any Class under this Section 2.06. Upon any reduction of unused Commitments of any Class, the Commitment of each Lender of such Class shall be reduced by such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount by which such Commitments are reduced (other than the termination of the Commitment of any Lender as provided in Section 3.07). All commitment fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Aggregate Commitments of any Class shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders on the effective date of such termination.
Section 2.07 Repayment of Loans.
(a) Term A Loans. The Borrower shall repay principal of outstanding Term A Loans on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December of each year (commencing on the applicable day of the first full fiscal quarter of the Borrower after the Closing Date) and on the Maturity Date for the Term A Loan Facility or, if any such date is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day, in an aggregate principal amount of such Term A Loans equal to (A) in the case of quarterly payments due prior to the Maturity Date for the Term A Loan Facility, an amount equal to 1.25% of the aggregate principal amount of such Term A Loans incurred on the Closing Date (which installments shall be reduced as a result of (i) the application of prepayments of the Term A Loans in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Section 2.05 or (ii) the application of prepayments of the Term A Loans in accordance with Section 10.07(1)), and (B) in the case of such payment due on the Maturity Date for the Term A Loan Facility, an amount equal to the then unpaid principal amount of such Term A Loans outstanding.
(b) Term B Loans. The Borrower shall repay principal of outstanding Term B Loans on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December of each year (commencing on the applicable day of the first full fiscal quarter of the Borrower after the Closing Date) and on the Maturity Date for the Term B Loan Facility or, if any such date is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day, in an aggregate principal amount of such Term B Loans equal to (A) in the case of quarterly payments due prior to the Maturity Date for the Term B Loan Facility, an amount equal to 0.25% of the aggregate principal amount of such Term B Loans incurred on the Closing Date (which installments shall be reduced as a result of (i) the application of prepayments of the Term B Loans in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Section 2.05 or (ii) the application of prepayments of the Term B Loans in accordance with Section 10.07(1)), and (B) in the case of such payment due on the Maturity Date for the Term B Loan Facility, an amount equal to the then unpaid principal amount of such Term B Loans outstanding.
(c) Revolving Credit Loans. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Revolving Credit Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all of its Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.
(d) Swing Line Loans. The Borrower shall repay the aggregate principal amount of all of its Swing Line Loans on the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility.
(e) Foreign Currency Loans. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the applicable Foreign Currency Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all of its Foreign Currency Loans outstanding on such date.
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Section 2.08 Interest.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(b), (i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate; and (iii) each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans.
(b) While any Event of Default set forth in Section 8.01(a) exists, the Borrower shall pay interest on all overdue amounts hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
Section 2.09 Fees. In addition to certain fees described in Section 2.03(i) and Section 2.03(j):
(a) Revolving Credit Commitment Fee. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share, a commitment fee (each, a “Revolving Credit Commitment Fee” and, collectively, the “Revolving Credit Commitment Fees”) equal to the Applicable Rate times the actual daily amount by which the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments exceed the sum of (i) the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans and (ii) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations. The Revolving Credit Commitment Fees shall accrue at all times from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Facility, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article 4 is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility. The Revolving Credit Commitment Fees shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.
(b) Other Fees. The Borrower shall pay or cause to be paid to the Agents such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
(c) Funding Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay on the Closing Date:
(i) to each Term B Lender party to this Agreement on the Closing Date, as fee compensation for the funding of such Lender’s Term B Loan, a funding fee (the “Term B Closing Date Funding Fee”) in an amount equal to 0.25% of the stated principal amount of such Lender’s Term B Loans funded on the Closing Date; and
(ii) to each Term A Lender and Revolving Credit Lender party to this Agreement on the Closing Date, as fee compensation for the funding of such Lender’s Term A Loan and Revolving Credit Commitment, a funding fee (the “Pro Rata Facilities Closing Date Funding Fee” and together with the Term B Closing Date Funding Fee, the “Closing Date Funding Fees”) in an amount equal the percentage of the aggregate amount of the stated principal amount of such Lender’s Term A Loans funded on the Closing Date and such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment on the Closing Date as set forth in the following table:
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Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx A Loans and Revolving Credit |
Pro Rata Facilities Funding Fee | |
<$35 million |
0.25% | |
³$35 million and <$75 million |
0.35% | |
³$75 million |
0.40% |
Section 2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees. All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by the Administrative Agent’s “prime rate” shall be made on the basis of a year of three hundred and sixty-five (365) or three hundred and sixty-six (366) days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a three hundred and sixty (360) day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty-five (365) day year). Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one (1) day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
Section 2.11 Evidence of Indebtedness.
(a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and evidenced by one or more entries in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 10.07(c), acting as a non-fiduciary agent solely for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 5f.103-1(c), as agent for the Borrower, in each case in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by each Lender and the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the Register in respect of such matters, the Register shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note payable to such Lender, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto. The Borrower and each Lender agrees from time to time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g)(i) to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent all such Notes or other promissory notes and other instruments and documents as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request to evidence and confirm the respective interests and obligations of the Lenders after giving effect to any exchange of Lenders’ interests pursuant to arrangements relating thereto among the Lenders, and each Lender agrees to surrender any Notes or other promissory notes originally received by it in connection with its Loans hereunder to the Administrative Agent against delivery of any Notes or other promissory notes so executed and delivered.
(b) In addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.11(a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records and, in the case of the Administrative Agent, entries in the Register, evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans. In the event of any conflict between the Register and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the Register shall control in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to Section 2.11(a) and Section 2.11(b), and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to Section 2.11(a) and Section 2.11(b), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
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Section 2.12 Payments Generally.
(a) Except as otherwise required by applicable Law, all payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 4:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Pro Rata Share (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 4:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue to the extent applicable.
(b) If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be; provided that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Rate Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.
(c) Unless the Borrower or any Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon, make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled thereto. If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, then:
(i) if the Borrower failed to make such payment, each Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative Agent the portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Lender in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the applicable Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect; and
(ii) if any Lender failed to make such payment, such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative Agent the amount thereof in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower to the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent (the “Compensation Period”) at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect. When such Lender makes payment to the Administrative Agent (together with all accrued interest thereon), then such payment amount (excluding the amount of any interest which may have accrued and been paid in respect of such late payment) shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the applicable Borrowing. If such Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor upon the Borrower, and the Borrower shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the Compensation Period at a rate per annum equal to the rate of interest applicable to the applicable Borrowing. Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any Default by such Lender hereunder.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.12(c) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
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(d) If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article 2, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article 4 are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall promptly return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(e) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to fund any such participation on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or purchase its participation.
(f) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
(g) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth in Section 8.03. If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the sum of (i) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time and (ii) the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.
Section 2.13 Sharing of Payments. If, (other than (x) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or Participant, including any assignee or participant that is a Sponsor, a Loan Party or an Affiliate of any Loan Party or Sponsor or (y) as otherwise expressly provided elsewhere herein, including, without limitation, as provided in Section 10.07(l)) any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations or in Swing Line Loans held by it, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them and/or such subparticipations in the participations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans held by them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them; provided that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but subject to Section 10.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. The Administrative Agent will keep records and maintain entries in the Register (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments. Each Lender that purchases participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased.
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Section 2.14 Incremental Facilities.
(a) At any time or from time to time after the Closing Date, the Borrower may by written notice to the Administrative Agent elect to request (A) prior to the Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Facility, (I) one or more increases to the existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (II) the establishment of one or more new revolving credit commitments (any such increase or new commitment, the “New Revolving Credit Commitments”) and/or (B) prior to the Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loan Facilities, (I) one or more increases to any existing Term Loan Facility or (II) the establishment of one or more new term loan commitments (any such increase or new commitment, the “New Term Commitments”) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the sum of (x) $400,000,000 plus (y) unlimited additional amounts so long as the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than 4.00 to 1.00 as of the end of the Test Period most recently ended after giving Pro Forma Effect to such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loans (and, in each case, with respect to any New Revolving Credit Commitment, assuming a borrowing of the maximum amount of Loans available under such New Revolving Credit Commitment and any New Revolving Credit Commitments previously made pursuant to this Section 2.14); provided that (i) the Borrower shall be deemed to have used amounts under clause (y) (to the extent compliant therewith) prior to utilization under clause (x) and (ii) any amounts incurred under clause (x) concurrently with any amounts incurred under clause (y) will not count as indebtedness for purposes of calculating clause (y). Each New Revolving Credit Commitment and New Term Commitment shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $5,000,000 individually (or such lesser amount which shall be approved by Administrative Agent or such lesser amount if such amount represents all remaining availability under the limit set forth in the next sentence), and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess of that amount. Each such notice shall specify (A) the date (each, an “Increased Amount Date”) on which the Borrower proposes that the New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments, as applicable, shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than 5 Business Days after the date on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent, (or such shorter period as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (B) the identity of each Lender or other Person that is an Eligible Assignee (each, a “New Revolving Credit Lender” or “New Term Lender,” as applicable) to whom the Borrower proposes any portion of such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments, as applicable, be allocated and the amounts of such allocations; provided that (x) any Lender approached to provide all or a portion of the New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a New Revolving Credit Commitment or a New Term Commitment (it being understood that there is no obligation to approach any existing Lenders to provide any New Revolving Credit Commitment or New Term Commitment) and (y) the Administrative Agent, each L/C Issuer and each Swing Line Lender shall have consented (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) to such Person’s providing such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments if such consent would be required under Section 10.07 for an assignment of Loans or Commitments to such Person. Such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments shall become effective, as of such Increased Amount Date; provided that (1) no Default or Event of Default shall exist on such Increased Amount Date after giving effect to such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments, as applicable; (2) after giving effect to the making of any New Term Loans or effectiveness of New Revolving Credit Commitments, each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 shall be satisfied; (3) the New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments, as applicable, shall be effected pursuant to one or more Joinder Agreements executed and delivered by the Borrower, the New Revolving Credit Lender or New Term Lender, as applicable, and Administrative Agent, and each of which shall be recorded in the Register, and each New Revolving Credit Lender and New Term Lender shall be subject to the requirements set forth in Section 10.15; (4) the Borrower shall make any payments required pursuant to Section 3.05 in connection with the New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Commitments, if applicable; and (5) the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered any customary legal opinions or other documents reasonably requested by Administrative Agent in connection with any such transaction; provided, further, that to the extent agreed to by the Lenders providing such New Term Commitments or New Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, and the proceeds of such New Term Commitments or New Revolving Credit Commitments, as the case may be, are used to finance a Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment, the conditions set forth in clauses (1) and (2) may be limited by customary “Sungard” or “certain funds” conditionality.
(b) On any Increased Amount Date on which New Revolving Credit Commitments are effected through an increase to the existing Revolving Credit Commitments, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (a) each of the Revolving Credit Lenders shall assign to each of the New Revolving Credit Lenders, and each of the New Revolving Credit Lenders shall purchase from each of the Revolving Credit Lenders, at the
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principal amount thereof, such interests in the Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Revolving Credit Loans will be held by existing Revolving Credit Lenders of such Class and New Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Credit Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Revolving Credit Commitments to the Revolving Credit Commitments, (b) each New Revolving Credit Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a Revolving Credit Commitment and each Loan made thereunder shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Revolving Credit Loan and (c) each New Revolving Credit Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the New Revolving Credit Commitment and all matters relating thereto. Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing and prepayment requirements in Section 2.02 and 2.05(a) of this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.
(c) Any New Term Loans or New Revolving Credit Loans effected through the establishment of one or more new revolving credit commitments or new Term Loans made on an Increased Amount Date shall be designated a separate Class of New Term Loans or New Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, for all purposes of this Agreement. On any Increased Amount Date on which any New Term Commitments of any Class are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (i) each New Term Lender of such Class shall make a Loan to the Borrower (a “New Term Loan”) in an amount equal to its New Term Commitment of such Class, and (ii) each New Term Lender of such Class shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the New Term Commitment of such Class and the New Term Loans of such Class made pursuant thereto. On any Increased Amount Date on which any New Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class are effected through the establishment of one or more new revolving credit commitments, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (i) each New Revolving Credit Lender of such Class shall make its Commitment available to the Borrower (when borrowed, a “New Revolving Credit Loan”) in an amount equal to its New Revolving Credit Commitment of such Class, and (ii) each New Revolving Credit Lender of such Class shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the New Revolving Credit Commitment of such Class and the New Revolving Credit Loans of such Class made pursuant thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, New Term Loans may have identical terms to any existing Class of Term Loans and be treated as the same Class as such existing Term Loans.
(d) Administrative Agent shall notify Lenders promptly upon receipt of the Borrower’s notice of each Increased Amount Date and in respect thereof (y) the Class of New Revolving Credit Commitments and the New Revolving Credit Lenders of such Class or the Class of New Term Commitments and the New Term Lenders of such Class, as applicable, and (z) in the case of each notice to any Revolving Credit Lender with respect to an increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments, the respective interests in such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitments, in each case subject to the assignments contemplated by clause (b) of this Section 2.14.
(e) The terms and provisions of the New Term Loans and New Term Commitments or the New Revolving Credit Loans and New Revolving Credit Commitments, as the case may be, of any Class shall be as agreed between the Borrower and the New Term Lenders or New Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable, providing such New Term Loans and New Term Commitments or such New Revolving Credit Loans and New Revolving Credit Commitments, and except as otherwise set forth herein, to the extent not identical to (x) the Term B Loans (“Incremental Term B Loans”), (y) the Term A Loans (“Incremental Term A Loans”) or (z) the Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, shall be reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent. In any event:
(i) (x) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of all Incremental Term B Loans of any Class shall be no shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of Term B Loans and (y) (x) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of all Incremental Term A Loans of any Class shall be no shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of Term A Loans (in each case, except by virtue of amortization or prepayment of the applicable Class of Term Loans prior to the time of such incurrence);
(ii) the Maturity Date of any Class of New Revolving Credit Commitments and New Revolving Credit Loans shall be no earlier than the maturity of the Revolving Credit Commitments and will require no scheduled amortization or mandatory commitment reduction prior to the latest applicable Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Commitments;
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(iii) all other material terms of the New Revolving Credit Commitments and New Revolving Credit Loans shall be identical to the Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans other than as set forth in Section 2.14(e)(ii) and (vi); provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.14 or otherwise, (1) the borrowing and repayment (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on New Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the maturity date of the Revolving Credit Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments (subject to clause (3) below)) of Loans with respect to New Revolving Credit Commitments after the associated Increased Amount Date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, (2) subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(l) and 2.04(g) to the extent dealing with Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit which mature or expire after a maturity date when there exists New Revolving Credit Commitments with a longer maturity date, all Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Commitments in accordance with their percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitments (and except as provided in Section 2.03(l) and Section 2.04(g), without giving effect to changes thereto on an earlier maturity date with respect to Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued), (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Credit Loans with respect to, and termination of, New Revolving Credit Commitments after the associated Increased Amount Date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, except that the Borrower shall be permitted to permanently repay and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than a pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later maturity date than such Class and (4) assignments and participations of New Revolving Credit Commitments and New Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Loans. Any New Revolving Credit Commitments may constitute a separate Class or Classes, as the case may be, of Commitments from the Classes constituting the Revolving Credit Commitments prior to the Increased Amount Date; provided at no time shall there be Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder (including New Revolving Credit Commitments and any original Revolving Credit Commitments) which have more than three different Maturity Dates;
(iv) (x) the Maturity Date of any Class of the Incremental Term B Loans shall be no earlier than the Term B Loans and (y) the Maturity Date of any Class of the Incremental Term A Loans shall be no earlier than the Term A Loans;
(v) the New Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis or a less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory prepayment of the Term Loan hereunder;
(vi) the yield applicable to the New Term Loans or New Revolving Credit Loans of each Class shall be determined by the Borrower and the applicable new Lenders and shall be set forth in each applicable Joinder Agreement; provided, however, that in the case of Incremental Term B Loans that are established within 12 months of the Closing Date and are secured equally and ratably with the Facilities, the yield applicable to such Incremental Term B Loans (after giving effect to all upfront or similar fees, original issue discount payable or interest rate floors with respect to such Incremental Term B Loans) shall not be greater than the applicable interest rate payable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement as amended through the date of such calculation with respect to Term B Loans (including any upfront or similar fees or original issue discount paid and payable to the Lenders hereunder), plus 50 basis points per annum unless the interest rate with respect to the Term B Loans is increased so as to cause the then applicable interest rate under this Agreement on the Term B Loans (including any upfront or similar fees or original issue discount paid and payable to the Lenders hereunder and the adjustment of any interest rate floor) to equal the yield then applicable to the Incremental Term B Loans (after giving effect to all upfront or similar fees, original issue discount payable or interest rate floors with respect to such Incremental Term B Loans) minus 50 basis points; provided that customary arrangement or commitment fees payable to the Arrangers (or their respective affiliates) or one or more arrangers of such Incremental Term B Loans under this Section 2.14 shall be excluded; provided, further that any such increase in the interest rate with respect to the Term B Loans as a result of any difference in the interest rate floor between the Term B Loans and the Incremental Term B Loans may, at the option of the Borrower, either be accomplished through an increase in the interest rate floor or the Applicable Rate with respect to the Term B Loans; and
(vii) the liens securing the New Term Loans and/or New Revolving Credit Loans will rank pari passu with the liens securing the Term A Loans, Term B Loans and Revolving Credit Loan; provided that the New Term Loans and/or New Revolving Credit Loans may be junior to the Term A Loans, Term B Loans and Revolving Credit Loans if subject to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
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(f) Each Joinder Agreement may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of Administrative Agent and the Borrower to effect the provisions of this Section 2.14, and for the avoidance of doubt, this Section 2.14 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 10.01 to the contrary.
(g) The Loans and Commitments extended or established pursuant to this paragraph shall constitute Loans and Commitments under, and shall be entitled to all the benefits afforded by, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and shall, without limiting the foregoing, benefit equally and ratably from the Guarantees and security interests created by the Collateral Documents, provided that the lien securing any New Term Loans may be junior to the liens securing the other Loans on terms and conditions and subject to customary intercreditor arrangements. The Loan Parties shall take any actions reasonably required by the Administrative Agent to ensure and/or demonstrate that the Lien granted by the Collateral Documents continue to be perfected under the UCC or otherwise after giving effect to the extension or establishment of any such Loans or any such Commitments.
Section 2.15 Extensions of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time by the Borrower to all Lenders of Term Loans with a like maturity date or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments with a like maturity date, as the case may be) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including, without limitation, by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and each group of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans and the original Revolving Credit Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a “tranche”; any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate tranche of Term Loans from the tranche of Term Loans from which they were converted, and any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall constitute a separate tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments from the tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments from which they were converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the offering document in respect of an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders, (ii) except as to interest rates, fees and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Revolving Credit Commitment of any Revolving Credit Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Credit Commitment (an “Extending Revolving Credit Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Credit Commitment”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Credit Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms as the original Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and repayment (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the maturity date of the non-extending Revolving Credit Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, (2) subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(l) and 2.04(g) to the extent dealing with Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit which mature or expire after a maturity date when there exists New Revolving Credit Commitments with a longer maturity date, all Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Commitments in accordance with their percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitments (and except as provided in Section 2.03(l) and Section 2.04(g), without giving effect to changes thereto on an earlier maturity date with respect to Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued), (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Credit Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, except that the Borrower shall be permitted to permanently repay and
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terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than a pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later maturity date than such Class and (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and extend Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and any original Revolving Credit Commitments) which have more than three different maturity dates, (iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined between the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Term Loans of any Term Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Term Loans (an “Extending Term Lender”) extended pursuant to any Extension (“Extended Term Loans”) shall have the same terms as the tranche of Term Loans subject to such Extension Offer, (iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date, (v) the weighted average life of any Extended Term Loans shall be no shorter than the remaining weighted average life of the Term Loans extended thereby, (vi) any Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis or a less than pro rata basis (but not greater than a pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer, (vii) if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) or Revolving Credit Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders, as the case may be, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, as the case may be, of such Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders, as the case may be, shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders, as the case may be, have accepted such Extension Offer, (viii) all documentation in respect of such Extension shall be consistent with the foregoing and (ix) any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Borrower.
(b) With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrower pursuant to this Section, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 2.05 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment, provided that the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in the Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower) of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments (as applicable) of any or all applicable tranches be tendered. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the transactions contemplated by this Section (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Offer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.05 and 2.13) or any other Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit any such Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section.
(c) No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent shall be required to effectuate any Extension, other than (A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the consent of each L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that are secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Revolving Credit Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such new tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section. In addition, if so provided in such amendment and with the consent of each L/C Issuer, participations in Letters of Credit expiring on or after the Maturity Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility shall be re-allocated from Lenders holding Revolving Credit Commitments to Lenders holding Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in accordance with the terms of such amendment; provided, however, that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the relevant Lenders holding Revolving Credit Commitments, be deemed to
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be participation interests in respect of such Revolving Credit Commitments and the terms of such participation interests (including, without limitation, the commission applicable thereto) shall be adjusted accordingly. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the respective Loan Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and the Administrative Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then Latest Maturity Date so that such maturity date is extended to the then Latest Maturity Date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Administrative Agent).
(d) In connection with any Extension, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least 5 Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including, without limitation, regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this Section.
Section 2.16 Refinancing Amendments.
(a) At any time after the Closing Date, the Borrower may obtain, from any consenting Lender, any New Revolving Credit Lender or any New Term Lender, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of all or any portion of the Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans (or unused Revolving Credit Commitments) then outstanding under this Agreement (which for purposes of this clause (a) will be deemed to include any then outstanding Other Term Loans, New Term Loans, Other Revolving Credit Loans or New Revolving Credit Loans), in the form of Other Term Loans, Other Term Loan Commitments, Other Revolving Credit Loans or Other Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.16 or otherwise, (1) the borrowing and repayment (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Other Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the maturity date of the Other Revolving Credit Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments (subject to clause (3) below)) of Loans with respect to Other Revolving Credit Commitments after the date of obtaining any Other Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, (2) subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(l) and 2.04(g) to the extent dealing with Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit which mature or expire after a maturity date when there exists New Revolving Credit Commitments with a longer maturity date, all Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Commitments in accordance with their percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitments (and except as provided in Section 2.03(l) and Section 2.04(g), without giving effect to changes thereto on an earlier maturity date with respect to Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued), (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Credit Loans with respect to, and termination of, Other Revolving Credit Commitments after the date of obtaining any Other Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, except that the Borrower shall be permitted to permanently repay and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than a pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later maturity date than such Class and (4) assignments and participations of Other Revolving Credit Commitments and Other Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Loans. The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof of each of the conditions set forth in 4.02, and to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of customary legal opinions and other documents. Each issuance of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness under this Section 2.16(a) shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (x) not less than $5,000,000 and (y) an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Refinancing Amendment. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, upon the effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment, this Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to reflect the existence and terms of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant thereto (including any amendments necessary to treat the Loans and Commitments subject thereto as Other Term Loans, Other Term Loan Commitments, Other Revolving Credit Loans and/or Other Revolving Credit Commitments). Any Refinancing Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section. This Section 2.16 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 10.01 to the contrary.
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Section 2.17 Defaulting Lenders.
(a) Reallocation of Defaulting Lender Commitment, Etc. If a Lender becomes, and during the period it remains, a Defaulting Lender, the following provisions shall apply with respect to any outstanding Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18 of such Defaulting Lender:
(i) the Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and the Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18, in each case, of such Defaulting Lender will, subject to the limitation in the first proviso below, automatically be reallocated (effective on the day such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender) among the Non-Defaulting Lenders pro rata in accordance with their respective Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (a) the Outstanding Amount of each Non-Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations (with the aggregate amount of such Lenders’ risk participations and funded participation in L/C Obligations, Swing Line Loans and Foreign Currency Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender) may not in any event exceed the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Non-Defaulting Lender as in effect at the time of such reallocation and (b) neither such reallocation nor any payment by a Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant thereto will constitute a waiver or release of any claim the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, each L/C Issuer, each Swing Line Lender, each Foreign Currency Lender or any other Lender may have against such Defaulting Lender or cause such Defaulting Lender to be a Non-Defaulting Lender;
(ii) to the extent that any portion (the “unreallocated portion”) of the Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18 cannot be so reallocated, whether by reason of the first proviso in clause (i) above or otherwise, the Borrower will, not later than two Business Days after demand by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the applicable L/C Issuer, Swing Line Lender and/or Foreign Currency Lender, as the case may be), (1) Cash Collateralize the obligations of the Borrower to applicable L/C Issuer, Swing Line Lender and Foreign Currency Lender in respect of such Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), the Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and the Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18, as the case may be, in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the unreallocated portion of such Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), the Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and the Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18, or (2) in the case of such Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c), prepay (subject to clause (iii) below) and/or Cash Collateralize in full the unreallocated portion thereof, or (3) in the case of such Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18 prepay (subject to clause (iii) below) and/or Cash Collateralize in full the unreallocated portion thereof or (4) make other arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and to the applicable L/C Issuer, Swing Line Lender and Foreign Currency Lender, as the case may be, in their sole discretion to protect them against the risk of non-payment by such Defaulting Lender; and
(iii) any amount paid by the Borrower for the account of a Defaulting Lender that was or is a Lender under this Agreement (whether on account of principal, interest, fees, indemnity payments or other amounts) will not be paid or distributed to such Defaulting Lender, but will instead be retained by the Administrative Agent in a segregated non-interest-bearing account until (subject to Section 2.17(d)) the termination of the Commitments and payment in full of all obligations of the Borrower hereunder and will be applied by the Administrative Agent, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to the making of payments from time to time in the following order of priority: first to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, second to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to each L/C Issuer, Swing Line Lender or Foreign Currency Lender (pro rata as to the respective amounts owing to each of them) under this Agreement, third to the payment of post-default interest and then current interest due and payable to the Lenders hereunder other than Defaulting Lenders that are Lenders, ratably among them in accordance with the amounts of such interest then due and payable to them, fourth to the payment of fees then due and payable to the Non-Defaulting Lenders that are Lenders hereunder, ratably among them in accordance with the amounts of such fees then due and payable to them, fifth to pay principal and unreimbursed payments made by any L/C Issuer pursuant to a Letter of Credit then due and payable to the Non-Defaulting Lenders that are
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Lenders hereunder ratably in accordance with the amounts thereof then due and payable to them, sixth to the ratable payment of other amounts then due and payable to the Non-Defaulting Lenders that are Lenders, and seventh after the termination of the Commitments and payment in full of all obligations of the Borrower hereunder, to pay amounts owing under this Agreement to such Defaulting Lender or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.
(b) Fees. 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 Section 2.9 (without prejudice to the rights of the Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders in respect of such fees); provided that in the case of a Defaulting Lender that was or is a Lender (x) to the extent that a portion of the Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18 of such Defaulting Lender is reallocated to the Non-Defaulting Lenders pursuant to Section 2.17(a), such fees 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 (y) to the extent any portion of such Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18 cannot be so reallocated, such fees will instead accrue for the benefit of and be payable to each L/C Issuer, Swing Line Lender and Foreign Currency Lender, as applicable, as their interests appear (and the pro rata payment provisions of Sections 2.12 and 2.13 will automatically be deemed adjusted to reflect the provisions of this Section).
(c) Termination of Defaulting Lender Commitment. The Borrower may terminate the unused amount of the Commitment of a Defaulting Lender upon not less than three Business Days’ prior notice to the Administrative Agent (which will promptly notify the Lenders thereof), and in such event the provisions of Section 2.17(a)(iii) will apply to all amounts thereafter paid by the Borrower for the account of such Defaulting Lender that is a Lender under this Agreement (in each case whether on account of principal, interest, fees, indemnity or other amounts), provided that such termination will not be deemed to be a waiver or release of any claim the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer, any Swing Line Lender, any Foreign Currency Lender or any Lender may have against such Defaulting Lender.
(d) Cure. If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers, the Swing Line Lenders and the Foreign Currency Lenders agree in writing in their discretion that a Lender that is a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, as the case may be, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any amounts then held in the segregated account referred to in Section 2.17(a)), such Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par (together with any break funding costs incurred by the Non-Defaulting Lenders as a result of such purchase) such portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders and/or make such other adjustments as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the total Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Loans, Letter of Credit participation pursuant to Section 2.03(c), Swing Line Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and Foreign Currency Loan participation pursuant to Section 2.18 of the Lenders to be on a pro rata basis in accordance with their respective Commitments, whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender and will be a Non-Defaulting Lender (and such Commitments and Loans of each Lender will automatically be adjusted on a prospective basis to reflect the foregoing); provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while such Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Non-Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from such Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.
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Section 2.18 Provisions Relating to Foreign Currency Loans.
(a) At any time (i) after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default or Event of Default, the Administrative Agent may (and, upon the request of any Foreign Currency Lender, shall), or (ii) upon the replacement of any Foreign Currency Loan with a Revolving Dollar Loan pursuant to Section 3.02 or 3.03 or this Section the Administrative Agent shall, demand that each Revolving Dollar Lender pay in Dollars to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Foreign Currency Lenders, in the manner provided in clause (b) below, such Revolving Dollar Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Dollar Equivalent (utilizing, with respect to each Foreign Currency Loan, the Exchange Rate at 5:00 p.m. on the Business Day immediately prior to the date that the Administrative Agent makes a demand pursuant to this Section 2.18(a)) of the Aggregate Foreign Currency Exposure and related accrued but unpaid interest at such time, which demand shall be made through the Administrative Agent, shall be in writing and shall specify the outstanding principal amount and interest of Foreign Currency Loans.
(b) Each demand referred to in clause (a) above shall be delivered to each Revolving Dollar Lender, together with a statement prepared by the Administrative Agent setting forth in reasonable detail the Aggregate Foreign Currency Exposure and Dollar Equivalent thereof (utilizing, with respect to each Foreign Currency Loan, the Exchange Rate at 5:00 p.m. on the Business Day immediately prior to the date that the Administrative Agent makes a demand pursuant to this Section 2.18(a)), and whether or not the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 or 2.01(b) shall be satisfied (which conditions the Revolving Dollar Lenders hereby irrevocably waive), each Revolving Dollar Lender shall, before 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on the Business Day next succeeding the date of such Revolving Dollar Lender’s receipt of such demand, make available to the Administrative Agent, in immediately available funds in Dollars for the account of each Foreign Currency Lender, its Pro Rata Share of the Dollar Equivalent (utilizing, with respect to each Foreign Currency Loan, the Exchange Rate at 5:00 p.m. on the Business Day immediately prior to the date that the Administrative Agent makes a demand pursuant to this Section 2.18(a)) of the Aggregate Foreign Currency Exposure and related accrued but unpaid interest at such time (with respect to each such Revolving Dollar Lender, its “Dollar Portion”). Upon such payment by a Revolving Dollar Lender, such Revolving Dollar Lender shall, except as provided in clause (c) below, be deemed to have made a Revolving Dollar Loan to the Borrower in the principal amount of such payment and bearing interest at the Base Rate. The Administrative Agent shall forward such payments by the Revolving Dollar Lenders (or cause such payments to be forwarded) to the Foreign Currency Lenders according to their respective Foreign Currency Sublimits. To the extent that any Revolving Dollar Lender fails to make its Dollar Portion available to the Administrative Agent for the accounts of the Foreign Currency Lenders, the Borrower agrees to pay such Dollar Portion on demand in immediately available funds in Dollars for the benefit of the Foreign Currency Lenders (as payment for the Foreign Currency Loans). As of the date of any such demand, the Foreign Currency Loans (together with any interest then accrued thereon) shall, immediately and without further action, become due and payable and, to the extent not otherwise repaid hereunder, the Borrower agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, and without limitation of any rights to reimbursement from or other recourse with respect to the Revolving Dollar Lenders that have failed to make payment, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of any Foreign Currency Lender entitled thereto, any amounts to which any Foreign Currency Lender may be entitled pursuant to Section 3.05 or Section 10.20 and which shall not otherwise have been repaid by the Revolving Dollar Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.18.
(c) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f), the Foreign Currency Loans shall automatically, immediately, and without notice of any kind, convert to Revolving Dollar Loans (based upon the Dollar Equivalent of the Aggregate Foreign Currency Exposure at the time of the occurrence of such Event of Default) and bearing interest at the rate applicable to Revolving Dollar Loans bearing interest based on the Base Rate, whereupon each Revolving Dollar Lender shall acquire, without recourse or warranty, an undivided participation in each Foreign Currency Loan otherwise required to be repaid by such Revolving Dollar Lender pursuant to clause (b) above, which participation shall be in a principal amount equal to such Revolving Dollar Lender’s Dollar Portion by paying to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Foreign Currency Lenders on the date on which such Revolving Dollar Lender would otherwise have been required to make a payment in respect of such Foreign Currency Loan pursuant to clause (b) above, in immediately available funds in Dollars, an amount equal to such Revolving Lender’s Dollar Portion. If all or part of such amount is not in fact made available by such Revolving Dollar Lender to the Administrative Agent on such date, the Foreign Currency Lenders shall be entitled to recover any such unpaid amount on demand from such Revolving Dollar Lender together with interest accrued from such date at the Base Rate. As of the date of any such Event of Default under Section 8.01(f), all Foreign Currency Loans (together with any interest then accrued thereon) shall, immediately and without further action, become due and payable and, to the extent not otherwise repaid hereunder, the Borrower agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of any Foreign Currency Lender entitled thereto, any amounts to which any Foreign Currency Lender may be entitled to pursuant to Section 3.05 or Section 10.20 and which shall not otherwise have been repaid by the Revolving Dollar Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.18.
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(d) From and after the date on which any Revolving Dollar Lender (i) is deemed to have made a Revolving Dollar Loan pursuant to clause (b) above with respect to any Foreign Currency Loan or (ii) purchases an undivided participation interest in a Foreign Currency Loan pursuant to clause (c) above, the Administrative Agent and the Foreign Currency Lenders shall promptly distribute to such Revolving Dollar Lender such Revolving Dollar Lender’s Pro Rata Share of all payments of principal amount and interest received by the Administrative Agent or the Foreign Currency Lenders on account of such Foreign Currency Loan in excess of those received pursuant to clause (b) or (c) above.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Revolving Dollar Lender shall not have any obligation to acquire a participation in a Foreign Currency Loan pursuant to the foregoing paragraphs if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time such Foreign Currency Loan was made and such Revolving Dollar Lender shall have notified the Foreign Currency Lenders in writing prior to the time such Foreign Currency Loan was made, that such Default or Event of Default has occurred and that such Revolving Dollar Lender will not acquire participations in Foreign Currency Loans made while such Default or Event of Default is continuing.
ARTICLE 3
TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
Section 3.01 Taxes.
(a) Unless otherwise required by any Law, any and all payments by any Loan Party to or for the account of any Agent or any Lender (which term shall, for purposes of this Section 3.01, include any L/C Issuer and any Swing Line Lender) under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Taxes. If any Loan Party or other applicable withholding agent shall be required by any Laws to deduct any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under any Loan Document to any Agent or any Lender, (i) the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) have been made, each of such Agent and such Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the applicable withholding agent shall make such deductions, (iii) the applicable withholding agent shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable Laws, and (iv) within thirty (30) days after the date of such payment, the applicable withholding agent shall furnish to the Administrative Agent (if the applicable withholding agent is not the Administrative Agent) and the Borrower the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof to the extent such a receipt is issued therefor, or other written proof of payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Within thirty (30) days after the date of any payment by the Administrative Agent to a taxation authority or other authority pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent shall furnish to the Borrower the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof to the extent such a receipt is issued therefor, or other written proof of payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower.
(b) In addition, the Loan Parties agree, jointly and severally, to pay any and all present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes and any other excise, property, intangible or mortgage recording taxes or charges or similar levies which arise from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document but excluding any such Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction upon a voluntary transfer of an Obligation by a Lender if such Taxes result from such Lender being organized, resident or engaged in business (other than a business arising (or being deemed to arise) solely as a result of the Loan Documents or any transactions occurring pursuant thereto) in such jurisdiction (hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”). For the avoidance of doubt, “Other Taxes” shall not include any Excluded Taxes.
(c) Without duplication, the Loan Parties agree, jointly and severally, to indemnify each Agent and each Lender for the full amount of any Non-Excluded Taxes attributable to any sum payable under any Loan Document to any Agent or Lender and any Other Taxes (including any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 3.01, and any such Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes attributable to any payment made by or on account of any Guarantor) payable by such Agent or such Lender, whether or not such Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the
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relevant Governmental Authority; provided such Agent or Lender, as the case may be, provides the Borrower with a written statement thereof setting forth in reasonable detail the basis and calculation of such amounts. Payment under this Section 3.01(c) shall be made within thirty (30) days after the date such Lender or such Agent makes a demand therefor (and submits the required written statement), but in no event earlier than ten (10) days before such Taxes are due and payable to the applicable Governmental Authority.
(d) If any Lender or Agent receives a refund (whether received in cash or as an overpayment actually applied by the Lender or Agent to offset a future Tax payment) in respect of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes as to which indemnification or additional amounts have been paid to it by any Loan Party pursuant to or in respect of this Section 3.01 or Section 6 of the Guaranty, it shall promptly remit such refund (including any interest included in such refund by the applicable taxing authority) to the Borrower, net of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be; provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be, agrees promptly to return such refund to such party in the event such party is required to repay such refund to the relevant taxing authority. Such Lender or Agent, as the case may be, shall, at the Borrower’s request, provide the Borrower with a copy of any notice of assessment or other evidence of the requirement to repay such refund received from the relevant taxing authority (provided that such Lender or Agent may delete any information therein that such Lender or Agent deems confidential). Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of a Lender or Agent to arrange its Tax affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit nor oblige any Lender or Agent to claim any Tax refund or to disclose any information relating to its tax affairs or any computations in respect thereof or require any Lender or Agent to do anything that would prejudice its ability to benefit from any other refunds, credits, reliefs, remissions or repayments to which it may be entitled.
(e) Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.01(a) or Section 3.01(c) with respect to such Lender it will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to such Lender’s overall internal policies of general application and legal and regulatory restrictions and at the expense of the Borrower) to avoid the consequences of such event, including to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event or to assign its rights and obligations with respect to such Loan or Letter of Credit to another of its offices, branches or affiliates; provided that such efforts are made on terms that, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Lending Office(s) to suffer no unreimbursed or uncompensated economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided further that nothing in this Section 3.01(e) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of any Loan Party or the rights of the Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(a) and Section 3.01(c).
Section 3.02 Illegality. If any Lender reasonably determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Eurodollar Rate Loans, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurodollar Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurodollar Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (and all Foreign Currency Loans shall be replaced by Revolving Dollar Loans pursuant to Section 2.18(a)(ii)), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted. Each Lender agrees to designate a different Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.
Section 3.03 Inability to Determine Rates. If the Required Lenders determine that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Loan, or that the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, or that Dollar deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar market for the applicable amount and the Interest Period of such Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Rate
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Loans shall be suspended (and all Foreign Currency Loans shall be replaced by Revolving Dollar Loans pursuant to Section 2.18(a)(ii)) until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.
Section 3.04 Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans.
(a) If any Lender reasonably determines that as a result of the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any Law, in each case after the date hereof, or such Lender’s compliance therewith, there shall be any increase in the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Rate Loans or (as the case may be) issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or a reduction in the amount received or receivable by such Lender in connection with any of the foregoing, including subjecting any Lender to any Tax with respect to this Agreement or any Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it (excluding, for purposes of this Section 3.04(a), any such increased costs or reduction in amount resulting from (i) Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.01, or any Excluded Taxes) and (ii) reserve requirements contemplated by Section 3.04(c)), then from time to time upon written demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail such increased costs (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall, without duplication, pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all rules, regulations, orders, requests, guidelines or directives in connection therewith and (y) (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated under or in connection with, all interpretations and applications of, and any compliance by a Lender with any request or directive relating to International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States of America or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case under clauses (x) and (y) be deemed to have been adopted and to have taken effect after the date hereof.
(b) If any Lender reasonably determines that the introduction of any Law regarding capital adequacy or liquidity or any change therein or in the interpretation thereof, in each case after the date hereof, or compliance by such Lender (or its Lending Office) therewith, has the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder (taking into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity and such Lender’s desired return on capital), then from time to time upon written demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail the charge and the calculation of such reduced rate of return (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction.
(c) The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurodollar Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurodollar Rate Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided the Borrower shall have received at least fifteen (15) days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or cost from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen (15) days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or cost shall be due and payable fifteen (15) days from receipt of such notice.
(d) If any Lender requests compensation under this Section 3.04, then such Lender will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event or to assign its rights and obligations with respect to such Loan or Letter of Credit to
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another of its offices, branches or affiliates; provided that such efforts are made on terms that, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Lending Office(s) to suffer no material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided further that nothing in this Section 3.04(d) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.04(a), Section 3.04(b) or Section 3.04(c).
Section 3.05 Funding Losses. Upon demand of any Lender from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:
(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise); or
(b) any failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower;
including any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained.
For purposes of calculating amounts payable by a Borrower to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it at the Eurodollar Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurodollar Rate Loan was in fact so funded. A certificate of such Lender submitted to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 3.05 shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
Section 3.06 Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation.
(a) Any Agent or any Lender claiming compensation under this Article 3 shall deliver a certificate to the Borrower setting forth in reasonable detail the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder, which shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. In determining such amount, such Agent or such Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.
(b) With respect to any Lender’s claim for compensation under Section 3.01, Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate such Lender for any amount incurred more than one hundred and eighty (180) days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the event that gives rise to such claim; provided that, if the circumstance giving rise to such increased cost or reduction is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. If any Lender requests compensation by the Borrower under Section 3.04, the Borrower may, by notice to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), suspend the obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurodollar Rate Loans from one Interest Period to another, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurodollar Rate Loans, until the event or condition giving rise to such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 3.06(c) shall be applicable); provided that such suspension shall not affect the right of such Lender to receive the compensation so requested.
(c) If the obligation of any Lender to make or continue any Eurodollar Rate Loan from one Interest Period to another, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended pursuant to Section 3.06(b) hereof, such Lender’s Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be automatically converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for such Eurodollar Rate Loans (or, in the case of an immediate conversion required by Section 3.02, on such earlier date as required by Law) and, unless and until such Lender gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in Section 3.01, Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04 hereof that gave rise to such conversion no longer exist:
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(i) to the extent that such Lender’s Eurodollar Rate Loans have been so converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans; and
(ii) all Loans that would otherwise be made or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans from one Interest Period to another by such Lender shall be made or continued instead as Base Rate Loans, and all Base Rate Loans of such Lender that would otherwise be converted into Eurodollar Rate Loans shall remain as Base Rate Loans.
(d) If any Lender gives notice to a Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) that the circumstances specified in Section 3.01, Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04 hereof that gave rise to the conversion of such Lender’s Eurodollar Rate Loans pursuant to this Section 3.06 no longer exist (which such Lender agrees to do promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) at a time when Eurodollar Rate Loans made by other Lenders are outstanding, such Lender’s Base Rate Loans shall be automatically converted irrespective of whether such conversion results in greater than twenty (20) Interest Periods being outstanding under this Agreement, on the first day(s) of the next succeeding Interest Period(s) for such outstanding Eurodollar Rate Loans, to the extent necessary so that, after giving effect thereto, all Loans held by the Lenders holding Eurodollar Rate Loans and by such Lender are held pro rata (as to principal amounts, interest rate basis, and Interest Periods) in accordance with their respective Commitments.
Section 3.07 Replacement of Lenders Under Certain Circumstances.
(a) If at any time (x) the Borrower becomes obligated to pay additional amounts or indemnity payments described in Section 3.01(a) or (c), Section 3.02 or Section 3.04 as a result of any condition described in such Sections or any Lender ceases to make Eurodollar Rate Loans as a result of any condition described in Section 3.04, (y) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender (or would be a Defaulting Lender but for delivery by such Lender of the written notice described in clause (i) of the definition of “Defaulting Lender” unless such notices have been delivered by the Required Lenders) or (z) any Lender becomes a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower may, on ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and such Lender, replace such Lender (in its capacity as a Lender under the applicable Facility, if the underlying matter in respect of which such Lender has become a Non-Consenting Lender relates to a certain Class of Loans or Commitments) by causing such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to Section 10.07(b) (with the assignment fee to be paid by the Borrower in such instance) all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (in respect of the applicable Class of Loans or Commitments if the underlying matter in respect of which such Lender has become a Non-Consenting Lender relates to a certain Class of Loans or Commitments) to one or more Eligible Assignees; provided that (i) in the case of any Eligible Assignees in respect of Non-Consenting Lenders, the replacement Lender shall agree to the consent, waiver or amendment to which the Non-Consenting Lender did not agree and (ii) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender or other such Person.
(b) Any Lender being replaced pursuant to Section 3.07(a) above shall (i) execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans of the applicable Class and, if applicable, participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans, and (ii) deliver any Notes evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent; provided that the failure of any such Lender to execute an Assignment and Assumption shall not render such assignment invalid and such assignment shall be recorded in the Register. Pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, (i) the assignee Lender shall acquire all or a portion, as the case may be, of the assigning Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans of the applicable Class and, if applicable, participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans, (ii) all obligations of the Borrower owing to the assigning Lender relating to the Loans and participations so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender to such assigning Lender concurrently with such assignment and assumption and (iii) upon such payment and, if so requested by the assignee Lender, delivery to the assignee Lender of the appropriate Note or Notes executed by the Borrower, the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the assigning Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01, Section 3.04, Section 10.04 and Section 10.05 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment.
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(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, (i) any Lender that acts as an L/C Issuer may not be replaced hereunder at any time that it has any Letter of Credit outstanding hereunder unless arrangements reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer (including the furnishing of a back-up standby letter of credit in form and substance, and issued by an issuer, reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer or the depositing of Cash Collateral into a Cash Collateral account in amounts and pursuant to arrangements reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer) have been made with respect to such outstanding Letter of Credit and (ii) the Lender that acts as the Administrative Agent may not be replaced hereunder.
(d) In the event that (i) the Borrower or the Administrative Agent has requested the Lenders to consent to a departure or waiver of any provisions of the Loan Documents or to agree to any amendment thereto, (ii) the consent, waiver or amendment in question requires the agreement of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 or all the Lenders with respect to a certain Class of Loans or Commitments and (iii) the Required Lenders have agreed to such consent, waiver or amendment, then any Lender who does not agree to such consent, waiver or amendment shall be deemed a “Non-Consenting Lender.”
Section 3.08 Survival. The Borrower’s obligations under this Article 3 shall survive any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender (including any L/C Issuer) and the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE 4
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 4.01 Conditions to Initial (Closing Date) Credit Extension. The obligation of each Lender to make the Credit Extensions hereunder on the Closing Date is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent, subject in all respects to the final paragraph of this Section 4.01:
(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or facsimiles or electronic copies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, and each executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower:
(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement; and
(ii) a Note executed by the Borrower in favor of each Lender requesting a Note at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, if any.
(b) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or facsimiles or electronic copies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified;
(i) an opinion of (A) Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx, special counsel to the Borrower and (B) each local counsel to the Loan parties specified on Schedule 1.01E, in each case dated the Closing Date and addressed to each L/C Issuer, Arranger, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, substantially in the form previously provided to the Administrative Agent;
(ii) (A) a copy of the certificate or articles of incorporation or organization, including all amendments thereto, of each of the Loan Parties, certified, if applicable, as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of the state of its organization, and a certificate as to the good standing of each of the Loan Parties as of a recent date, from such Secretary of State or similar Governmental Authority and (B) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of each of the Loan Parties dated the Closing Date and certifying (1) to the effect that (w) attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the by-laws of each of the Loan Parties as in effect on the Closing Date, (x) attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly adopted by the board of directors of each of the Loan Parties authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which each of the Loan Parties is a party, and that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended
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and are in full force and effect and (y) the certificate or articles of incorporation or organization of each of the Loan Parties have not been amended since the date of the last amendment thereto furnished pursuant to clause (A) above, and that such certificate or articles are in full force and effect, and (2) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each officer executing any Loan Document on behalf of the Borrower and signed by another officer as to the incumbency and specimen signature of the Responsible Officer executing the certificate pursuant to this clause (B);
(iii) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying as to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in paragraphs (d) and (e) of this Section 4.01;
(iv) executed counterparts of the Guaranty, duly executed by the Loan Parties;
(v) executed counterparts to the Security Agreement, duly executed by each of the Loan Parties, together with, if applicable:
(A) certificates representing the Pledged Equity referred to therein, accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank or, if applicable, other appropriate instruments of transfer and instruments evidencing the Pledged Debt, if any, indorsed in blank,
(B) copies of all lien searches with respect to personal property Collateral, together with copies of the financing statements (or similar documents) disclosed by such searches, and accompanied by evidence that any Liens indicated in any such financing statement that are not permitted by Section 7.01 have been or contemporaneously will be released or terminated (or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), and all proper financing statements, duly prepared for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code, necessary in order to perfect and protect the Liens created under the Security Agreement (in the circumstances and to the extent required under such Security Agreement), covering the Collateral of the Loan Parties described in the Security Agreement;
(vi) a Perfection Certificate, in substantially the form of Exhibit T-1, duly executed by each of the Loan Parties;
(vii) the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, duly executed by each of the relevant Loan Parties, together with evidence that all action that is necessary in order to perfect and protect the Liens on Material Intellectual Property created under the Intellectual Property Security Agreement (in the circumstances and to the extent required under such Security Agreement) has been taken;
(viii) a certificate from the chief financial officer or the treasurer of the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit W, certifying that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis after giving effect to the Transactions, are Solvent; and
(ix) subordination agreements (to the extent legally permitted) in form and substance satisfactory to it covering all intercompany notes or other obligations owed by a Loan Party to a Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Loan Party.
(c) To the extent requested by the Administrative Agent in writing not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and other information with respect to the Borrower required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act.
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(d) The representations and warranties made by the Borrower contained in Article 5 or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if qualified by materiality) on and as of the Closing Date.
(e) No Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom (assuming that all of the Transactions were consummated on the Closing Date).
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that the Existing Credit Agreement has been, or concurrently with the Closing Date is being, terminated and all Liens securing obligations under the Existing Credit Agreements has been, or concurrently with the Closing Date is being, released and that all amounts outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement have been repaid in full.
(g) All fees and expenses due to the Arrangers and the Lenders required to be paid on the Closing Date from the proceeds of the initial fundings under the Credit Extensions shall be paid.
(h) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Request for Credit Extension relating to the initial Credit Extensions.
Section 4.02 Conditions to All Credit Extensions After the Closing Date. The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension (other than in connection with (i) a Credit Extension to be made on the Closing Date or (ii) a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans) is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article 5 or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if qualified by materiality) on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except (i) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if qualified by materiality) as of such earlier date and (ii) that for purposes of this Section 4.02, the representations and warranties contained in Section 5.05(a) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent financial statements furnished prior to the Closing Date or pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and Section 6.01(b).
(b) No Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom.
(c) The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, any L/C Issuer or any Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
(d) Each Request for Credit Extension (other than (i) a Credit Extension to be made on the Closing Date, (ii) a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans) submitted by the Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Section 4.02(a) and Section 4.02(b) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.
ARTICLE 5
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
On the Closing Date and on the date of each subsequent Credit Extension, the Borrower represents and warrants to the Agents and the Lenders that:
Section 5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) is a Person duly organized or formed, validly existing and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority
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to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, (d) is in compliance with all applicable Laws, writs, injunctions and orders and (e) has all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to operate its business as currently conducted; except in each case referred to in clauses (a) (other than with respect to the Borrower), (c), (d) or (e), to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.02 Authorization; No Contravention.
(a) The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party are within such Loan Party’s corporate or other powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action.
(b) (i) The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party and (ii) as of the Closing Date only, the consummation of the Transactions (other than the transactions described in clause (i)) do not and will not (A) contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organization Documents, (B) conflict with or result in any default, breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under (other than as permitted by Section 7.01), or require any payment to be made under (x) (1) any Junior Financing Documentation or (2) any other Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (y) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (C) violate any Law; except with respect to any conflict, default, breach, contravention, payment or violation referred to in clause (B) or clause (C), to the extent that such conflict, breach, contravention, payment or violation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with (a) the execution, delivery or performance by any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (b) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (c) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents (including the priority thereof) or (d) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for (i) filings and other actions necessary to perfect the Liens on the Collateral granted by the Loan Parties in favor of the Secured Parties as specified in the Collateral Documents, (ii) the approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations, actions, notices and filings which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect and (iii) those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings, the failure of which to obtain or make could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.04 Binding Effect. This Agreement and each other Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement and each other Loan Document constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party that is party thereto, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity.
Section 5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.
(a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders (i) consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, shareholders’ deficit and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of and for each fiscal year of the Borrower in the three-fiscal year period ended on December 31, 2014, audited by and accompanied by the opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and (ii) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, shareholders’ deficit and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for each subsequent fiscal quarter ended at least forty-five (45) days prior to the Closing Date. Such financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods. Such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein and subject, in the case of quarterly financial statements, to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end adjustments.
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(b) Since December 31, 2014, there has not been any change, development or event that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) The forecasts of consolidated balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for each fiscal year of the Borrower ending after the Closing Date through the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019, copies of which have been furnished to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders prior to the Closing Date, have been prepared in good faith based upon reasonable assumptions at the time made in light of the conditions existing at the time of delivery of such forecasts, it being understood that such forecasts, as to future events, are not to be viewed as facts, that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such forecasts may differ significantly from the forecasted results and that such differences may be material and that such forecasts are not a guarantee of financial performance.
(d) The Borrower may satisfy the representations of this Section 5.05 by furnishing applicable financial statements and forecasts of Holdings, and, in that case, references in this Section 5.05 to the Borrower will be deemed to be references to Holdings, as applicable, provided that, except as described in the next proviso, such financial statements must be accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to Holdings, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand, and provided further, that although the forecasts referred to in clause (c), above are not accompanied by consolidating information explaining differences between the information relating to Holdings and that relating to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, the Borrower represents and warrants that if provided any such differences would not differ in any material respect from differences specified in the consolidating information provided in connection with the financial statements required by clause (a).
Section 5.06 Litigation. Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.06, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that (a) as of the Closing Date, purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or (b) either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.07 Ownership of Property; Liens. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, or easements or other limited property interests in, all real property necessary in the ordinary conduct of its business, free and clear of all Liens except for minor defects in title that do not materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business and to utilize such assets for their intended purposes and Liens permitted by Section 7.01 and except where the failure to have such title or other property interests described above could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.08 Environmental Compliance.
(a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and their respective operations, facilities and properties is in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws.
(b) There are no actions, suits, proceedings, notices, demands or claims alleging potential liability or responsibility for violation of, or liability under, any Environmental Law and relating to businesses, operations or properties of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries that could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(c) Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.08 or as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) none of the properties currently or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, formerly owned, leased or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is listed or formally proposed for listing on the NPL or on the CERCLIS or any analogous foreign, state or local list; (ii) there are no and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, there never have been any underground or aboveground storage tanks or any surface impoundments, septic tanks, pits, sumps or lagoons in which Hazardous Materials are being or have been discharged, treated, stored or disposed of on, at or under any property currently owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to its knowledge, on, at or under any property formerly owned, leased or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during or prior to the period of such ownership or operation; (iii) there is no asbestos or asbestos-containing material on or at any property currently owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which constitutes a violation of Environmental Laws or requires response or corrective action under Environmental Laws; and (iv) there has been no Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, under or from any property currently or to the knowledge of the Borrower formerly owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any offsite locations to which the Borrower or its Subsidiaries sent any Hazardous Materials for treatment or disposal.
(d) No property currently owned or operated by the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries contains any Hazardous Materials in amounts or concentrations which (i) constitute, or constituted a violation of, (ii) require response or other corrective action under, or (iii) could result in the Borrower incurring liability under Environmental Laws, which violations, corrective actions and liabilities, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.08, neither the Borrower nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is undertaking, or paying for, either individually or together with other potentially responsible parties, any investigation or assessment or response or other corrective action relating to any actual or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials at any site, location or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental Authority or the requirements of any Environmental Law except for any such investigation or assessment or response or other corrective action that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(f) All Hazardous Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to or from, any property currently or formerly owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries have been disposed of in a manner which could not reasonably be expected to result in, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.09 Taxes. Each of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties has timely filed all tax returns and reports required to be filed, has timely paid all taxes levied or imposed upon it or its properties, income or assets (including in its capacity as a withholding agent) and has made adequate provision (in accordance with GAAP) for all Taxes not yet due and payable, except (a) those Taxes which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP or (b) with respect to which the failure to make such filing, payment or provision could not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no current, pending or threatened audits, assessments, deficiencies, proceedings or claims that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.10 ERISA Compliance.
(a) Each Pension Plan is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code. Each Pension Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code has either received a favorable determination letter from the IRS or an application for such a letter has been or will be submitted to the IRS within the applicable required time period with respect thereto and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, nothing has occurred which could reasonably be expected to prevent, or cause the loss of, such qualification. Each Loan Party and each ERISA Affiliate have made, in all material respects, all required contributions to each Pension Plan subject to Section 412 of the Code, and no application for a funding waiver or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to Section 412 of the Code has been made with respect to any Pension Plan.
(b) There are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Pension Plan, Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Borrower,
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there has been no prohibited transaction or violation of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Pension Plan (or similar occurrence with respect to any Foreign Plan or Foreign Benefit Arrangement) that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) No ERISA Event or Foreign Plan Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, and none of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Sections 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA, except, in each case, as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) Each Foreign Plan has been maintained in compliance with its terms and with the requirements of any and all applicable requirements of Law and has been maintained, where required, in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities, except for any noncompliance which could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any obligation in connection with the termination of or withdrawal from any Foreign Plan, except as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.11 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests. As of the Closing Date, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries do not have any Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.11, and all of the outstanding Equity Interests in each Restricted Subsidiary are owned directly or indirectly by the Borrower as set forth in Schedule 5.11 and are free and clear of all Liens except (a) those created under the Collateral Documents and (b) any nonconsensual Lien that is permitted under Section 7.01. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 5.11 (i) sets forth the name and jurisdiction of each Subsidiary, and (ii) sets forth the ownership interest of the Borrower and any Subsidiary in each Subsidiary, including the percentage of such ownership if the Borrower owns, directly or indirectly, less than 100%.
Section 5.12 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.
(a) No proceeds of any Borrowings or drawings under any Letter of Credit will be used to purchase or carry any margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB).
(b) Neither the Borrower, any Person controlling the Borrower, nor any of its Subsidiaries is or is required to be registered as an “investment company”, under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Section 5.13 Disclosure. No report, financial statement, certificate or other written information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or any other Loan Document (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) when taken as a whole contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not materially misleading (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished); provided that (a) with respect to financial estimates, projected financial information and other forward-looking information, the Borrower represents and warrants only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time of preparation; it being understood that such projections, as to future events, are not to be viewed as facts, that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ significantly from the projected results and that such differences may be material and that such projections are not a guarantee of financial performance and (b) no representation is made with respect to information of a general economic or general industry nature.
Section 5.14 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. Each of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries owns, or possesses the right to use, all of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, Internet domain names, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how, and applications for registration of or goodwill associated with the foregoing, as applicable (collectively, “IP Rights”) that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person, except to the extent such failure to own or possess the right to use or such conflicts, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Borrower, the conduct of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries’ business does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights held by any other Person except for such infringements,
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individually or in the aggregate, which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.15 Solvency. On the Closing Date, after giving effect to the consummation of the Transactions, the Loan Parties, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent.
Section 5.16 Perfection, Etc. Except as otherwise contemplated hereby or under any other Loan Documents, all filings and other actions necessary to perfect and protect the Liens on the Collateral created under, and as required by, the Collateral Documents have been duly made or taken or otherwise provided for (to the extent required hereby or by the applicable Collateral Documents) in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and are in full force and effect and the Collateral Documents create in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a valid and, together with such filings and other actions (to the extent required hereby or by the applicable Collateral Documents), perfected first priority Lien in the Collateral, securing the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, subject only to Liens permitted by Section 7.01. The Loan Parties are the legal and beneficial owners of the Collateral free and clear of any Lien, except for the Liens created or permitted under the Loan Documents.
Section 5.17 Compliance with Laws Generally. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries or any of its respective material properties, or the use of such material properties, is in violation of any Law, or is in default with respect to any judgment, writ, injunction, decree or order of any Governmental Authority, except for such violations or defaults that (a) are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (b) individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.18 Labor Matters. Except as in the aggregate has not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened.
Section 5.19 Senior Debt. The Obligations constitute “Senior Debt” and “Designated Senior Debt” (or any other terms of similar meaning and import) under any Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness (to the extent the concept of Designated Senior Debt (or similar concept) exists therein), or any subordinated Permitted Refinancing thereof (to the extent the concept of Designated Senior Debt (or similar concept) exists therein).
Section 5.20 Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions. The Borrower has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers, directors and employees and to the knowledge of the Borrower its directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects. None of (a) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of the Borrower, any agent of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Borrowing or Letter of Credit, use of proceeds or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement will violate any Anti-Corruption Law or applicable Sanctions.
Section 5.21 PATRIOT Act. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance with the PATRIOT Act in all material respects.
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ARTICLE 6
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Borrower shall, and (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Section 6.01, Section 6.02, Section 6.03 and Section 6.15) shall cause, each Restricted Subsidiary to, comply with the following covenants:
Section 6.01 Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for further distribution to each Lender (provided any of the information required pursuant to this Section 6.01 shall be deemed validly delivered as provided in the last paragraph of Section 6.02):
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or any other independent certified public accountant of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit;
(b) as soon as available, but in any event within forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of the Borrower, a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal quarter and as of the end of the prior fiscal year, consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the same period in the prior fiscal year and consolidated statements of income or operations and cash flows for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such fiscal quarter, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;
(c) as soon as available, but in any event no later than ninety-five (95) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, reasonably detailed forecasts prepared by management of the Borrower, on a quarterly basis, of consolidated balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements and Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year following such fiscal year then ended; and
(d) for any period for which the Unrestricted Subsidiaries, taken together, are reasonably anticipated by the Borrower to have had revenues or total assets in an amount that is equal to or greater than 5.0% of the consolidated revenues or total assets, as applicable, of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, simultaneously with the delivery of each set of consolidated financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and Section 6.01(b) above, the related consolidating financial statements reflecting the adjustments necessary to eliminate the accounts of Unrestricted Subsidiaries (if any) from such consolidated financial statements.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.01 may be satisfied with respect to any financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries by furnishing (A) the applicable financial statements of Holdings (or any other direct or indirect parent of the Borrower) or (B) the Borrower’s or Holdings’ (or any direct or indirect parent thereof), as applicable, Form 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable, filed with the SEC, in each case, within the time periods specified in such paragraphs; provided that, with respect to each of clauses (A) and (B), (i) to the extent such financial statements relate to Holdings (or any other direct or indirect parent of the Borrower), such financial statements shall be accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to Holdings (or such parent), on the one hand, and the information relating to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand, which consolidating information shall be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting such information and (ii) to the extent such statements are in lieu of statements required to be provided under Section 6.01(a), such statements are accompanied by a report and opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or any other independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit.
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Section 6.02 Certificates; Other Information. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for further distribution to each Lender:
(a) no later than five (5) days after the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a), a certificate of its independent certified public accountants certifying such financial statements and stating that in making the examination necessary therefor no knowledge was obtained of any Event of Default under Section 7.10 or, if any such Event of Default shall exist, stating the nature and status of such event; it being understood that the obligation under this Section 6.02(a) shall be satisfied regardless of whether such certificate is obtained if the Borrower shall have used commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such certificate;
(b) no later than five (5) Business Days after the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and Section 6.01(b), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (which shall set forth reasonably detailed calculations (A) demonstrating compliance with Section 7.10 and (B) in the case of any delivery of financial statements under Section 6.01(a) in respect of any fiscal year of the Borrower ending on or after December 31, 2016, of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year); provided that, if such Compliance Certificate demonstrates an Event of Default due to failure to comply with the covenant under Section 7.10 that has not been cured prior to such time, the Borrower may deliver to the extent permitted by Section 8.04, prior to or together with such Compliance Certificate, notice of its intent to cure (a “Notice of Intent to Cure”) such Event of Default;
(c) promptly after the same are publicly available, (i) copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent to the stockholders of Holdings, and (ii) copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which Holdings or any Loan Party may file or be required to file, copies of any report, filing or communication with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor, or with any national securities exchange, and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto (other than comment letters from the SEC, the contents of which are not materially adverse to the Lenders);
(d) promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any material requests or material notices received by any Loan Party from, or material statement or material report furnished to, any holder of debt securities of any Loan Party pursuant to the terms of any Junior Financing Documentation with respect to a Specified Junior Financing Obligation and not otherwise required to be furnished to the Lenders pursuant to any other clause of this Section 6.02;
(e) promptly after the receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, copies of each notice or other written correspondence received from the SEC (or comparable agency in any applicable non-US jurisdiction) concerning any material investigation or other material inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of any Loan Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent such investigation or inquiry, if resolved unfavorably to such Loan Party, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(f) together with the delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(b), a description of each event, condition or circumstance during the last fiscal quarter covered by such Compliance Certificate requiring a mandatory prepayment under Section 2.05(b); and
(g) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, legal, financial or corporate affairs of any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender through the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01 and 6.02 may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto, on the Borrower’s website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02 (or other website identified to the Administrative Agent); or (ii) on which such documents are delivered by the Borrower
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to the Administrative Agent to be posted on the Borrower’s behalf on IntraLinks/or another relevant website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website (including the SEC) or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that (A) upon the request of the Administrative Agent (who shall notify each Lender), the Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent for further distribution to each Lender and (B) the Borrower shall notify (which may be by facsimile or electronic mail) the Administrative Agent of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrower with any such request for delivery.
The Borrower represents and warrants that it or Holdings (or any other direct or indirect parent of the Borrower) files its financial statements with the SEC and/or makes its financial statements available to holders of its 144A securities, and, accordingly, the Borrower hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to make the financial statements to be provided under Sections 6.01(a) and (b), along with the Loan Documents, available to lenders that do not wish to receive material non-public information within the meaning of the federal securities laws (each, a “Public Lender”) and (ii) agrees that at the time such financial statements are provided hereunder, they shall already have been made available to holders of its securities. The Borrower will not request that any other material be posted to Public Lenders without expressly representing and warranting to the Administrative Agent in writing that such materials do not constitute material non-public information within the meaning of the federal securities laws or that the Borrower has no outstanding publicly traded securities, including 144A securities. In no event shall the Administrative Agent post compliance certificates, budgets or financial statements provided under Section 6.01(d) to Public Lenders.
Section 6.03 Notices. Promptly after any Responsible Officer obtaining actual knowledge thereof, notify the Administrative Agent:
(a) of the occurrence of any Default; and
(b) of any matter that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including arising out of or resulting from (i) breach or non-performance of, or any default under, a Contractual Obligation of any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension between any Loan Party or any Subsidiary and any Governmental Authority, (iii) the commencement of, or any material adverse development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, including pursuant to any applicable Environmental Laws or the assertion or occurrence of any alleged noncompliance by any Loan Party or as any Subsidiaries with any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit, or (iv) the occurrence of any ERISA Event or Foreign Plan Event.
Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall be accompanied by a written statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (x) that such notice is being delivered pursuant to this Section 6.03 and (y) setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and (other than in the case of a notice pursuant to Section 6.03(b)) stating what action the Borrower or the applicable Loan Party has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 6.04 Payment of Obligations. Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy as the same shall become due and payable, all its obligations and liabilities (including Taxes) except, in each case, to the extent the failure to pay or discharge the same could not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc. (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or Section 7.05, and, in the case of any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges (including its good standing), permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) preserve or renew all of its Material Intellectual Property, except if the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 6.06 Maintenance of Properties. Except if the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order, repair and condition, ordinary wear and tear, casualty and condemnation excepted and excepting also any obligations that are the obligations of the landlord under any lease.
Section 6.07 Maintenance of Insurance.
(a) (A) Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance reasonable and customary for similarly situated Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses as the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries) as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons and (B) all such insurance with respect to any Collateral shall name the Administrative Agent as mortgagee or loss payee (in the case of property insurance with respect to Collateral) or additional insured, as its interests may arise, on behalf of the Secured Parties (in the case of liability insurance).
(b) If any building (or any part thereof) located on any Material Real Property is at any time located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency) as a special flood hazard area with respect to which flood insurance has been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (as now or hereafter in effect or successor act thereto), then Borrower shall, or shall cause the applicable Guarantor to (a) maintain with a financially sound and reputable insurer, flood insurance in an amount and otherwise sufficient to comply with all applicable rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to (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, (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (v) Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxx Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (b) deliver to Administrative Agent evidence of such compliance.
Section 6.08 Compliance With Laws.
(a) Comply in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except if the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) The Borrower will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.
Section 6.09 Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and account (in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) in a manner that permits the preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
Section 6.10 Inspection Rights. Permit representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent and each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public accountants, all at the expense of the Borrower as provided below and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Borrower and the applicable Loan Party; provided that, excluding any such visits and inspections during the continuation of an Event of Default, only the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders may exercise rights under this Section 6.10 and the Administrative Agent shall not exercise such rights more often than two (2) times during any calendar year absent the existence of an Event of Default and only one (1) such time shall be at the Borrower’s expense; provided, further, that when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing the Administrative Agent or any such Lender (or any of their respective representatives or independent contractors) may
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do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrower at any time during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall give the Borrower prior notice of and the right to participate in any discussions with the Borrower’s accountants.
Section 6.11 Use of Proceeds.
(a) Use the proceeds of the Term A Loans and the Term B Loans to finance in part the Transactions (including fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Transactions) and for other general corporate purposes, corporate transactions and Restricted Payments.
(b) Use the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Facility (other than Foreign Currency Loans) (i) to provide ongoing working capital and (ii) for other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including Restricted Payments and Investments permitted hereunder and any other transactions not prohibited by this Agreement).
(c) Use the proceeds of the New Term Loans (subject to Section 2.14) made after the Closing Date (i) to provide ongoing working capital and (ii) for other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including Restricted Payments and Investments permitted hereunder and any other transactions not prohibited by this Agreement).
(d) All of the proceeds from Foreign Currency Loans shall be advanced to one or more Non-U.S. Subsidiaries pursuant to an Intercompany Note that is pledged to the Secured Parties pursuant to the Collateral Documents.
(e) The Borrower will not request any Borrowing or Letter of Credit, and the Borrower shall not use, and shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, the proceeds of any Borrowing or Letter of Credit (A) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (B) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, to the extent such activities, businesses or transaction would be prohibited by Sanctions if conducted by a corporation incorporated in the United States or in a European Union member state, or (C) in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.
Section 6.12 Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security.
(a) Upon (w) the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary) by the Borrower or a Guarantor, (x) the designation in accordance with Section 6.15 of any existing direct or indirect Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary), (y) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor guaranteeing any Specified Junior Financing Obligations or (z) any Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) that is designated to be no longer an Immaterial Subsidiary, the Borrower shall, in each case at the Borrower’s expense:
(i) as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case on or prior to thirty (30) days after such formation, acquisition, designation or Guarantee (or such longer period as either specified in Section 6.12(b) or as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion):
(A) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a supplement to the Guaranty, Guaranteeing the Obligations of the Borrower;
(B) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to this Section 6.12 to furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of any Material Real Property owned by such Restricted Subsidiary in detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
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(C) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to this Section 6.12 to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, other than with respect to Excluded Assets, (i) supplements to the Security Agreement, Intellectual Property Security Agreements, a Perfection Certificate Supplement and other Collateral Documents (other than Mortgages), as specified by the Administrative Agent (consistent with the Security Agreement, Intellectual Property Security Agreements and other Collateral Documents in effect (or otherwise agreed) on the Closing Date) or (ii) Mortgages with respect to Material Real Property and such other instruments or documents as are necessary to satisfy the other conditions of Section 4.01(b)(i) in accordance with Section 6.12(b), in each case granting a Lien in substantially all personal property of such Restricted Subsidiary and all Material Real Property, securing the Obligations of such Restricted Subsidiary under the Guaranty;
(D) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to this Section 6.12 to deliver, other than with respect to Excluded Assets, any and all certificates representing Equity Interests directly owned by such Restricted Subsidiary or, if applicable in the case of Equity Interests of Foreign Subsidiaries and, to the extent required by the Security Agreement, cause the legal representative(s) of such Restricted Subsidiary to register the transfer of the Equity Interests in the relevant share registers of such Restricted Subsidiary, in each applicable case accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank and, to the extent required by the Security Agreement, instruments, if any, evidencing the intercompany debt held by such Restricted Subsidiary, if any, indorsed in blank to the Administrative Agent or accompanied by other appropriate instruments of transfer; and
(E) take and cause such Restricted Subsidiary to take whatever reasonable action (including the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (or comparable documents or instruments under other applicable Law), and delivery of certificates evidencing stock and membership interests) as may be necessary in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent to vest in the Administrative Agent (or in any representative of the Administrative Agent designated by it) valid and subsisting Liens on the properties purported to be subject to the Collateral Documents delivered pursuant to this Section 6.12; and
(ii) if requested, as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case on or prior to thirty (30) days after the reasonable request therefor by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent a signed copy of customary legal opinions, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, of counsel for the Loan Parties (or, where customary in the applicable jurisdiction, the Administrative Agent) reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as to such matters set forth in this Section 6.12(a) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
(b) Upon the acquisition of any Material Real Property by the Borrower or any Guarantor, or if otherwise required by Section 6.12(a)(i), if such Material Real Property shall not already be subject to a perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, cause such Material Real Property (other than Excluded Assets) to be subjected to a Lien securing the Secured Obligations and will take, or cause the Borrower and Guarantor to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to grant and perfect or record such Lien in accordance with the conditions set forth in Section 4.01(b)(i) within ninety (90) days of the requirement becoming applicable (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion).
(c) Concurrently with the delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(b) in respect of financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an appropriate Intellectual Property Security Agreement with respect to all Patents (as defined in the Security Agreement) and Trademarks (as defined in the Security Agreement) registered or pending with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and registered or pending Copyrights (as defined in the Security Agreement) with the United States Copyright Office constituting After Acquired Intellectual Property (as defined in the Security Agreement) that is Material Intellectual Property owned by it or any Guarantor as of the last day of the period for which such Compliance Certificate is delivered, to the extent that such After Acquired Intellectual Property that is Material Intellectual Property is not covered by any previous Intellectual Property Security Agreement so signed and delivered
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by it or such Guarantor. In each case, the Borrower will, and will cause each Guarantor to, promptly cooperate as necessary to enable the Administrative Agent to make any necessary recordations with the US Copyright Office or the US Patent and Trademark Office, as appropriate, with respect to such Material Intellectual Property.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.12 and the provisions of any Loan Document, (i) the Administrative Agent shall not take, and the Borrower and Guarantors shall not be required to grant, a security interest in any Excluded Assets, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall not take a security interest in any assets, including without limitation, Material Real Property, as to which the Administrative Agent shall determine in writing, in its reasonable discretion, that the cost, burden or consequences of obtaining such Lien (including any mortgage, stamp, intangibles or other similar Tax, title insurance or similar items) is excessive in relation to the benefit to the Secured Parties of the security afforded thereby, (iii) Liens required to be granted pursuant to this Section 6.12, and actions required to be taken, including to perfect such Liens, shall be subject to exceptions and limitations consistent with those set forth in the Collateral Documents as in effect on the Closing Date and (iv) the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors shall not be required to take any actions outside the United States to perfect any Liens in the Collateral.
(e) The Borrower agrees to notify the Administrative Agent in writing promptly, but in any event within 30 days, after any change in (i) the legal name of any Grantor (as defined in the Security Agreement), (ii) the identity or type of organization or corporate structure of such Grantor or (iii) the jurisdiction of organization of such Grantor.
Section 6.13 Compliance with Environmental Laws. Except, in each case, to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) comply, and take all reasonable actions to cause all lessees and other Persons operating or occupying its properties to comply, in all material respects, with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits; (b) obtain and renew all Environmental Permits necessary for its operations and properties; and (c) in each case to the extent required by Environmental Laws, conduct any investigation, study, sampling and testing, and undertake any cleanup, removal, remedial or other action necessary to remove and clean up all Hazardous Materials in amounts or concentrations constituting a violation of Environmental Laws from any of its properties, subject to and in accordance with the requirements of all Environmental Laws.
Section 6.14 Further Assurances. Promptly upon reasonable request by the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, (i) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation of any Collateral Document or other document or instrument relating to any Collateral, and (ii) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time for the purposes of perfecting (or continuing the perfection of) the rights of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral (or with respect to any additions thereto or replacements or proceeds or products thereof or with respect to any other property or assets hereafter acquired by the Borrower or any other Loan Party which is required to be part of the Collateral to the extent required by Section 6.12), in each case subject to the limitations and exceptions set forth in Section 6.12 and in the Collateral Documents, including, without limitation, delivery of such amendments to the Mortgages, endorsements to the title policies, opinions of counsel and evidence of compliance with flood laws as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require in connection with the transactions contemplated by Sections 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16 hereof or any other amendment, modification or execution of any Facility.
Section 6.15 Designation of Subsidiaries. The board of directors of the Borrower may at any time designate any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary (including any newly acquired or newly formed Restricted Subsidiary at or prior to the time it is so acquired or formed) or any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (a) immediately before and after such designation, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (b) immediately after giving effect to such designation, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be in compliance, on a Pro Forma Basis, with the covenant set forth in Section 7.10, (c) notwithstanding anything else in this Section 6.15 to the contrary, any Unrestricted Subsidiary that has been re-designated a Restricted Subsidiary may not be subsequently re-designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and (d) no Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if it is a “Restricted Subsidiary” for the purpose of any Junior Financing. The
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designation of any Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall constitute an Investment by Borrower or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (as applicable) therein at the date of designation in an amount equal to the fair market value of such Person’s (as applicable) investment therein and the Investment resulting from such designation must otherwise be in compliance with Section 7.02. The designation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary shall constitute the incurrence at the time of designation of any Indebtedness or Liens of such Subsidiary existing at such time. As of the date hereof, any Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower are set forth in Schedule 6.15.
Section 6.16 Maintenance of Ratings. Use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain a rating of the Facilities and a corporate family credit rating of the Borrower by each of S&P and Xxxxx’x.
Section 6.17 Subordination of Loans. Each Loan Party covenants and agrees that any existing and future loans from any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to the Borrower or any Loan Party shall be subordinated (to the extent legally permitted) in right of payment to the Secured Obligations pursuant to the Intercompany Note.
Section 6.18 Post-Closing Matters. Execute and deliver the documents and complete the tasks set forth in Schedule 6.18, in each case within the time limits specified on such schedule (unless the Administrative Agent, in its discretion, shall have agreed in writing to any particular longer period). Notwithstanding anything in the Credit Agreement or any Collateral Document to the contrary, no document or task described on Schedule 6.18 shall be required to be delivered except within the time limits specified on such schedule (including any longer period agreed to in writing by the Administrative Agent in its discretion) and no Default or Event of Default shall be caused hereunder or thereunder by the failure of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to deliver such documents and complete such tasks prior to the end of the time periods provided thereby.
ARTICLE 7
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
Section 7.01 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:
(a) (i) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document and (ii) Liens on cash or deposits granted in favor of any Swing Line Lender or L/C Issuer to Cash Collateralize any Defaulting Lender’s participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans, respectively, as contemplated by Section 2.03(a)(ii)(E) and 2.04(b), and 2.17(a)(ii), respectively;
(b) Liens on property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries existing on the date hereof and listed in Schedule 7.01(b) and any modifications, replacements, renewals or extensions thereof; provided that (i) the Lien does not extend to any additional property other than (A) after-acquired property that is affixed or incorporated into the property covered by such Lien, and (B) proceeds and products thereof, and (ii) the modification, replacement, renewal, extension or refinancing of the obligations secured or benefited by such Liens (if such obligations constitute Indebtedness) is permitted by Section 7.03;
(c) Liens for Taxes which are not due and payable except for those being contested in good faith and by appropriate actions diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP;
(d) statutory Liens and any Liens arising by operation of law in each case of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or, if more than thirty (30) days overdue (i) no action has been taken to enforce such Lien, (ii) such
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Lien is being contested in good faith and by appropriate actions diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP or (iii) with respect to which the failure to make payment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(e) (i) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, (ii) pledges and deposits in the ordinary course of business securing insurance premiums or reimbursement obligations under insurance policies, in each case payable to insurance carriers that provide insurance to the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or (iii) obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees that have been posted by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to support the payments of the items set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.01(e).
(f) (i) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, governmental contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money), statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds, performance and completion guarantees and other obligations of a like nature (including those to secure health, safety and environmental obligations) incurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees that have been posted to support payment of the items set forth in clause (i) of this Section 7.01(f);
(g) matters of record affecting title to any owned or leased real property and survey exceptions, encroachments, protrusions, recorded and unrecorded servitudes, easements, restrictions, reservations, licenses, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraphs and telephone lines, variations in area or measurement, rights of parties in possession under written leases or occupancy agreements, and other title defects and non-monetary encumbrances affecting real property, and zoning, building or other restrictions as to the use of real property or Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to the ownership of its properties, in each case that were not incurred in the connection with Indebtedness and which could not, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of such Person;
(h) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h);
(i) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(e); provided that (i) such Liens attach concurrently with or within two hundred seventy (270) days after the acquisition, repair, replacement, construction or improvement (as applicable) of the property subject to such Liens (except in the case of any Permitted Refinancing) and (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property except for accessions to such property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and the proceeds and the products thereof; provided that individual financings of equipment provided by one lender may be cross collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender;
(j) (i) leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses granted to other Persons in the ordinary course of business which do not (A) interfere in any material respect with the business of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties, taken as a whole, or (B) secure any Indebtedness for borrowed money or (ii) the rights reserved or vested in any Person by the terms of any lease, license, franchise, grant or permit held by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or by a statutory provision, to terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual or periodic payments as a condition to the continuance thereof;
(k) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the ordinary course of business;
(l) Liens (i) of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code on items in the course of collection, (ii) attaching to commodity trading accounts or other commodities brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business or (iii) in favor of a banking institution arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits (including the right of set-off) and which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry;
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(m) Liens (i) (A) on advances of cash or Cash Equivalents in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment and (B) consisting of an agreement to Dispose of any property in a Disposition permitted under Section 7.05, in each case under this clause (m)(i), solely to the extent such Investment or Disposition, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Lien or on the date of any contract for such Investment or Disposition, and (ii) xxxxxxx money deposits of cash or Cash Equivalents made by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;
(n) Liens on property of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party securing Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary permitted under Section 7.03;
(o) (i) Liens in favor of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary that is a Loan Party securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(d) and (ii) Liens in favor of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party granted by another Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, provided that any such Lien on Collateral shall be expressly junior in priority to the Liens on such Collateral granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents and all documentation with respect to such lien priority shall be in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(p) Liens existing on property at the time of its acquisition or existing on the property of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case after the date hereof (other than Liens on the Equity Interests of any Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary) and any modifications, replacements, renewals or extensions thereof; provided that (i) such Lien was not created in contemplation of such acquisition or such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) such Lien does not extend to or cover any other assets or property (other than the proceeds or products thereof and after-acquired property subjected to a Lien pursuant to terms existing at the time of such acquisition, it being understood that such requirement shall not be permitted to apply to any property to which such requirement would not have applied but for such acquisition) and (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby (or, as applicable, any modifications, replacements, renewals or extension thereof) is permitted under Section 7.03;
(q) Liens arising from precautionary UCC financing statement filings (or similar filings under other applicable Law) regarding leases entered into by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(r) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for sale of goods entered into by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and not prohibited by this Agreement;
(s) any interest and title of a lessor, sublessor, licensor or sublicensor under any lease, sublease or license agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(t) to the extent constituting Liens, Dispositions expressly permitted under Section 7.05 (other than Section 7.05(e));
(u) Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations outstanding in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000;
(v) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off (i) relating to the establishment of depository relations with banks not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;
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(w) Liens encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;
(x) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof securing the financing of the premiums with respect thereto;
(y) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and the proceeds thereof securing such Person’s obligations in respect of documentary letters of credit or banker’s acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or goods;
(z) Liens deemed to exist in connection with Investments in repurchase agreements referred to in clause (d) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents”;
(aa) Liens on Collateral securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(r)(ii) and any modifications, replacements, renewals or extensions thereof; provided that the modification, replacement, renewal, extension or refinancing of the obligations secured or benefited by such Liens is permitted by Section 7.03(r)(iii);
(bb) ground leases in respect of real property on which facilities owned or leased by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries are located;
(cc) customary rights of first refusal and tag, drag and similar rights in joint venture agreements and franchise agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(dd) Liens on the Collateral securing (i) Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt and subject to the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement or (ii) Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt and subject to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement; and
(ee) Liens on the Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing.
Section 7.02 Investments. Make or hold any Investments, except:
(a) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in assets that were Cash Equivalents when such Investment was made;
(b) loans or advances to officers, directors, members of management, and employees of the Borrower or (to the extent relating to the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries) any direct or indirect parent thereof, or any Restricted Subsidiary (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes and (ii) in connection with such Person’s purchase of Equity Interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof;
(c) Investments (i) by any Loan Party in any other Loan Party, (ii) by any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in any Loan Party or in any other Restricted Subsidiary that is also not a Loan Party, (iii) by any Loan Party in any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in an aggregate amount together with Investments pursuant to Section 7.02(i)(A)(2)(x), not to exceed $600,000,000 (in the case of clause (iii), determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs of such Investments) and (iv) by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in any Subsidiary of the type described in clause (c) of the definition of Excluded Subsidiary to the extent consisting of contributions or other Dispositions of Equity Interests in other Subsidiaries of the type described in clause (c) of the definition of Excluded Subsidiary to such Subsidiary;
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(d) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;
(e) Investments consisting of Liens, Indebtedness, fundamental changes, Dispositions, Restricted Payments and prepayments and repurchases of Indebtedness expressly permitted by Section 7.01, Section 7.03 (other than Sections 7.03(c) and (d)(A)), Section 7.04 (other than Section 7.04(c)(i)), Section 7.05 (other than Sections 7.05(d)(ii) and (e)), Section 7.06 (other than Section 7.06(e)(v)), Section 7.13 and Section 10.07(l), respectively;
(f) Investments of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries existing or contemplated on the date hereof or as set forth in Schedule 7.02(f) and any modification, replacement, renewal or extension thereof as in effect on the date hereof; provided that the amount of the original Investment is not increased except by the terms of such Investment or as otherwise permitted by this Section 7.02;
(g) Investments in Swap Contracts permitted by Section 7.03;
(h) promissory notes and other non-cash consideration received in connection with Dispositions permitted by Section 7.05;
(i) the purchase or other acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets or business of, any Person, or of assets constituting a business unit, a line of business or division of, any Person, or of the Equity Interests in a Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be owned directly by the Borrower or one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, as a result of a merger or consolidation); provided that, with respect to each such purchase or other acquisition made pursuant to this Section 7.02(i) (each of the foregoing, a “Permitted Acquisition”):
(A) (1) each applicable Loan Party and any such newly created or acquired Subsidiary shall, or will within the times specified therein, have complied with the applicable requirements of Section 6.12 to the extent required thereby, and (2) the aggregate amount of cash or property provided by Loan Parties to make any such purchase or acquisition of assets that are not purchased or acquired (or do not become owned) by a Loan Party or in Equity Interests in Persons that do not become Loan Parties upon consummation of such purchase or acquisition shall not exceed, together with Investments pursuant to Section 7.02(c)(iii), the sum of (x) $600,000,000 and (y) amounts otherwise available pursuant to Section 7.02(m);
(B) immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(C) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent, no later than the date on which any such purchase or other acquisition is consummated, a certificate of a Responsible Officer certifying that all of the requirements set forth in this clause (i) have been satisfied or will be satisfied on or prior to the consummation of such purchase or other acquisition.
(j) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of (i) endorsements for collection or deposit or (ii) customary trade arrangements with customers;
(k) Investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with (x) the bankruptcy or reorganization of any Person and in settlement of obligations of, or disputes with, any Person arising in the ordinary course of business and upon foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment and (y) the non-cash proceeds of any Disposition permitted by Section 7.05;
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(l) loans and advances to the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof in lieu of, and not in excess of the amount of (after giving effect to any other loans, advances or Restricted Payments in respect thereof), Restricted Payments permitted to be made to Holdings or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower in accordance with Section 7.06; provided that any Investment made under this Section 7.02(l) shall reduce dollar for dollar capacity to make Restricted Payments under Section 7.06;
(m) Investments that do not exceed (x) $500,000,000 at any time outstanding, plus (y) the Cumulative Amount at the time of such Investment;
(n) advances of payroll payments to employees in the ordinary course of business;
(o) Guarantees by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of leases (other than Capitalized Leases) or of other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(p) Investments to the extent the consideration paid therefor consists solely of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof;
(q) Investments consisting of promissory notes issued by any Loan Party to future, present or former officers, directors and employees, members of management, or consultants of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective estates, spouses or former spouses to finance the purchase or redemption of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof, to the extent the applicable Restricted Payment is permitted by Section 7.06;
(r) Investments held by a Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (or is merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) pursuant to this Section 7.02 (and, if applicable, Section 7.04) after the Closing Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation;
(s) Investments made in the ordinary course of business in connection with obtaining, maintaining or renewing client and customer contracts and loans or advances made to, and guarantees with respect to obligations of, distributors, suppliers, franchisees, franchisors, licensors and licensees in the ordinary course of business;
(t) Investments made by any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to the extent such Investments are made with the proceeds received by such Restricted Subsidiary from an Investment made by a Loan Party in such Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to this Section 7.02;
(u) Investments in NQ Fund not to exceed $45,000,000 in the aggregate as described in Schedule 7.02(u);
(v) Investments by Non-U.S. Subsidiaries not to exceed $300,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(w) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary which consist of (i) the transfer of Equity Interests of a Non-U.S. Subsidiary to another Non-U.S. Subsidiary, joint venture or partnership or (ii) the transfer of economic and beneficial ownership of non-U.S. intellectual property rights to a Non-U.S. Subsidiary on arm’s-length terms and for consideration consisting of cash and promissory notes; provided that any promissory note issued to a Loan Party that exceeds $1,000,000 in principal amount will be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement;
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(x) (i) Investments in a Securitization Subsidiary or any Investment by a Securitization Subsidiary in any other Person in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing; provided, however, that any such Investment in a Securitization Subsidiary is in the form of (x) a contribution of Securitization Assets or (y) Limited Originator Recourse and (ii) distributions or payments of Securitization Fees and purchases of Securitization Assets pursuant to a Securitization Repurchase Obligation in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing;
(y) Investments in connection with the initial formation and capitalization of the Quest Diagnostics JV, including investments that are determined at the initial closing of the Quest Diagnostics JV but that may be completed over time; and
(z) additional Investments, so long as, at the time any such Investment is made and immediately after giving effect thereto, (x) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing and (y) the Total Leverage Ratio on a Pro Forma Basis is not greater than 3.50 to 1.00.
Section 7.03 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents;
(b) Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries outstanding on the date hereof and listed in Schedule 7.03(b) and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
(c) Guarantees by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary otherwise permitted hereunder and to the extent permitted by Section 7.02; provided that (A) no Guarantee by any Restricted Subsidiary of any Indebtedness constituting a Specified Junior Financing Obligation shall be permitted unless such Restricted Subsidiary shall have also provided a Guarantee of the Obligations substantially on the terms set forth in the applicable Guaranty to the extent required by Section 6.12 and (B) if the Indebtedness being Guaranteed is subordinated to the Obligations, such Guarantee shall be subordinated to the Guarantee of the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the subordination provisions of such Indebtedness;
(d) (A) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Loan Party owing to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent such Investment is permitted by Section 7.02, (B) Indebtedness of any Non U.S. Subsidiary owed to a Non U.S. Subsidiary, including, pursuant to any cash management facility or (C) Indebtedness of any Non U.S. Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time not in excess of $200,000,000; provided that any such Indebtedness to a Loan Party under clause (A) or (C) that exceeds $1,000,000 in principal amount shall be evidenced by a promissory note and shall be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement;
(e) Attributable Indebtedness and purchase money obligations (including obligations in respect of mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond, and similar financings) to finance the purchase, repair or improvement of fixed or capital assets within the limitations set forth in Section 7.01(i) and any Permitted Refinancing thereof; provided that the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness at any one time outstanding shall not exceed the greater of (A) $135,000,000 and (B) 4.5% of Total Assets as of the end of the Test Period;
(f) Indebtedness of Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding for all such Persons taken together not exceeding the greater of (A) $135,000,000 and (B) 4.5% of Total Assets as of the end of the Test Period;
(g) Indebtedness in respect of Swap Contracts not incurred for speculative purposes;
(h) Indebtedness (other than for borrowed money) subject to Liens permitted under Section 7.01;
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(i) (A) Indebtedness (not constituting Disqualified Equity Interests) assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition; provided that such Indebtedness is not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition; provided that both immediately prior and after giving effect to any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (i)(A), (x) no Event of Default shall exist or result therefrom, and (y) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenant set forth in Section 7.10, and the Borrower’s Total Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than the greater of (1) 5.75 to 1.00 as of the end of the Test Period last ended, after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition and the assumption, incurrence or issuance of such Indebtedness and (2) the Total Leverage Ratio immediately prior to the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition and (B) any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
(j) Indebtedness representing deferred compensation to employees of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(k) Indebtedness constituting obligations for indemnification, the adjustment of the purchase price or similar adjustments incurred under agreements for a Permitted Acquisition or Disposition;
(l) Indebtedness consisting of obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary under deferred compensation or other similar arrangements incurred by such Person in connection with Permitted Acquisitions;
(m) Cash Management Obligations and other Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protections and similar arrangements in each case in connection with cash management and deposit accounts;
(n) Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300,000,000 any time outstanding;
(o) Indebtedness consisting of (A) the financing of insurance premiums or (B) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;
(p) Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary constituting reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit issued in the ordinary course of business, including in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims; provided that upon the drawing of such letters of credit or the incurrence of such Indebtedness, such obligations are reimbursed within thirty (30) days following such drawing or incurrence;
(q) obligations in respect of surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and performance and completion guarantees provided by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or obligations in respect of letters of credit related thereto, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(r) (i) Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness so long as (x) the Borrower’s Total Leverage Ratio shall be less than 5.75 to 1.00 as of the end of the Test Period last ended, after giving effect to such incurrence and (y) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) Permitted Pari Passu Notes and Permitted Second Lien Indebtedness so long as (x) the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall be less than 4.00 to 1.00 as of the end of the Test Period then last ended, after giving effect to such incurrence and (y) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, and (iii) any Permitted Refinancing of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clause (i) or (ii);
(s) Indebtedness in respect of (x) any bankers’ acceptance, letter of credit, warehouse receipt or similar facilities entered into in the ordinary course of business or (y) any letter of credit issued in favor of any L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender to support any Defaulting Lender’s participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans, respectively, as contemplated by Section 2.03(a)(ii)(E) or 2.04(b), respectively;
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(t) Indebtedness to current or former officers, directors, managers, consultants and employees, their Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members to finance the purchase or redemption of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) permitted by Section 7.06;
(u) (i) Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness to finance any prepayments of Indebtedness under the Loan Documents pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iv) or 10.07(l) and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing thereof meeting the requirements of Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness;
(v) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in respect of obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to pay the deferred purchase price of goods or services or progress payments in connection with such goods and services;
(w) Indebtedness incurred by a Securitization Subsidiary in a Qualified Securitization Financing that is non-recourse (except for Standard Securitization Undertakings and Limited Originator Recourse) to the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding for all such Persons taken together not exceeding $400,000,000, and any Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary as Limited Originator Recourse in connection with such Qualified Securitization Financing;
(x) all premiums (if any), interest (including post-petition interest), fees, expenses, charges and additional or contingent interest on obligations described in clauses (a) through (x);
(y) Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt, Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt and Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt, in each case of a Loan Party;
(z) Indebtedness of any Non-U.S. Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary representing (i) the deferred payment of the purchase price for the sale of Equity Interests of a Non-U.S. Subsidiary by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary to such Non-U.S. Subsidiary, (ii) the purchase price of non-U.S. intellectual property rights to the extent such Investment is permitted by Section 7.02(w)(ii) or an allocation of development costs for intellectual property used by any Non-U.S. Subsidiary or (iii) a management or other fee owed to the Borrower for services provided by the Borrower or a Loan Party to such Non-U.S. Subsidiary; provided that, in each case, any such Indebtedness to any Loan Party that exceeds $1,000,000 in principal amount individually or in the aggregate shall be evidenced by a promissory note and shall be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement; and
(aa) Indebtedness consisting of the Senior Notes and any Permitted Refinancing thereof.
Accrual of interest or dividends, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, and the payment of interest or dividends in the form of additional Indebtedness shall in each case not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 7.03.
Section 7.04 Fundamental Changes. Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, except that:
(a) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge with or liquidate into (i) the Borrower (including a merger, the purpose of which is to reorganize the Borrower into a new jurisdiction so long as the Borrower remains organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia (the “Jurisdictional Requirements”)); provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person, or (ii) any one or more other Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that when any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Loan Party is merging with another Restricted Subsidiary, (A) a Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person; or (B) to the extent constituting an Investment, such Investment must be an Investment permitted by Section 7.02 and any Indebtedness corresponding to such Investment must be permitted by Section 7.03;
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(b) (i) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may merge or consolidate with or into any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and (ii) any Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) may liquidate or dissolve or change its legal form if the Borrower determines in good faith that such action is in the best interests of the Borrower;
(c) the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary may merge with any other Person in order to (i) effect an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 (provided that (A) the continuing or surviving Person shall be a Restricted Subsidiary, which together with each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, shall have complied with the requirements of Section 6.12 and (B) to the extent constituting an Investment, such Investment must be a permitted Investment in accordance with Section 7.02) or (ii) to effect the designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 6.15; provided that if the Borrower is a party to any transaction effected pursuant to this Section 7.04(c), (A) the Borrower shall be the continuing and surviving Person or the continuing or surviving Person shall expressly assume the obligations of the Borrower in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, (B) the Jurisdictional Requirements shall be satisfied, and (C) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom;
(d) so long as no Default exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower may (i) merge with any other Person; provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation and the Jurisdictional Requirements shall be satisfied or (ii) change its legal form to a limited liability company if the Borrower determines in good faith that such action is in the best interests of the Borrower; and
(e) so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, a merger, dissolution, liquidation or consolidation, the purpose of which is to effect a Disposition permitted pursuant to Section 7.05, may be effected; provided that if the Borrower is a party to any transaction effected pursuant to this Section 7.04(e), (i) the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person and (ii) the Jurisdictional Requirements shall be satisfied.
Section 7.05 Dispositions. Make any Disposition except:
(a) Dispositions of obsolete, used, surplus or worn out property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business and Dispositions of property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(b) Dispositions of inventory and equipment in the ordinary course of business;
(c) Dispositions of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property;
(d) Dispositions of property by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary (including any such Disposition effected pursuant to a merger, liquidation or dissolution); provided that if the transferor of such property is a Guarantor or the Borrower then (i) the transferee thereof must either be the Borrower or a Guarantor or (ii) to the extent such transaction constitutes an Investment, such transaction is permitted under Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(x)) and any Indebtedness corresponding to such Investment must be permitted by Section 7.03;
(e) Dispositions permitted by Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(e) or (x)), Section 7.04 (other than Section 7.04(e)) and Section 7.06 (other than Section 7.06(d)) and Liens permitted by Section 7.01;
(f) [Reserved];
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(g) Dispositions of Cash Equivalents;
(h) Dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the collection or compromise thereof;
(i) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses of property in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(j) transfers of property subject to Casualty Events upon receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Casualty Event;
(k) Dispositions of property by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) at the time of such Disposition, (other than any such Disposition made pursuant to a legally binding commitment entered into at a time when no Default exists), no Default shall exist, (ii) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this Section 7.05(k) for a purchase price in excess of the greater of (x) $60,000,000 and (y) 2.0% of Total Assets as of the end of the Test Period last ended, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall receive not less than 75% of such consideration in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents (in each case, free and clear of all Liens at the time received other than Liens permitted by Section 7.01) (it being understood that for the purposes of this clause (k)(ii), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the payment in cash of the Obligations, that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable Disposition and for which all of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received) within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the closing of the applicable Disposition, (C) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received in respect of such Disposition having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (C) that is at that time outstanding, not in excess of the greater of $45,000,000 and 1.5% of Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration, with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (iii) the aggregate value of all property Disposed of pursuant to this Section 7.05(k) since the Closing Date shall not exceed $550,000,000;
(l) Dispositions of Investments in Joint Ventures, to the extent required by, or made pursuant to buy/sell arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth in, joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements in effect on the Closing Date;
(m) Dispositions in the ordinary course of business consisting of the abandonment of IP Rights which, in the reasonable good faith determination of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, are uneconomical, negligible, obsolete or otherwise not material in the conduct of its business (it being understood and agreed that no Material Intellectual Property may be Disposed of in reliance on this clause (m));
(n) any surrender or waiver of contractual rights or the settlement, release or surrender of contractual rights or other litigation claims in the ordinary course of business;
(o) Dispositions of Investments in Samsung JV and NQ Fund as described in Schedule 7.02(u);
(p) Dispositions of the Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; and
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(q) any Disposition of Securitization Assets to or by a Securitization Subsidiary; provided that to the extent the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from all such Dispositions since the Closing Date exceeds $300,000,000, such excess shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(ii);
provided that any Disposition of any property pursuant to this Section 7.05 (except pursuant to Section 7.05(d), Section 7.05(e), 7.05(h), 7.05(j) and Section 7.05(m)), shall be for no less than the fair market value of such property at the time of such Disposition. To the extent any Collateral is Disposed of as expressly permitted by this Section 7.05 to any Person other than a Loan Party, such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Loan Documents, and the Administrative Agent is hereby authorized by the Lenders to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.
Section 7.06 Restricted Payments. Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except (subject to the proviso in Section 7.02(l)):
(a) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower and to other Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Restricted Payment by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary with respect to any class or type of Equity Interests, to (i) the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) to each other owner of Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests of such class or type of Equity Interests);
(b) the Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of such Person;
(c) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments necessary to consummate the Transactions;
(d) to the extent constituting Restricted Payments, transactions expressly permitted by Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(e), (l) and (q)), Section 7.04, or Section 7.05 (other than Section 7.05(e));
(e) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments:
(i) with respect to any taxable period during which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a member of a consolidated, combined or similar income tax group of which its direct or indirect parent is the common parent, the proceeds of which shall be used to pay the portion of such tax group’s actual cash income tax liability attributable to the taxable income of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries of the Borrower, in an amount not to exceed the amount of the income tax liability that would have been payable by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries on a stand-alone basis; provided that such distribution shall be reduced by any portion of such Taxes directly paid by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; and provided, further, that any payments attributable to the income of Unrestricted Subsidiaries shall be permitted only to the extent that cash payments were made for such purpose by the Unrestricted Subsidiaries to the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to pay) any direct or indirect parent’s operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including, without limitation, administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, plus any reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any such entity attributable to the ownership or operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain the corporate existence of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof;
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(iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to pay) for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower held by any future, present or former employee, director, officer, member of management or consultant of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof, or any of its Subsidiaries (or any Controlled Investment Affiliate or Immediate Family Member thereof); provided that the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made under this clause (e)(iv) does not exceed (1) in 2015, $40,000,000 and (2) in any calendar year thereafter, $20,000,000 (in each case, with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to the two (2) immediately succeeding calendar years, subject to a maximum of $45,000,000 in any calendar year; provided, that $20,000,000 of the amount available in 2015 under clause (1), if unused, shall carry forward only to 2016); and provided further that such amount in any calendar year may be increased by an amount not to exceed (A) the cash proceeds from the sale of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof to employees, directors, officers, members of management or consultants of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof or of its Subsidiaries that occurs after the Closing Date to the extent such proceeds constitute Eligible Equity Proceeds plus (B) the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower (to the extent such proceeds are contributed to or received by the Borrower), the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date (provided that the Borrower may elect to apply all or any portion of the aggregate increase contemplated by clauses (A) and (B) above in any calendar year) less (C) the amount of any Restricted Payments previously made pursuant to clauses (A) and (B) of this clause (e)(iv);
(v) the proceeds of which shall be used to finance (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to finance) any Investment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 7.02; provided that (A) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing or consummation of such Investment and (B) any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower shall, immediately following the closing or consummation thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets or Equity Interests) to be contributed to the Borrower or a Loan Party (or a Person that will become a Loan Party upon receipt of such contribution) or (2) the merger (to the extent permitted in Section 7.04) of the Person formed or acquired into the Borrower or a Loan Party in order to consummate such Permitted Acquisition, in each case, in accordance with the requirements of Section 6.12;
(vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to make (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to make) cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Equity Interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof; provided that any such cash payment shall not be for the purpose of evading the limitations set forth in this Section 7.06 (as determined in good faith by the board of directors or the managing board, as the case may be, of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof (or any authorized committee thereof));
(vii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering not prohibited by this Agreement (in the case of any such parent or indirect parent, only to the extent such parent or indirect parent does not hold material assets other than those relating to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses);
(viii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to pay) customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers and employees of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are directly attributable to the ownership or operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; and
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(ix) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make a payment to any direct or indirect parent to enable it to pay) amounts of the type described in Sections 7.08(g) or 7.08(h), in each case to the extent the applicable payment would be permitted under the applicable clause in Section 7.08 if such payment were to be made by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries and in lieu of such payment being made under such applicable clauses of Section 7.08;
(f) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount that does not exceed the sum of (i) the greater of (x) $50,000,000 and (y) 1.50% of Total Assets as of the end of the Test Period last ended (such amount to be reduced on a dollar for dollar basis by any use of this Section 7.06(f)(i) reallocated to prepayments of Junior Financings pursuant to Section 7.13(i)) and (ii) the Cumulative Amount as in effect immediately prior to the time of making of such Restricted Payment;
(g) repurchases of Equity Interests in any direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary deemed to occur upon exercise of stock options or warrants if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants;
(h) payments made or expected to be made by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of withholding or similar Taxes payable by any future, present or former employee, director, manager or consultant and any repurchases of Equity Interests in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options;
(i) cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities, convertible or exchangeable for Equity Interests of Borrower or any direct or indirect parent company of Borrower;
(j) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and the Cumulative Amount shall not be negative after giving effect thereto, the declaration and payment of dividends and distributions on the Borrower’s common stock (or the payment of dividends to any direct or indirect parent entity of the Borrower to fund a payment of dividends on such entity’s common stock), of up to 6% per annum of the net cash proceeds received by or contributed to the Borrower in or from any public offering of the Borrower’s common stock or the common stock of any of its direct or indirect parent companies, other than public offerings with respect to the Borrower’s common stock registered on Form S-4 or Form S-8; and
(k) additional Restricted Payments, so long as, at the time any such Restricted Payment is made and immediately after giving effect thereto, (x) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing and (y) the Total Leverage Ratio on a Pro Forma Basis is not greater than 3.50 to 1.00.
Section 7.07 Change in Nature of Business. Engage in any material line of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business reasonably related or ancillary thereto.
Section 7.08 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of the Borrower, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than (a) transactions among the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries or any Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction, (b) on terms substantially as favorable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would be obtainable by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate, (c) the Transactions, including the payment of fees and expenses in connection with the consummation of the Transactions, (d) Investments by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to the extent permitted by Section 7.02 (b), (c), (d), (l), (n), (o), (p), (q), (r), (s), (u), (v), (w) or (y) and Restricted Payments by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to the extent permitted by Section 7.06, (e) entering into employment and severance arrangements between any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees, as determined in good faith by the board of directors or senior management of the relevant Person, (f) the payment of customary fees and reimbursement of reasonable out-of-pocket costs of, and customary indemnities provided to or on behalf of, directors, officers and employees of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof, or any Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower, to the extent attributable to the ownership or operations of the Borrower
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and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as determined in good faith by the board of directors or senior management of the relevant Person, (g) the payment of fees, expenses, indemnities or other payments pursuant to, and transactions pursuant to, the permitted agreements in existence on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 7.08 or any amendment thereto to the extent such an amendment is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders, (h) customary compensation to the Sponsors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities and other transaction fees (including in connection with acquisitions and Dispositions), in each case approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the board of directors of the Borrower, in good faith, (i) employment and severance arrangements between the Company Parties and their respective officers and employees in the ordinary course of business and transactions pursuant to stock option plans and employee benefit plans and arrangements, (j) investments by the Investors and Permitted Holders in securities of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries so long as (A) the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms and (B) the investment constitutes less than 5% of the proposed or outstanding issue amount of such class of securities, (k) payments required by securities held by the Investors and Permitted Holders to the extent such securities were acquired as contemplated by clause (j) above or were acquired from third parties, (l) payments to or from, and transactions with, Joint Ventures in the ordinary course of business or for other valid business purposes, (m) payments by any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to tax sharing agreements among any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that comply with Section 7.06(e)(i), (n) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Agreement which are fair to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the board of directors of the Borrower or the senior management thereof, or are on terms at least as favorable as would reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party, (o) transactions between or among Borrower, and/or one or more Subsidiaries to the extent otherwise permitted under this Article 7, and (p) any contribution by any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower to the capital of the Borrower.
Section 7.09 Burdensome Agreements. Enter into or permit to exist any Contractual Obligation that limits the ability of (a) any Restricted Subsidiary to make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any Guarantor or to otherwise transfer property to or invest in the Borrower or any Guarantor, or (b) the Borrower or any Loan Party to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on property of such Person for the benefit of the Secured Parties with respect to the Facilities and the Obligations or under the Loan Documents; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to Contractual Obligations which (i) (A) exist on the date hereof and (to the extent not otherwise permitted by this Section 7.09) are listed in Schedule 7.09, (B) are contained in the Senior Notes or Senior Notes Indenture as in effect on the date hereof and (C) to the extent Contractual Obligations permitted by clauses (A) and (B) are set forth in an agreement evidencing Indebtedness, such Contractual Obligations may set forth in any agreement evidencing any permitted renewal, extension or refinancing of such Indebtedness so long as such renewal, extension or refinancing does not expand the scope of the restrictions described in clauses (a) or (b) that are contained in such Contractual Obligation, (ii) are binding on a Restricted Subsidiary at the time such Restricted Subsidiary first becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, so long as such Contractual Obligations were not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, (iii) represent Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party which is permitted by Section 7.03, (iv) arise in connection with any Disposition permitted by Section 7.05, (v) are customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures permitted under Section 7.02 and applicable solely to such joint venture, (vi) are negative pledges and restrictions on Liens in favor of any holder of Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03 but solely to the extent any negative pledge relates to the property financed by or secured by such Indebtedness (and excluding in any event any Indebtedness constituting any Junior Financing) or that expressly permits Liens for the benefit of the Agents and the Lenders with respect to the credit facilities established hereunder and the Obligations under the Loan Documents on a senior basis without the requirement that such holders of such Indebtedness be secured by such Liens on an equal and ratable, or junior, basis, (vii) are customary restrictions on leases, subleases, licenses or asset sale agreements otherwise permitted hereby so long as such restrictions may relate to the assets subject thereto, (viii) comprise restrictions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e) to the extent that such restrictions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, (ix) are customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest, (x) are customary provisions restricting assignment or transfer of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business, (xi) arise in connection with cash or other deposits permitted under Section 7.01 or are restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, (xii) are restrictions that arise in
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connection with intercompany arrangements entered into for tax planning purposes and that can be terminated at the direction of the Borrower or one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, and (xiii) are restrictions in any one or more agreements governing Indebtedness entered into after the Closing Date that contain encumbrances and other restrictions that are, taken as a whole, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, no more restrictive in any material respect with respect to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary than those encumbrances and other restrictions that are in effect on the Closing Date pursuant to agreements and instruments in effect on the Closing Date or, if applicable, on the date on which such Restricted Subsidiary became a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to agreements and instruments in effect on such date.
Section 7.10 Financial Covenant. For so long as any Term A Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments remain outstanding, with respect to the Term A Loans and the Revolving Credit Facility only, permit the Total Leverage Ratio (beginning with the first full fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date) to exceed 5.75 to 1.00.
Section 7.11 Amendments of Certain Documents. Amend or otherwise modify (a) any of its Organization Documents in a manner materially adverse to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, as determined in good faith by the Borrower, or (b) any term or condition of any Junior Financing Documentation in any manner materially adverse to the interests of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, as determined in good faith by the Borrower; provided that clause (b) shall not apply to any amendment of any Junior Financing Documentation with respect to any Junior Financing with an aggregate principal amount of less than $10,000,000; provided further that the preceding proviso shall not apply to an amendment that would change to an earlier date any required payment of principal of such Junior Financing.
Section 7.12 Accounting Changes. Make any change in the fiscal year of the Borrower; provided, however, that the Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent change its fiscal year to any other fiscal year reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent in which case the Borrower and the Administrative Agent will, and are hereby authorized by the Lenders to, make any adjustments to this Agreement that are necessary to reflect such change in fiscal year.
Section 7.13 Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness. Voluntarily prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner (it being understood that payments of regularly scheduled principal and interest shall be permitted) any Junior Financing or make any payment in violation of any subordination terms of any Junior Financing Documentation, except (i) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, for an aggregate purchase price, or in an aggregate prepayment amount, not to exceed $35,000,000, plus (A) unused amounts available to make Restricted Payments under Section 7.06(f)(i) and (B) an amount equal to the Cumulative Amount as in effect immediately prior to the time of making such purchase or prepayment, (ii) a Permitted Refinancing thereof (including through exchange offers and similar transactions), (iii) the conversion of any Junior Financing to Equity Interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower (other than Disqualified Equity Interests), (iv) with respect to intercompany subordinated indebtedness, to the extent consistent with the subordination terms thereof and (v) additional amounts, so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom and (y) the Total Leverage Ratio on a Pro Forma Basis is not greater than 3.50 to 1.00.
Section 7.14 Designated Senior Debt. Other than with respect to the Senior Notes and the Senior Notes Indenture, designate any Indebtedness (other than under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries as “Designated Senior Indebtedness” or “Senior Secured Financing” (or any comparable term) under, and as defined in, any Junior Financing Documentation.
Section 7.15 Sale and Leaseback Transactions. The Loan Parties will not, and will not permit any of their Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby they shall sell or transfer any Property, real or personal, used or useful in their business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such Property or other Property that they intend to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the Property sold or transferred unless (i) the sale of such Property is permitted by Section 7.05 and (ii) any Lien arising in connection with the use of such Property by any Loan Party or a Restricted Subsidiary is permitted by Section 7.01.
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ARTICLE 8
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 8.01 Events of Default. Any of the following shall constitute an “Event of Default”:
(a) Non-Payment. The Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to pay (i) when due, any amount of principal of any Loan or any L/C Borrowing, or (ii) within five (5) Business Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or any other amount payable hereunder or with respect to any other Loan Document; or
(b) Specific Covenants. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Section 6.03(a), Section 6.05(a) (solely with respect to the Borrower) or Section 6.11 or Article 7 (subject to, in the case of the covenant contained in Section 7.10, the provisions of Section 8.04 and the proviso at the end of this clause (b)); provided that a Default by the Borrower under Section 7.10 (a “Financial Covenant Event of Default”) shall not constitute an Event of Default with respect to the Term Loan Facilities (other than the Term A Loan Facility), any New Term Loan (unless such New Term Loans represent an increase in Term A Loans or Incremental Term A Loans) or any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (unless consisting of Other Revolving Credit Loans) unless and until the Required Financial Covenant Lenders shall have accelerated any outstanding Term A Loans and amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility as a result of such Default (such period commencing with a Default under Section 7.10 and ending on the date on which the Required Financial Covenant Lenders terminate and accelerate the Revolving Credit Facility being the “Term Loan B Standstill Period”) and such declaration has not been rescinded on or prior to the date on which the Term Lenders (other than the Term A Lenders or any other Term Lenders under a Class of Term Loans that benefit from Section 7.10 at such time) declare an Event of Default in connection therewith; or
(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in Section 8.01(a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for thirty (30) days after notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower; or
(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document required to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made; or
(e) Cross-Default. Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary (i) fails to make any payment beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness hereunder) having an aggregate outstanding principal amount of not less than the Threshold Amount, or (ii) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness, or any other event occurs (other than, with respect to Indebtedness consisting of Swap Contracts, termination events or equivalent events not relating to breach by any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of such Swap Contracts), the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity; provided that this clause (e)(ii) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, if such sale or transfer is permitted hereunder and under the documents providing for such Indebtedness; or
(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. The Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator,
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liquidator, rehabilitator, examiner, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, examiner, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for sixty (60) calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for sixty (60) calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding or any similar steps or proceedings under Debtor Relief Laws applicable to any Loan Party or any of their Restricted Subsidiaries; or
(g) Inability To Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) The Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of any such Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty (60) days after its issue or levy; or
(h) Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary one or more final judgments or orders for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer has been notified of such judgment or order and does not deny coverage) and there is a period of sixty (60) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, is not in effect; or
(i) ERISA. An ERISA Event or Foreign Plan Event shall have occurred that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events and Foreign Plan Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or
(j) Invalidity of Loan Documents. Any material provision of any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder (including as a result of a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05) or satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party contests in writing the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies in writing that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document (other than as a result of repayment in full of the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments or as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder or thereunder (including under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05)), or purports in writing to revoke or rescind any Loan Document; or
(k) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control; or
(l) Collateral Documents. Any Collateral Document after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 or Sections 6.12 and 6.18 shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof including as a result of a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05) cease to create a valid and perfected first priority Lien on and security interest in the Collateral covered thereby, subject to Liens permitted under Section 7.01, or any Loan Party shall assert in writing such invalidity or lack of perfection or priority (other than in an informational notice to the Administrative Agent), except to the extent that any such loss of perfection or priority results from the failure of the Administrative Agent to maintain possession of certificates actually delivered to it representing securities pledged under the Collateral Documents and except, as to Collateral consisting of real property to the extent that such losses are covered by a lender’s title insurance policy and the related insurer shall not have denied or disclaimed in writing that such losses are covered by such title insurance policy.
Section 8.02 Remedies upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders (or, if a Financial Covenant Event of Default occurs and is continuing and prior to the expiration of the Term Loan B Standstill Period, at the request of, or with the consent of, the Required Financial Covenant Lenders only, and in such case only with respect to the Term Loan A Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Facility, and any Letters of Credit, L/C Credit Extensions and L/C Obligations), take any or all of the following actions:
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(a) declare the Commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuers to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such Commitments and obligation shall be terminated;
(b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;
(c) require that the Borrower Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and
(d) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable Law;
provided that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or any similar Debtor Relief Laws, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuers to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of the Borrower to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
Section 8.03 Application of Funds. After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically been required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:
First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article 3, but not including principal of or interest on any Loan) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;
Second, to the payment in full of the Unfunded Advances/Participations (the amounts so applied to be distributed between or among the Administrative Agent, any Swing Line Lender and any L/C Issuer pro rata in accordance with the amounts of Unfunded Advances/Participations owed to them on the date of any distribution);
Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the Lenders (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article 3), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;
Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans and L/C Borrowings, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth payable to them;
Fifth, (i) to payment of (A) that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, and (B) the Secured Hedge Obligations and the Cash Management Obligations, ratably among the Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fifth held by them; and (ii) to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuers, to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit;
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Sixth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date; and
Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, in no circumstances shall any amounts received from a Loan Party that is not an “eligible contract participant” (as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act) be applied towards the payment of obligations that are Excluded Swap Obligations, but, to the extent permitted by applicable law, appropriate adjustments shall be made with respect to payments from other Loan Parties that are “eligible contract participants” to preserve, as nearly as possible, the proportional allocation to the Obligations otherwise set forth above in this Section.
Subject to Section 2.03(c), amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fifth above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur. If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above and, if no Obligations remain outstanding, delivered to the Borrower.
Section 8.04 Borrower’s Right to Cure.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 8.01, but subject to Sections 8.04(b) and (c), for the purpose of determining whether a Financial Covenant Event of Default has occurred, the Borrower may apply the Net Cash Proceeds of a Permitted Equity Issuance (the “Cure Amount”) to increase Consolidated EBITDA for and after the final day of the applicable fiscal quarter; provided that such Net Cash Proceeds (i) are actually received by the Borrower during the applicable fiscal quarter or on or prior to the tenth (10th) Business Day after the date on which financial statements are required to be delivered with respect to such applicable fiscal quarter (the “Cure Expiration Date”), (ii) are Not Otherwise Applied (including, without limitation, used to increase the Cumulative Amount) and (iii) do not exceed the maximum aggregate amount necessary to cure any Event of Default under Section 7.10 as of such date. The Cure Amount used to calculate Consolidated EBITDA for one fiscal quarter shall be used and included when calculating Consolidated EBITDA for each Test Period that includes such fiscal quarter. The parties hereby acknowledge that this Section 8.04(a) may not be relied on for purposes of calculating any financial ratios other than as applicable to Section 7.10 and shall not result in any adjustment to any amounts (including the amount of Indebtedness) other than the amount of the Consolidated EBITDA referred to in the immediately preceding sentence. There shall be no reduction in Indebtedness or Consolidated Total Debt with the proceeds of a Permitted Equity Issuance for determining compliance with Section 7.10 as of the end of such fiscal quarter. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 8.01 and Section 8.02, (A) upon receipt of the Cure Amount by the Borrower, the covenant under Section 7.10 shall be deemed satisfied and complied with as of the end of the relevant fiscal quarter with the same effect as though there had been no failure to comply with the covenant under such Section 7.10 and any Financial Covenant Event of Default shall be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of the Loan Documents, and (B) upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Intent to Cure prior to the Cure Expiration Date, neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall exercise any rights or remedies under Section 8.02 (or under any other Loan Document available during the continuance of any Default or Event of Default) on the basis of any actual or purported Financial Covenant Event of Default until such failure is not cured pursuant to the Notice of Intent to Cure on or prior to the Cure Expiration Date.
(b) In each period of four fiscal quarters, there shall be at least two (2) fiscal quarters in which no cure set forth in Section 8.04(a) is made.
(c) There can be no more than five (5) fiscal quarters in which the cure set forth in Section 8.04(a) is made during the term of the Term Loans.
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ARTICLE 9
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS
Section 9.01 Appointment and Authority.
(a) Each of the Lenders and each L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers, rights and remedies as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article 9 are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and each L/C Issuer, and neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party hereto shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.
(b) Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and each L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Administrative Agent in this Article 9 with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by an L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the applications and agreements for letters of credit pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent” as used in this Article 9 and in the definition of “Related Parties” included such L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to such L/C Issuer.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (in its capacities as a Lender, Swing Line Lender (if applicable), L/C Issuer (if applicable) and a potential Hedge Bank) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of (and to hold any security interest created by the Collateral Documents for and on behalf of or on trust for) such Lender for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Secured Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Administrative Agent, as “collateral agent” (and any sub-agents and appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.05 for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article 9 (including, without limitation, Section 10.05 as though such sub-agents were the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.
Section 9.02 Rights as a Lender. The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders. The Lenders acknowledge that pursuant to such activities, the Administrative Agent and its Related Parties may receive information regarding any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Loan Party or such Affiliate) and acknowledge that the Administrative Agent and its Related Parties shall be under no obligation to provide such information to them.
Section 9.03 Exculpatory Provisions. No Agent shall have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:
(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied (or express) duties or obligations arising under the agency doctrine of any applicable Law, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;
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(b) shall not have any duty to take any action (including the failure to take an action) or exercise any powers, except rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable Laws; and
(c) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i)(A) under or in connection with any of the Loan Documents or (B) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances provided in Section 8.02 and 10.01) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence, or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable judgment; provided, that the Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, a Lender or an L/C Issuer; provided, further, that in the event the Administrative Agent shall receive such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Lenders; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not result in an liability on the part of the Administrative Agent.
The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the execution, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, genuineness, collectability or sufficiency of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or the creation, perfection or priority of any Lien purported to be created by the Loan Documents, (v) the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral, (vi) the financial condition or business affairs of any Loan Party or any other Person liable for the payment of any Secured Obligations or as to the use of the proceeds of the Loans, (vii) the properties, books or records of any Loan Party, (viii) the existence or possible existence of any Event of Default or Default or (ix) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article 4 or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
The Administrative Agent shall not have any liability arising from confirmations of the amount of outstanding Loans or the Letter of Credit usage or the component amounts thereof.
Section 9.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or an L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants, experts or professional advisors. No Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Administrative Agent as a result of the Administrative Agent acting or (where so instructed) refraining from acting hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents in accordance with the instructions of Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents).
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Section 9.05 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub agents appointed by the Administrative Agent (other than Competitors). The Administrative Agent and any such sub agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory and indemnification provisions of this Article 9 shall apply to any such sub agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, with respect to each sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent, (i) such sub-agent shall be a third party beneficiary under this Agreement with respect to all such rights, benefits and privileges (including exculpatory rights and rights to indemnification) and shall have all of the rights and benefits of a third party beneficiary, including an independent right of action to enforce such rights, benefits and privileges (including exculpatory rights and rights to indemnification) directly, without the consent or joinder of any other Person, against any or all of Loan Parties and the Lenders, (ii) such rights, benefits and privileges (including exculpatory rights and rights to indemnification) shall not be modified or amended without the consent of such sub-agent and (iii) such sub-agent shall only have obligations to the Administrative Agent and not to any Loan Party, Lender or any other Person and no Loan Party, Lender or other Person shall have any rights, directly or indirectly, as a third party beneficiary or otherwise against such sub-agent.
Section 9.06 Resignation of Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent is a Defaulting Lender or an Affiliate of a Defaulting Lender, either the Required Lenders or the Borrower may, upon ten (10) days’ notice remove the Administrative Agent. Upon receipt of any such notice of removal or resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g)(i) has occurred and is continuing), to appoint a successor. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after receipt of such removal notice or the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring or removed Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, appoint a successor Administrative Agent with the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g)(i) has occurred and is continuing); provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation or removal shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (2) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and each L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this paragraph. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) or removed Administrative Agent, and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this paragraph). The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article 9 and Sections 10.04 and 10.05 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring or removed Administrative Agent, its sub agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring or removed Administrative Agent was acting as the Administrative Agent.
Any resignation of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. or its successor as the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 9.06 shall also constitute the resignation of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. or its successor as a Swing Line Lender and as an L/C Issuer, and any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to this Section 9.06
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shall, upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Swing Line Lender and the successor L/C Issuer for all purposes hereunder; provided that on or prior to the expiration of the thirty (30)-day period following the retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. shall have identified a successor L/C Issuer reasonably acceptable to the Borrower willing to accept its appointment as successor L/C Issuer. In such event, (a) the Borrower shall prepay any outstanding Swing Line Loans made by the retiring Administrative Agent in its capacity as Swing Line Lender, (b) upon such prepayment, the retiring Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender shall surrender any swing line note held by it to the Borrower for cancellation and (c) the Borrower shall issue, if so requested by the successor Administrative Agent and a Swing Line Lender, a new swing line note to the successor Administrative Agent and a Swing Line Lender, in the principal amount of the Swing Line Borrowing then in effect and with other appropriate insertions. In the event of any such resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, the Borrower shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders willing to accept such appointment a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; provided that no failure by the Borrower to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as an L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, except as expressly provided above.
Section 9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to make any such investigation or any such appraisal on behalf of Lenders or to provide any Lender with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its possession before the making of the Loans or at any time or times thereafter, and the Administrative Agent shall not have any responsibility with respect to the accuracy or completeness of any information provided to Lenders.
Section 9.08 Collateral and Guaranty Matters. The Lenders irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent:
(a) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document (i) upon all of the Obligations (other than (x) (i) Cash Management Obligations and (ii) Obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements not yet due and payable, and (y) contingent obligations not yet accrued and payable) having been paid in full, all Letters of Credit having been Cash Collateralized or otherwise back-stopped (including by “grandfathering” into any future credit facilities), in each case, on terms reasonably satisfactory to the relevant L/C Issuer in its reasonable discretion, or having expired or having been terminated, and the Aggregate Commitments having expired or having been terminated, (ii) that is Disposed of as part of or in connection with any Disposition permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document to any Person other than a Loan Party, (iii) subject to Section 10.01, if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders (iv) owned by a Guarantor upon release of such Guarantor from its obligations under its Guaranty pursuant to clause (c) below, or (v) as expressly provided in the Collateral Documents;
(b) to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 7.01(i); and
(c) to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty if such Person ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary or becomes an Excluded Subsidiary as a result of a transaction or designation permitted hereunder; provided that no such release shall occur with respect to an entity that ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary or becomes an Excluded Subsidiary if such Guarantor continues to be a guarantor in respect of any Specified Junior Financing Obligation unless and until each guarantor is (or is being simultaneously) released from its guarantee with respect to such Specified Junior Financing Obligation.
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Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.08. In each case as specified in this Section 9.08, the Administrative Agent will, at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents, or to release such Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.08; provided that the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that any such transaction has been consummated in compliance with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.
Section 9.09 No Other Duties, Etc. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the Arrangers, the Syndication Agent or Co-Documentation Agents and any other Agent listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an L/C Issuer hereunder, it being understood and agreed that each of the Arrangers, the Syndication Agents or Co-Documentation Agents shall be entitled to all indemnification and reimbursement rights in favor of the Agents provided herein and in the other Loan Documents and all of the other benefits of this Article 9. Without limitation of the foregoing, neither the Arrangers, the Syndication Agents nor Co-Documentation Agents in their respective capacities as such shall, by reason of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, have any fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender, Loan Party or any other Person.
Section 9.10 Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents.
(a) It is the purpose of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that there shall be no violation of any Law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or associations to transact business as agent or trustee in such jurisdiction. It is recognized that in case of litigation under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and in particular in case of the enforcement of any of the Loan Documents, or in case the Administrative Agent deems that by reason of any present or future Law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the rights, powers or remedies granted herein or in any of the other Loan Documents or take any other action which may be desirable or necessary in connection therewith, the Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to appoint an additional individual or institution selected by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion as a separate trustee, co-trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, administrative sub-agent or administrative co-agent (any such additional individual or institution being referred to herein individually as a “Supplemental Administrative Agent” and collectively as “Supplemental Administrative Agents”).
(b) In the event that the Administrative Agent appoints a Supplemental Administrative Agent with respect to any Collateral, (i) each and every right, power, privilege or duty expressed or intended by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to the Administrative Agent with respect to such Collateral shall be exercisable by and vest in such Supplemental Administrative Agent to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such Supplemental Administrative Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges with respect to such Collateral and to perform such duties with respect to such Collateral, and every covenant and obligation contained in the Loan Documents and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Supplemental Administrative Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either the Administrative Agent or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this Article 9 and of Sections 10.04 and 10.05 (obligating the Borrower to pay the Administrative Agent’s expenses and to indemnify the Administrative Agent) that refer to the Administrative Agent shall inure to the benefit of such Supplemental Administrative Agent and all references therein to the Administrative Agent shall be deemed to be references to the Administrative Agent and/or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, as the context may require.
(c) Should any instrument in writing from the Borrower or any other Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Administrative Agent so appointed by the Administrative Agent for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to it such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Borrower shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent. In case any Supplemental Administrative Agent, or a successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Administrative Agent, to the extent permitted by Law, shall vest in and be exercised by the Administrative Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Administrative Agent.
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Section 9.11 Withholding Tax. To the extent required by any applicable Law, the Administrative Agent may withhold from any payment to any Lender (including, for purposes of this Section 9.11, any L/C Issuer and any Swing Line Lender), an amount equivalent to any applicable withholding Tax. Without limiting or expanding the obligations of any Loan Party under Section 3.01, each Lender shall, and does hereby, indemnify the Administrative Agent, within thirty (30) calendar days after demand therefor, against any and all Taxes and any and all related losses, claims, liabilities and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent) incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent by the IRS or any other Governmental Authority as a result of the failure of the Administrative Agent to properly withhold Tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender for any reason (including, without limitation, because the appropriate form was not delivered or not property executed, or because such Lender failed to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstance that rendered the exemption from, or reduction of withholding Tax ineffective). A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due the Administrative Agent under this Section 9.11. The agreements in this Section 9.11 shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of any Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
Section 9.12 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or outstanding Letter of Credit shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, Letter of Credit outstandings and all other Secured Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09 and 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and each L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, if the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its Agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09 and 10.04.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Secured Obligations or the rights of any Lender or L/C Issuer to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender or L/C Issuer or in any such proceeding.
Section 9.13 Right to Indemnity. Each Lender, on a pro rata basis, severally agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent, L/C Issuers, Swing Line Lenders and the Foreign Currency Lenders, to the extent that the Administrative Agent, L/C Issuers, Swing Line Lenders or the Foreign Currency Lenders shall not have been reimbursed by any Loan Party (and without limiting its obligation to do so), for and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including counsel fees and disbursements) or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against
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the Administrative Agent, L/C Issuers, Swing Line Lenders or Foreign Currency Lenders in exercising its powers, rights and remedies or performing its duties hereunder or under the other Loan Documents or otherwise in its capacity as the Administrative Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; provided that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agent’s, an L/C Issuer’s, a Swing Line Lender’s or a Foreign Currency Lender’s, as applicable, gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment. If any indemnity furnished to the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer, a Swing Line Lender or a Foreign Currency Lender for any purpose shall, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, such L/C Issuer, such Swing Line Lender or such Foreign Currency Lender, as applicable, be insufficient or become impaired, the Administrative Agent, such L/C Issuer, such Swing Line Lender or such Foreign Currency Lender, as applicable, may call for additional indemnity and cease, or not commence, to do the acts indemnified against until such additional indemnity is furnished; provided that in no event shall this sentence require any Lender to indemnify the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer, a Swing Line Lender or a Foreign Currency Lender against any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, action, judgment, suit, cost, expense or disbursement in excess of such Lender’s pro rata share thereof; and provided, further, that this sentence shall not be deemed to require any Lender to indemnify the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer, a Swing Line Lender or a Foreign Currency Lender against any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, action, judgment, suit, cost, expense or disbursement described in the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence.
ARTICLE 10
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders (other than with respect to any amendment or waiver contemplated in clause (i) below, which shall only require the consent of the Required Financial Covenant Lenders or Required Revolving Lenders, as applicable) (or by the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders) and the Borrower or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment or waiver solely affecting the Revolving Credit Lenders (and that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights and obligations of the Term Lenders) under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be effected solely with the consent of the Required Revolving Lenders and any amendment or waiver solely affecting the Term Lenders (and that does not directly and adversely affect the rights and obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders) under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be effected solely with the consent of the Required Term Lenders; provided further no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(a) extend or increase the Commitment, the Foreign Currency Sublimit or the Maximum Foreign Currency Sublimit of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.01 or Section 4.02, or the waiver of any Default, Event of Default, mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of the Commitments shall not constitute an extension or increase of any Commitment of any Lender);
(b) postpone any date scheduled for any payment of principal, premium, interest or fees, without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby, it being understood that the waiver of any mandatory prepayment of the Term Loans shall not constitute a postponement of any date scheduled for the payment of principal or interest;
(c) reduce or forgive the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clause (iii) of the third proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or premium payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby, it being understood that any change to the definition of Total Leverage Ratio or in the component definitions thereof shall not constitute a reduction in any rate of interest or fees; provided that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate;
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(d) change any provision of this Section 10.01, the definition of “Required Lenders”, “Required Revolving Lenders”, “Required Term Lenders” or “Required Financial Covenant Lenders” or any provision of this Agreement that requires the consent of each Lender or each directly and adversely affected Lender without, in each case, the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby;
(e) release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions (it being understood that a transaction permitted under Section 7.05 shall not constitute the release of all or substantially all of the Collateral), without the written consent of each Lender;
(f) other than in connection with a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05, release all or substantially all of the Guarantors from their obligations under the Guarantees, without the written consent of each Lender;
(g) impose any greater restriction on the ability of any Lender under a Facility to assign any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the written consent of each Lender increasingly restricted thereby;
(h) change any provision of Section 2.06(c) without the written consent of each Revolving Credit Lender directly and adversely affected thereby;
(i) (1) amend, waive or otherwise modify Section 7.10 hereof or the defined terms used for Section 7.10, (2) waive any Financial Covenant Event of Default resulting from a breach of Section 7.10, or (3) amend, waive or otherwise modify Section 2.01(b), 2.03(a)(i) or 2.04(a) without the written consent of (x) with respect to clauses (1) and (2), the Required Financial Covenant Lenders and (y) with respect to clause (3), the Required Revolving Lenders; provided, however, that the amendments, modifications, waivers and consents described in this clause (i) shall not require the consent of any Lenders other than those specified in clause (x) or (y), as applicable;
(j) amend the definition of “Pro Rata Share”, the provisions of Section 2.12, 2.13 or 8.03 or the provisions of Section 4.02 of the Security Agreement in a manner that would by its terms alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the prior written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby; or
(k) extend the stated expiration date of any Letter of Credit beyond the Revolving Credit Commitment Period without the consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby.
and provided further that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the applicable L/C Issuer or L/C Issuers in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of such L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any L/C Request or Letter of Credit Application relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it; (ii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by each Swing Line Lender in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lenders under this Agreement; (iii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of, or any fees or other amounts payable to, the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (iv) Section 10.07(g) may not be amended, waived or otherwise modified without the consent of each Granting Lender all or any part of whose Loans are being funded by an SPC at the time of such amendment, waiver or other modification; and (v) no amendment, waiver or consent shall amend, modify supplement or waive any condition precedent to any extension of credit under the Revolving Credit Facility set forth in Section 4.02 without the written consent of the Required Revolving Lenders under the Revolving Facility (it being understood that amendments, modifications, supplements or waivers of any other provision of any Loan Document, including any representation or warranty, any covenant or any Default, shall be deemed to be effective for purposes of determining whether the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 have been satisfied regardless of whether the Required Revolving Lenders shall have consented to such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that (x) the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Defaulting Lender, (y) the principal and accrued and unpaid interest of such Defaulting Lender’s Loans shall not be reduced or forgiven without
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the consent of such Defaulting Lender and (z) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender that by its terms affects any Defaulting Lender more adversely than other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (a) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (b) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders.
In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Term Loans (as defined below) to permit the refinancing of all outstanding Term Loans (“Refinanced Term Loans”) with a replacement term loan tranche hereunder (“Replacement Term Loans”); provided that (a) the aggregate principal amount of such Replacement Term Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such Refinanced Term Loans, (b) the Applicable Rate for such Replacement Term Loans shall not be higher than the Applicable Rate for such Refinanced Term Loans, (c) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Replacement Term Loans shall not be shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Refinanced Term Loans at the time of such refinancing and (d) all other terms applicable to such Replacement Term Loans shall be substantially identical to, or less favorable to the Lenders providing such Replacement Term Loans than, those applicable to such Refinanced Term Loans, except to the extent necessary to provide for covenants and other terms applicable to any period after the Latest Maturity Date in effect immediately prior to such refinancing.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01, in the event that the Borrower requests that this Agreement be modified or amended in a manner that would require the unanimous consent of all of the Lenders and such modification or amendment is agreed to by the Required Lenders, then with the consent of the Borrower and the Required Lenders, the Borrower and the Required Lenders shall be permitted to amend the Agreement without the consent of the Non-Consenting Lenders to provide for (a) the termination of the Commitment of each Non-Consenting Lender that are (x) Revolving Credit Lenders, (y) Term Lenders or (z) both, at the election of the Borrower and the Required Lenders, (b) the addition to this Agreement of one or more other financial institutions (each of which shall be an Eligible Assignee), or an increase in the Commitment of one or more of the Lenders (with the written consent thereof), so that the total Commitment after giving effect to such amendment shall be in the same amount as the total Commitment immediately before giving effect to such amendment, (c) if any Loans are outstanding at the time of such amendment, the making of such additional Loans by such new financial institutions or Required Lender or Lenders, as the case may be, as may be necessary to repay in full, at par, the outstanding Loans of the Non-Consenting Lenders (including, without limitation, any amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.05) immediately before giving effect to such amendment and (d) such other modifications to this Agreement as may be appropriate to effect the foregoing clauses (a), (b) and (c).
In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01 or any Loan Document, if the Administrative Agent and the Borrower have jointly identified an obvious error or any error or omission of a technical nature, in each case, in any provision of the Loan Documents, then the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend such provision; provided, however, that no such amendment shall become effective until the fifth Business Day after it has been posted to the Lenders, and then only if the Required Lenders have not objected in writing thereto within such five Business Day period.
Section 10.02 Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies.
(a) General. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder or any other Loan Document shall be in writing (including by facsimile transmission). All such written notices shall be mailed, faxed or delivered to the applicable address, facsimile number or electronic mail address, as follows:
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(i) if to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer or a Swing Line Lender, to the address, facsimile number or electronic mail address specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02 or to such other address, facsimile number or electronic mail address as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties; and
(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address, facsimile number or electronic mail address specified in its Administrative Questionnaire or to such other address, facsimile number or electronic mail address as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer and a Swing Line Lender.
All such notices and other communications shall be deemed to be given or made upon the earlier to occur of (i) actual receipt by the relevant party hereto and (ii) (A) if delivered by hand or by courier, when signed for by or on behalf of the relevant party hereto; (B) if delivered by mail, four (4) Business Days after deposit in the mails, postage prepaid; (C) if delivered by facsimile, when sent and receipt has been confirmed; and (D) if delivered by electronic mail, when delivered; provided that notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Swing Line Lenders pursuant to Article 2 shall not be effective until actually received by such Person. In no event shall a telephone or voice-mail message be effective as a notice, communication or confirmation hereunder.
(b) Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and Signatures. Loan Documents may be transmitted and/or signed by facsimile. The effectiveness of any such documents and signatures shall, subject to applicable Law, have the same force and effect as manually signed originals and shall be binding on all Loan Parties, the Agents and the Lenders. The Administrative Agent may also require that any such documents and signatures be confirmed by a manually signed original thereof; provided that the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of any facsimile document or signature.
(c) Reliance by Agents and Lenders. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Committed Loan Notices and Swing Line Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. The Borrower shall indemnify each Agent-Related Person and each Lender from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower in accordance with Section 10.05.
Section 10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by any Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by Law.
Section 10.04 Attorney Costs, Expenses and Taxes. The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the Arrangers and the Administrative Agent for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation, syndication and execution of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and any amendment, waiver, consent or other modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated thereby are consummated), and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including all Attorney Costs of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP and, if necessary, of one local counsel in each foreign jurisdiction as agreed between the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, and (b) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and each Lender (including, for the avoidance of doubt, each Swing Line Lender and each L/C Issuer) for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (including all such costs and expenses incurred during any legal proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law), including all Attorney Costs of counsel (which counsel shall be limited as provided in Section 10.05). The foregoing costs and expenses shall include all search, filing, recording, title insurance and appraisal charges and fees and taxes related thereto, and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent. All amounts due under this Section 10.04 shall be paid promptly. The agreements in this Section 10.04 shall survive the termination of the
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Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations. If any Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it hereunder or under any Loan Document, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, in its sole discretion.
Section 10.05 Indemnification by the Borrower. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Borrower shall indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent, each Agent-Related Person, each Arranger, each Lender (including, for the avoidance of doubt, each L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender) and their respective Affiliates, and their and their Affiliates’ respective directors, officers, employees, counsel, agents, attorneys-in-fact, trustees and advisors (collectively the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements (including Attorney Costs (which shall be limited to one (1) counsel to the Indemnitees taken as a whole (and in the case of a conflict of interests among or between Indemnitees, one additional counsel to each affected Indemnitee and, if necessary, one local counsel to the Indemnitees taken as a whole in each appropriate jurisdiction)) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of or in connection with (a) the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance or administration of any Loan Document or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, (b) any Commitment, Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the applicable L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (c) any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, under or from any property or facility currently or formerly owned or operated by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or liability under any Environmental Law related in any way to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or (d) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory (including any investigation of, preparation for, or defense of any pending or threatened claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding) and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto (and regardless of whether such matter is instituted by a third party or by the Borrower or any other Loan Party) (all the foregoing, collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in part, out of the negligence of the Indemnitee; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements (x) have been determined in the final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (or any of its Related Indemnitees) or a material breach of the Loan Documents by such Indemnitee (or any of its Related Indemnitees) or (y) arise from claims of any of the Indemnitees solely against one or more Indemnitees (and not by one or more Lenders against the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or one or more of the other Agents) that have not resulted from the action, inaction, participation or contribution of the Borrower, or any of its Affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, stockholders, partners, members, employees, agents, representatives or advisors; provided further that Section 3.01 (instead of this Section 10.05) shall govern indemnities with respect to Taxes, except that Taxes representing losses, claims, damages, etc., with respect to a non-Tax claim may be covered by this Section 10.05 (without duplication of Section 3.01). No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by others of any information or other materials obtained through IntraLinks or other similar information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement, nor shall any Indemnitee or any Loan Party have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date). In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 10.05 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, shareholders or creditors or an Indemnitee or any other Person, whether or not any Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not any of the transactions contemplated hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents is consummated. All amounts due under this Section 10.05 shall be paid promptly. The agreements in this Section 10.05 shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations and the termination of this Agreement. For purposes hereof, “Related Indemnitee” of an Indemnitee means (1) any Controlling Person or Controlled affiliate of such Indemnitee, (2) the respective directors, officers, or employees of such Indemnitee or any of its Controlling Persons or Controlled affiliates and (3) the respective agents of such Indemnitee or any of its Controlling Persons or Controlled affiliates, in the case of this clause (3), acting on behalf of or at the instructions of such Indemnitee, Controlling Person or such Controlled affiliate; provided that each reference to a Related Indemnitee in this sentence pertains to a Related Indemnitee involved in performing services under this Agreement and the Facilities.
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Section 10.06 Marshalling; Payments Set Aside. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender (including any L/C Issuer) shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Loan Party or any other Person or against or in payment of any or all of the Secured Obligations. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to any Agent or any Lender, or any Agent or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Agent or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor or related thereto, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment or payments had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share of any amount so recovered from or repaid by any Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect.
Section 10.07 Successors and Assigns.
(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (other than pursuant to the Assumption), and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(b) or, in the case of any Eligible Assignee that, upon giving effect to such assignment, would be an Affiliated Lender, Section 10.07(k), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(e), (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 10.07(g) or Section 10.07(i), as the case may be, or (iv) to an SPC in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(h) (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in Section 10.07(e) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this Section 10.07(b), participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it); provided that (i) except in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it or in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to a Lender, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable Commitment is not then in effect, the outstanding principal balance of the Loan of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent shall not be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, in the case of any assignment in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, or $1,000,000 or an integral multiple in excess thereof, in the case of any assignment in respect of any Term Loans (provided, however, that concurrent assignments to or by Approved Funds will be treated as a single assignment for the purpose of meeting the minimum transfer requirements); (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender (or, in respect of any Revolving Credit Facility, a Revolving Credit Lender), an Affiliate of a Lender (or, in respect of any Revolving Credit Facility, a Revolving Credit Lender) or an Approved Fund (but subject to clause (iv) below), each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default in respect of Section 8.01(a), Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g)(i) has occurred and is continuing and the Loans shall have been declared immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02, the Borrower consents to such assignment (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented (x) to any such assignment of Term Loans unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received notice thereof and (y) to any such assignment of Revolving Credit Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the
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Administrative Agent within ten (10) Business Days after having received notice thereof; (iii) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned, except that this clause (iii) shall not (x) apply to rights in respect of Swing Line Loans or (y) prohibit any Lender from assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among separate Facilities on a non-pro rata basis; (iv) any assignment of a Revolving Credit Commitment must be approved by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers, the Swing Line Lenders (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and the Foreign Currency Lenders (solely in the case of an assignment of any Lender’s Foreign Currency Exposure); (v) the parties (other than the Borrower unless its consent to such assignment is required hereunder) to each assignment shall (A) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption via an electronic settlement system acceptable to the Administrative Agent (which initially shall be ClearPar, LLC) or (B) manually execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (which fee (x) the Borrower shall not have an obligation to pay except as required in Section 3.07 and (y) may be waived by the Administrative Agent in its discretion); provided that only a single processing and recordation fee shall be payable in respect of multiple contemporaneous assignments to Approved Funds with respect to any Lender; (vi) the assigning Lender shall deliver any Notes evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent and (vii) each assignment by an Affiliated Lender shall be acknowledged by the Borrower. Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 10.07(c), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01, Section 3.04, Section 3.05, Section 10.04 and Section 10.05 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment). Upon request, and the surrender by the assigning Lender of its Note, the Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this clause (b) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.07(e).
(c) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of the Loans, L/C Obligations (specifying the Unreimbursed Amounts), L/C Borrowings and amounts due under Section 2.03, owing to each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as the owner of its interests in the Loans, L/C Obligations, L/C Borrowings and amounts due under the Loan Documents as set forth in the Register and as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, any Agent, any Lender (with respect to such Lender’s interest) and any L/C Issuer, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Credit Extensions and Obligations are intended to be treated as registered obligations for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Any right or title in or to any Credit Extensions and Obligations (including with respect to the principal amount and any interest thereon) may only be assigned or otherwise transferred through the Register. This Section 10.07 shall be construed so that the Credit Extensions and Obligations are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code, Treasury Regulation Section 5f.103-1(c) and any other related regulations (or any successor provisions of the Code or such regulations).
(d) The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
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(e) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Swing Line Lender, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or a Competitor) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations, Swing Line Loans and/or Foreign Currency Loans) owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the clauses (a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) of the second proviso to Section 10.01 that directly affects such Participant. Subject to Section 10.07(f), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01, Section 3.04 and Section 3.05 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein and in Sections 3.06 and 10.15 read as if a Participant was a Lender) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(b) and such Participant agrees to be bound by such Sections and Section 3.06. To the extent permitted by Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.09 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant Register”). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender (and the Borrower, to the extent that the Participant requests payment from the Borrower) shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. The portion of the Participant Register relating to any Participant requesting payment from the Borrower under the Loan Documents shall be made available to the Borrower upon reasonable request. Without limitation of the requirements of this Section 10.07(e), no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of a Participant Register to any person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans or other Obligations under any Loan Document), except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan or other Obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
(f) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01, Section 3.04 or Section 3.05 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, except to the extent that any entitlement to a greater payment results from a Change in Law arising after such Participant became a Participant.
(g) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any central bank having jurisdiction over such Lender; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Loan that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Loan, (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof and (iii) such SPC and the applicable Loan or any applicable part thereof, shall be appropriately reflected in the Register. Each party hereto hereby agrees that an SPC shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein and in Sections 3.06 and 10.15), but
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(i) neither the grant to any SPC nor the exercise by any SPC of such option shall increase the costs or expenses or otherwise increase or change the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement (including their obligations under Section 3.01, Section 3.04 or Section 3.05), except that such increase or change results from a Change in Law after the grant was made, (ii) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would be liable, and (iii) the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including the approval of any amendment, waiver or other modification of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the lender of record hereunder. The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Lender. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, subject to compliance with the provisions of this Section 10.07 regarding the Register and/or the Participant Register, as appropriate, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without prior consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and with the payment of a processing fee of $3,500, assign all or any portion of its right to receive payment with respect to any Loan to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety or Guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC.
(i) Notwithstanding anythin