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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of April 7, 2006
among
XXXX TRUE TEMPER, INC.,
ACORN PRODUCTS, INC.,
UNIONTOOLS, INC.
and
XXXX TRUE TEMPER PROPERTIES, INC.
as Borrowers,
ATT HOLDING CO.,
as a Guarantor,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and
L/C Issuer,
and
The Other Lenders Party Hereto
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
as
Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Manager
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined Terms...........................................................1
1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions..........................................38
1.03 Accounting Terms.......................................................38
1.04 Rounding...............................................................39
1.05 Times of Day...........................................................39
1.06 Letter of Credit Amounts...............................................39
ARTICLE II
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
2.01 The Loans..............................................................39
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.....................41
2.03 Letters of Credit......................................................43
2.04 Swing Line Loans.......................................................52
2.05 Prepayments............................................................55
2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments................................56
2.07 Repayment of Loans.....................................................57
2.08 Interest...............................................................57
2.09 Fees...................................................................57
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees.......................................58
2.11 Evidence of Indebtedness...............................................58
2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agent's Clawback....................59
2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders.........................................61
2.14 Borrower Agent.........................................................62
2.15 One Obligation.........................................................62
2.16 Nature and Extent of Each Borrower's Liability.........................62
ARTICLE III
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
3.01 Taxes................................................................65
3.02 Illegality...........................................................67
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates.........................................68
Xxxx True Temper, Inc. Credit Agreement
3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans.....................68
ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension.................................71
4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions....................................75
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws...............76
5.02 Authorization; No Contravention........................................76
5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents.............................76
5.04 Binding Effect.........................................................77
5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.......................77
5.06 Litigation.............................................................78
5.07 No Default.............................................................78
5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens; Investments..............................79
5.09 Environmental Compliance...............................................79
5.10 Insurance..............................................................80
5.11 Taxes..................................................................80
5.12 ERISA Compliance.......................................................80
5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests; Loan Parties...........................81
5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.............................82
5.15 Disclosure.............................................................82
5.16 Compliance with Laws...................................................82
5.17 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc...................................82
5.18 Solvency...............................................................83
5.19 Casualty, Etc..........................................................83
5.20 Perfection, Etc........................................................83
5.21 Subordinated Notes Indenture and Senior Notes Indenture................83
ARTICLE VI
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
6.01 Financial Statements...................................................84
6.02 Certificates; Other Information........................................85
6.03 Notices................................................................88
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6.04 Payment of Obligations.................................................88
6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc.........................................89
6.06 Maintenance of Properties..............................................89
6.07 Maintenance of Insurance...............................................89
6.08 Compliance with Laws...................................................90
6.09 Books and Records......................................................90
6.10 Inspection Rights......................................................90
6.11 Use of Proceeds........................................................91
6.12 New Subsidiaries; Additional Real Estate; Borrowing
Base Calculation.....................................................91
6.13 Compliance with Environmental Laws.....................................92
6.14 Preparation of Environmental Reports...................................92
6.15 Further Assurances.....................................................92
6.16 Compliance with Terms of Leaseholds; Material Access
to Leased Locations..................................................93
6.17 Lien Searches..........................................................93
6.18 Deposit and Other Accounts.............................................93
6.19 Material Contracts.....................................................94
6.20 Real Estate Collateral and Cash Collateral.............................94
ARTICLE VII
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
7.01 Liens..................................................................95
7.02 Indebtedness...........................................................98
7.03 Investments...........................................................102
7.04 Fundamental Changes...................................................106
7.05 Dispositions..........................................................106
7.06 Restricted Payments...................................................107
7.07 Change in Nature of Business..........................................108
7.08 Transactions with Affiliates..........................................108
7.09 Burdensome Agreements.................................................109
7.10 Financial Covenants...................................................109
7.11 Amendments of Organization Documents..................................110
7.12 Accounting Changes....................................................110
7.13 Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness.....................................110
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7.14 Amendment, Etc. of Related Documents..................................110
7.15 Partnerships, Etc.....................................................110
7.16 Speculative Transactions..............................................110
7.17 Holding Company.......................................................111
ARTICLE VIII
GUARANTY
8.01 Guaranty; Limitation of Liability.....................................111
8.02 Guaranty Absolute.....................................................112
8.03 Waivers and Acknowledgments...........................................113
8.04 Subrogation...........................................................114
8.05 Subordination.........................................................115
8.06 Continuing Guaranty; Assignments......................................116
ARTICLE IX
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
9.01 Events of Default.....................................................116
9.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default........................................119
9.03 Application of Funds..................................................119
ARTICLE X
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
10.01 Appointment and Authority.............................................120
10.02 Rights as a Lender....................................................121
10.03 Exculpatory Provisions................................................121
10.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent......................................122
10.05 Delegation of Duties..................................................123
10.06 Resignation of Administrative Agent...................................123
10.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders................124
10.08 No Other Duties, Etc..................................................124
10.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim.........................124
10.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters.......................................125
10.11 Delivery of Reports...................................................126
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
11.01 Amendments, Etc.......................................................126
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11.02 Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies....................128
11.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies........................................130
11.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver....................................130
11.05 Payments Set Aside....................................................132
11.06 Successors and Assigns................................................132
11.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality.....................136
11.08 Right of Setoff.......................................................137
11.09 Interest Rate Limitation..............................................137
11.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness..............................137
11.11 Survival of Representations and Warranties............................138
11.12 Severability..........................................................138
11.13 Replacement of Lenders................................................138
11.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc......................................139
11.15 Waiver of Jury Trial..................................................140
11.16 USA PATRIOT Act Notice................................................140
11.17 Amendment and Restatement.............................................140
SIGNATURES...................................................................S-1
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SCHEDULES
I Guarantors
1.01(a) Excluded Lenders
1.01(e) Existing Letters of Credit
2.01 Commitments and Applicable Percentages
5.03 Certain Authorizations
5.05 Supplement to Interim Financial Statements
5.06 Litigation
5.08(b) Existing Liens
5.08(c) Owned Real Estate
5.08(d)(i) Leased Real Estate (Lessee)
5.08(d)(ii) Leased Real Estate (Lessor)
5.08(e) Existing Investments
5.09 Environmental Issues
5.12 ERISA Matters
5.13 Subsidiaries and Other Equity Investments; Loan Parties
5.17 Intellectual Property Matters
6.20 Excluded Real Property Interests
7.02 Existing Indebtedness
7.04 Fundamental Changes
7.05(f) Permitted Dispositions
11.02 Administrative Agent's Office, Certain Addresses for Notices
EXHIBITS
Form of
A Committed Loan Notice
B Swing Line Loan Notice
C Revolving Credit Note
D Compliance Certificate
E Assignment and Assumption
F Subsidiary Guaranty
G Security Agreement
I Intellectual Property Security Agreement
J Opinion Matters - Counsel to Loan Parties
K Mortgage
L Opinion of Local Counsel to Loan Parties
M Borrowing Base Certificate
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") is entered
into as of April 7, 2006, among XXXX TRUE TEMPER, INC., a Delaware corporation
("ATT"), ACORN PRODUCTS, INC., a Delaware corporation ("API"), UNIONTOOLS, INC.,
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a Delaware corporation ("UTI"), XXXX TRUE TEMPER PROPERTIES, INC., a Michigan
corporation ("ATTP" and together with ATT, API and UTI, the "BORROWERS"), ATT
Holding Co., a Delaware corporation ("HOLDINGS"), each lender from time to time
party hereto (collectively, the "LENDERS" and individually, a "LENDER"), and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C
Issuer.
ATT, Holdings, the Administrative Agent, and the Lenders are parties
to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2004, as amended and in
effect from time to time (the "EXISTING CREDIT AGREEMENT"), pursuant to which
certain credit facilities have been made available to ATT.
ATT has acquired API and UTI (the "ACQUISITION") pursuant to the
Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of the date hereof (the "MERGER
AGREEMENT"), by and among the shareholders of API, UT Holdings, Inc.
(predecessor of UTI) and ATT.
The Borrowers have requested that the Existing Credit Agreement be
amended and restated to, among other things, (a) provide revolving credit
facilities in an aggregate amount of up to $130,000,000 to finance in part the
Acquisition, repay certain existing Indebtedness of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries (as hereinafter defined) (the "REFINANCING") and pay costs and
expenses related to the Acquisition, and (b) continue the revolving loans to the
Borrowers and the issuance of Letters of Credit (as hereinafter defined) for the
account of the Borrowers and (c) provide for ongoing working capital and other
general corporate purposes of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries.
The Borrowers have requested that the Lenders amend and restate the
Existing Credit Agreement and continue to provide a revolving credit facility
and the Lenders have indicated their willingness to continue to lend and the L/C
Issuer has indicated its willingness to continue to issue Letters of Credit, in
each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein
contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following
terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
"ACCOUNT" has the meaning specified in the UCC, including all rights
to payment for goods sold or leased, or for services rendered.
"ACCOUNT DEBTOR" means a Person who is obligated under an Account,
Chattel Paper or General Intangible.
"ACCOUNTS FORMULA AMOUNT" means 85% of the Value of Eligible
Accounts.
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"ACQUISITION" has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements to this Agreement.
"ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT" means Bank of America in its capacity as
administrative and collateral agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any
successor administrative agent.
"ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S OFFICE" means the Administrative Agent's
address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 11.02, or such
other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time
notify to the Borrower Agent and the Lenders.
"ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE" means an Administrative Questionnaire
in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
"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.
"AGENTS" means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the
Arranger, any syndication agent, any documentation agent and any other agent
appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section
10.05.
"AGGREGATE COMMITMENTS" means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
"AGGREGATE CREDIT EXPOSURES" means, at any time, the sum of (i) the
unused portion of the Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect, and (ii) the
Total Outstandings at such time.
"AGREEMENT" means this Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.
"APPLICABLE COMMITMENT FEE RATE" means, as of any date of
determination, (a) if the average Total Outstandings during the immediately
preceding fiscal quarter exceeded 50% of the Aggregate Commitments during such
quarter, 0.250%, and (b) otherwise, 0.375%.
"APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE" means, with respect to any Lender at any
time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Aggregate
Commitments represented by such Lender's Commitment under the applicable
Facility or Facilities at such time. If the Commitment of each Lender to make
Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have
been terminated pursuant to Section 9.02, or if the Aggregate Commitments have
expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Lender shall be determined based
on the Applicable Percentage of such Lender most recently in effect, giving
effect to any subsequent assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each
Lender is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto,
as applicable.
"APPLICABLE RATE" means the following percentages per annum, based
upon the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance
Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(b):
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Applicable Rate
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Eurodollar
Rate +
Pricing Letters of Base
Level Consolidated Leverage Ratio Credit Rate
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1 < 7.0:1.00 1.75% .50%
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2 >/= 7.0:1.00 but < 7.5:1.00 2.00% .75%
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3 >/= 7.5:1.00 but < 8.0:1.00 2.25% 1.00%
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4 >/= 8.0:1.00 but < 8.5:1.00 2.50% 1.25%
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5 >/= 8.5:1.00 2.75% 1.50%
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Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a
change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first
day of the month immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is
delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b); provided, however, that if a Compliance
Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then
Pricing Level 5 shall apply as of the first day of the month after the date on
which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered until such
Compliance Certificate is delivered. The Applicable Rate in effect from the
Closing Date through the date that is six months after the date hereof shall be
determined based upon Pricing Level 3.
"APPROPRIATE LENDER" means, at any time, (a) with respect to the
Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such
Facility at such time, (b) with respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i)
the 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 Swing Line Lender and (ii) if any Swing Line Loans are
outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders.
"APPROVED FUND" means any Fund that is administered or managed by
(a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of
an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
"ARRANGER" means Banc of America Securities LLC, in its capacity as
sole lead arranger and sole book manager.
"ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION" means an assignment and assumption
entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party
whose consent is required by Section 11.06(b)), and accepted by the
Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form
approved by the Administrative Agent.
"ASSIGNMENT OF CLAIMS ACT" means the Assignment of Claims Act of
1940, as amended, 31 U.S.C. ss.3727, 41 U.S.C. ss.15, or any replacement statute
thereto, and all regulations relating thereto, including the Federal Acquisition
Regulation, as amended, 48 C.F.R. Part 1, and any replacement regulations
thereto.
"ATTRIBUTABLE INDEBTEDNESS" means, on any date, (a) in respect of
any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would
appear on a balance sheet of such
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Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP and (b) in respect of
any Synthetic Lease Obligation, other than in connection with the computation of
the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10 (it being understood that for
purposes of computation of the financial covenants, Attributable Indebtedness in
respect of synthetic lease obligations shall be deemed to be zero), the
capitalized amount of the remaining lease payments under the relevant lease that
would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in
accordance with GAAP if such lease were accounted for as a Capitalized Lease.
"AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" means the audited consolidated
balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended October
1, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations,
shareholders' equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
"AVAILABILITY" means the difference of (a) the lesser of (i) the
Borrowing Base or (ii) the Aggregate Commitments, minus (b) Total Outstandings.
"AVAILABILITY PERIOD" means the period from and including the
Closing Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date for such Facility, (b) the
date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section
2.06, and (c) the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit
Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to
make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 9.02.
"AVAILABILITY RESERVE" means the sum (without duplication of any
reserves or items that are otherwise addressed or excluded through eligibility
criteria and to the extent such reserve is not already reflected through the
Value assigned to such asset) of the following reserves established by the
Administrative Agent in its Credit Judgment: (a) the Inventory Reserve; (b) the
Equipment Reserve; (c) the Real Estate Reserve, (d) the Rent and Charges
Reserve; (e) the LC Reserve; (f) the Bank Product Reserve; (g) the Dilution
Reserve; (h) all accrued Royalties, whether or not then due and payable by a
Borrower; (i) the aggregate amount of liabilities secured by Liens upon
Collateral comprising a portion of the Borrowing Base that are senior to the
Administrative Agent's Liens (but imposition of any such reserve shall not waive
an Event of Default arising therefrom); and (j) such additional reserves, in
such amounts and with respect to such matters, as the Administrative Agent in
its Credit Judgment may elect to impose from time to time based on (i) an event,
condition or circumstance either (A) arising after the Closing Date, or (B)
existing on the date hereof to the extent the Administrative Agent has no
written record thereof received from a Loan Party prior to the Closing Date, or
(ii) an event, condition, circumstance or risk disclosed in an audit or
appraisal of Collateral comprising a portion of the Borrowing Base (not already
reflected through the Value assigned to such asset). To the extent the
Administrative Agent may revise the lending formulas used to determine the
Borrowing Base or establish new criteria or revise existing criteria for
Eligible Accounts or Eligible Inventory so as to address any circumstances,
condition, event or contingency in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, the Administrative Agent shall not establish a duplicative Reserve for
the same purpose. The amount of any Availability Reserve established by the
Administrative Agent shall have reasonable relationship to the event, condition
or other matter which is the basis for such reserve. The Administrative Agent
shall give the Borrower
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Agent prompt notice of any change in the composition or calculation of the
Availability Reserve, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not
affect the applicability of such change.
"AVERAGE TOTAL DEBT" means, as of any date of determination, (a) the
sum of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Consolidated Funded
Indebtedness (other than the Outstanding Amount of any Revolving Credit Loans,
Swing Line Loans and L/C Borrowings) on such date and (ii) the average monthly
Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C
Borrowings outstanding during the 365 days immediately prior to such date, minus
(b) the average monthly balance of cash and Cash Equivalents of the Loan Parties
in excess of $5,000,000 in aggregate (to the extent positive) during the 365
days immediately prior to such date.
"BANK OF AMERICA" means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.
"BANK PRODUCT" means any of the following products, services or
facilities extended to any Borrower or Subsidiary by any Lender or any of its
Affiliates: (a) Cash Management Services; (b) products under Hedging Agreements;
(c) commercial credit card and merchant card services; and (d) leases and other
banking products or services as may be requested by any Borrower or Subsidiary,
other than Letters of Credit; provided, however, that for any of the foregoing
to be included as an "Obligation" for purposes of Section 9.03, the applicable
Lender and Loan Party must have previously provided written notice to the
Administrative Agent of (i) the existence of such Bank Product, (ii) the maximum
dollar amount of obligations arising thereunder to be included as a Bank Product
Reserve and (iii) the methodology to be used by such parties in determining the
Bank Product Debt owing from time to time. The amount of Bank Product Debt may
be changed from time to time upon written notice to the Administrative Agent by
the Lender and the applicable Loan Party. No Bank Product Debt may be
established or increased at any time that a Default or Event of Default exists,
or if a reserve in such amount would cause an Overadvance.
"BANK PRODUCT DEBT" means the maximum amount of Debt and other
obligations of a Loan Party relating to Bank Products.
"BANK PRODUCT RESERVE" means the aggregate amount of reserves
established by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its Credit Judgment
in respect of Bank Product Debt.
"BAS" means Banc of America Securities LLC and its successors.
"BASE RATE" means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to
the higher of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1% and (b) the rate of
interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank
of America as its "prime rate." The "prime rate" is a rate set by Bank of
America based upon various factors including Bank of America's costs and desired
return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a
reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below
such announced rate. Any change in such rate announced by Bank of America shall
take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public
announcement of such change.
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"BASE RATE LOAN" means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base
Rate.
"BORROWER" has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph
hereto.
"BORROWER AGENT" has the meaning specified in Section 2.14.
"BORROWING" means a Revolving Credit Borrowing or a Swing Line
Borrowing, as the context may require.
"BORROWING BASE" means on any date of determination, an amount equal
to the sum of (a) the Accounts Formula Amount, plus (b) the Inventory
Formula Amount, plus (c) the Equipment Formula Amount, plus (d) the Real
Estate Formula Amount, minus the Availability Reserve.
"BORROWING BASE CERTIFICATE" means a certificate, in the form of
Exhibit M hereto, in such detail as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
require, by which Borrowers certify calculation of the Borrowing Base.
"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, the state where the Administrative Agent's Office is located
and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day on
which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the
London interbank eurodollar market.
"CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" means, with respect to any Person, all
expenditures by such Person which would be required to be capitalized in
accordance with GAAP, including all such expenditures with respect to fixed or
capital assets (including, without limitation, expenditures for maintenance and
repairs which are capitalized in accordance with GAAP); provided that the term
"Capital Expenditures" shall not include (a) expenditures made in connection
with the replacement, substitution or restoration of assets (i) to the extent
financed directly or indirectly from insurance proceeds or (ii) with awards of
compensation arising from the taking by eminent domain or condemnation of the
assets being replaced, (b) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased
with the trade-in of existing equipment; provided that any such purchase shall
be included in Capital Expenditures only to the extent of the net amount by
which such purchase price exceeds the credit granted by the seller of such
equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time, (c) expenditures made
with the proceeds of assets Disposed of in accordance with, and permitted by,
Section 7.05 (a), (c), (f) or (g); provided, that any such expenditure shall be
included in Capital Expenditures only to the extent of the net amount by which
such purchase price exceeds the amount of the cash proceeds of any such sale or
disposition, (d) expenditures made as part of an Investment permitted by Section
7.03(i) or (q), (e) expenditures paid for with the proceeds from the issuance or
sale of capital stock of Holdings and the corresponding equity investment by
Holdings in a Borrower, or (f) expenditures with respect to the enterprise
resource planning system of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries (including,
without limitation, expenditures with respect to any related hardware, software
and other implementation costs) made prior to the end of ATT's fiscal year 2006;
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provided, that the aggregate amount of expenditures that are excluded from the
definition of Capital Expenditures pursuant to this clause (f) shall not exceed
$5,239,000 in the aggregate.
"CAPITALIZED LEASES" means all leases that have been or should be,
in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases.
"CASH COLLATERAL ACCOUNT" means a blocked, non-interest bearing
deposit account at Bank of America 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 DISTRIBUTIONS" means, with respect to any Person for any
period, all dividends and other distributions on any of the outstanding Equity
Interests in such Person, all purchases, redemptions, retirements, defeasances
or other acquisitions of any of the outstanding Equity Interests in such Person
and all returns of capital to the stockholders, partners or members (or the
equivalent persons) of such Person, in each case to the extent paid in cash by
or on behalf of such Person during such period.
"CASH DOMINION TRIGGER" means (a) any time an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or (b) for the period from the Closing Date until the
date that occurs 90 days after the Closing Date, if at any time Availability
shall be less than $5,000,0000 or (c) thereafter, any time that (i) Availability
shall be less than $5,000,000 or (ii) average daily Availability for any period
of ten (10) consecutive Business Days shall be less than $10,000,000; provided
that each Cash Dominion Trigger shall continue to be effective for all purposes
under this Agreement until either (1) waived in writing by the Administrative
Agent or (2) the average daily Availability shall be greater than $25,000,000
for a period of 90 consecutive days; and provided further that for the purposes
of determining the applicability of the minimum Consolidated EBITDA covenant in
Section 7.10(a), the $10,000,000 figure set forth above in this definition shall
be deemed to be $15,000,000.
"CASH EQUIVALENTS" means any of the following types of Investments,
to the extent owned by the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries:
(a) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully
guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 360 days from
the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit
of the United States of America 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 of America, 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 of
America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of
the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues)
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commercial paper rated as described in clause (c) of this definition and
(iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000, in each
case with maturities of not more than one year from the date of
acquisition thereof;
(c) commercial paper issued by any Person organized under the
laws of any state of the United States of America and rated at least
"Prime-1" (or the then equivalent grade) by Xxxxx'x or at least "A-1" (or
the then equivalent grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of not
more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof; and
(d) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as Current
Assets of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, in money market
investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940,
which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest
rating obtainable from either Xxxxx'x or S&P, and at least 95% of the
portfolios of which are limited solely to Investments of the character,
quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this
definition;
provided, that if any Cash Equivalent ceases to meet the requirements set forth
in clauses (a) through (d) above (after the date such Cash Equivalent was
acquired), the Borrowers shall have 10 Business Days after a Responsible Officer
has knowledge thereof to dispose of such Cash Equivalent.
"CASH MANAGEMENT SERVICES" means any services provided from time to
time by any Lender or any of its Affiliates to any Borrower or Subsidiary in
connection with operating, collections, payroll, trust, or other depository or
disbursement accounts, including automatic clearinghouse, controlled
disbursement, depository, electronic funds transfer, information reporting,
lockbox, stop payment, overdraft and/or wire transfer services.
"CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980.
"CERCLIS" means the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Information System maintained by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
"CHANGE IN LAW" means the occurrence, after the date of this
Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any
law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or
treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any
Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline
or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental
Authority.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL" means, an event or series of events by which:
(a) Prior to the consummation of an initial public offering of
the common stock of Holdings (an "IPO"), the Permitted Holders shall cease
to own and control legally and beneficially, either directly or
indirectly, Equity Interests in Holdings representing 51% or more of the
combined voting power of all of Equity Interests entitled to vote for
members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of such
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Person on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such
securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to
any option right); or
(b) After an IPO, any "person" or "group" (as such terms are
used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its
subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee,
agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) other than the
Permitted Holders becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rules
13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except that a
person or group shall be deemed to have "beneficial ownership" of all
securities that such person or group has the right to acquire (such right,
an "OPTION RIGHT"), whether such right is exercisable immediately or only
after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of the greater of 35%
and the percentage owned and controlled beneficially and legally, either
directly or indirectly, by the Permitted Holders of the equity securities
of Holdings entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or
equivalent governing body of such Person on a fully-diluted basis (and
taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the
right to acquire pursuant to any option right); or
(c) during any period of 24 consecutive months, a majority of
the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body
of Holdings cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of
that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of such period,
(ii) whose election or nomination to that board or equivalent governing
body was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above
constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a
majority of that board or equivalent governing body or (iii) whose
election or nomination to that board or other equivalent governing body
was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above
constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a
majority of that board or equivalent governing body (excluding, in the
case of both clause (ii) and clause (iii), any individual whose initial
nomination for, or assumption of office as, a member of that board or
equivalent governing body occurs as a result of an actual or threatened
solicitation of proxies or consents for the election or removal of one or
more directors by any person or group other than a solicitation for the
election of one or more directors by or on behalf of the board of
directors); or
(d) Holdings shall cease, directly or indirectly, to own and
control legally and beneficially all of the Equity Interests in each
Borrower; or
(e) a "change of control" or any comparable term under, and as
defined in the Subordinated Notes Indenture, the Senior Notes Indenture or
other Indebtedness in excess of the Threshold Amount shall have occurred.
"CHATT" means CHATT Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation.
"CHP ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION" means the cash contributions made to
Holdings by Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Partners IV, L.P. and its Permitted Holders other than
in connection with the Acquisition (as defined in the Existing Credit
Agreement).
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"CHP EQUITY CONTRIBUTION" means the cash contribution made to
Holdings by Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Partners IV, L.P. and its Permitted Holders in
connection with the Acquisition (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement).
"CFC" has the meaning specified in Section 6.12.
"CLOSING DATE" means the first date all the conditions precedent in
Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 11.01.
"CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
"COLLATERAL" means all real and personal property described in any
Collateral Documents as security for any Obligations, and all other real or
personal property that now or hereafter secures (or is intended to secure) any
Obligations.
"COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS" means, collectively, the Security Agreement,
the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, the Mortgages, each of the
mortgages, collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, IP Security
Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar
agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to
Section 6.12, 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.
"COMMITMENT" means a Revolving Credit Commitment
"COMMITTED LOAN NOTICE" means a notice of (a) a Revolving Credit
Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in
writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
"COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE" means a certificate substantially in the
form of Exhibit D.
"CONSOLIDATED EBITDA" means, for any period, for the Borrowers and
their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, an amount equal to Consolidated Net
Income for such period plus, without duplication, the following to the extent
deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income for such period: (i)
Consolidated Interest Charges, (ii) the aggregate net amount of all Taxes, (iii)
depreciation and amortization expense, (iv) any non-cash losses (or minus any
non-cash gains) realized upon the Disposition of property, (v) other
non-recurring expenses of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries reducing such
Consolidated Net Income that do not represent a cash item in such period or any
future period, (vi) management fees permitted under Section 7.08(a)(i) and (ii),
(vii) fees, costs and expenses permitted under Section 7.08(a)(iii) in an
aggregate amount of up to $250,000, (viii) fees and expenses paid or deducted in
connection with the Acquisition in an aggregate amount of up to $6,000,000, (ix)
reasonable and customary fees and expenses related to other acquisitions not
prohibited under this Agreement consummated after the Closing Date, (x) all
other non-cash charges and cash and non-cash extraordinary losses, (xi)
non-recurring cash expenses related to cost-saving initiatives
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incurred prior to the end of the Borrowers' fiscal year 2006 in an aggregate
amount not to exceed $3,000,000, (xii) set-up costs associated with ATT's new
long-handle tool business with one or more primary customers incurred prior to
the end of ATT's fiscal year 2006, 2007 and 2008 in an aggregated amount not to
exceed $6,000,000, $500,000 and $500,000, respectively, (xiii) set-up costs
associated with the enterprise resource planning system of the Borrowers and
their Subsidiaries incurred prior to the end of ATT's fiscal year 2006, 2007 and
2008 in an aggregate amount not to exceed $240,000, $250,000 and $100,000,
respectively, and (xiv) non-recurring cash restructuring costs in connection
with the Acquisition incurred prior to the end of ATT's fiscal year 2006 and
2007 in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,060,000 and $5,684,000,
respectively.
"CONSOLIDATED FUNDED INDEBTEDNESS" means, as of any date of
determination, for the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis,
the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of all obligations, whether
current or long-term, for borrowed money (including Obligations hereunder on
such date of determination) and all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures,
notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments, (b) all purchase money
Indebtedness, (c) all obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of
property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable, other accounts
payable and accrued liabilities and expenses in the ordinary course of business
and (ii) earnouts and other contingent payment obligations to, and the aggregate
amounts paid or to be paid under noncompete, consulting and other similar
agreements with, the sellers of assets acquired by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 7.03(i)), (d) Attributable Indebtedness, (e)
all Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities, (f) without duplication, all Guarantees with
respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a)
through (e) above of Persons other than a Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (g)
all Indebtedness of the types referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above of
any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a
corporation or limited liability company) in which any Borrower or a Subsidiary
is a general partner or joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly
made non-recourse to such Borrower or such Subsidiary.
"CONSOLIDATED INTEREST CHARGES" means, for any period, for the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) all
interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses of
the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries in connection with borrowed money
(including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase
price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance
with GAAP and (b) the portion of rent expense of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries with respect to such period under Capitalized Leases that is
treated as interest in accordance with GAAP.
"CONSOLIDATED LEVERAGE RATIO" means, as of any date of
determination, the ratio of (a) Average Total Debt as of such date to (b)
Reported EBITDA for the period of the four consecutive fiscal quarters most
recently ended.
"CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME" means, for any period, for the Borrowers
and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the net income of the Borrowers
and their Subsidiaries (excluding extraordinary cash and non-cash gains but
including extraordinary losses) for that period.
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"CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION" means, as to any Person, any material
provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument
or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of
its property is bound.
"CONTROL" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power
to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person,
whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.
"CONTROLLING" and "CONTROLLED" have meanings correlative thereto.
"CONTROLLED ACCOUNT" means a Material Account subject to an
effective Control Agreement.
"CONTROL AGREEMENT" has the meaning specified in Section 6.18.
"CONTROLLED INVESTMENT AFFILIATE" means (a) any Person controlling,
controlled by, or under common control with, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Partners IV, L.P.,
and any managed account controlled by, or under common control with, Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Partners IV, L.P., and (b) employees, management and directors of any of
the foregoing, and any trust or individual retirement account for the benefit of
any such employees, management or directors, or members of their immediate
families, and any other Person controlled by any such employee, manager or
director.
"CREDIT EXTENSION" means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and
(b) an L/C Credit Extension.
"CREDIT JUDGMENT" means the Administrative Agent's reasonable
judgment (from the perspective of a secured asset-based lender) exercised in
good faith, based upon its consideration of any factor that (a) would reasonably
be expected to materially adversely affect the quantity, quality, mix or value
of any material portion of the Collateral, the enforceability or priority of the
Administrative Agent's Liens with respect to any material portion of the
Collateral, or the amount that the Administrative Agent and Lenders could
receive in liquidation of any material portion of the Collateral; (b) indicates
that any collateral report or financial information delivered by any Loan Party
is incomplete, inaccurate or misleading in any material respect; (c) materially
increases the likelihood of any proceeding under Debtor Relief Laws involving
any Loan Party; or (d) creates or would reasonably be expected to result in a
Default or Event of Default. In exercising such judgment, the Administrative
Agent may consider any factors that would materially increase the credit risk of
lending to Borrowers on the security of the Collateral.
"CURRENT ASSETS" means, with respect to any Person, all assets of
such Person that, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as current assets
on the balance sheet of such Person, after deducting appropriate and adequate
reserves therefrom in each case in which a reserve is proper in accordance with
GAAP.
"CURRENT LIABILITIES" means, with respect to any Person, (a) all
Indebtedness of such Person that by its terms is payable on demand or matures
within one year after the date of
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determination (excluding any Indebtedness renewable or extendible, at the option
of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date or arising under a
revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to
extend credit during a period of more than one year from such date) and (b) all
other items (including, without limitation, taxes accrued as estimated and trade
payables otherwise excluded from Indebtedness under clause (d) of the definition
thereof) that, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified on the balance sheet
of such Person as current liabilities of such Person.
"DEBT RATING" means the rating as determined by either S&P or
Xxxxx'x (collectively, the "DEBT RATINGS") of ATT's non-credit-enhanced, senior
unsecured long-term debt.
"DEBTOR RELIEF LAWS" means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States,
and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the
benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, 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.
"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, unless waived, be an Event of Default.
"DEFAULT RATE" means (a) when used with respect to Obligations other
than Letter of Credit Fees, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus
(ii) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2.0%
per annum; provided, however, 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 and (b)
when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable
Rate plus 2.0% per annum.
"DEFAULTING LENDER" means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any
portion of Revolving Credit Loans, participations in L/C Obligations or
participations in Swing Line Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within
one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) has
otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any
other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one Business Day of the
date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, or (c) has been
deemed insolvent or become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
"DEPOSIT ACCOUNT" has the meaning given such term in the UCC.
"DILUTION PERCENT" means the percent, determined for Borrowers' most
recent fiscal quarter, equal to (a) bad debt write-downs or write-offs,
discounts, returns, promotions, credits, credit memos and other dilutive items
with respect to Accounts, divided by (b) gross sales.
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"DILUTION RESERVE" means reserves established with respect to
Accounts owing to API or UTI by the Administrative Agent as a percentage
deduction to the advance rate contained in the Accounts Formula Amount to the
extent that the Dilution Percent exceeds 5% and such dilution is not adequately
reserved on the balance sheet of the Borrowers.
"DISCLOSED LITIGATION" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.06.
"DISPOSITION" or "DISPOSE" means the sale, transfer, license, lease
or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of any
property by any Person (or the granting of any option or other right to do any
of the foregoing), 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.
"DOLLAR" and "$" mean lawful money of the United States.
"ELIGIBLE ACCOUNT" means an Account owing to a Borrower that arises
from the sale of goods or rendition of services in the ordinary course of
business, is payable in Dollars and is deemed by the Administrative Agent, in
its Credit Judgment, to be an Eligible Account. Without limiting the foregoing,
no Account shall be an Eligible Account if (a) it is unpaid for more than 60
days after the original due date, or more than 90 days after the original
invoice date, except for Accounts not more than 180 days past the original
invoice date in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time; (b)
50% or more of the Accounts owing by the Account Debtor are not Eligible
Accounts under the foregoing clause or under clauses (d), (e), (f), (i), (j) or
(m); (c) when aggregated with other Accounts owing by an Account Debtor (except
Excluded Account Debtors), it exceeds 20% of the aggregate Eligible Accounts (or
such higher percentage as the Administrative Agent may establish for such
Account Debtor from time to time); (d) as to which the representations,
warranties and covenants set forth in the Security Agreement applicable to
Accounts are not true, correct or satisfied in all material respects; (e) it is
owing by a creditor or supplier, or is otherwise subject to a potential offset,
counterclaim, dispute, deduction, discount, recoupment, reserve, defense,
chargeback, credit, rebate or allowance (but ineligibility shall be limited to
the amount thereof); (f) a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws has been
commenced by or against the Account Debtor and exists at such time; or the
Account Debtor has failed, has suspended or ceased doing business at such time,
is liquidating, dissolving or winding up its affairs, or is not Solvent; (g) the
Account Debtor is organized or has its principal offices or assets outside the
United States or Canada, unless such Account is supported by a letter of credit
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent in the possession of the
Administrative Agent; (h) it is owing by a Government Authority, unless the
Account Debtor is the United States or any department, agency or instrumentality
thereof and the Account has been assigned to the Administrative Agent in
compliance with the Assignment of Claims Act; (i) it is not subject to a duly
perfected, first priority Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent, or is
subject to any other Lien; (j) the goods giving rise to it have not been
delivered to and accepted by the Account Debtor, the services giving rise to it
have not been accepted by the Account Debtor, or it otherwise does not represent
a final sale; (k) it is evidenced by Chattel Paper or an Instrument of any kind
not in the possession of the Administrative Agent, or has been reduced to
judgment; (l) its payment has been extended, the Account Debtor has made a
partial payment, or it arises from a sale on a cash-on-delivery basis; (m) it
arises from a
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sale to an Affiliate, or from a sale on a xxxx-and-hold, guaranteed sale,
sale-or-return, sale-on-approval, consignment, or other repurchase or return
basis; (n) it represents a progress billing or retainage; (o) it includes a
billing for interest, fees or late charges, but ineligibility shall be limited
to the extent thereof; or (p) it arises from a retail sale to a Person who is
purchasing for personal, family or household purposes.
"ELIGIBLE ASSIGNEE" means (a) a Lender; (b) an Affiliate of a
Lender; (c) an Approved Fund; and (d) any other Person (other than a natural
person) approved by (i) the Administrative Agent, (ii) in the case of any
assignment of a Revolving Commitment, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender,
and (iii) unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Borrower Agent (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed);
provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, "Eligible Assignee" shall not
include any Borrower or any of a Borrower's Affiliates or Subsidiaries or any
Excluded Lender.
"ELIGIBLE EQUIPMENT" means all Production Equipment which the
Administrative Agent, in its Credit Judgment, determines to be Eligible
Equipment. Without limiting the ability of the Administrative Agent to establish
other criteria of ineligibility, Eligible Equipment shall not, unless the
Administrative Agent in its Credit Judgment elects, include any Production
Equipment (a) that is not owned by a Borrower; (b) that is not subject to the
Administrative Agent's Liens, which are first priority and perfected as to such
Production Equipment or that is subject to any other Lien whatsoever; (c) as to
which all of the representations, warranties and covenants contained in the
Security Agreement applicable to Equipment are not true, correct or satisfied in
all material respects; (d) that is not in good repair and normal operating
condition in accordance with its intended use in the business of the Borrowers;
(e) that is obsolete; or (f) that is not located on real property owned or
leased by a Borrower.
"ELIGIBLE INVENTORY" means (a) Inventory owned by a Borrower that
Administrative Agent, in its Credit Judgment, deems to be Eligible Inventory and
(b) Eligible In-Transit Inventory. Without limiting the foregoing, no Inventory
shall be Eligible Inventory unless it (i) is finished goods, raw materials, or
work-in-process, and not packaging or shipping materials, labels, samples,
display items, bags, replacement parts or manufacturing supplies; (ii) is not
held on consignment, nor subject to any deposit or down payment; (iii) is in new
and saleable condition and is not damaged, defective, shopworn or otherwise
unfit for sale; (iv) is not slow-moving, obsolete or unmerchantable, and does
not constitute returned or repossessed goods; (v) meets all standards imposed by
any Governmental Authority, and does not constitute hazardous materials under
any Environmental Law; (vi) is Inventory as to which all the covenants,
representations and warranties set forth in the Security Agreement applicable to
Inventory are true, correct and/or satisfied in all material respects; (vii) is
subject to the Administrative Agent's duly perfected, first priority Lien, and
no other Lien; (viii) is within the continental United States or Canada, is not
in transit except between locations of the Borrowers, and is not consigned to
any Person; (ix) is not subject to any warehouse receipt or negotiable document;
(x) is not subject to any License or other arrangement that restricts such
Borrower's or the Administrative Agent's right to dispose of such Inventory,
unless the Administrative Agent has received an appropriate Lien Waiver; and
(xi) is reflected in the details of a current perpetual inventory report.
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"ELIGIBLE IN-TRANSIT INVENTORY" means Inventory of a Borrower that
would be Eligible Inventory but for the fact that it is In-Transit Inventory but
only if (i) such In-Transit Inventory is the subject of a negotiable document as
to which the consignee thereon is designated "[the applicable Borrower], subject
to the security interest of Bank of America, N.A., as agent", (ii) a final sale
of such Inventory to a Borrower has occurred, (iii) all of the original
documents evidencing such Inventory (all of which documents shall be negotiable
documents) are in the possession, in the United States, of the Administrative
Agent or a customs broker reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent who
has delivered to the Administrative Agent an executed Imported Goods Agreement
with respect to such Inventory, (iv) no default exist under any agreement in
effect between the vendor of such Inventory and any Borrower that would permit
such vendor under any applicable Law (including the UCC) to divert, reclaim,
reroute, or stop shipment of such Inventory, (v) such Inventory is fully insured
by marine cargo or other similar insurance, in such amounts, with such insurance
companies and subject to such deductibles as are reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent in its Credit Judgment and in respect of which the
Administrative Agent has been named as loss payee, and (vi) the Administrative
Agent has received a NBOL Compliance Letter with respect to such Inventory.
"ELIGIBLE REAL ESTATE" means all real property which the
Administrative Agent, in its Credit Judgment, determines to be Eligible Real
Estate. Without limiting the ability of the Administrative Agent to establish
other criteria of ineligibility, Eligible Real Estate shall not, unless the
Administrative Agent in its Credit Judgment elects, include any Real Estate (a)
that is not owned by a Borrower; (b) that is not subject to an effective
Mortgage and the Administrative Agent's Liens, which are recorded and first
priority as to such Real Estate or that is subject to any other Lien other than
Permitted Liens; (c) as to which all of the representations, warranties and
covenants contained in the applicable Mortgage are not true, correct or
satisfied in all material respects.
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means any and all 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 and the protection of the
environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including
those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to
waste or public systems.
"ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY" means any liability, contingent or
otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental
remediation, fines, or penalties), of the Borrowers, any other Loan Party or any
of their respective Subsidiaries resulting from or based upon (a) violation of
any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation,
storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any
Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous
Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other
consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with
respect to any of the foregoing.
"ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT" means any permit, approval, identification
number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.
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"EQUIPMENT FORMULA AMOUNT" means 80% of the sum of the NOLV of each
item of Eligible Equipment, as reduced on the last day of the first full fiscal
quarter after the Closing Date or any Revaluation Date with respect to such item
of Eligible Equipment and on the last day of each fiscal quarter thereafter on
an amortizing level seven year basis.
"EQUIPMENT RESERVE" means reserves established by Administrative
Agent in its Credit Judgment to reflect factors that could reasonably be
expected to negatively impact the Value of Equipment, including change in
salability or obsolescence.
"EQUITY INTERESTS" means, with respect to any Person, all of the
shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such
Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or
acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership
or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or
exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit
interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or
acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all
of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including, without
limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or
nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other
interests are outstanding on any date of determination.
"EQUITY INVESTORS" means Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Partners IV, L.P. and certain
of its affiliates.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended.
"ERISA AFFILIATE" means any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) under common control with any Loan Party within the meaning of
Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code 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 any Loan Party 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 complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA
Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is
in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the
treatment of a 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; (e) 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; or (f) the
incurrence of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC
premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, by any Loan Party
or any ERISA Affiliate which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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"EURODOLLAR RATE" means for any Interest Period with respect to a
Eurodollar Rate Loan:
(a) the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by the
Administrative Agent to be the offered rate that appears on the page of
the Telerate screen (or any successor thereto) that displays an average
British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for deposits in
Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a
term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period, or
(b) if the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a) does not
appear on such page or service or such page or service shall not be
available, the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by the
Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other
service that displays an average British Bankers Association Interest
Settlement Rate for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on the first day of
such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period,
determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days
prior to the first day of such Interest Period, or
(c) if the rates referenced in the preceding clauses (a) and (b)
are not available, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative
Agent as the rate of interest at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on
the first day of such Interest Period in same day funds in the approximate
amount of the Eurodollar Rate Loan being made, continued or converted by
Bank of America and with a term equivalent to such Interest Period would
be offered by Bank of America's London Branch to major banks in the London
interbank eurodollar market at their request at approximately 4:00 p.m.
(London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest
Period.
"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 9.01.
"EXCLUDED ACCOUNT DEBTORS" means Lowes, Home Depot and Wal-Mart or
any one of them.
"EXCLUDED INTERESTS" has the meaning specified in Section 6.20.
"EXCLUDED LENDER" means certain specified competitors of the
Borrowers and certain other entities specified in writing by the Borrower Agent
to the Administrative Agent as being ineligible to be a Lender, a participant or
an agent hereunder, as set forth on Schedule 1.01(b) hereto.
"EXCLUDED TAXES" means, with respect to the Administrative Agent,
any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by
or on account of any obligation of a Borrower hereunder, (a) Taxes imposed on or
measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes
imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the
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jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such
recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the
case of any Lender, in which its applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any
branch profits Taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by
any other jurisdiction in which a Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a
Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by a Borrower under
Section 11.13), any withholding Tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such
Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or
designates a new Lending Office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender's
failure or inability (other than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply with
Section 3.01(e), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor,
if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or
assignment), to receive additional amounts from such Borrower with respect to
such withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a).
"EXISTING CREDIT AGREEMENT" has the meaning specified in the
Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
"EXISTING LETTERS OF CREDIT" means the Letters of Credit listed on
Schedule 1.01(e) hereto.
"FACILITY" means the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line
Sublimit or the Letter of Credit Sublimit, as the context may require.
"FEDERAL FUNDS RATE" means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to
the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such
day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day
next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day,
the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on
the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business
Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business
Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded
upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of
America on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative
Agent.
"FEE LETTER" means that certain Fee Letter dated as of the date
hereof by and among ATT, the Administrative Agent and the Arranger.
"FLSA" means the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
"FOREIGN GOVERNMENT SCHEME OR ARRANGEMENT" has the meaning specified
in Section 5.12(d).
"FOREIGN LENDER" means any Lender that is organized under the laws
of a jurisdiction other than that in which a Borrower is resident for tax
purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof
and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single
jurisdiction.
"FOREIGN PLAN" has the meaning specified in Section 5.12(d).
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"FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" means a Subsidiary organized under the laws of
a jurisdiction other than the United States or any State thereof or the District
of Columbia.
"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 (or
will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in
commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its
business.
"FUNDED DEBT" of any Person means Indebtedness in respect of the
Credit Extensions, in the case of the Borrowers, and all other Indebtedness of
such Person that by its terms matures more than one year after the date of
determination or matures within one year from such date but is renewable or
extendible, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year after
such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates
the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period of more than one year
after such date.
"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, consistently applied.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means the government of the United States
or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or
local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court,
central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to
government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or
the European Central Bank).
"GRANTING LENDER" has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(h).
"GUARANTORS" means Holdings and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
"GUARANTEE" means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation, contingent
or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of
guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation 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 or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property,
securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of
such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of such
Indebtedness or other obligation, (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 other obligation, or (iv) entered into for the
purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee
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in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation 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 or other obligation of any other Person, whether or not such
Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right,
contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such
Lien). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the
lesser of (A) 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, and (B)
the maximum amount for which the guaranteeing Person may be liable pursuant to
the terms of the instrument embodying such Indebtedness. The term "GUARANTEE" as
a verb has a corresponding meaning.
"GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS" has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
"GUARANTIES" means, collectively, the Holdings Guaranty and the
Subsidiary Guaranty.
"HAZARDOUS MATERIALS" means all explosive or radioactive substances
or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants,
including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing
materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes
and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any
Environmental Law.
"HEDGE BANK" means any Person that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender, in its capacity as a party to a Secured Hedge Agreement.
"HOLDINGS" has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements
to this Agreement.
"HOLDINGS GUARANTY" has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01(a)
hereto.
"HONOR DATE" has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
"IMPORTED GOODS AGREEMENT" means an Imported Goods Agreement in form
and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its Credit Judgment, by
and between the Administrative Agent and a customs broker, as such agreement may
be amended, supplemented or restated from time to time.
"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;
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(b) the maximum amount of all direct or contingent obligations
of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and
commercial), bankers' acceptances, bank guaranties and similar
instruments;
(c) 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 trade accounts and other
accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and not past due for
more than six months after the date on which each such trade payable or
account payable was created);
(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), 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, excluding all purchases
permitted under Section 7.06, to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or
otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interests in such
Person or any other Person or any warrants, rights or options to acquire
such Equity Interests, valued, in the case of redeemable preferred
interests, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation
preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; 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
non-recourse to such Person. For purposes of this definition (i) 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, (ii) the amount of any
Indebtedness represented by a guaranty or other similar instrument shall be the
lesser of the principal amount of the obligations guaranteed and still
outstanding and the maximum amount for which the guaranteeing Person may be
liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Indebtedness, and
(iii) the amount of any Indebtedness described in clause (e) above shall be
shall be the lower of the amount of the obligation and the fair market value of
the property securing such obligation.
"INDEMNIFIED TAXES" means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
"INDEMNITEES" has the meaning specified in Section 11.04(b).
"INFORMATION" has the meaning specified in Section 11.07.
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"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT" has the meaning specified
in Section 4.01(a)(iv).
"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, however,
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 first Business Day of each month
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, as selected by the Borrower Agent in its Committed Loan
Notice or such other period that is nine or twelve months requested by the
Borrower Agent and consented to by all the Lenders; provided that:
(i) 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 next preceding Business Day;
(ii) 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
(iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of
the Facility under which such Loan was made.
"IN-TRANSIT INVENTORY" means Inventory that is owned by a Borrower
and is in-transit to a location in the United States owned or leased by a
Borrower.
"INVENTORY" has the meaning given thereto in the UCC, including all
goods intended for sale, lease, display or demonstration; all work in process;
and all raw materials, and other materials and supplies of any kind that are or
could be used in connection with the manufacture, printing, packing, shipping,
advertising, sale, lease or furnishing of such goods, or otherwise used or
consumed in a Borrower's business (but excluding Equipment).
"INVENTORY FORMULA AMOUNT" means the lesser of (a) 70% of the cost,
calculated on a first-in, first-out basis, of Eligible Inventory and (b) 85% of
the NOLV, calculated on a first-in, first out basis, of Eligible Inventory.
"INVENTORY RESERVE" means reserves established by the Administrative
Agent in its Credit Judgment to reflect factors that could reasonably be
expected to negatively impact the
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Value of Inventory, including change in salability, obsolescence, seasonality,
theft, shrinkage, imbalance, change in composition or mix, markdowns and vendor
chargebacks.
"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 of another Person, (b) a loan,
advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt 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 assets of
another Person that constitute a business unit or all or a substantial part of
the business 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, but net of
any amounts actually returned in cash.
"IP RIGHTS" has the meaning specified in Section 5.17.
"IP SECURITY AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT" has the meaning specified in
Section 14(f) of the Security Agreement.
"IRS" means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
"ISP" means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, 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).
"ISSUER DOCUMENTS" means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the
Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument
entered into by the L/C Issuer and a Borrower (or any Subsidiary) or in favor
the L/C Issuer and relating to any such Letter of Credit.
"LAWS" means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal,
state 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.
"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 Applicable Percentage.
"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.
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"L/C CREDIT EXTENSION" means, with respect to any Letter of Credit,
the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of
the amount thereof.
"L/C ISSUER" means Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of
Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit
hereunder.
"L/C OBLIGATIONS" means, as at any date of determination, the
aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit
plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings.
For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of
Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance
with Section 1.06. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of
determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may
still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP,
such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be "outstanding" in the amount so
remaining available to be drawn.
"L/C RESERVE" means the aggregate of all L/C Obligations, other than
(a) those that have been Cash Collateralized, and (b) if no Default or Event of
Default exists, those constituting charges owing to the L/C Issuer.
"LENDER" has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph
hereto and, as the context requires, includes the Swing Line Lender.
"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 Agent and the Administrative Agent.
"LETTER OF CREDIT" means any letter of credit issued hereunder and
shall include the Existing Letters of Credit.
"LETTER OF CREDIT APPLICATION" means an application and agreement
for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to
time in use by the L/C Issuer.
"LETTER OF CREDIT EXPIRATION DATE" means the day that is five days
prior to the Maturity Date then in effect for the Revolving Credit Facility (or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).
"LETTER OF CREDIT FEE" has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(i).
"LETTER OF CREDIT SUBLIMIT" means an amount equal to $15,000,000.
The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving
Credit Facility.
"LICENSE" means any license or agreement under which a Loan Party is
authorized to use Intellectual Property in connection with any manufacture,
marketing, distribution or disposition of Inventory.
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"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 in
the nature of a security interest 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 financing lease
having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
"LIEN WAIVER" means an agreement, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, by which (a) for any material
Collateral located on leased premises, the lessor waives or subordinates any
Lien it may have on the Collateral, and agrees to permit the Administrative
Agent to enter upon the premises and remove the Collateral or to use the
premises to store or dispose of the Collateral; (b) for any Collateral held by a
warehouseman, processor, shipper or freight forwarder, such Person waives or
subordinates any Lien it may have on the Collateral, agrees to hold any
Documents in its possession relating to the Collateral as agent for the
Administrative Agent, and agrees to deliver the Collateral to the Administrative
Agent upon request; (c) for any Collateral held by a repairman, mechanic or
bailee, such Person acknowledges the Administrative Agent's Lien, waives or
subordinates any Lien it may have on the Collateral, and agrees to deliver the
Collateral to the Administrative Agent upon request; and (d) for any Collateral
subject to a Licensor's Intellectual Property rights, the Licensor grants to the
Administrative Agent the right, vis-a-vis such Licensor, to enforce the
Administrative Agent's Liens with respect to the Collateral, including the right
to dispose of it with the benefit of the Intellectual Property, whether or not a
default exists under any applicable License.
"LOAN" means an extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under
Article II in the form of a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swing Line Loan.
"LOAN DOCUMENTS" means, collectively, (a) for purposes of this
Agreement and the Notes and any amendment, supplement or other modification
hereof or thereof and for all other purposes other than for purposes of the
Guaranties and the Collateral Documents, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes,
(iii) the Guaranties, (iv) the Collateral Documents, (v) the Fee Letter, and
(vi) each Issuer Document and (b) for purposes of the Guaranties and the
Collateral Documents, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the Guaranties,
(iv) the Collateral Documents, (v) each Issuer Document, (vi) the Fee Letter and
(vii) each Secured Hedge Agreement.
"LOAN PARTIES" means, collectively, the Borrowers and each
Guarantor.
"MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT" means that certain Management Agreement,
dated as of June 28, 2004, by and among Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, Holdings, ATT and CHATT Holdings Inc., as amended, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time.
"MATERIAL ACCOUNTS" means (a) all Deposit Accounts other than
accounts used exclusively for payroll, payroll taxes, employee benefits or
disbursements and (b) all securities accounts, investment accounts and other
accounts other than such accounts that, on an aggregate basis, at no time shall
contain cash, securities or other property of more than $200,000 calculated on
an average daily basis for any fiscal month.
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"MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means (a) a material adverse change in, or
a material adverse effect upon, the business, assets, properties, liabilities
(actual or contingent), operations or financial condition of (i) the Borrowers
and their Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (ii) Holdings and its Subsidiaries
taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of (i) the rights and remedies of
the Administrative Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document (ii) the value of
or the validity or priority of the Administrative Agent's Lien on any material
portion of the Collateral, or (iii) of the ability of any Loan Party to perform
its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (c) a
material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or
enforceability against any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is a
party.
"MATERIAL CONTRACT" means, with respect to any Person, each contract
to which such Person is a party involving aggregate consideration payable to or
by such Person of $5,000,000 or more in any year (other than purchase orders in
the ordinary course of the business of such Person) or otherwise material to the
business, financial condition, operations, performance or properties of such
Person.
"MATERIAL LEASED LOCATION" means each office, warehouse,
distribution, assembly, production or other facility leased by a Borrower at
which Inventory having a Value in excess of 5% of total aggregate Value of all
Inventory of the Borrower is located.
"MATERIAL SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary of Holdings or any
Borrower that accounts for 5% or more of revenues reported in the consolidated
statements of income or revenue of Holdings and its Subsidiaries delivered in
accordance with Section 6.01(a).
"MATURITY DATE" means the earlier of (i) the fifth anniversary of
the Closing Date and (ii) the date of termination in whole of the Revolving
Credit Commitments, the Letter of Credit Commitments, and the Swing Line
Commitments pursuant to Sections 2.06 or 9.02.
"MAXIMUM RATE" has the meaning specified in Section 11.09.
"MEASUREMENT PERIOD" means, at any date of determination, the most
recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters on or immediately prior to
such date.
"MERGER AGREEMENT" has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements to this Agreement.
"MOODY'S" means Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor
thereto.
"MORTGAGE" has the meaning specified in Section 6.20.
"MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN" means any employee benefit plan of the type
described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Loan Parties 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.
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"NBOL COMPLIANCE LETTER" means the Negotiable Xxxx of Lading
Compliance Letter in the form attached as Exhibit A to the Imported Goods
Agreement.
"NET CASH PROCEEDS" means:
(a) with respect to any Disposition by any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries, or any proceeds of casualty insurance or condemnation
awards (or payments in lieu thereof) received or paid to the account of
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the
sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such
transaction (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) over (ii) the sum of (A) the
principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable
asset and that is required to be repaid in connection with such
transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the
out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in
connection with such transaction (including, without limitation, brokerage
fees, accountants' fees, investment bankers' fees paid to an entity other
than an Affiliate of a Borrower, legal fees, costs and expenses, survey
costs, title insurance premiums and other customary fees, costs and
expenses actually incurred in connection with such Disposition), (C)
income taxes reasonably estimated to be actually payable within two years
of the date of the relevant transaction as a result of any gain recognized
in connection therewith and any transfer, documentary or other taxes
payable in connection therewith, and (D) reasonable reserves, in
accordance with GAAP, for any purchase price adjustments reasonably
expected to be payable in connection with such Disposition and
indemnification payments (fixed or contingent) attributable to the
seller's indemnities and representations and warranties to the purchaser
in respect of such Disposition undertaken by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries in connection with such Disposition including, without
limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities related
to employment, environmental and other liabilities under indemnification
obligations associated with such Disposition; provided that, if and to the
extent that such reserves are no longer required to be maintained in
accordance with GAAP, such amounts shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds, to
the extent such amounts would have otherwise constituted Net Cash Proceeds
under this clause (a).
(b) with respect to the sale or issuance of any Equity Interest
by any Loan Party, or the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of
the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction
over (ii) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other
out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, legal fees, costs
and expenses), incurred by any Loan Party in connection therewith.
"NOTE" means a Revolving Credit Note.
"NOLV" means the net orderly liquidation value of Inventory or
Equipment expected to be realized at an orderly, negotiated sale held within a
reasonable period of time, net of all liquidation expenses, as determined from
the most recent appraisal of the Borrowers'
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Inventory or Equipment performed by an appraiser reasonably acceptable to and on
terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
"NPL" means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
"OBLIGATIONS" means 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, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing
or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the
commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof 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. 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, reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements, indemnities and
other amounts payable by any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (b) Bank
Product Debt and (c) 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.
"OFF BALANCE SHEET LIABILITIES" means, with respect to any Person as
of any date of determination thereof, without duplication and to the extent not
included as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its
Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP: (a) the monetary obligations under any
financing lease or so-called "synthetic," tax retention or off-balance sheet
lease transaction which, upon the application of any Debtor Relief Law to such
Person or any of its Subsidiaries, would be characterized as indebtedness; or
(b) any other monetary obligation arising with respect to any other transaction
which is characterized as indebtedness for tax purposes but not for accounting
purposes in accordance with GAAP.
"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-U.S. jurisdiction);
(b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles
of formation or organization and operating agreement; 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.
"OSHA" means the Occupational Safety and Hazard Act of 1970.
"OTHER TAXES" means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes
or any other excise, property, intangible, mortgage recording or similar taxes,
charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any
other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
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"OUTSTANDING AMOUNT" means (i) with respect to Revolving Credit
Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal
amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or
repayments of Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be,
occurring on such date; and (ii) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any
date, the amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any
L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the
aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result
of any reimbursements by the Borrowers of Unreimbursed Amounts.
"OVERADVANCE" has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
"OVERADVANCE LOAN" means a Base Rate Loan made when an Overadvance
exists or is caused by the funding thereof.
"PARTICIPANT" has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(d).
"PATRIOT ACT" means the Uniting and Strengthening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of
2001, Pub. L. No. 107-56, 115 Stat. 272 (2001).
"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
"PENDING ACQUISITION" means the acquisition described in the side
letter, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and the Administrative
Agent, for aggregate cash consideration not in excess of $5,000,000 and with
aggregate payments for working capital adjustments not in excess of $2,000,000
and earnout obligations not in excess of $750,000, consummated on or before the
last day of Borrower's fiscal year 2006.
"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 any Loan Party
or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Loan Party 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 plan years.
"PERMITTED ENCUMBRANCES" has the meaning specified in the Mortgages.
"PERMITTED HOLDERS" means (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Partners IV, L.P. and
any limited partner thereof and (ii) any Controlled Investment Affiliates.
"PERSON" means any natural person, corporation, limited liability
company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental
Authority or other entity.
"PLAN" means any "employee benefit plan" (as such term is defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA) established by any Loan Party or, with respect to any
such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any
ERISA Affiliate.
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"PLEDGED DEBT" has the meaning specified in Section 1(d)(iv) of the
Security Agreement.
"PLEDGED INTERESTS" has the meaning specified in Section 1(d)(iv) of
the Security Agreement.
"POST PETITION INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 8.05
of this Agreement.
"PRO FORMA LEVERAGE RATIO" has the meaning specified in Section
7.03(i)(D) of this Agreement.
"PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT" means all of the Borrowers' now owned and
hereafter acquired machinery and equipment used in the manufacture, finishing or
distribution of Inventory, together with all present and future additions and
accessions thereto, replacements therefor, component and auxiliary parts and
supplies used or to be used in connection therewith, and all substitutes for any
of the foregoing, and all manuals, drawings, instructions, warranties and rights
with respect thereto; wherever any of the foregoing is located.
"PROPERTIES" means the properties specified on Schedules 5.08(c) and
(d) hereto.
"PROTECTIVE ADVANCES" has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).
"REAL ESTATE FORMULA AMOUNT" means 75% of the sum of the Value of
each parcel of Eligible Real Estate on the Closing Date and on any Revaluation
Date with respect to such parcel, as reduced on the first anniversary of the
Closing Date or such Revaluation Date, as applicable, and on each anniversary of
the Closing Date or such Revaluation Date thereafter on an amortizing level
seven year basis based on the Value as of the Closing Date or such Revaluation
Date, as applicable.
"REAL ESTATE RESERVE" means reserves established by the
Administrative Agent in its Credit Judgment to reflect factors that could
reasonably be expected to negatively impact the Value of real estate, including
change in market value, casualty, or Environmental Liability.
"REFINANCING" has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements to this Agreement.
"REGISTER" has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(c).
"RELATED DOCUMENTS" means the Merger Agreement, the Senior Notes
Documents and the Subordinated Notes Documents.
"RELATED PARTIES" means, with respect to any Person, such Person's
Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees
and advisors of such Person and of such Person's Affiliates.
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"RELATED REAL ESTATE DOCUMENTS" means with respect to any real
estate subject to a Mortgage, the following, in form and substance satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent: (a) a mortgagee title policy (or binder therefor)
covering the Administrative Agent's interest under the Mortgage, in a form and
amount and by an insurer acceptable to the Administrative Agent, which must be
fully paid on such effective date; (b) such assignments of leases, estoppel
letters, attornment agreements, consents, waivers and releases as the
Administrative Agent may require with respect to other Persons having an
interest in the real estate; (c) a current, as-built survey of the real estate,
containing a metes-and-bounds property description and flood plain
certification, and certified by a licensed surveyor acceptable to the
Administrative Agent; (d) flood insurance in an amount, with endorsements and by
an insurer acceptable to the Administrative Agent, if the real estate is within
a flood plain; (e) a current appraisal of the real estate, prepared by an
appraiser acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and in form and substance
satisfactory to Required Lenders; (f) an environmental assessment, prepared by
environmental engineers acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and accompanied
by such reports, certificates, studies or data as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably require, which shall all be in form and substance satisfactory to
Required Lenders; and (g) an Environmental Agreement and such other documents,
instruments or agreements as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require
with respect to any environmental risks regarding the real estate.
"RELEASE" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, emitting, emptying,
discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, migrating, dumping, or disposing of
Hazardous Materials (including the abandonment or discarding of barrels,
containers or other closed receptacles containing Hazardous Materials) into the
environment in violation of Environmental Laws and in amounts or concentrations
that require reporting or notification pursuant to Environmental Law.
"RENT AND CHARGES RESERVE" means the aggregate of (a) all past due
rent and other past due amounts owing by a Loan Party to any landlord,
warehouseman, processor, repairman, mechanic, shipper, freight forwarder or
other Person who possesses any Collateral or could assert a Lien on any
Collateral; and (b) a reserve equal to up to three months rent and other charges
that could be payable to any such Person or, if such Person could assert a Lien
on such Collateral ranking equal to or senior to the Administrative Agent's
Lien, a reserve equal to more than three months rent and other charges
(corresponding to the time period such Lien is applicable), in each case under
this clause (b) unless it has executed a Lien Waiver.
"REPORTABLE EVENT" means any of the events set forth in Section
4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30 day notice period has been
waived.
"REPORTED EBITDA" means for any period, Consolidated Net Income for
such period, plus (a) to the extent deducted in computing such Consolidated Net
Income, the sum, without duplication, of (i) all Federal, state, local and
foreign income taxes, (ii) Consolidated Interest Charges and (iii) depreciation,
amortization of intangibles and other non-cash charges or non-cash losses and
(iv) all fees and expenses associated with the Acquisition, minus, (b) to the
extent included in computing such Consolidated Net Income, (v) any gains
realized upon the Disposition of property and (vi) any non-cash income or
non-cash gains, all as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP.
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"REQUEST FOR CREDIT EXTENSION" means (a) with respect to a
Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed
Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit
Application, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan
Notice.
"REQUIRED CONSENT ASSETS" means the leaseholds and other assets
listed on Schedule 1.01(r) hereto.
"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) and (b) aggregate unused Revolving Credit
Commitments; provided that the 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.
"REQUIRED PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the sum of all regularly scheduled principal payments or
repurchases, redemptions or similar acquisitions for value of outstanding Funded
Indebtedness made or required to be made during such period, including, without
limitation, all repayments of Loans outstanding hereunder pursuant to Section
2.07(a).
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" means the chief executive officer, chief
operating officer, president, chief financial officer or treasurer of a Loan
Party. 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.
"RESTRICTED PAYMENT" means any dividend or other distribution
(whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital
stock or other Equity Interest of any Person or any of its Subsidiaries, 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 capital stock
or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to any Person's
stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent of any thereof), or any
option, warrant or other right to acquire any such dividend or other
distribution or payment.
"REVALUATION DATE" means, with respect to any item of Eligible
Equipment or any parcel of Eligible Real Estate, the date requested by the
Borrower Agent for revaluation of such item of Eligible Equipment or parcel of
Eligible Real Estate, provided that (i) not less than sixty days prior to such
date (or such shorter period to which the Administrative Agent shall consent),
Borrower Agent shall have requested in writing that the Administrative Agent
conduct such revaluation, at the Borrowers' expense, and (ii) not less than five
Business Days prior to such date, the Administrative Agent shall have received a
reasonably satisfactory appraisal of such
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Eligible Equipment or Eligible Real Estate prepared by an appraisal firm engaged
by the Administrative Agent.
"REVOLVING CREDIT BORROWING" means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous 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
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 Borrowers
pursuant to Section 2.01(b), (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, and
(c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal
amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite
such Lender's name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption "Revolving Credit
Commitment" or in the Assignment and Assumption 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.
"REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY" means, at any time, the aggregate amount
of the Revolving Credit Lenders' Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
"REVOLVING CREDIT LENDER" means, at any time, any Lender that has a
Revolving Credit Commitment at such time.
"REVOLVING CREDIT LOAN" has the meaning specified in Section
2.01(b).
"REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE" means a promissory note of the Borrowers
payable to the order of any Revolving Credit Lender, in substantially the form
of Exhibit C hereto, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrowers to
such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by
such Revolving Credit Lender.
"ROYALTIES" means all royalties, fees, expense reimbursement and
other amounts payable by a Borrower under a License.
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The
XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc. and any successor thereto.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any
Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
"SECURED HEDGE AGREEMENT" means any interest rate, foreign currency
exchange or commodity price Swap Contract required or permitted under Article VI
or VII that is entered into by and between any Borrower and any Hedge Bank.
"SECURED OBLIGATIONS" has the meaning specified in Section 2 of the
Security Agreement.
"SECURED PARTIES" means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the
Lenders, the Hedge Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the
Administrative Agent from time to
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time pursuant to Section 10.05, and the other Persons the Obligations owing to
which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of
the Collateral Documents.
"SECURITY AGREEMENT" means that certain Security Agreement dated as
of the date hereof by and among the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent in
substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto (together with each other security
agreement and security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12).
"SECURITY AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT" has the meaning specified in Section
24 of the Security Agreement.
"SENIOR NOTES" means the senior floating rate notes of ATT due 2012
in an aggregate original principal amount of up to $150,000,000 issued pursuant
to the Senior Notes Indenture.
"SENIOR NOTES DOCUMENTS" means the Senior Notes Indenture, the
Senior Notes and all other agreements, instruments and other documents pursuant
to which the Senior Notes have been or will be issued or otherwise setting forth
the terms of the Senior notes, in each case as such agreement, instrument or
other document may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time in accordance with the terms thereof, but to the extent permitted under the
terms of the Loan Documents.
"SENIOR NOTES INDENTURE" means the Indenture dated January 14, 2005
by and among ATT, Holdings, as guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as trustee.
"SETTLEMENT REPORT" means a report delivered by the Administrative
Agent to Lenders summarizing the Revolving Credit Loans and participations in
L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans outstanding as of a given settlement date,
allocated to Lenders on a pro rata basis in accordance with their Revolving
Credit Commitments.
"SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY" means, at any date of determination, any
Subsidiary of a Borrower that, either individually or together with its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, has revenues, assets or earnings in an amount
equal to at least 3% of (a) the consolidated revenues of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries for the most recently completed fiscal quarter for which the
Lenders have received financial statements of Holdings and its Subsidiaries
pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b), (b) the consolidated assets of Holdings
and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of the most recently completed fiscal
quarter for which the Lenders have received financial statements of Holdings and
its Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b), or (c) the consolidated
net earnings of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed
fiscal quarter for which the Lenders have received financial statements of
Holdings and its Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b),
respectively, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP for such period.
"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,
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(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 the 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 11.06(h).
"SUBORDINATED NOTES" means the 10% senior subordinated notes of ATT
due 2012 in an aggregate original principal amount of up to $150,000,000 issued
pursuant to the Subordinated Notes Indenture
"SUBORDINATED NOTES DOCUMENTS" means the Subordinated Notes
Indenture, the Subordinated Notes and all other agreements, instruments and
other documents pursuant to which the Subordinated Notes have been or will be
issued or otherwise setting forth the terms of the Subordinated Notes, in each
case as such agreement, instrument or other document may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the
terms thereof, but to the extent permitted under the terms of the Loan
Documents.
"SUBORDINATED NOTES INDENTURE" means the Indenture dated June 28,
2004 between ATT, Holdings, as guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as trustee,
with respect to the Subordinated Notes.
"SUBORDINATED OBLIGATIONS" has the meaning specified in Section
8.05.
"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
Holdings.
"SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS" means, collectively, the Subsidiaries of the
Borrowers listed on Schedule I and each other Subsidiary of the Borrowers that
shall be required to execute and deliver a guaranty or guaranty supplement
pursuant to Section 6.12.
"SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY" means, collectively, the Guaranty made by the
Subsidiary Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the
Lenders, substantially in the form of Exhibit F, together with each other
guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12.
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"SWAP CONTRACT" means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis
swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity
swaps, commodity options, forward commodity 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, floor
transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency
rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, 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 amount(s) determined as the
xxxx-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, 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" means the revolving credit facility made available by
the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04.
"SWING LINE BORROWING" means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan
pursuant to Section 2.04.
"SWING LINE LENDER" means Bank of America in its capacity as
provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender 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, if in writing, shall be substantially in the
form of Exhibit B.
"SWING LINE SUBLIMIT" means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $15
million and (b) the Revolving Credit Commitments. The Swing Line Sublimit is
part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility Commitments.
"SYNTHETIC LEASE OBLIGATION" means the monetary obligation of a
Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention
lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property creating
obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such
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Person but which, upon the insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be
characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting
treatment).
"TAXES" means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any
Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties
applicable thereto.
"THRESHOLD AMOUNT" means $7,500,000.
"TOTAL OUTSTANDINGS" means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all
Loans and all L/C Obligations.
"TYPE" means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate
Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code in the State of New York or,
when the laws of any other jurisdiction govern the perfection or enforcement of
any Lien, the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction.
"UNITED STATES" and "U.S." mean the United States of America.
"UNREIMBURSED AMOUNT" has the meaning specified in Section
2.03(c)(i).
"VALUE" means (a) for an Account, its face amount, net of any
applicable returns, rebates, discounts (calculated on the shortest terms),
credits, allowances or Taxes (including sales, excise or other taxes) that would
reasonably be expected to be claimed by the applicable Account Debtor or any
other Person, in each case, to the extent not already deducted in the
determination of Eligible Accounts; (b) for real estate, its fair market value
based upon the most recent appraisals performed by an appraiser reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and on terms reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent (in each case in the Administrative Agent's Credit
Judgment).
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 definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the
singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may
require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and
neuter forms. The words "include," "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to
be followed by the phrase "without limitation." The word "will" shall be
construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word "shall." Unless the
context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement,
instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) shall be
construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from
time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any
restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein
or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be
construed to include such Person's successors and assigns, (iii) the words
"herein," "hereof" and "hereunder," and words of similar import when used in any
Loan
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Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and
not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document
to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to
Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in
which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all
statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending replacing or
interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless
otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time, and (vi) the words "asset" and "property" shall
be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all
tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities,
accounts and contract rights.
(b) 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."
(c) 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.
1.03 Accounting Terms.
(a) Generally. All accounting terms not specifically or
completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all
financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations)
required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in
conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to
time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited
Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Changes in GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP would
affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any
Loan Document, and either the Borrower Agent or the Required Lenders shall so
request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrowers shall negotiate
in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent
thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required
Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall
continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and
(ii) the Borrowers shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as
reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between
calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to
such change in GAAP.
1.04 Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by
the Borrowers pursuant to 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 if
there is no nearest number).
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1.05 Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references
herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or
standard, as applicable).
1.06 Letter of Credit Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein,
the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated
amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that
with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any
Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in
the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed
to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to
all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at
such time.
ARTICLE II
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
2.01 The Loans.
(a) The Revolving Credit Borrowings. Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to
make loans (each such loan, a "REVOLVING CREDIT LOAN") to the Borrowers from
time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period, in an
aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such
Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however, that after giving
effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, (i) the Total Outstandings shall not
exceed the lesser of (1) the Aggregate Commitments or (2) the Borrowing Base,
and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any
Lender, plus such Lender's Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of
all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender's Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding
Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender's Revolving Credit
Commitment. Within the limits of each Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment, and
subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under
this Section 2.01(a), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section
2.01(a). Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans,
as further provided herein.
(b) Overadvances. If the aggregate amount of Revolving Credit
Loans plus L/C Obligations exceed the Borrowing Base or the Aggregate
Commitments at any time ("OVERADVANCE"), such excess amount shall be payable by
Borrowers on demand by the Administrative Agent; provided, however, that if such
Overadvance is caused solely by a change in the composition or calculation of
the Availability Reserve, no such demand shall be effective until the expiration
of at least three (3) Business Days after notice of such change is given to the
Borrower Agent by the Administrative Agent. All Overadvances shall constitute
Obligations secured by the Collateral and entitled to all benefits of the Loan
Documents. Unless its authority has been revoked in writing by Required Lenders,
the Administrative Agent may require Lenders to honor requests for Overadvance
Loans and to forbear from requiring Borrowers to cure an Overadvance, (a) when
no other Event of Default is known to the Administrative Agent, as long as (i)
the Overadvance does not continue for more than 30 consecutive days (and no
Overadvance may exist for at least five consecutive days thereafter before
further Overadvance Loans are required), and (ii) the Overadvance is not known
by the Administrative Agent to exceed 10% of the Borrowing Base; and (b)
regardless of whether an Event of Default exists, if
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the Administrative Agent discovers an Overadvance not previously known by it to
exist, as long as from the date of such discovery the Overadvance (i) is not
increased by more than 5% of the Borrowing Base, and (ii) does not continue for
more than 30 consecutive days. In no event shall Overadvance Loans be required
that would cause the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and LC Obligations to
exceed the Aggregate Commitments. Any funding of an Overadvance Loan or
sufferance of an Overadvance shall not constitute a waiver by the Administrative
Agent or Lenders of the Event of Default caused thereby. In no event shall any
Borrower or other Loan Party be deemed a beneficiary of this Section nor
authorized to enforce any of its terms.
(c) Protective Advances. The Administrative Agent shall be
authorized, in its discretion, at any time that a Default or Event of Default
exists or any conditions in Section 4.02 are not satisfied, and without regard
to the Aggregate Commitments, to make Base Rate Loans ("PROTECTIVE ADVANCES")
(a) up to an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 outstanding at any time, if the
Administrative Agent deems such Loans necessary or desirable to preserve or
protect any Collateral, or to enhance the collectibility or repayment of
Obligations; or (b) to pay any other amounts chargeable to Loan Parties under
any Loan Documents, including interest, costs, fees and expenses. All Protective
Advances shall be Obligations, secured by the Collateral, and shall be treated
for all purposes as Extraordinary Expenses. Each Lender shall participate in
each Protective Advance on a pro rata basis based on its Applicable Percentage.
Required Lenders may at any time revoke the Administrative Agent's authorization
to make further Protective Advances by written notice to the Administrative
Agent. Absent such revocation, the Administrative Agent's determination that
funding of a Protective Advance is appropriate shall be conclusive.
(d) Settlement of Revolving Loans. To facilitate administration
of the Revolving Credit Loans, Lenders and the Administrative Agent agree (which
agreement is solely among them, and not for the benefit of or enforceable by any
Borrower) that settlement among them with respect to Revolving Credit Loans may
take place periodically on a date determined from time to time by the
Administrative Agent, which shall occur at least once every five Business Days
or more frequently if required by the Administrative Agent. On each settlement
date, settlement shall be made with each Lender in accordance with the
Settlement Report delivered by the Administrative Agent to Lenders. Between
settlement dates, the Administrative Agent may in its discretion apply payments
on Revolving Credit Loans, regardless of any designation by any Borrower or any
provision herein to the contrary. Each Lender's obligation to make settlements
with the Administrative Agent is absolute and unconditional, without offset,
counterclaim or other defense, and whether or not the Revolving Credit
Commitments have terminated, an Overadvance exists, or the conditions in Section
4.02 are satisfied.
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a) Each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of
Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of
Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower Agent's irrevocable notice
to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice
must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon (i) three
Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate
Loans to
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Base Rate Loans, and (ii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate
Loans; provided, however, that if any Borrower wishes to request Eurodollar Rate
Loans having an Interest Period other than one, two, three or six months in
duration as provided in the definition of "Interest Period", the applicable
notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon
four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or
continuation, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the
Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is
acceptable to all of them. Not later than 11:00 a.m., three Business Days before
the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower Agent (which notice may be by
telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by
all the Lenders. Each telephonic notice by the Borrowers pursuant to this
Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative
Agent of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by
a Responsible Officer of the Borrower Agent. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of
$1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided
in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate
Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000
in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written)
shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Revolving Credit
Borrowing, a conversion of 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 Revolving
Credit Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the
Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrowers fail to specify a Type of
Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrowers fail to give a timely notice
requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable 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 Borrowers request 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 month.
(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its
Applicable Percentage of the applicable Revolving Credit Loans, and if no timely
notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrowers, the
Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic
conversion to Base Rate Loans described in Section 2.02(a). 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. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan
Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02
(and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the
Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrowers
in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting
the account of the Borrowers on the books of Bank of America or such other
deposit account with a commercial bank in the United States as may be designated
in writing to the Administrative Agent by a Borrower with the amount of such
funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each
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case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to)
the Administrative Agent by the Borrowers; provided, however, that if, on the
date the Committed Loan Notice with respect to such Borrowing is given by the
Borrower Agent, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such
Borrowing first shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C
Borrowings and second, shall be made available to the Borrowers as provided
above.
(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. During the existence of an Event of Default, no Loans
may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans without
the consent of the Required Lenders.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower
Agent and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for
Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that
Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Borrower Agent and the Lenders of any change in Bank of America's prime rate
used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of
such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all
conversions of Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all
continuations of Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be
more than ten 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.
2.03 Letters of Credit.
(a) The Letter of Credit Commitment.
(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A)
the L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other
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 for the account of the
Borrowers, and to amend or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by
it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to honor drawings 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
Borrowers and any drawings thereunder; provided that after giving effect
to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (x) the
Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments, (y) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Loans of any Lender, plus such
Lender's Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C
Obligations, plus such Lender's Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding
Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender's Revolving
Credit Commitment, and (z) the Outstanding Amount of
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the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit. Each
request by a Borrower for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit
shall be deemed to be a representation by the Borrowers that the L/C
Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in
the proviso to the preceding sentence. Within the foregoing limits, and
subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Borrower's ability to
obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the
Borrowers 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. All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have
been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Closing Date shall be
subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.
(ii) The L/C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit if:
(A) subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of
such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months
after the date of issuance or last extension, unless the Required
Lenders have approved such expiry date; or
(B) the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit
would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all
the Lenders have approved such expiry date.
(iii) The L/C Issuer shall not be under any 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 the 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 the L/C Issuer (I) shall prohibit,
or request that the L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters
of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or (II)
shall impose upon the L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of
Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which
the L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect
on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer any
unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the
Closing Date and in each case under clause (II) which the L/C Issuer
in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it;
(B) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate
any Laws or one or more policies of the L/C Issuer; or
(C) except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent
and the L/C Issuer, such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated
amount less than $100,000, in the case of a commercial Letter of
Credit, or $500,000, in the case of a standby Letter of Credit;
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(D) such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a
currency other than Dollars;
(E) such Letter of Credit contains any provisions for
automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing
thereunder or provides for the stated amount to increase from time
to time; or
(F) a default of any Lender's obligations to fund under
Section 2.03(c) exists or any Lender is at such time a Defaulting
Lender hereunder, unless the L/C Issuer has entered into
satisfactory arrangements with the applicable Borrower or such
Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer's risk with respect to such
Lender.
(iv) The L/C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if the
L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue such Letter of
Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.
(v) The L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any
Letter of Credit if (A) the 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.
(vi) The 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 the L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and
immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article X with
respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in
connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by
it and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as
if the term "Administrative Agent" as used in Article X included the L/C
Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally
provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuer.
(b) Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit;
Auto-Extension Letters of Credit.
(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the
case may be, upon the request of the Borrower Agent delivered to the L/C
Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter
of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower Agent. Such Letter of Credit Application must be
received by the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than
12:00 noon at least two Business Days (or such later date and time as the
Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance
in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of
amendment, as the case may be. 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 satisfactory to the 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
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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 L/C Issuer may reasonably require. 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 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
the L/C Issuer may reasonably require. Additionally, the Borrower Agent
shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other
documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit
issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer
or the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application,
the L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or
in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such
Letter of Credit Application from the Borrower Agent and, if not, the L/C
Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Unless
the L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Lender, the
Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at least one Business Day prior to
the requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of
Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in Article IV
shall not then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of
Credit for the account of the applicable Borrower or enter into the
applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with
the L/C Issuer's usual and customary business practices. 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 L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit
in an amount equal to the product of such Lender's Applicable Percentage
times the amount of such Letter of Credit.
(iii) If the Borrower Agent so requests in any applicable Letter
of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole and absolute
discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension
provisions (each, an "AUTO-EXTENSION LETTER OF CREDIT"); provided that any
such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent
any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing
with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior
written notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the
"NONEXTENSION NOTICE DATE") in each such twelve-month period to be agreed
upon with the Borrower Agent at the time such Letter of Credit is issued.
Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, the Borrower Agent shall not
be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer for any such
extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the
Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C
Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an
expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided,
however, that the L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A)
the L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would
have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its
revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the
provisions of clauses (ii) or (iii) of
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Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be
by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is five Business
Days before the NonExtension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent
that the Required Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (2)
from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Borrower
Agent that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section
4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing the L/C Issuer
not to permit such extension.
(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 L/C Issuer will also deliver to the
Borrower Agent 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 L/C Issuer shall
notify the Borrower Agent and the Administrative Agent thereof, including
the amount and proposed Honor Date (as defined below) of such draw. Not
later than 2:00 p.m. on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a
Letter of Credit (each such date, an "HONOR DATE"), the Borrowers shall
reimburse the L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount
equal to the amount of such drawing. If the Borrowers fail to so reimburse
the 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 Applicable Percentage thereof. In such event,
the Borrowers 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 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
the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section
2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing;
provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect
the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Each Revolving Credit Lender shall upon any notice pursuant
to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available to the Administrative Agent for
the account of the L/C Issuer at the Administrative Agent's Office in an
amount equal to its Applicable Percentage 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 Borrowers in such
amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the
L/C Issuer.
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(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 Borrowers shall be deemed to have incurred from the 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 the 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 Applicable Percentage of such amount shall be
solely for the account of the L/C Issuer.
(v) Each Revolving Credit Lender's obligation to make Revolving
Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the 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 the L/C Issuer, any 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, however, 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 a Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice
). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the
obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount of
any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together
with interest as provided herein.
(vi) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the 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), the 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 the L/C Issuer at a rate per
annum equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined
by the L/C Issuer in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation. A certificate of the 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.
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(i) At any time after the 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), if the Administrative Agent receives for the account of
the L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount
or interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrowers or otherwise,
including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the
Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such
Lender its Applicable Percentage 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 the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be
returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 11.05
(including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in
its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer its Applicable
Percentage 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 Federal Funds Rate from
time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders under this clause
shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination
of this Agreement.
(e) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the Borrowers to
reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit and to
repay each L/C Borrowing 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 Loan Document;
(ii) the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or
other right that a Borrower or any 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
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 L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit
against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly
comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the
L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to
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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;
(v) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any Collateral, or
any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the
Guaranties or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of a
Borrower or any Subsidiary 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, any
Borrower.
The Borrower Agent shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of
Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of
any claim of noncompliance with the Borrower Agent's instructions or other
irregularity, the Borrower Agent will promptly notify the L/C Issuer. The
Borrowers shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the
L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.
Nothing herein shall limit any rights or remedies the Borrowers may have to
commence and prosecute an action, suit or proceeding against the L/C Issuer for
gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith in connection with any drawing
under a Letter of Credit except that any damages for which the L/C Issuer may be
liable shall be limited to direct and not consequential damages.
(f) Role of L/C Issuer. Each Lender and the Borrowers agree
that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer 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 Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties
nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer 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 or breach in bad faith of its obligations hereunder; or
(iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any
document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document. Each
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, however,
that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude any 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 Issuer, the
Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any
correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or
responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of
Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Borrowers may have a claim against the L/C Issuer,
and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrowers, to the extent, but only to
the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary,
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damages suffered by a Borrower which such Borrower proves were caused by the L/C
Issuer's willful misconduct or gross negligence or breach in bad faith of its
obligations hereunder or the L/C Issuer's willful failure to pay under any
Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight
draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a
Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C
Issuer 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 Issuer 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 written request of the
Administrative Agent, (i) if the 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, or (ii) if, as of a Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C
Obligation in respect of such Letter of Credit for any reason remains
outstanding, the Borrowers shall, in each case, immediately repay in full all
Unreimbursed Amounts and Cash Collateralize the remaining Outstanding Amount of
all L/C Obligations in respect of such Letter of Credit . Sections 2.05 and
9.02(c) set forth certain additional requirements to deliver Cash Collateral
hereunder. For purposes of this Section 2.03, Section 2.05 and Section 9.02(c),
"CASH COLLATERALIZE" means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer and the Revolving Credit
Lenders, as collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances
equal to 100% of such L/C Obligations pursuant to documentation in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer
(which documents are hereby consented to by the Lenders). Derivatives of such
term have corresponding meanings. Each Borrower hereby grants to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer and the Lenders, a
security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein
and all proceeds of the foregoing. Cash Collateral shall be maintained in
blocked, non-interest bearing deposit accounts at Bank of America. If at any
time the Administrative Agent determines that any funds held as Cash Collateral
are subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative
Agent or that the total amount of such funds is less than the aggregate
Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, the Borrowers will, forthwith upon
demand by the Administrative Agent, pay to the Administrative Agent, as
additional funds to be deposited and held in the deposit accounts at Bank of
America as aforesaid, an amount equal to the excess of (a) such aggregate
Outstanding Amount over (b) the total amount of funds, if any, then held as Cash
Collateral that 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 L/C Issuer. Any amounts
remaining on deposit as Cash Collateral will be returned to the Borrowers
provided there are no outstanding L/C Obligations hereunder and no Default has
occurred and is continuing.
(h) Applicability of ISP98 and UCP. Unless otherwise expressly
agreed by the L/C Issuer and the Borrower Agent when a Letter of Credit is
issued (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of
Credit), (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit,
and (ii) the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary
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Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce at
the time of issuance shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit.
(i) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrowers shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in
accordance with its Applicable Percentage a Letter of Credit fee (the "LETTER OF
CREDIT FEE") for each Letter of Credit at a per annum rate equal to the
Applicable Rate times the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter
of Credit. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn
under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be
determined in accordance with Section 1.06. Letter of Credit Fees shall (i)
accrue through the last Business Day of each fiscal quarter and (ii) be due and
payable on the last Business Day at the end 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. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the
daily amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed
and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such
quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of
Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.
(j) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable
to L/C Issuer. The Borrowers shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own
account a fronting fee (i) with respect to each commercial Letter of Credit, at
the rate equal to 0.25% per annum, computed on the amount of such Letter of
Credit, and payable upon the issuance thereof, (ii) with respect to any
amendment of a commercial Letter of Credit increasing the amount of such Letter
of Credit, at a rate separately agreed between the Borrowers and the L/C Issuer,
computed on the amount of such increase, and payable upon the effectiveness of
such amendment, and (iii) with respect to each standby Letter of Credit, at the
rate equal to 0.25% per annum, computed on the daily amount available to be
drawn under such Letter of Credit on a monthly basis in arrears, and due and
payable on the first Business Day after the end of each month, 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. For purposes of
computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the
amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section
1.06. In addition, the Borrowers shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its
own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing
fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the L/C Issuer relating to
letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and
standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.
(k) Conflict with Issuer Documents. In the event of any conflict
between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof
shall control
(l) Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding
that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any
obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary, the Borrowers shall be
obligated to reimburse the L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under
such Letter of Credit. The Borrowers hereby acknowledges that the issuance of
Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the
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Borrowers, and that the Borrowers' business derives substantial benefits from
the businesses of such Subsidiaries.
2.04 Swing Line Loans.
(a) The Swing Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set
forth herein, the Swing Line Lender agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of
the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, to make loans (each such loan,
a "SWING LINE LOAN") to the Borrowers from time to time on any Business Day
during the Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time
outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit, notwithstanding the fact that
such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Applicable Percentage 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,
however, that after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, (i) the Total
Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments, and (ii) the aggregate
Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender, plus such
Lender's Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations,
plus such Lender's Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing
Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment, and
provided further that the Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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
Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount
equal to the product of such Lender's Applicable Percentage times the amount of
such Swing Line Loan.
(b) Borrowing Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be
made upon the Borrower Agent's irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and
the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must
be received by the 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, and (ii) the requested
borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day. Each such telephonic notice must
be confirmed promptly by delivery to the 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 Agent. Promptly
after receipt by the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice,
the Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone
or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line
Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative
Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the Swing
Line Lender has received notice (by telephone or 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 the proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A)
directing the Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of
the limitations set forth in the proviso to the first sentence of Section
2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in
Article IV is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, the Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing
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date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line
Loan available to the applicable Borrower at its office by crediting the account
of such Borrower on the books of the Swing Line Lender in immediately available
funds.
(c) Refinancing of Swing Line Loans.
(i) The Swing Line Lender will request on the fifth day
following the date of each Swing Line Borrowing, on behalf of any Borrower
(which hereby irrevocably authorizes the 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 Applicable Percentage of the amount of
Swing Line Loans then outstanding. 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,
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 Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02.
The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the Borrower Agent 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 Applicable Percentage of the amount specified in such
Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately
available funds for the account of the 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 Borrowers in such
amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the
Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced
by such a Revolving Credit Borrowing in accordance with Section
2.04(c)(i), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the Swing Line
Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing
Line Lender that each of the Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk
participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan and each Revolving Credit
Lender's payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing
Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i) shall be deemed payment in
respect of such participation.
(iii) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the 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)(i), the 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 the
Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the Federal
Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Swing Line Lender in accordance
with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. A certificate of
the Swing Line Lender submitted to any Lender (through the Administrative
Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
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(iv) 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 Swing Line Lender, any 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, however, 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. No
such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the
obligation of the Borrowers to repay Swing Line Loans, together with
interest as provided herein.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) At any time after any Revolving Credit Lender has purchased
and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line
Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing
Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Percentage 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 the Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If any payment received by the Swing Line Lender in respect
of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned
by the Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in
Section 11.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the
Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall
pay to the Swing Line Lender its Applicable Percentage 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 Federal Funds Rate. The Administrative Agent will make such demand
upon the request of the Swing Line Lender. The obligations of the Lenders
under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and
the termination of this Agreement.
(e) Interest for Account of 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 Applicable Percentage of any
Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Percentage shall be
solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.
(f) Payments Directly to Swing Line Lender. The Borrowers shall
make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans
directly to the Swing Line Lender.
2.05 Prepayments.
(a) Optional.
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(i) The Borrowers may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent
(which may be given by telephone and followed in writing promptly
thereafter), at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Loans in
whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (1) such notice
must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon (A)
three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate
Loans and (B) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (2) 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 (3) any
prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000
or a whole multiple of $100,000 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
Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid. The Administrative Agent will promptly
notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount
of such Lender's Applicable Percentage of such prepayment. If such notice
is given by a Borrower, the Borrowers 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 pursuant to
this Section 2.05(a) shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their
respective Applicable Percentages.
(ii) The Borrowers may, upon notice to the 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 (1) such notice must be received by the
Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on
the date of the prepayment, and (2) 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 a Borrower,
the Borrowers shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified
in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.
(b) Mandatory. If for any reason either the Total Outstandings
at any time exceed the Aggregate Commitments then in effect or the Borrowing
Base, the Borrowers shall immediately prepay Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the
L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however,
that the Borrowers shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C
Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) unless after the prepayment in
full of the Loans and Swing Line Loans the Total Outstandings exceed the
Aggregate Commitments then in effect.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
Section 2.05(a) or (b), or in Section 3.05, so long as no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, if, on any date on which a prepayment of Loans would
otherwise be permitted pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(i) or required pursuant to
clauses (i) or (ii) of Section 2.05(b) on any day other than on the last day of
the Interest Period therefor, the Borrowers may in their sole discretion (but
shall not be required to), deposit the amount of any such prepayment otherwise
required to be made hereunder in a Cash Collateral Account of the Borrowers
maintained with the Administrative Agent, until the last day of such Interest
Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be
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authorized (without any further action by any Borrower) to apply such prepayment
as set forth in such relevant clauses of this Section 2.05.
2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Optional. The Borrowers may, upon notice to the
Administrative Agent, terminate the unused portions of the Letter of Credit
Sublimit, or the unused Revolving Credit Commitments, or from time to time
permanently reduce the unused portions of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or the
unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) any such notice shall be
received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon three Business
Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial
reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $3,000,000 or any whole multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof and (iii) the Borrowers shall not terminate or
reduce the unused portions of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or the unused
Revolving Credit Commitments if, after giving effect thereto and to any
concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Outstandings would exceed the
Aggregate Commitments.
(b) Mandatory. If after giving effect to any reduction or
termination of unused Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section 2.06, the
Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit exceeds the amount of the
Aggregate Commitments, such Sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the
amount of such excess.
(c) Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The
Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or
reduction of unused portions of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or the unused
Revolving Credit Commitment under this Section 2.06. Upon any reduction of
unused Commitments under a Facility, the Commitment of each Lender under such
Facility shall be reduced by such Lender's Applicable Percentage of the amount
by which such Facility is reduced. All fees accrued until the effective date of
any termination of the Aggregate Commitments shall be paid on the effective date
of such termination.
2.07 Repayment of Loans.
(a) Revolving Credit Loans. The Borrowers 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 Revolving Credit Advances outstanding on such date.
(b) Swing Line Loans. The Borrowers shall repay each Swing Line
Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date ten Business Days after such Loan
is made and (ii) the Maturity Date.
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
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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.
(b) (i) If any amount payable by the Borrowers under any Loan
Document is not paid when due (after the expiration of all applicable grace
periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then all
outstanding Obligations hereunder shall thereafter bear interest at a
fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to
the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(ii) While any Default under Section 9.01(f) or (g) exists, the
Borrowers shall pay interest on all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a
fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to
the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(iii) 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.
2.09 Fees. In addition to certain fees described in Sections
2.03(i) and (j):
(a) Commitment Fee. The Borrowers shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Appropriate Lender in accordance
with its Applicable Percentage, a commitment fee equal to the Applicable
Commitment Fee Rate times the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate
Commitments exceed the sum of (A) the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit
Loans and (B) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations. The commitment fee
shall accrue at all times during the Availability Period, including at any time
during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall
be due and payable monthly in arrears on the first Business Day after the end of
each month, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date,
and on the Maturity Date for the applicable Facility. The commitment fee shall
be calculated monthly in arrears
(b) Other Fees. (i) The Borrowers shall pay to the Arranger and
the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts fees in the amounts
and at the times specified in the Fee Letter. Such fees shall be fully earned
when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
(ii) The Borrowers shall pay 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.
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2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees. All computations of
interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by Bank of
America's "prime rate" shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 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 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 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 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.
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 by the
Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records
maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive
absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders
to the Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 accounts and records of the Administrative
Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative
Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any
Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers shall execute and
deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall
evidence such Lender's Loans, and the joint and several obligation of the
Borrowers to repay the Obligations hereunder, 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.
(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 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 accounts and records maintained
by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in
respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent
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(b), and by each Lender in its account or
accounts pursuant to Section 2.11(a), shall be prima facie evidence of the
amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable
from the Borrowers 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
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or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrowers
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agent's Clawback.
(a) General. All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be
made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or
setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the
Borrowers 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 2:00
p.m. on the date specified herein accompanied by a Notice of Payment from the
Borrowers. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its
Applicable Percentage (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 2:00 p.m. shall
be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable
interest or fee shall continue to accrue.
(b) (i) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent.
Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior
to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available
to the Administrative Agent such Lender's share of such Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available
on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to the Borrowers a corresponding amount. In such
event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing
available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the
Borrowers severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent within one Business
Day after receipt by the Borrower Agent of written notice from the
Administrative Agent such corresponding amount in immediately available funds
with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is
made available to the Borrowers to but excluding the date of payment to the
Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender,
the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the
Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrowers, the
interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If the Borrowers and such Lender
shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an
overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the
Borrowers the amount of such interest paid by the Borrowers for such period. If
such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative
Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender's Loan included in
such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrowers shall be without prejudice to any
claim the Borrowers may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make
such payment to the Administrative Agent.
(ii) Payments by Borrowers; Presumptions by Administrative Agent.
Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower
Agent prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent
for the account of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer hereunder that the Borrowers
will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the
Borrowers has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in
reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as
the case
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may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrowers have not in fact made
such payment, then each of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be,
severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the
amount so distributed to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in immediately available
funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such
amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the
Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate
determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules
on interbank compensation.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrowers
with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive,
absent manifest error.
(c) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent. 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 II, and such
funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the Administrative Agent
because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article
IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the
Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from
such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(d) Obligations of Lenders Several. The obligations of the
Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to fund participations in Letters of Credit
and Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 11.04(c) are
several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to fund any
such participation or make payments pursuant to Section 11.04(c) 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 or
make payments pursuant to Section 11.04(c).
(e) Funding Source. 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.
(f) Authorization. The Borrowers hereby authorize each Lender,
if and to the extent payment owed to such Lender is not made when due hereunder
or, in the case of a Lender, under the Note held by such Lender, to charge from
time to time against any or all of the Borrowers' accounts with such Lender any
amount so due.
(g) Insufficient Payment. 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 Agents 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 Agents and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth in
Section 9.03. 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
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of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender's Applicable Percentage of the sum
of (A) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time and (b) 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.
(h) Authorization to Charge the Loan. The Administrative Agent
is authorized to, and at its sole election may, charge to the Revolving Credit
Loan balance on behalf of each Borrower and cause to be paid all interest, fees,
expenses, charges and costs owing or payable by the Borrowers under this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents if and to the extent the Borrowers
fail to pay promptly any such amounts as and when due, even if the amount of
such charges would exceed Availability at such time or would cause the balance
of the Revolving Credit Loan to exceed the Borrowing Base, in each case after
giving effect to such charges. At the Administrative Agent's option and to the
extent permitted by law, any charges so made shall constitute part of the
Revolving Credit Loan hereunder.
2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders. If any Lender shall, by
exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in
respect of any principal of or interest on any of the Loans made by it, or the
participations in L/C Obligations or in Swing Line Loans held by it resulting in
such Lender's receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of such
Loans or participations and accrued interest thereon greater than its pro rata
share thereof as provided herein, then the Lender receiving such greater
proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b)
purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and
subparticipations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans of the other Lenders,
or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all
such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the
aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective
Committed Loans and other amounts owing them, provided that:
(i) if any such participations or subparticipations are
purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is
recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be rescinded and
the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without
interest; and
(ii) the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to
apply to (x) any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in
accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (y) any payment
obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a
participation in any of its Loans or subparticipations in L/C Obligations
or Swing Line Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the
Borrowers or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this
Section shall apply).
Each Loan Party consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may
effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a
participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such
Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation
as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Loan Party in the
amount of such participation.
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2.14 Borrower Agent. Each Borrower hereby designates ATT
("BORROWER AGENT") as its representative and agent for all purposes under the
Loan Documents, including requests for Loans and Letters of Credit, designation
of interest rates, delivery or receipt of communications with the Administrative
Agent, L/C Issuer or any Lender, preparation and delivery of Borrowing Base and
financial reports, receipt and payment of Obligations, requests for waivers,
amendments or other accommodations, actions under the Loan Documents (including
in respect of compliance with covenants), and all other dealings with the
Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer or any Lender. The Borrower Agent hereby
accepts such appointment. The Administrative Agent and Lenders shall be entitled
to rely upon, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, any notice or
communication (including any Request for Credit Extension) delivered by the
Borrower Agent purporting to be given on behalf of any Borrower. The
Administrative Agent and Lenders may give any notice or communication with a
Borrower hereunder to Borrower Agent on behalf of such Borrower. Administrative
Agent shall have the right, in its discretion, to deal exclusively with the
Borrower Agent for any or all purposes under the Loan Documents. Each Borrower
agrees that any notice, election, communication, representation, agreement or
undertaking made on its behalf by Borrower Agent shall be binding upon and
enforceable against it.
2.15 One Obligation. The Loans, LC Obligations and other
Obligations shall constitute one general obligation of the Borrowers and (unless
otherwise expressly provided in any Loan Document) shall be secured by the
Administrative Agent's Lien upon all Collateral; provided, however, that the
Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be deemed to be a creditor of, and
the holder of a separate claim against, each Borrower to the extent of any
Obligations jointly or severally owed by such Borrower
2.16 Nature and Extent of Each Borrower's Liability.
(a) Joint and Several Liability. Each Borrower agrees that it is
jointly and severally liable for, and absolutely and unconditionally guarantees
to the Administrative Agent and Lenders the prompt payment and performance of,
all Obligations and all agreements under the Loan Documents. Each Borrower
agrees that its guaranty obligations hereunder constitute a continuing guaranty
of payment and performance and not of collection, that such obligations shall
not be discharged until the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the
repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations, and that such
obligations are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of (a) the genuineness,
validity, regularity, enforceability, subordination or any future modification
of, or change in, any Obligations or Loan Document, or any other document,
instrument or agreement to which any Loan Party is or may become a party or
liable; (b) the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this
Section) or any other Loan Document, or any waiver, consent or indulgence of any
kind by the Administrative Agent or any Lender with respect thereto; (c) the
existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect a Lien or to preserve
rights against, any security or guaranty for the Obligations or any action, or
the absence of any action, by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in respect
thereof (including the release of any security or guaranty); (d) the insolvency
of any Loan Party; (e) any election by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in
any proceeding under Debtor Relief Laws for the application of Section
1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States; (f) any borrowing or
grant of a Lien by any other Borrower, as debtor-in-possession under
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Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States of the United States or
otherwise; (g) the disallowance of any claims of the Administrative Agent or any
Lender against any Loan Party for the repayment of any Obligations under Section
502 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or otherwise; or (h) any other
action or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable
discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor, except the termination of the
Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all
Obligations.
(b) Waivers.
(i) Each Borrower expressly waives all rights that it may have
now or in the future under any statute, at common law, in equity or otherwise,
to compel the Administrative Agent or Lenders to marshal assets or to proceed
against any Loan Party, other Person or security for the payment or performance
of any Obligations before, or as a condition to, proceeding against such
Borrower. It is agreed among each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and Lenders
that the provisions of this Section are of the essence of the transaction
contemplated by the Loan Documents and that, but for such provisions, the
Administrative Agent and Lenders would decline to make Loans and issue Letters
of Credit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document, and
except as set forth in Section 2.16(c), each Borrower expressly waives all
rights at law or in equity to subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration,
contribution, indemnification or set off, as well as all defenses available to a
surety, guarantor or accommodation co-obligor. Each Borrower acknowledges that
its guaranty pursuant to this Section is necessary to the conduct and promotion
of its business, and can be expected to benefit such business.
(ii) The Administrative Agent and Lenders may, in their
discretion, pursue such rights and remedies as they deem appropriate, including
realization upon Collateral or any Real Estate by judicial foreclosure or
non-judicial sale or enforcement, without affecting any rights and remedies
under this Section 2.16. If, in the exercise of any rights or remedies, the
Administrative Agent or any Lender shall forfeit any of its rights or remedies,
including its right to enter a deficiency judgment against any Borrower or any
other Person, whether because of any applicable laws pertaining to "election of
remedies" or otherwise, each Borrower consents to such action by the
Administrative Agent or such Lender and waives any claim based upon such action,
even if the action may result in loss of any rights of subrogation that any
Borrower might otherwise have had but for such action. Any election of remedies
that results in denial or impairment of the right of the Administrative Agent or
any Lender to seek a deficiency judgment against any Borrower shall not impair
any other Borrower's obligation to pay the full amount of the Obligations. Each
Borrower waives all rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies,
such as nonjudicial foreclosure with respect to any security for the
Obligations, even though that election of remedies destroys such Borrower's
rights of subrogation against any other Person. If the Administrative Agent bids
at any foreclosure or trustee's sale or at any private sale, the Administrative
Agent may bid all or a portion of the Obligations and the amount of such bid
need not be paid by the Administrative Agent but shall be credited against the
Obligations. The amount of the successful bid at any such sale, whether the
Administrative Agent or any other Person is the successful bidder, shall be
conclusively deemed to be the fair market value of the Collateral, and the
difference between such bid amount and the remaining balance of the
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Obligations shall be conclusively deemed to be the amount of the Obligations
guaranteed under this Section 2.16, notwithstanding that any present or future
law or court decision may have the effect of reducing the amount of any
deficiency claim to which the Administrative Agent or any Lender might otherwise
be entitled but for such bidding at any such sale.
(c) Extent of Liability; Contribution.
(i) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each
Borrower's liability under this Section 2.16 shall be limited to the greater of
(y) all amounts for which such Borrower is primarily liable, as described below,
and (z) such Borrower's Allocable Amount.
(ii) If any Borrower makes a payment under this Section of any
Obligations (other than amounts for which such Borrower is primarily liable) (a
"Guarantor Payment") that, taking into account all other Guarantor Payments
previously or concurrently made by any other Borrower, exceeds the amount that
such Borrower would otherwise have paid if each Borrower had paid the aggregate
Obligations satisfied by such Guarantor Payments in the same proportion that
such Borrower's Allocable Amount bore to the total Allocable Amounts of all
Borrowers, then such Borrower shall be entitled to receive contribution and
indemnification payments from, and to be reimbursed by, each other Borrower for
the amount of such excess, pro rata based upon their respective Allocable
Amounts in effect immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment. The "Allocable
Amount" for any Borrower shall be the maximum amount that could then be
recovered from such Borrower under this Section 2.16 without rendering such
payment voidable or avoidable under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code of the
United States or under any applicable Debtor Relief Law.
(iii) Nothing contained in this Section 2.16 shall limit the
liability of any Borrower to pay Loans made directly or indirectly to that
Borrower (including Loans advanced to any other Borrower and then re-loaned or
otherwise transferred to, or for the benefit of, such Borrower), L/C Obligations
relating to Letters of Credit issued to support such Borrower's business, and
all accrued interest, fees, expenses and other related Obligations with respect
thereto, for which such Borrower shall be primarily liable for all purposes
hereunder. The Administrative Agent and Lenders shall have the right, at any
time in their discretion, to condition Loans and Letters of Credit upon a
separate calculation of borrowing availability for each Borrower and to restrict
the disbursement and use of such Loans and Letters of Credit to such Borrower.
(d) Joint Enterprise. Each Borrower has requested that the
Administrative Agent and Lenders make this credit facility available to
Borrowers on a combined basis, in order to finance Borrowers' business most
efficiently and economically. Borrowers' business is a mutual and collective
enterprise, and Borrowers believe that consolidation of their credit facility
will enhance the borrowing power of each Borrower and ease the administration of
their relationship with Lenders, all to the mutual advantage of Borrowers.
Borrowers acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent's and Lenders'
willingness to extend credit to Borrowers and to administer the Collateral on a
combined basis, as set forth herein, is done solely as an accommodation to
Borrowers and at Borrowers' request.
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(e) Subordination. Each Borrower hereby subordinates any claims,
including any right of payment, subrogation, contribution and indemnity, that it
may have at any time against any other Loan Party, howsoever arising, to the
Full Payment of all Obligations.
ARTICLE III
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
3.01 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on
account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan
Document shall be made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding
for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, provided that if any Loan Party shall
be required by applicable law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes (including any
Other Taxes) from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as
necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative
Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the
sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Loan
Party shall make such deductions and (iii) such Loan Party shall timely pay the
full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with
applicable law.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties. Without limiting
the provisions of subsection (a) above, the Loan Parties shall timely pay any
Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable
law.
(c) Indemnification by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall
indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the L/C Issuer, within 10
days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or
Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on
or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) paid by the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and any
penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or
legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A
certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the amount of such payment or
liability and the circumstances giving rise thereto delivered to the Borrower
Agent by a Lender or the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent),
or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the
L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any
payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental
Authority, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the
original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority
evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other
evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
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(e) Status of Lenders. Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an
exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction
in which a Borrower is resident for tax purposes, or any treaty to which such
jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments hereunder or under any other
Loan Document shall deliver to the applicable Borrower (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or
reasonably requested by the applicable Borrower or the Administrative Agent,
such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law
as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate
of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if requested by the applicable Borrower
or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed
by applicable law or reasonably requested by such Borrower or the Administrative
Agent as will enable such Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine
whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information
reporting requirements.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any Borrower
is resident for tax purposes in the United States, any Foreign Lender shall
deliver to the Borrower Agent and the Administrative Agent (in such number of
copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which
such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time
thereafter upon the request of the applicable Borrower or the Administrative
Agent and upon the expiration or obsolescence of any such form previously
delivered hereunder, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do
so), whichever of the following is applicable:
(i) two duly completed and executed copies of Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax
treaty to which the United States is a party,
(ii) two duly completed and executed copies of Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8ECI,
(iii) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the
exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a
certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a "bank"
within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a "10 percent
shareholder" of the applicable Borrower within the meaning of section
881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a "controlled foreign corporation"
described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) duly completed
copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or
(iv) any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for
claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal
withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary
documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the
Borrower to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.
(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If the Administrative Agent,
any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines, in its sole discretion, that it has
received a refund or credit in lieu of a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as
to which it has been indemnified by a Loan Party or with respect to which such
Loan Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it shall
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pay to such Loan Party an amount equal to such refund or credit in lieu of a
refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts
paid, by such Loan Party under this Section with respect to the Taxes or Other
Taxes giving rise to such refund or credit in lieu of a refund), net of all
out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid
by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund or credit in
lieu of a refund), provided that such Loan Party, upon the request of the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, agrees to repay the amount
paid over to such Loan Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges
imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent,
such Lender or the L/C Issuer in the event the Administrative Agent, such Lender
or the L/C Issuer is required to repay such refund or credit in lieu of a refund
to such Governmental Authority. This subsection shall not be construed to
require the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer to make available
its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems
confidential) to any Loan Party or any other Person.
3.02 Illegality. If any Lender determines in good faith 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, or any Governmental Authority has imposed
material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to
take deposits of, Dollars in the London interbank market, then, on notice
thereof by such Lender to the Borrowers 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 Agent that the
circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of
such notice, the Borrowers 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, 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 Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on the
amount so prepaid or converted.
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates. If the Required Lenders
determine that for any reason in connection with any request for a Eurodollar
Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (a) Dollar deposits
are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar market for the
applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurodollar Rate Loan, (b) 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
(c) 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 Agent and each Lender. Thereafter, the
obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be
suspended until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required
Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower Agent
may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of,
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conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or, failing that, will be
deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Committed Borrowing
of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.
3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans.
(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special
deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against
assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or
participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement
contemplated by Section 3.04(e)) or the L/C Issuer;
(ii) subject any Lender or the L/C Issuer to any tax of any kind
whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any
participation in a Letter of Credit or any Eurodollar Loan made by it, or
change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender or the L/C Issuer
in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes covered by
Section 3.01 and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any
Excluded Tax payable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer); or
(iii) impose on any Lender or the L/C Issuer or the London
interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this
Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit
or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such
Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Rate Loan (or of maintaining its
obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or the
L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or
of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of
Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such
Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other
amount) then, upon request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Borrowers will,
in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section, pay to such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate
such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs
incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender or the L/C Issuer
determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C Issuer or any
Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's holding
company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of
reducing the rate of return on such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's capital or on
the capital of such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's holding company, if any, as a
consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made
by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters
of Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or
the L/C Issuer or such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's holding company could have
achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender's or
the L/C Issuer's policies and the policies of such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's
holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time after
submission by
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such Lender or L/C Issuer to the Borrower Agent of a written request therefor
the Borrowers will pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in accordance with
paragraph (c) of this Section, as the case may be, such additional amount or
amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender's or the
L/C Issuer's holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender or
the L/C Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such
Lender or the L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as
specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Borrower
Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such
Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any
such certificate within 15 days after receipt thereof. Each Lender or the L/C
Issuer shall allocate any increased costs or reductions on the rate of return on
capital among its customers reasonably and in good faith.
(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any
Lender or the L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender's or the
L/C Issuer's right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrowers
shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or
reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or
the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower Agent of the Change in
Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender's or
the L/C Issuer's intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the
Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive,
then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the
period of retroactive effect thereof). In addition, neither a Lender nor the L/C
Issuer shall be entitled to any compensation described in this Section unless,
at the time it requests such compensation, it is the policy or general practice
of such Lender or the L/C Issuer to request compensation for comparable costs or
reduction on rate of return in similar circumstances under other comparable
credit agreements.
(e) Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans. The Borrowers shall pay
to each Lender, 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 (currently known as "Eurocurrency liabilities"), 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), which shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is
payable on such Loan, provided the Borrower Agent shall have received at least
15 days' prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such
additional interest from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice 10 days
prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be
due and payable 15 days from receipt of such notice.
3.05 Compensation for Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a
copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall
promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss,
cost or expense (but excluding in any event loss of margin and lost profits)
incurred by it as a result of:
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(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);
(b) any failure by the Borrowers (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 Borrowers; or
(c) any assignment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan on a day other than
the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by
the Borrowers pursuant to Section 11.13;
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. The Borrowers shall also pay any
customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the
foregoing.
For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers 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.
3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender
requests compensation under Section 3.04, or the Borrowers are required to pay
any additional amount to or make any indemnity payment to any Lender or any
Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01,
or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then such Lender shall
use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for funding or
booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to
another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such
Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts
payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04, as the case may be, in the future, or
eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and
(ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or
expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous in any material respect to
such Lender. Each Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or
assignment.
(b) Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation
under Section 3.04, or if any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount
to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender
pursuant to Section 3.01, the Borrowers may replace such Lender in accordance
with Section 11.13.
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3.07 Survival. All of the Borrowers' obligations under this
Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment
of all other Obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension. The obligation of
the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder is
subject to satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agent's receipt of the following, each of
which shall be originals or telecopies (followed promptly by originals)
unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible
Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the
case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the
Closing Date) and each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:
(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement;
(ii) a Note executed by the Borrowers in favor of each
Lender requesting a Note;
(iii) a Security Agreement, duly executed by each Loan
Party, together with:
(A) certificates representing the Pledged
Interests referred to therein accompanied by undated stock
powers executed in blank and instruments evidencing the
Pledged Debt indorsed in blank,
(B) copies of proper financing statements, duly
prepared for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code of all
jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may reasonably
deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect
the first priority liens and security interests created
under the Security Agreement (to the extent intended by the
terms thereof to be created thereby), covering the
Collateral described in the Security Agreement,
(C) completed requests for information, dated on
or before the date of the initial Credit Extension, listing
all effective financing statements filed in the
jurisdictions referred to in clause (B) above that name any
Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such financing
statements,
(D) subject to Section 6.20, evidence that each
Loan Party has taken or caused to be taken all other
actions, recordings and filings of or with respect to the
Security Agreement that the Administrative Agent may
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reasonably deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect
and protect the Liens created thereby,
(E) subject to Section 6.21, evidence that all
other action that the Administrative Agent may reasonably
deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect
the first priority liens and security interests created
under the Security Agreement (to the extent intended by the
terms thereof to be created thereby) has been taken
(including, without limitation, receipt of duly executed
payoff letters, UCC-3 termination statements and landlords'
and bailees' waiver and consent agreements);
(iv) an intellectual property security agreement, in
substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto (together with each other
intellectual property security agreement and intellectual property
security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12, in
each case as amended, the "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY
AGREEMENT"), duly executed by each Loan Party, together with
evidence that all actions that the Administrative Agent may deem
necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect the first
priority liens and security interests created under the Intellectual
Property Security Agreement (to the extent intended to be created
thereby) has been taken, including without limitation, filing and
recording of such Intellectual Property Security Agreement with the
appropriate authorities;
(v) a duly executed pledge agreement or equivalent
document, together with any other documents necessary to create and
perfect a security interest over up to 65% of the Equity Interest
issued by any first-tier Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrowers that is
a CFC, legal opinions of applicable foreign counsel in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and
evidence that all steps necessary to accomplish such creation and
perfection under the law of the jurisdiction of organization of the
relevant Foreign Subsidiary have been taken and remain in full force
and effect;
(vi) such certificates of resolutions or other action,
incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible
Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity
of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a
Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to be a
party;
(vii) such documents and certifications as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each
Loan Party is duly organized or formed, and that each of the
Borrowers and the Guarantors is validly existing, in good standing
and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where the
ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of such
Loan Party's business requires such qualification, except to the
extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(viii) a favorable opinion of (x) Xxxxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxx LLP
and (y) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx PLLC, Michigan counsel to the Loan Parties,
addressed to each Agent and each Lender, as to the matters set forth
in Exhibit J and such other matters concerning the Loan Parties and
the Loan Documents as the Required Lenders may reasonably request;
(ix) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of each Loan
Party either (A) attaching copies of all consents, licenses and
approvals required in connection with the execution, delivery and
performance by such Loan Party and the validity against such Loan
Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and such
consents, licenses and approvals shall be in full force and effect,
or (B) stating that no such consents, licenses or approvals are so
required;
(x) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of
Holdings and ATT certifying (A) that the conditions specified in
Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied, and (B) that there has
been no event or circumstance since (i) in the case of ATT, the date
of the Audited Financial Statements and (ii) in the case of
Holdings, the date of its formation, that has had or could be
reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(xi) certificates and letters attesting to the Solvency
of ATT individually and the Loan Parties, taken as a whole (other
than inactive Subsidiaries of the Borrowers) before and after giving
effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, from its
Chief Financial Officer;
(xii) [intentionally omitted];
(xiii) evidence that all insurance required to be
maintained pursuant to the Loan Documents has been obtained and is
in effect together with endorsements naming the Administrative
Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, as an additional insured or loss
payee, as the case may be, in each case, under all such insurance
policies, as applicable;
(xiv) certified copies of each of the Related Documents,
duly executed by the parties thereto together with all agreements,
instruments and other documents delivered in connection therewith as
the Administrative Agent shall request;
(xv) a Request for Credit Extension, as applicable,
relating to the initial Credit Extension; and
(xvi) All fees required to be paid on or before the
Closing Date shall have been paid.
(b) All requisite material governmental authorizations and third
party consents and approvals necessary in connection with the Acquisition and
entering into the Loan Documents shall have been obtained (without the
imposition of any conditions that are not
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acceptable to the Lenders) and shall remain in effect; all applicable waiting
periods for governmental authorizations in connection with the Acquisition and
entering into the Loan Documents shall have expired without any action being
taken by any Governmental Authority, and no Law shall be applicable in the
judgment of the Administrative Agent, in each case that restrains, prevents or
imposes materially adverse conditions upon the Acquisition, entering into the
Loan Documents or the rights of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries freely to
transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to create any Lien on, any properties now
owned or hereafter acquired by any of them.
(c) The Acquisition shall have been consummated in accordance
with the terms of the Merger Agreement, without any amendment, waiver or other
material change not consented to by the Arranger of any term, provision or
condition set forth therein, (other than waivers, amendments or other material
changes that are reasonably determined by the Arranger not to be materially
adverse to the Lenders), and in compliance with all applicable requirements of
Law.
(d) [intentionally omitted].
(e) The Arranger shall be satisfied with (i) any changes to the
pro forma capital and ownership structure (including all Equity Interests and
debt financings) and the shareholder arrangements of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the Organization Documents, since
June 1, 2004 (other than changes that are reasonably determined by the Arranger
to be not materially adverse to the Lenders), and (ii) all material terms and
conditions of all material liabilities of Holdings and its Subsidiaries to
remain outstanding following the Closing Date
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing
Base Certificate prepared as of March 31, 2006 and upon giving effect to the
initial funding of Revolving Credit Loans and initial issuance of Letters of
Credit, and the payment by Borrowers of all fees and expenses incurred in
connection herewith and the Acquisition, as well as any payables stretched
beyond their customary payment practices, Availability shall be at least
$12,500,000.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 10.04, for purposes
of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01,
each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to,
approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter
required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or
satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received
notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its
objection thereto.
4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions. The obligation of each
Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan
Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans) is subject to the following conditions
precedent:
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(a) The representations and warranties of each Borrower and each
other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or
which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in
connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in all
material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except
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 as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of
this Section 4.02. (i) the representations and warranties contained in
Sections 5.05(a) and (b) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent
statements furnished pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b), respectively
and (ii) with respect to the representation and warranty in Section
5.05(c) made in connection with the initial Credit Extension on the
Closing Date, any material adverse change in or effect upon the industry
in which Holdings, the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries participate shall
not constitute a Material Adverse Effect except to the extent Holdings,
the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries are disproportionately adversely
affected thereby.
(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, the L/C Issuer
or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit
Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
(d) After giving effect to any Borrowing contained in such
Request for Credit Extension, Total Outstandings do not exceed the lesser
of the Borrowing Base or the Aggregate Commitments.
Each Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan
Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation
of Eurodollar Rate Loans) submitted by or on behalf of any Borrower shall be
deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in
Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the
applicable Credit Extension.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Each of Holdings and each Borrower represents and warrants to the
Agents and the Lenders that:
5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws.
Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized or formed,
validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority and all
requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i)
own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and
perform its obligations under the Loan Documents and Related Documents to which
it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and is licensed 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
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qualification or license, and (d) is in compliance with all Laws (such
compliance to include, without limitation, compliance with the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Chapter of the Organized Crime Control Act
of 1970, and with the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Pub. L. 107-56
and all other laws and regulations relating to money laundering and terrorist
activities); except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i), (c) or (d), to
the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
5.02 Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and
performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document and Related Document to
which such Person is or is to be a party, and the consummation of the
Acquisition, are within such Loan Party's corporate or other powers, have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and
do not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Person's
Organization Documents; (b) conflict with or result in any breach or
contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under, or require any payment to
be made under (i) any material 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 (ii) 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. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation
of any Law or in breach of any such Contractual Obligation, the violation or
breach of which could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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 (i) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement
against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or Related
Document, other than in connection with enforcement compliance with antitrust
laws and laws generally applicable to the sale of securities, or for the
consummation of the Acquisition, (ii) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens
granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (iii) the perfection or
maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents to the extent
provided therein (including the first priority nature thereof to the extent
provided therein and intended by the terms thereof to be created thereby) or
(iv) the exercise by any 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 customary procedures required to foreclose or
otherwise realize upon a Lien, customary restrictions on the assignability of
certain Contractual Obligations and the authorizations, approvals, actions,
notices and filings listed on Schedule 5.03 hereto as of the date hereof, all of
which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and
effect. All applicable waiting periods in connection with the Acquisition have
expired without any action having been taken by any Governmental Authority
restraining, preventing or imposing materially adverse conditions upon the
Acquisition or the rights of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries freely to
transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to create any Lien on, any properties now
owned or hereafter acquired by any of them. The Acquisition have been
consummated in accordance with the Purchase Agreement and applicable Law.
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5.04 Binding Effect. This Agreement has been, and each other Loan
Document, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered
by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement constitutes, and each
other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and
binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that
is party thereto in accordance with its terms except as may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws
affecting creditors' rights generally and general equitable principles.
5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.
(a) The Audited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in
accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby,
except as otherwise expressly noted therein; (ii) fairly present, in all
material respects, the financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as
of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered
thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period
covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; and (iii) show, to
the extent required by GAAP, all material indebtedness and other material
liabilities, direct or contingent, of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as of the
date thereof, including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and
Indebtedness.
(b) The unaudited consolidated financial statements of Holdings
and its Subsidiaries dated October 1, 2005 and the related consolidated
statements of income or operations, shareholders' equity and cash flows for the
fiscal quarter ended on that date (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise
expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and
their results of operations for the period covered thereby, subject, in the case
of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end
audit adjustments. Schedule 5.05 sets forth all material Indebtedness and other
material liabilities, direct or contingent, of Holdings and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as of the date of such financial statements, including material
liabilities for taxes, material commitments and Indebtedness.
(c) Since the date of the Audited Financial Statements, there
has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that
has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) The consolidated pro forma balance sheet of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2005, and the related consolidated pro forma
statements of income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the
three months then ended, certified by the Chief Financial Officer of ATT, copies
of which have been furnished to the Administrative Agent, fairly present, in all
material respects, the consolidated pro forma financial condition of Holdings
and its Subsidiaries as at such date and the consolidated pro forma results of
operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the period ended on such date,
in each case giving effect to the Acquisition, all in accordance with GAAP.
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(e) The consolidated forecasted balance sheets, statements of
income and statements of cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries delivered
to the Lenders prior to the Closing Date (or, after the Closing Date, most
recently delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c)) (collectively, the
"PROJECTIONS") were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions
stated therein, which assumptions were believed by management to be fair and
reasonable in light of the conditions existing at the time of delivery of such
forecasts, provided that such Projections are not to be viewed as facts and that
actual results during the period or periods covered by the Projections may
differ from such Projections and that the differences may be material.
5.06 Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims
or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrowers after due and diligent
investigation, threatened or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or
before any Governmental Authority, by or against Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that (a) pertain to
this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any Related Document or the
consummation of the Acquisition, or (b) except as specifically disclosed on
Schedule 5.06 (the "DISCLOSED LITIGATION") as of the date hereof, either
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, and since the Closing Date, there has been no adverse
change in the status, or financial effect on any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries, of the matters described on Schedule 5.06 hereto that could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.07 No Default. No Loan Party is in default under or with
respect to, or a party to, any Contractual Obligation that could, either
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other
Loan Document.
5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens; Investments.
(a) Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries has good record
and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real
property necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business, except for
the Permitted Encumbrances, Liens set forth on Schedule 5.08(b) and Liens
created or permitted by the Loan Documents and such defects in title as could
not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(b) Set forth on Schedule 5.08(b) hereto is a complete and
accurate list of all Liens on the property or assets of any Loan Party or any of
its Subsidiaries as of the date hereof, showing as of the date hereof the
lienholder thereof and the property or assets of such Loan Party or such
Subsidiary subject thereto. As of the date hereof, the property of Holdings and
its Subsidiaries is subject to no Liens other than Permitted Encumbrances, Liens
set forth on Schedule 5.08(b), Liens permitted by Section 7.01 and such defects
in title as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(c) Set forth on Schedule 5.08(c) hereto is a complete and
accurate list as of the date hereof of all real property owned by any Loan Party
or any of its Subsidiaries, showing as of the date hereof the street address,
county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, record owner and book value
thereof.
(d) (i) Set forth on Schedule 5.08(d)(i) hereto is a complete
and accurate list as of the date hereof of all leases of real property under
which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is the lessee, showing as of the
date hereof the street address, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state,
lessor, lessee, expiration date and annual rental cost thereof.
(ii) Set forth on Schedule 5.08(d)(ii) hereto is a complete and
accurate list as of the date hereof of all leases of real property under
which any Loan Party is the lessor, showing as of the date hereof the
street address, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, lessor,
lessee, expiration date and annual rental cost thereof.
(e) Set forth on Schedule 5.08(e) hereto is a complete and
accurate list as of the date hereof of all Investments held by any Loan Party or
any of its Subsidiaries on the date hereof exceeding $500,000 individually or in
the aggregate for all related Investments in the same Person, showing as of the
date hereof the amount, obligor or issuer and maturity, if any, thereof.
5.09 Environmental Compliance. Except as set forth on Schedule
5.09,
(a) none of the properties currently or formerly owned or
operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is listed or proposed for
listing on the NPL or on the CERCLIS or any analogous foreign, state or local
list or is adjacent to any such property; there are no and 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 treated, stored or disposed on any property currently owned or operated by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best of its knowledge, on
any property formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries; there is no asbestos or asbestos-containing material on any
property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries; and Hazardous Materials have not been released, discharged or
disposed of on any property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries except that which, individually or in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
and
(b) neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is
undertaking, and has not completed, either individually or together with other
potentially responsible parties, any investigation or assessment or remedial or
response action relating to any actual or threatened release, discharge or
disposal 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; and all Hazardous Materials generated,
used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to or from, any property
currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries have been disposed of in a manner not reasonably expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.
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5.10 Insurance. The properties of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance
companies not Affiliates of any Borrower, in such amounts, with such deductibles
and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in
similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the
Borrowers or the applicable Subsidiary operates.
5.11 Taxes. Holdings and its Subsidiaries have filed all Federal,
state and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have
paid all Federal, state and other material taxes, assessments, fees and other
governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or
assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate
reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP and except to the extent the
failure to so file or pay could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. There is no proposed tax assessment against Holdings or any
Subsidiary that would, if made, have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither any Loan
Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is party to any tax sharing agreement.
5.12 ERISA Compliance.
(a) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.12, each Plan is in
compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the
Code and other Federal or state Laws. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.12, each
Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a
favorable determination letter from the IRS or an application for such a letter
is currently being processed by the IRS with respect thereto and, to the best
knowledge of each Loan Party, nothing has occurred which would prevent, or cause
the loss of, such qualification. Each Loan Party and each ERISA Affiliate have
made all required contributions to each 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
Plan.
(b) There are no pending or, to the best knowledge of each Loan
Party, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental
Authority, with respect to any Plan that could be reasonably expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. There has been no prohibited transaction or violation
of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan that has resulted
or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) (i) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to
occur; (ii) neither the Loan Parties nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or
reasonably expects to incur, any liability (and no event has occurred which,
with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such
liability) under Sections 4201 or 4243 of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer
Plan; and (iii) neither the Loan Parties nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in
a transaction that could be subject to Sections 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA.
(d) With respect to each scheme or arrangement mandated by a
government other than the United States (a "FOREIGN GOVERNMENT SCHEME OR
ARRANGEMENT") and with
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respect to each employee benefit plan maintained or contributed to by any Loan
Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party that is not subject to United States
law (a "FOREIGN PLAN"):
(A) Any material employer and employee contributions required by
law or by the terms of any Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement or any
Foreign Plan have been made, or, if applicable, accrued, in accordance
with normal accounting practices.
(B) Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, the fair
market value of the assets of each funded Foreign Plan, the liability of
each insurer for any Foreign Plan funded through insurance or the book
reserve established for any Foreign Plan, together with any accrued
contributions, is sufficient to procure or provide for the accrued benefit
obligations, as of the date hereof, with respect to all current and former
participants in such Foreign Plan according to the actuarial assumptions
and valuations most recently used to account for such obligations in
accordance with applicable generally accepted accounting principles.
(C) Except as would not, either individually or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, each Foreign Plan required to
be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good standing
with applicable regulatory authorities.
5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests; Loan Parties. As of the
Closing Date, each Loan Party has no Subsidiaries other than those specifically
disclosed in Part (a) of Schedule 5.13, and all of the outstanding Equity
Interests in such Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and
non-assessable and are owned by a Loan Party in the amounts specified on Part
(a) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except those created under the
Collateral Documents. As of the Closing Date, each Loan Party has no equity
investments in any other corporation or entity other than those specifically
disclosed in Part (b) of Schedule 5.13. As of the Closing Date, all of the
outstanding Equity Interests in the Borrowers have been validly issued, are
fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by Holdings in the amounts specified
on Part (c) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except those created
under the Collateral Documents. Set forth on Part (d) of Schedule 5.13 is a
complete and accurate list as of the Closing Date of all Loan Parties, showing
as of the Closing Date (as to each Loan Party) the jurisdiction of its
incorporation, the address of its principal place of business and its U.S.
taxpayer identification number or, in the case of any non-U.S. Loan Party that
does not have a U.S. taxpayer identification number, its unique identification
number issued to it by the jurisdiction of its incorporation. The copy of the
charter of each Loan Party and each amendment thereto provided pursuant to
Section 4.01(a)(vii) is a true and correct copy of each such document, each of
which is valid and in full force and effect.
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5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act. No Borrower is
engaged and will not engage, principally or as one of its important activities,
in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of
Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying margin stock and no proceeds of any Borrowings or
drawings under any Letter of Credit will be used in violation of Regulation U.
5.15 Disclosure. Each Loan Party has disclosed to the Agents and
the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to
which it or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Loan Party is subject as of the
Closing Date, and all other matters known to it as of the Closing Date, that,
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect. No report, financial statement, certificate or other
information furnished (whether in writing or orally) 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 (in each case as modified or supplemented by other
information so furnished) taken as a whole contained (as of the date that such
report, financial statement or information was so furnished) any material
misstatement of fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial
information, each Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in
good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time, such
projected financial information is not to be viewed as facts and that actual
results during the period or periods covered by such projected financial
information may differ from such projected financial information and that the
differences may be material.
5.16 Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary is
in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all
orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties,
except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ,
injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith, either individually
or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
5.17 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. Each Loan Party and
its Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks,
service marks, trade names, trade dress, copyrights, patents and other
intellectual property (collectively, "IP RIGHTS") that are currently used or
currently held for use in the operation of their respective businesses, without
conflict with the rights of any other Person that could reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect, and set forth on Schedule 5.17 is a complete
and accurate list as of the Closing Date of all registered (or applied for)
intellectual property owned by each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries. Except to
the extent set forth on Schedule 5.17, the operation of their respective
businesses by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary does not infringe upon any IP
Rights held by any other Person to the extent such infringement could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except to the extent set forth on
Schedule 5.17, no claim or litigation regarding any such infringement is pending
or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, threatened, which, either individually or
in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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5.18 Solvency. Each Loan Party is, individually and together with
its Subsidiaries, Solvent.
5.19 Casualty, Etc. Neither the business nor the properties of
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries are affected by any fire, explosion,
accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, drought, storm, hail,
earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public enemy or other casualty
(whether or not covered by insurance) that could be reasonably likely to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
5.20 Perfection, Etc. All filings and other actions necessary or
desirable to perfect and protect the security interest in the Collateral created
under the Collateral Documents have been duly made or taken and are in full
force and effect (to the extent that it is intended by the terms of the
Collateral Documents that a perfected first priority lien and security interest
will be obtained), 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, perfected first priority security
interest in the Collateral (to the extent that it is intended by the terms of
the Collateral Documents that a perfected first priority lien and security
interest will be obtained), securing the payment of the Secured Obligations, and
all filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and protect such
security interest have been duly taken. The Loan Parties are the legal and
beneficial owners of the Collateral free and clear of any Lien, except for the
liens and security interests created or permitted under the Loan Documents.
5.21 Subordinated Notes Indenture and Senior Notes Indenture.
(a) The Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents
constitute "Designated Senior Debt" or "Senior Debt" (or any similar term)
under, and as defined in, the Subordinated Notes Indenture.
(b) On the date of and after giving effect to any Borrowing or
issuance of any Letter of Credit, no violation of or default under the Senior
Notes Indenture shall exist and no obligation or requirement to grant any Liens
or security to any of the holders of the Senior Notes shall have arisen under
the Senior Notes Indenture.
ARTICLE VI
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 and not Cash
Collateralized, each of Holdings and the Borrowers shall, and shall (except in
the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, 6.03 and 6.11) cause
each Subsidiary to:
6.01 Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent
and each Lender, in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders:
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(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days (but
in the case of the first fiscal year ended after the Closing Date, 120
days) after the end of each fiscal year of ATT, consolidated and, with
respect to Material Subsidiaries, consolidating balance sheets of Holdings
and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related
consolidated and, with respect to Material Subsidiaries, consolidating
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, and, to the extent prepared on a
consolidated basis, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of a
"Big Four" accounting firm or of another independent certified public
accountant of nationally recognized standing selected by ATT and
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, 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, and, to the extent prepared on a consolidating basis,
certified by a Responsible Officer of ATT to the effect that such
statements are fairly stated in all material respects when considered in
relation to the consolidated financial statements of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries;
(b) as soon as available, but in any event within 45 days after
the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of
ATT, an unaudited consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related
consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders' equity and
cash flows for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of ATT's fiscal
year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year
and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in
reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of ATT as fairly
presenting, in all material respects, the financial condition, results of
operations, shareholders' equity and cash flows of Holdings 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, and in any event within 30 days after
the end of each fiscal month (but within 60 days after the last fiscal
month in a fiscal year), unaudited balance sheets as of the end of such
month and the related statements of income and cash flow for such month
and for the portion of the fiscal year then elapsed, on a consolidated
basis for Holdings and its Subsidiaries, setting forth in comparative form
corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year and certified by a
Responsible Officer of ATT as fairly presenting, in all material respects,
the financial condition and results of operations, of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end
audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; and
(d) as soon as available, but in any event no later than 30 days
after the end of each fiscal year, forecasts prepared by management of
ATT, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, of
consolidated balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements of
Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a quarterly basis for the fiscal year
following such fiscal year and on an annual basis for each fiscal year
thereafter until the Maturity Date.
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As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant to Section
6.02(c), the Borrowers shall not be separately required to furnish such
information under Section 6.01(a) or (b), but the foregoing shall not be in
derogation of the obligation of the Borrowers to furnish the information and
materials described in Sections 6.01(a) and (b) at the times specified therein.
6.02 Certificates; Other Information. Deliver to the
Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and detail reasonably satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders:
(a) By the 20th day of each fiscal month, or more frequently as
requested in its sole discretion by the Administrative Agent if the Cash
Dominion Trigger shall have occurred or if an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, Borrowers shall deliver to the Administrative
Agent (and the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver same to
Lenders) a Borrowing Base Certificate prepared as of the close of business
of the previous fiscal month. All calculations in any Borrowing Base
Certificate shall originally be made by the Borrowers and certified by the
Chief Financial Officer of ATT, provided that the Administrative Agent may
from time to time review and adjust any such calculation to reflect
changes to the Borrowing Base implemented in accordance with this
Agreement, including adjustments to the Availability Reserve.
(b) concurrently with 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 Default under Section 7.10 or, if any such Default shall exist,
stating the nature and status of such event;
(c) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements
referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b), a duly completed Compliance
Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower Agent;
(d) promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual
report, proxy or financial statement or other material report or
communication sent to the stockholders of the Borrowers, and copies of all
annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements
which the Borrowers may file or be required to file 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;
(e) promptly after the furnishing or receipt thereof, copies of
any statement or report furnished to, or notice received from, any holder
of the Subordinated Notes and any other debt securities in excess of the
Threshold Amount of any Loan Party or of any of its Subsidiaries pursuant
to the terms of any indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement
regarding an actual or prospective default thereunder or alleged
non-compliance with the terms thereof and not otherwise required to be
furnished to the Lenders pursuant to any other clause of this Section
6.02;
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(f) promptly and in any event within five Business Days after
receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, copies of
each notice or other correspondence received from the SEC (or comparable
agency in any applicable non-U.S. jurisdiction) concerning any
investigation or possible investigation or other inquiry by such agency
regarding financial or other operational results of any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries;
(g) promptly upon receipt thereof, such information and reports
regarding the Related Documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request;
(h) promptly after the assertion or occurrence thereof, notice
of any claim or action against, or any investigation that would reasonably
be expected to give rise to a claim or action against, any Loan Party or
any of its Subsidiaries for any violation of or non-compliance with any
Environmental Law, or any action or claim relating to, or any
investigation that would reasonably be expected to give rise to a claim or
action relating to, any Release affecting any of the Properties that could
(i) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause
any property described in the Mortgages to be subject to any restrictions
on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental
Law;
(i) as soon as available and in any event within 30 days after
the end of each fiscal year, a report supplementing Schedules 5.08(c) and
5.08(d)(i) and (ii) and 5.08(e) and 5.13 hereto, including an
identification of all owned and leased real property disposed of by any
Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year, a list and
description (including the street address, county or other relevant
jurisdiction, state, record owner, book value thereof and, in the case of
leases of property, lessor, lessee, expiration date and annual rental cost
thereof) of all real property acquired or leased during such fiscal year
and a description of such other changes in the information included in
such Schedules as may be necessary for such Schedules to be accurate and
complete;
(j) promptly after any sale or other Disposition (whether in one
transaction or a series of related transactions) of Inventory, Accounts or
Equipment with an aggregate book value in excess of $2,000,000 and not
made in the ordinary course of business, a Borrowing Base Certificate
demonstrating that Total Outstandings do not exceed the Borrowing Base
after giving effect to such sale or Disposition; and
(k) promptly following any request therefor, such additional
information regarding the business, financial, legal or corporate affairs
of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the
Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent may from time to time
reasonably request subject, however, to the last sentence of Section 6.10.
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or
(b) or Section 6.02(d) (to the extent any such documents are included in
materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if
so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered
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on the date (i) on which the Borrowers posts such documents, or provides a link
thereto on any Borrower's website on the Internet at the website address listed
on Schedule 11.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on any Borrower's
behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and each
Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether
sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that: (i) the Borrowers shall
deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent or any Lender
that requests any Borrower to deliver such paper copies until a written request
to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent or such
Lender and (ii) the Borrowers shall notify the Administrative Agent (by
telecopier or electronic mail) 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. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in every
instance the Borrowers shall be required to provide paper copies of the
Compliance Certificates required by Section 6.02(b) to the Administrative Agent.
Except for such Compliance Certificates, 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 Borrowers with any such request for delivery, and each Lender
shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its
copies of such documents.
Each Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent
and/or the Arranger will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer
materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrowers hereunder
(collectively, "BORROWER MATERIALS") by posting the Borrower Materials on
IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the "PLATFORM") and (b) certain
of the Lenders may be "public-side" Lenders (i.e., Lenders that do not wish to
receive material non-public information with respect to the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries and their respective securities) (each, a "PUBLIC LENDER"). The
Borrowers hereby agrees that (w) all Borrower Materials that are to be made
available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked "PUBLIC"
which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word "PUBLIC" shall appear prominently
on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials "PUBLIC," the
Borrowers shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the
Arranger, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as
either publicly available information or not material information (although it
may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries and their respective securities for purposes of United States
Federal and state securities laws; (y) all Borrower Materials marked "PUBLIC"
are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated
"Public Investor;" and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall be
entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked "PUBLIC" as being
suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated as
"Public."
6.03 Notices. Promptly upon (and in any event within three
Business Days after) any Responsible Officer of a Loan Party obtaining knowledge
thereof, notify the Administrative Agent:
(a) of the occurrence of any Default;
(b) of any matter that has resulted or could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including (i) breach or
non-performance of, or any default
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under, a material Contractual Obligation of any Loan Party or any
Subsidiary; (ii) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or
suspension between any Loan Party or any Subsidiary and any Governmental
Authority; or (iii) the commencement of, or any material development in,
any litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any Subsidiary,
including pursuant to any applicable Environmental Laws;
(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event;
(d) of any material change in accounting policies or financial
reporting practices by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary; and
(e) of any announcement by Xxxxx'x or S&P of any change in a
Debt Rating.
Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a
statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower Agent setting forth details
of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Borrowers have
taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
6.04 Payment of Obligations. Pay and discharge as the same shall
become due and payable, all its obligations and liabilities (subject to any
applicable subordination provisions, grace provisions and notice provisions),
including (a) all material tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges
or levies upon it or its properties or assets, unless the same are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and
adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by Holdings or
the applicable Borrower or such Subsidiary, except to the extent such failure to
pay and discharge the foregoing could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect; (b) all lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by law
become a Lien upon its property (other than a Lien permitted under the Loan
Documents), except to the extent such failure to pay and discharge such claims
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) all
Indebtedness, as and when due and payable, but subject to any subordination
provisions contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing such
Indebtedness, except to the extent such failure to pay and discharge such
Indebtedness could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc. (a) Preserve, renew and
maintain in full force and effect (i) its legal existence and (ii) its good
standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, except to the
extent such failure to be in good standing could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect and except in a transaction permitted by Section
7.04 or 7.05; provided, however, that Subsidiaries of the Borrowers may
consummate any merger or consolidation permitted under Section 7.04; (b) take
all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges, 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 registered
patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks, the non-preservation of
which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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6.06 Maintenance of Properties. (a) Maintain and preserve all of
its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business
in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear and casualty events
excepted; (b) make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements
thereof, in each case, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) use the standard of care
typical in the industry in the operation and maintenance of its facilities.
6.07 Maintenance of Insurance.
(a) Maintain (i) property damage insurance with respect to the
Collateral, in such amounts, with such endorsements and with such insurers
(rated A+ or better by A.M. Best Rating Guide) as are satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent in its Credit Judgment (it being understood that policies
in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent in connection with
the closing on the Closing Date shall be acceptable to the Administrative Agent
thereafter absent a change in law, facts and/or circumstances), and (ii)
maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies not
Affiliates of the Borrower, other 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 as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other
Persons. Unless the Administrative Agent shall agree otherwise, each policy
shall include satisfactory endorsements (i) showing the Administrative Agent as
sole loss payee or additional insured, as appropriate; (ii) requiring 30 days
prior written notice to the Administrative Agent in the event of cancellation of
the policy for any reason whatsoever (except in the case of failure to pay
premiums, in which case 10 days prior written notice shall be required); and
(iii) specifying that the interest of the Administrative Agent shall not be
impaired or invalidated by any act or neglect of any Borrower or the owner of
the Property, nor by the occupation of the premises for purposes more hazardous
than are permitted by the policy. If any Borrower fails to provide and pay for
such insurance, the Administrative Agent may, at its option with notice to the
Borrower Agent, but shall not be required to, procure the insurance and charge
Borrowers therefor. Each Borrower agrees to deliver to the Administrative Agent,
promptly as rendered, copies of all material claims made to insurance companies.
While no Event of Default exists, Borrowers may settle, adjust or compromise any
insurance claim, as long as the proceeds are delivered to the Administrative
Agent. If an Event of Default exists, only the Administrative Agent shall be
authorized to settle, adjust and compromise such claims.
(b) Any proceeds of insurance (other than proceeds required to
be paid directly to claimants or beneficiaries other than any Loan Party or
their affiliates pursuant to the applicable insurance policies) in an amount
greater than $2,000,000 for any single or related series of claims shall be paid
to the Administrative Agent and applied first to Revolving Credit Loans and then
to other outstanding Obligations that are due and payable. If no Obligations are
then outstanding or otherwise due and payable, such proceeds shall be deposited
to a Controlled Account designated by the Borrower Agent.
(c) If the proceeds of insurance are in an aggregate amount of
$2,000,000 or less, such proceeds shall be paid directly to any Borrower or
other party entitled to receive such proceeds.
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(d) Notwithstanding clauses (b) and (c) above, if any Event of
Default exists, the Administrative Agent, in its discretion, may require that
all proceeds of insurance be delivered to it and held by it as additional
collateral for payment of the Obligations.
6.08 Compliance with Laws. 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 in such instances in
which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted; or (b)
the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
6.09 Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and
account, in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP
consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters
involving the assets and business of the Borrowers or such Subsidiary, as the
case may be.
6.10 Inspection Rights. Permit representatives and independent
contractors of each Agent and each Lender to (a) visit and inspect any of its
properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make
copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, (b) to conduct audits of accounts and
appraisals of Inventory, Equipment and real estate and (c) to discuss its
affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, officers, and, subject to
prior notice to the Borrower Agent and affording a reasonable opportunity for
the applicable Borrower to have its representatives participate therein, its
independent public accountants, all at the expense of the Borrowers and at such
reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably
requested, upon reasonable advance notice to the Borrower Agent; provided,
however, that so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and
the Cash Dominion Trigger has not occurred, (i) the Borrowers shall not be
obligated to pay for more than one such inspection, appraisal and discussion
under each of (a) through (c) above in any calendar year or more than two audits
or field exams under clause (b) above in any calendar year and (ii) when an
Event of Default exists or the Cash Dominion Trigger has occurred any Agent or
any Lender (or any of their respective representatives or independent
contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrowers at any
time during normal business hours and without advance notice. Subject to the
foregoing, Borrowers shall pay Administrative Agent's then standard charges
(which shall not exceed $60,000 per audit) for each day that an employee of
Administrative Agent or its Affiliates is engaged in any examination activities,
and shall pay the standard charges of Administrative Agent's internal appraisal
group (which shall not exceed $___________ per day). If any materials to be
reviewed by any Agent or any Lender in connection with any such inspection are
protected by attorney-client privilege, such Agent or such Lender will endeavor
to cooperate with the Borrowers to review such information in a manner designed
to preserve such privilege to the extent practicable.
6.11 Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of the Credit Extensions
(i) to finance in part the Acquisition, (ii) to repay certain existing
Indebtedness of the Borrowers on the Closing Date, (iii) to pay fees and
expenses in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
(iv) for general corporate purposes not in contravention of any Law or of any
Loan Document.
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6.12 New Subsidiaries; Additional Real Estate and Material
Accounts; Borrowing Base Calculation.
(a) Following the formation or acquisition of any new direct
or indirect Subsidiaries (other than any Subsidiary which is a "controlled
foreign corporation" under Section 957 of the Code (a "CFC")) by any Loan Party,
within 30 days of such formation or acquisition cause such Subsidiary to become
a "Borrower" hereunder and cause all Loan Documents otherwise required to be
delivered by any Loan Party with respect to Borrowers to be delivered or updated
with respect to such Subsidiary, including delivery of all Collateral Documents
(limited in the case of any Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs to a pledge of
only the Equity Interests of such first-tier Subsidiaries of the Borrowers and,
in such case, only to 65% of the voting interests of such Subsidiaries),
appraisals, audits, environmental assessments and legal opinions as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request, in each case at the Borrowers'
expense.
(b) On or before the date that occurs 90 days after the
acquisition of any fee interest in real estate by any Loan Party with a fair
market value in excess of $1,000,000 which property shall not already be subject
to a perfected first priority security interest (to the extent intended to be
subject thereto pursuant to the terms of the Collateral Documents) in favor of
the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, cause to be
delivered to the Administrative Agent all Collateral Documents, certificates,
assessments, surveys, legal opinions and other documents and agreements
requested by the Administrative Agent substantially the same as those required
to be delivered in accordance with Section 4.01 and Section 6.20 on the Closing
Date.
(c) On or before the date that occurs 90 days after the
acquisition or creation of any Material Accounts (including any Material
Accounts of API and UTI acquired in the Acquisition), cause account control
agreements covering all Material Accounts, each in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and to be executed by the financial
institutions party thereto.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, and the definition of
Borrowing Base in Section 1.01 hereof and compliance with the terms of Section
6.12 hereof, no Accounts, Inventory, Equipment or real estate acquired in an
acquisition or Investment permitted hereunder or otherwise created, purchased,
completed or owned by a business unit acquired pursuant to an acquisition or
Investment permitted hereunder shall be included in the Borrowing Base unless
the Administrative Agent, in its Credit Judgment, determines that such Accounts,
Inventory, Equipment or real estate conform to standards of eligibility
established in accordance with this Agreement through completion of such audits,
evaluations and appraisals of such Accounts, Inventory, Equipment or real estate
as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably require (which appraisals,
evaluations and audits shall be conducted at the expense of the Borrowers and in
form, scope and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent in
its Credit Judgment).
6.13 Compliance with Environmental Laws. (i) Comply, and use all
commercially reasonable efforts to cause all lessees and other Persons operating
or occupying its
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properties to comply, in all material respects, with all applicable
Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits; and obtain and renew all
Environmental Permits necessary for its operations and properties, except in
such instances in which a failure to comply, obtain or renew could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (ii) conduct any
investigation, study, sampling and testing, and undertake any cleanup, removal,
remedial or other action reasonably necessary to remove and clean up a Release
of Hazardous Materials from any of its properties in accordance with the
requirements of all Environmental Laws; provided, however, that neither the
Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries shall be required to undertake any such
cleanup, removal, remedial or other action (A) to the extent that its obligation
to do so is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and
appropriate reserves are being maintained with respect to such circumstances or
(B) the failure to undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial or other action
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.14 Preparation of Environmental Reports. The Borrowers shall
promptly notify the Lenders of any Release that triggers reporting obligations
under any applicable Environmental Laws. In the event of such a Release, at the
request of the Required Lenders, the Borrowers, at their own expense, shall
provide to the Lenders within 90 days after the Release an environmental site
assessment report of the Property(ies) where such a Release has taken place or
that has otherwise been impacted by the Release, by an environmental consulting
firm chosen by the Borrowers and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent, addressing the Release, the proposed cleanup, response or remedy and the
associated cost. Not limiting the generality of the immediately preceding two
sentences, if the Administrative Agent determines that a material environmental
risk exists, the Administrative Agent may independently retain an environmental
consulting firm to conduct an environmental site assessment of the Property(ies)
and the Borrowers hereby grant, and agree to cause any Subsidiary that owns such
Property(ies) to grant, access to the Property(ties) upon reasonable notice to
the Borrower Agent, subject to the rights of tenants, during normal business
hours, provided, however, that no testing, sampling or other invasive
investigation shall be performed as part of such environmental site assessment.
6.15 Further Assurances. Promptly upon request by any Agent, or
any Lender through the Administrative Agent, (i) correct any material defect or
error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the execution,
acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof, 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 any Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may
reasonably require from time to time in order to (A) carry out more effectively
the purposes of the Loan Documents, (B) to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, subject any Loan Party's or any of its Subsidiaries' properties,
assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or hereafter intended to be covered
by any of the Collateral Documents, subject to the limitations set forth
therein, (C) perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of
any of the Collateral Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created
thereunder, subject to the limitations set forth therein, (D) grant to the
Administrative Agent a perfected, first priority security interest (subject to
Permitted Liens) in up to 65% of the capital stock of any Foreign Subsidiary to
the extent the Administrative Agent determines such Foreign Subsidiary to be
material to the business or operations of the Borrowers (including delivery by
Borrowers of customary legal opinions, certificates and authorizations in
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connection therewith) and (E) assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve,
protect and confirm more effectively unto the Secured Parties the rights granted
or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan
Document or under any other instrument executed in connection with any Loan
Document to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is or is to be a
party, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so.
6.16 Compliance with Terms of Leaseholds; Material Access to
Leased Locations. Make all payments and otherwise perform all obligations in
respect of all leases of real property to which the Borrowers or any of their
Subsidiaries is a party, keep such leases in full force and effect and not allow
such leases to lapse or be terminated or any rights to renew such leases to be
forfeited or cancelled, notify the Administrative Agent of any default by any
party with respect to such leases and cooperate with the Administrative Agent in
all respects to cure any such default, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do
so, except, in any case, where the failure to do so, either individually or in
the aggregate, could not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.17 Lien Searches. Promptly following receipt of the
acknowledgment copy of any UCC financing statements filed in any applicable
jurisdiction by or on behalf of the Secured Parties, deliver to the
Administrative Agent completed requests for information listing such financing
statement and all other effective financing statements filed in such
jurisdiction that name any Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such
other financing statements.
6.18 Deposit and Other Accounts. Maintain, and cause each of its
Subsidiaries to maintain, all Material Accounts with Bank of America or another
commercial bank or financial institution located in the United States which has
delivered, a control agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (each a "CONTROL
AGREEMENT') pursuant to the Security Agreement with respect to such accounts.
Each Control Agreement shall provide, among other terms, that upon the
occurrence of a Cash Dominion Trigger, the Administrative Agent may, in its sole
discretion, (a) require all cash amounts held in any Material Accounts of any
Loan Party be transferred on a daily basis (or such other basis as the
Administrative Agent may elect) to a dominion account in the Administrative
Agent's name and/or sole dominion and control for daily application to
outstanding Loans and (b) implement such other cash management systems and
controls as it may deem necessary in its Credit Judgment to establish full
dominion over the all cash and accounts of the Loan Parties pursuant to lockbox
or other arrangements acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
6.19 Material Contracts. Perform and observe all the terms and
provisions of each Material Contract to be performed or observed by it, maintain
each such Material Contract in full force and effect, enforce each such Material
Contract in accordance with its terms, except, in any case, where the failure to
do so, either individually or in the aggregate, could not be reasonably likely
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.20 Real Estate Collateral and Cash Collateral. Deliver, and
cause each of its Subsidiaries to deliver, to the Administrative Agent on or
before the Closing Date (or with respect to any fee interest of API or UTI in
any real estate acquired in the Acquisition, within 90 days of the date of
consummation of the Acquisition):
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(a) deeds of trust, trust deeds, mortgages and leasehold
mortgages and leasehold deeds of trust (other than with respect to the real
property fee interests and leasehold interests set forth in Schedule 6.20 hereto
(the "EXCLUDED INTERESTS")) delivered in connection with the Existing Credit
Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit K hereto, with such modifications
as may be required to account for the amendment and restatement of the Existing
Credit Agreement herein and local law matters and in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent covering the Properties
(together with each other mortgage or deed of trust delivered pursuant to
Section 6.12, in each case as amended, the "MORTGAGES"), together with, at the
request of the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, title search
reports, title insurance policies (including any endorsements thereto and
coinsurance and direct access reinsurance), insurance, copies of the appraisals
which any Borrower is obtaining for each of the Properties, and surveys;
(b) opinions of local counsel for the Loan Parties in states
in which the Properties covered by the Mortgages are located, with respect to
the enforceability and perfection of the Mortgages and any related fixture
filings substantially in the form of Exhibit L hereto (with such changes as may
be reasonably approved by the Administrative Agent and its counsel to account
for local law matters), and otherwise in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (in each case, at the request of the
Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).
ARTICLE VII
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 and not Cash
Collateralized, each of Holdings and the Borrowers shall not, nor shall it
permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:
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, or sign or file or suffer to exist under the Uniform Commercial Code
of any jurisdiction a financing statement that names Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries as debtor, or sign or suffer to exist any security agreement
authorizing any secured party thereunder to file such financing statement, or
assign any accounts or other right to receive income, other than the following:
(a) in the case of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries:
(A) Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on
Schedule 5.08(b) and any refinancings, replacements, renewals or
extensions thereof, provided that (i) the property covered thereby
is not changed, (ii) the obligations secured thereby shall not be
increased (other than to include accrued and unpaid interest,
premiums, and fees, costs and expenses related thereto), (iii) no
additional Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries shall become a direct
or contingent obligor, and (iv) any renewal or extension of the
obligations secured or benefited thereby is permitted by Section
7.02(c)(C);
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(B) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers',
warehousemen's, mechanics', materialmen's, repairmen's or other like
Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not
overdue for a period of more than 60 days or which are being
contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently
conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained
on the books of the applicable Person;
(C) pledges or deposits to secure the performance of
bids, trade contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness),
insurance contracts, statutory obligations, surety bonds (other than
bonds related to judgments or litigation), performance bonds and
other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course
of business;
(D) (i) easements, municipal ordinances, zoning
restrictions, land use, environmental regulations, rights-of-way,
restrictions on the use of real property and immaterial defects and
irregularities in the title thereto, restrictions, licenses,
covenants, consents, reservations and other similar encumbrances
affecting real property which do not in any case materially
interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the
applicable Person and (ii) any interest of a lessor of property
leased to the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, or any
encumbrances on any such interest or title of such lessor;
(E) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section
7.02(c)(F); provided that (i) such Liens do not at any time encumber
any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness
(together with replacements, substitutions, attachments, accessions
and proceeds and products thereof), (ii) the Indebtedness secured
thereby does not exceed the cost or fair market value, whichever is
lower, of the property being acquired on the date of acquisition and
(iii) with respect to Capitalized Leases, such Liens do not at any
time extend to or cover any Collateral or assets other than the
assets subject to such Capitalized Leases (together with
replacements, substitutions, attachments, accessions and proceeds
and products thereof);
(F) customary interests of lessors under operating leases
with the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries;
(G) customary security deposits under operating leases in
the ordinary course of business;
(H) licenses of patents, trademarks and other intellectual
property rights not interfering in any respect with the ordinary
conduct of the business of such Borrower or such Subsidiary,
including, without limitation, the interest or title of a licensor
of intellectual property used by a Borrower or any Subsidiary and
nonexclusive licenses or sublicenses of intellectual property
granted by the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries in the
ordinary course of business and not
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interfering in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the
business of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries;
(I) customary rights of set off, bankers' lien, refund or
charge back, under deposit agreements, the Uniform Commercial Code
or common law, of banks or other financial institutions where the
Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries maintains deposits (other
than deposits intended as cash collateral) in the ordinary course of
business, and Liens in favor of banks that arise under Article 4 or
Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code on items in collection and
the documents relating thereto and proceeds thereof;
(J) any interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under
any lease of real estate permitted hereunder entered into in the
ordinary course of business, and any leases or subleases granted to
others in the ordinary course of business of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries not interfering in any material respect with the
business of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries;
(K) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section
7.02(c)(I) with respect to permitted acquisitions; provided such
Liens do not extend to any assets other than the assets so acquired
(together with replacements, substitutions, attachments, accessions
and proceeds and products thereof to the extent covered thereby) and
such Liens were not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition;
(L) Liens evidenced by the filing of precautionary UCC
financing statements relating solely to operating leases of personal
property entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(M) 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;
(N) Liens deemed to exist by virtue of permitted
repurchase obligations;
(O) Liens given in replacement of Liens otherwise
permitted under this Section 7.01; provided, that such replacement
Liens do not extend to any assets not subject to the Lien being
replaced (and proceeds and products, replacements, substitutions,
attachments and accessions thereof to the extent covered thereby);
(P) Liens on assets of Foreign Subsidiaries securing
Indebtedness permitted under Sections 7.02(c)(Q) and 7.02(c)(R); and
(Q) other Liens securing Indebtedness outstanding in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $2,000,000, provided that
no such Lien shall extend to or cover any Collateral.
(b) In the case of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and
Holdings:
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(A) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document;
(B) Liens for taxes that are not required to be paid
pursuant to Section 6.04;
(C) pledges or deposits and other Liens in the ordinary
course of business in connection with workers' compensation,
unemployment insurance and other forms of governmental insurance or
benefits or social security legislation, other than any Lien imposed
by ERISA;
(D) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not
constituting an Event of Default under Section 9.01(h) or securing
appeal or other surety bonds related to such judgments to the extent
(a) such Liens are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and adequate reserves have been set aside or (b) no
material Collateral is subject to a material risk of loss or
forfeiture; and
(E) Liens on any cash deposits made by Holdings or any of
its Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase
agreement permitted hereunder to be applied against the purchase
price for an Investment permitted under Section 7.03.
7.02 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any
Indebtedness, except:
(a) in the case of the Borrowers:
(A) Indebtedness in respect of Swap Contracts designed to
hedge against commodity price or foreign currency exchange rate risk
entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for
speculative purposes;
(B) Indebtedness owed to a wholly owned Subsidiary of any
Borrower, which Indebtedness (x) shall, in the case of Indebtedness
owed to a Loan Party, constitute Pledged Debt, (y) shall be on terms
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (z) evidenced
by promissory notes in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent and such promissory notes shall, in the
case of Indebtedness owed to a Loan Party, be pledged as security
for the Obligations of the holder thereof under the Loan Documents
to which such holder is a party and delivered to the Administrative
Agent pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreement; provided that
such Indebtedness owed by any Borrower to a Subsidiary which is not
a Loan Party shall be subordinated to this Facility on terms
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and
(C) Indebtedness evidenced by the Subordinated Notes and
the Senior Notes.
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(b) in the case of any Subsidiary of a Borrower, Indebtedness
owed to such Borrower or to a wholly owned Subsidiary of a Borrower that
is a Loan Party, provided that, in each case, such Indebtedness (x) shall
constitute Pledged Debt, (y) shall be on terms reasonably acceptable to
the Administrative Agent and (z) shall be evidenced by promissory notes in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and
such promissory notes shall be pledged as security for the Obligations of
the holder thereof under the Loan Documents to which such holder is a
party and delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of
the Security Agreement; provided that such Indebtedness owed to a Borrower
or another Loan Party by any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party that is
incurred after the Closing Date shall not exceed $15,000,000 when
aggregated with all outstanding Indebtedness permitted under Section
7.02(c)(R) and Investments permitted under Sections 7.03 (q) and (s) that
are incurred or made after the Closing Date; and
(c) in the case of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries,
(A) Indebtedness under the Loan Documents;
(B) Guarantees of the Subordinated Notes and of the Senior
Notes;
(C) Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and listed
on Schedule 7.02 and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or
extensions thereof; provided that the amount of such Indebtedness is
not increased at the time of such refinancing, refunding, renewal or
extension except by an amount equal to accrued and unpaid interest,
premium or other prepayment amount paid, and fees, costs and
expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing
and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized
thereunder and the direct and contingent obligors thereof shall not
be changed, as a result of or in connection with such refinancing,
refunding, renewal or extension; provided further that the terms
relating to principal amount, amortization, maturity, collateral (if
any) and subordination (if any), and other material terms taken as a
whole, of any such extending, refunding or refinancing Indebtedness;
provided the maximum principal amount of Indebtedness available
under such line of credit is not increased by such refinancing), and
of any agreement entered into and of any instrument issued in
connection therewith, are no less favorable in any material respect
to the Loan Parties or the Lenders than the terms of any agreement
or instrument governing the Indebtedness being extended, refunded or
refinanced and the interest rate applicable to any such extending,
refunding or refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the then
applicable market interest rate;
(D) Guarantees of a Borrower or any Guarantor in respect
of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder of a Borrower or any
other Guarantor;
(E) obligations (contingent or otherwise) of a Borrower or
any Subsidiary existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided
that (i) such
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obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the
ordinary course of business for the purpose of mitigating risks
associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or
property held or reasonably anticipated by such Person, or changes
in the value of securities issued by such Person, and not for
purposes of speculation or taking a "market view;" and (ii) such
Swap Contract does not contain any provision exonerating the
non-defaulting party from its obligation to make payments on
outstanding transactions to the defaulting party;
(F) Indebtedness in respect of Capitalized Leases,
Synthetic Lease Obligations and purchase money obligations for fixed
or capital assets within the limitations set forth in Section
7.01(a)(E); provided, however, that the aggregate amount of all such
Indebtedness at any one time outstanding shall not exceed
$5,000,000;
(G) Indebtedness which may be deemed to exist pursuant to
any performance, surety, statutory or appeal bond or similar
obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(H) Indebtedness of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries
arising in respect of netting services or overdraft protections with
respect to deposit or checking accounts;
(I) Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness permitted under
clause (J) below) in an aggregate outstanding amount not in excess
of $10,000,000 incurred or assumed by the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries as a result of acquisitions permitted pursuant to
Section 7.03 that is unsecured or secured only by the assets or
property so acquired or on the assets or property of the Person so
acquired (together with replacements, substitutions, attachments,
accessions and proceeds and products thereof to the extent covered
thereby), provided that (i) such Indebtedness was not incurred, and
such Liens were not granted, in contemplation of any such
acquisition, and (ii) the amount of outstanding Indebtedness secured
by such Liens shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any
time;
(J) Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness permitted under
clause (I) above) of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries in
connection with acquisitions permitted by Section 7.03 and payable
to the corresponding sellers of an acquired business or entity
(whether through an asset purchase, equity purchase or merger or
consolidation or otherwise) in the form of seller notes, earn-outs,
indemnities or obligations in respect of purchase price adjustments
in connection with any such acquisition in an aggregate amount at
any time outstanding not to exceed $10,000,000; provided such
Indebtedness is subordinated to the Loans hereunder on terms
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(K) Indebtedness of the Borrowers or any of their
Subsidiaries consisting of guarantees, earn-outs, indemnities or
obligations in respect of
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purchase price adjustments in connection with the disposition of
assets, including, without limitation, shares of capital stock;
provided that the maximum aggregate liability in respect of all such
obligations outstanding under this clause (K) shall at no time
exceed the gross proceeds actually received by the Borrowers and
their Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition;
(L) guaranties in the ordinary course of business of
operating leases and the obligations of suppliers, customers,
franchisees and licensees of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries in
circumstances and covering matters consistent with past practices;
(M) the obtaining of credit customarily extended and in
fact extended in connection with normal purchase of goods and
services;
(N) obligations consisting of management fees owed to the
Equity Investors (whether or not paid when due) to the extent
permitted under Section 7.08 and other obligations on account of
non-current trade payables or accounts payable which a Borrower or
its applicable Subsidiary is contesting in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and with respect to
which adequate reserves have been established and are being
maintained in accordance with GAAP;
(O) endorsements for collection, deposit or negotiation
and warranties of products or services, in each case incurred in the
ordinary course of business;
(P) Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.03(c);
(Q) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary of a Borrower
owed to a third party (other than a Loan Party or a Subsidiary of a
Loan Party) existing on the Closing Date and all other such third
party Indebtedness of any such Foreign Subsidiary in an aggregate
principal amount (or accreted value, as applicable) at any time
outstanding not to exceed $5,000,000 as to all Foreign Subsidiaries;
(R) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary of a Borrower
owed to a third party (other than a Loan Party or a Subsidiary of a
Loan Party) existing on the Closing Date and all other such third
party Indebtedness of any such Foreign Subsidiary incurred after the
Closing Date in an aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, as
applicable) at any time outstanding not to exceed $15,000,000 when
aggregated with all outstanding Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that
are not Loan Parties permitted under the proviso in Section 7.02(b)
and all Investments permitted under Sections 7.03(q) and (s), in
each case, incurred or made after the Closing Date;
(S) unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding; and
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(T) Indebtedness in the form of notes that are deeply
subordinated to the Facility on terms satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent in connection with Restricted Payments made
pursuant to, and to the extent permitted under, Section 7.06(f).
(d) in the case of Holdings,
(A) Indebtedness under the Loan Documents;
(B) the Guarantee of Holdings of the Subordinated Notes
and of the Senior Notes; and
(C) Indebtedness consisting of loans from a Borrower to
the extent that (i) a Restricted Payment could be made by the
Borrowers to Holdings pursuant to Section 7.06 and (ii) such loan is
made in lieu of such Restricted Payment.
7.03 Investments. Make or hold any Investments, except:
(a) Investments held by a Borrower or such Subsidiary in the
form of cash and Cash Equivalents;
(b) advances to officers, directors and employees of Holdings
and Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 at any time
outstanding, for travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary
business purposes to the extent permitted under the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of
2002, as amended;
(c) equity Investments of the Borrowers in any Subsidiary
Guarantor and Investments of any Subsidiary Guarantor in the Borrowers or
in another Subsidiary Guarantor;
(d) Investments (i) 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, (ii) received in
satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled
account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or
limit loss and (iii) received by the Borrowers or any of their
Subsidiaries in settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with
customers or suppliers of such Person in the ordinary course of business;
(e) Guarantees permitted by Section 7.02;
(f) Investments existing on the date hereof and set forth on
Schedule 5.08(e);
(g) Investments by the Borrowers in Swap Contracts permitted
under Section 7.02(a)(A);
(h) Investments consisting of intercompany debt permitted
under Section 7.02(a)(B) or 7.02(b);
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(i) the purchase or other acquisition of all of the Equity
Interests in, or all or substantially all of the property and assets of,
any Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be wholly owned
directly by a Borrower or one or more of its wholly owned Subsidiaries
(including, without limitation, as a result of a merger, amalgamation or
consolidation); provided that, with respect to each purchase or other
acquisition made pursuant to this Section 7.03(i):
(A) any such newly created or acquired Subsidiary
shall comply with the requirements of Sections 6.12;
(B) the lines of business of the Person to be (or the
property and assets of which are to be) so purchased or otherwise
acquired shall be substantially the same lines of business as one or
more of the principal businesses of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course or any business reasonably
related thereto;
(C) such purchase or other acquisition shall not include
or result in any contingent liabilities that could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (as determined in good
faith by the board of directors (or the persons performing similar
functions) of the applicable Borrower if the board of directors is
otherwise approving such transaction and, in each other case, by a
Responsible Officer);
(D) the total cash and noncash consideration (including,
without limitation, the fair market value of all indemnities,
earnouts and other contingent payment obligations to, and the
aggregate amounts paid or to be paid under noncompete, consulting
and other affiliated agreements with, the sellers thereof, all
write-downs of property and assets and reserves for liabilities with
respect thereto and all assumptions of debt, liabilities and other
obligations in connection therewith but excluding the value of all
Equity Interests issued or transferred to the sellers thereof) paid
by or on behalf of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries for any such
purchase or other acquisition, when aggregated with the total cash
and noncash consideration and all costs, including all fees and
expenses arising therefrom or related thereto, paid by or on behalf
of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries for all other purchases and
other acquisitions made by the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries
pursuant to this Section 7.03(i), other than the Pending
Acquisition, shall not exceed $40,000,000; provided that all or part
of any such purchase or other acquisition can be made in any amount
so long as the consideration paid therefor (or for such part)
consists solely of (i) Equity Interests of Holdings issued or
transferred to the applicable sellers or (ii) cash contributed to
equity of Holdings or its Subsidiaries by the Permitted Holders for
the specific purpose of consummating such purchase or other
acquisition (each an "EQUITY INVESTMENT"); provided that,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Loan Party's
equity other than equity of Holdings may be part of an Equity
Investment
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(E) immediately before and immediately after giving pro
forma effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, (1) no
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (2) the Borrowers and
their Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance with all of the
covenants set forth in Section 7.10, such compliance to be
determined on the basis of the financial information most recently
delivered to the Agents and the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a)
or (b) as though such purchase or other acquisition had been
consummated as of the first day of the fiscal period covered
thereby, and (3) on the date of each purchase or acquisition other
than the Pending Acquisition, Availability as of such date and
average Availability for the 30 day period preceding date shall be
greater than $15,000,000; and
(F) the Borrowers shall have delivered to the
Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, at least two
Business Days prior to the date on which any such purchase or other
acquisition is to be consummated, a certificate of a Responsible
Officer, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, 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;
and
(j) Investments by the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries not
otherwise permitted under this Section 7.03 (other than the purchase or
other acquisition of a Subsidiary of a Borrower which purchase or other
acquisition is governed by Section 7.03(i)) in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $2,000,000; provided that, with respect to each Investment made
pursuant to this Section 7.03(j):
(A) such Investment shall not include or result in any
contingent liabilities that could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect (as determined in good faith by the board of
directors (or persons performing similar functions) of the
applicable Borrower or such Subsidiary if the board of directors is
otherwise approving such transaction and, in each other case, by a
Responsible Officer);
(B) such Investment shall be in property and assets which
are part of, or in lines of business which are, substantially the
same lines of business as one or more of the principal businesses of
the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries in the ordinary course or any
business reasonably related thereto;
(C) any determination of the amount of such Investment
shall include all cash and noncash consideration (including, without
limitation, the fair market value of all Equity Interests issued or
transferred to the sellers thereof, all indemnities, earnouts and
other contingent payment obligations to, and the aggregate amounts
paid or to be paid under noncompete, consulting and other affiliated
agreements with, the sellers thereof, all write-downs of property
and assets and reserves for liabilities with respect thereto and all
assumptions of debt,
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liabilities and other obligations in connection therewith) paid by
or on behalf of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries in connection
with such Investment; and
(D) immediately before and immediately after giving pro
forma effect to any such Investment, (1) no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, (2) the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries
shall be in pro forma compliance with all of the covenants set forth
in Section 7.10, such compliance to be determined on the basis of
the financial information most recently delivered to the Agents and
the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) as though such
purchase or other acquisition had been consummated as of the first
day of the fiscal period covered thereby, and (3) Availability as of
the date of such purchase or acquisition and average Availability
for the 30 day period preceding such purchase or acquisition shall
be greater than $15,000,000.
(k) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of
inventory, supplies, materials, equipment, other Capital Expenditures and
real estate in the ordinary course of business, and accounts receivable
arising, and trade credit granted, in the ordinary course of business;
(l) Investments consisting of acceptance and endorsements of
checks or other negotiable instruments for deposit or collection in the
ordinary course of business;
(m) Investments consisting of intercompany loans by ATT to CHATT
or by ATT to Holdings and by Holdings to CHATT, in any case made with the
proceeds of the Subordinated Notes and the Facilities;
(n) Investments consisting of deposits, prepayments and other
credits to suppliers and trade creditors in the ordinary course of
business consistent with the past practices of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries;
(o) Investments constituting non-cash consideration received by
the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries in connection with a
Disposition of assets otherwise permitted by this Agreement;
(p) Investments consisting of the licensing or contribution of
intellectual property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other
Persons, to the extent otherwise permitted under this Agreement;
(q) [intentionally omitted];
(r) Investments consisting of loans by the Borrowers to Holdings
to the extent that (i) a Restricted Payment could be made by the Borrowers
to Holdings pursuant to Section 7.06 and (ii) such loan is made in lieu of
such Restricted Payment;
(s) Investments by a Borrower or any Subsidiary of a Borrower in
Foreign Subsidiaries and any other Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties
and joint ventures or other Persons that are not Subsidiaries (not
otherwise permitted by this Section 7.03),
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and, in the case of such Investments incurred after the Closing Date, the
portion of such Investments that are funded after the Closing Date not to
exceed $15,000,000 at any time outstanding when aggregated with all
outstanding Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02(c)(R), Indebtedness
permitted under the proviso in Section 7.02(b) and Investments permitted
under Section 7.03(q), in each case, to the extent incurred or made after
the Closing Date; and
(t) Investments by Holdings in any other Loan Party.
7.04 Fundamental Changes. Except for transactions described on
Schedule 7.04 hereto, merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into
another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of
transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or
hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except that, so long as no
Default exists or would result therefrom:
(a) any Subsidiary may merge with (i) a Borrower, provided that
a Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person, or (ii) any one or
more other Subsidiaries, provided that when any Guarantor is merging with
another Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, the Guarantor shall be the
continuing or surviving Person;
(b) any Loan Party may Dispose of all or substantially all of
its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to a Borrower or to
another Subsidiary that is a Loan Party;
(c) any Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party may dispose of all
or substantially all its assets to (i) another Subsidiary that is not a
Loan Party or (ii) to a Loan Party for no consideration, or, in the case
of this clause (ii), pursuant to a Disposition which is in the nature of a
liquidation; and
(d) in connection with any acquisition permitted under Section
7.03, any Subsidiary of a Borrower may merge into or consolidate with any
other Person or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with
it; provided that the Person surviving such merger shall be a wholly owned
Subsidiary of a Borrower;
provided, however, that in each case, immediately after giving effect
thereto, in the case of any such merger to which a Borrower is a party,
such Borrower is the surviving corporation.
7.05 Dispositions. Make any Disposition or enter into any
agreement to make any Disposition, except:
(a) Dispositions of surplus, obsolete, unused or worn out
property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course
of business;
(b) Dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of
business;
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(c) Dispositions of equipment or real 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 reasonably promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement
property;
(d) Dispositions of property by any Subsidiary to a Borrower or
to a wholly-owned Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor of such
property is a Guarantor, the transferee thereof must either be a Borrower
or a Guarantor;
(e) Dispositions permitted by Section 7.04;
(f) Dispositions set forth on Schedule 7.05(f) and other
Dispositions (including sale leaseback transactions) by a Borrower and its
Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under this Section 7.05; provided
that (i) at the time of each such Disposition, no Default shall exist or
would result from such Disposition, (ii) the aggregate book value of all
property Disposed of in reliance on this clause (f) in any fiscal year
shall not exceed $10,000,000 and (iii) at least 75% of the purchase price
for such asset shall be paid to a Borrower or such Subsidiary solely in
cash;
(g) licenses of patents, trademarks and other intellectual
property rights by a Borrower and its Subsidiaries, leases or subleases
granted to others and other Dispositions of assets to the extent permitted
by Section 7.01(H);
(h) the lapse of registered patents, trademarks and other
intellectual property of a Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries that is no
longer useful and lapse of which could not reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(i) the termination, surrender or sublease of a real estate
lease of a Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
(j) Dispositions consisting of the creation of Liens, to the
extent such Lien is permitted by Section 7.01; and
(k) Dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents in a manner that
is not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement.
provided, however, that any Disposition pursuant to Section 7.05(f) and (g)
shall be for fair market value.
7.06 Restricted Payments. Declare or make, directly or
indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or
otherwise) to do so, except that, so long as no Default shall have occurred and
be continuing at the time of any action described below or would result
therefrom:
(a) each Subsidiary of a Borrower may make Restricted Payments
to a Borrower, the Guarantors and any other Person that owns an Equity
Interest in such
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Subsidiary, ratably according to their respective holdings of the type of
Equity Interest in respect of which such Restricted Payment is being made;
(b) each Borrower and each Subsidiary may declare and make
dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the common
stock or other common Equity Interests of such Person;
(c) each Borrower and each Subsidiary may purchase, redeem or
otherwise acquire shares of its common stock or other common Equity
Interests with the proceeds received from the substantially concurrent
issue of new shares of its common stock or other common Equity Interests;
(d) the Borrowers may make Restricted Payments to or on behalf
of Holdings in an amount sufficient to pay administrative costs and
expenses and out-of-pocket legal, accounting and filing and other general
corporate overhead costs of Holdings actually incurred by Holdings, in any
case in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 in any Fiscal Year;
(e) to the extent that any Borrower or one or more of its
Subsidiaries are members of a consolidated, combined or similar income tax
group of which a direct or indirect parent of such Borrower is the common
parent, such Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments to
the extent necessary to pay, and which are used to pay, any income taxes
of such tax group (after taking into account any off-setting deductions)
that are attributable to such Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries and are not
payable directly by such Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries; provided that
the amount of any such dividends or distributions (plus any such taxes
payable directly by such Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries) shall not
exceed the amount of such taxes that would have been payable directly by
such Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries had such Borrower been the common
parent of a separate tax group that included only such Borrower and its
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that payments under this clause (e) may
be made whether or not a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing; and
(f) any Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings or
CHATT to the extent necessary to permit Holdings or CHATT to repurchase or
redeem shares of, or options or warrants to purchase shares of, capital
stock of Holdings from current or former employees, officers or directors
of Holdings, a Borrower or any Subsidiaries thereof upon the death,
disability or termination of employment of such employee or officer or
termination of such director's seat on the Board of Directors of Holdings,
a Borrower or any Subsidiary, in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$2,000,000 in each calendar year; provided that Holdings or any Borrower
may carry over and make in subsequent calendar years, in addition to the
amounts permitted for such calendar year, such Restricted Payments
permitted to have been made but not made in any preceding calendar year up
to a maximum of $5,000,000 in any calendar year.
7.07 Change in Nature of Business. Engage in any material line of
business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by the
Borrowers and their
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Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business similar or related or incidental
thereto, or other business arising out of such business.
7.08 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction of
any kind with any Affiliate of the Borrowers, whether or not in the ordinary
course of business, other than on fair and reasonable terms substantially as
favorable to the Borrowers or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by the
Borrowers or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm's length
transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate other than (a) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Partners IV, L.P. and its Permitted Holders may make CHP Additional
Contributions, (b) provided no Default has occurred and is continuing or would
result therefrom, the Borrowers may (i) pay a management fee to Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Inc. in a maximum amount equal to up to (A) 1.5% of the CHP Equity Contribution
through the second anniversary of the Management Agreement, payable quarterly in
advance, (B) 3% of the CHP Equity Contribution and the CHP Additional
Contribution annually thereafter, payable quarterly in advance (which fee may
continue to accrue during a Default or Event of Default and be paid when the
Default or Event of Default is cured), and (C) 3% of CHP Additional Contribution
in each year after the Closing Date (which fee may continue to accrue during a
Default or Event of Default and be paid when the Default or Event of Default is
cured), and (ii) pay other fees, costs and expenses payable in accordance with
the Management Agreement, (c) compensation arrangements for officers and other
employees of Holdings and its Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course
of business; (d) any transaction otherwise permitted by Sections 7.01, 7.02,
7.03, 7.04, 7.05 or 7.06; (e) royalty-free or discounted licenses or sublicenses
of IP Rights in the ordinary course of business not detrimental to the ordinary
conduct of the business of the Borrowers and/or their Subsidiaries; (f)
transactions between the Borrowers and any Subsidiary Guarantor to the extent
not prohibited under Sections 7.02 and 7.03; (g) transactions by and among
Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties; and (h) provided no Default has occurred
and is continuing, Holdings can make issuances of equity to the Permitted
Holders.
7.09 Burdensome Agreements. Enter into or permit to exist any
Contractual Obligation (other than this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the
Senior Notes Documents or the Subordinated Notes Documents) that limits the
ability (i) of any Domestic Subsidiary to make Restricted Payments to the
Borrowers or any Guarantor or to otherwise transfer property to or invest in the
Borrowers or any Guarantor, except for any agreement in effect (A) on the date
hereof or (B) at the time any Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrowers,
so long as such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation of such
Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Borrowers, or (ii) of the Borrowers or any
Domestic Subsidiary to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on
property of such Person; provided, however, that this clause (ii) shall not
prohibit any negative pledge incurred or provided in favor of any holder of
Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02(c)(F) or 7.02(c)(I) solely to the
extent any such negative pledge relates to the property financed by or the
subject of such Indebtedness (and proceeds and products thereof provided that
the Lien extended to proceeds and products thereof).
7.10 Financial Covenants. For purposes of the financial covenants
set forth in this Section 7.10 (including the calculation of Consolidated Cash
Interest Expense) for any fiscal quarter prior to the delivery of the Compliance
Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(c) for such fiscal quarter, the Permitted
Holders may, if they so specify in writing to the Administrative
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Agent, make a permanent cash equity investment in the Borrowers through Holdings
that is expressly earmarked for, and is used solely by the Borrowers for, the
permanent reduction of Indebtedness of the Borrowers and to the extent this
procedure is followed, the reduction of Indebtedness of the Borrowers will be
treated on a pro forma basis as though such Indebtedness had been so reduced for
the four fiscal quarter period ending with the end of such fiscal quarter.
(a) Minimum Consolidated EBITDA. Permit Consolidated
EBITDA for any period of four fiscal quarters of ATT ending on the last
day of any fiscal quarter during the effectiveness of a Cash Dominion
Trigger to be less than $41,000,000.
(b) Capital Expenditures. Make or become legally obligated
to make any Capital Expenditure, except for Capital Expenditures in the
ordinary course of business not exceeding, in the aggregate for Holdings
and it Subsidiaries during each fiscal year set forth below, the amount
set forth opposite such fiscal year:
Fiscal Year Amount
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2006 $19,125,000
2007 $16,125,000
2008 $15,000,000
2009 $15,000,000
2010 $15,000,000
2011 $15,000,000
; provided, however, that if, during any fiscal year, such amount of
Capital Expenditures is not so utilized, such unutilized amount may be
utilized in the next succeeding fiscal year but cannot be carried forward
for more than one year.
7.11 Amendments of Organization Documents. Amend any of its
Organization Documents in a manner materially adverse to the Administrative
Agent or the Lenders.
7.12 Accounting Changes. Make any change in (i) accounting
policies or reporting practices, except as required or permitted by generally
accepted accounting principles, or (ii) fiscal year.
7.13 Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness. Prepay, redeem, purchase,
defease or otherwise satisfy any Indebtedness prior to the scheduled maturity
thereof in any manner if a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, or make any payment on any Indebtedness subordinated to the Facility
in violation of any applicable subordination terms, except the prepayment of the
Credit Extensions in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
7.14 Amendment, Etc. of Related Documents. Cancel or terminate
any Related Document or consent to or accept any cancellation or termination
thereof, amend, modify or change in any material respect any term or condition
of any Related Document or give any consent, waiver or approval thereunder,
waive any default under or any breach of any term or condition of any Related
Document, agree in any manner to any other amendment, modification or change of
any term or condition of any Related Document or take any other action in
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connection with any Related Document that would impair in any material respect,
except to the extent the foregoing could not reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on, the value of the interest or rights of any Loan
Party thereunder or that would impair in any material respect the value of the
rights or interests of any Agent or any Lender.
7.15 Partnerships, Etc. Become a general partner in any general
or limited partnership or joint venture, other than through any wholly-owed
corporate or limited liability company Subsidiary the sole assets of which
consist of its interest in such partnership or joint venture.
7.16 Speculative Transactions. Engage, or permit any of its
Subsidiaries to engage, in any transaction involving commodity options or
futures contracts other than Swap Contracts permitted under Section 7.02(a)(A)
or any similar speculative transactions, which are, in any case, not otherwise
made in the ordinary course of business.
7.17 Holding Company. In the case of Holdings, conduct, transact
or otherwise engage in any business or operations other than those incidental to
its ownership of the Equity Interests of the Borrowers, the performance of the
Loan Documents and the Related Documents and any transactions that Holdings is
permitted to enter into or consummate under this Article VII.
ARTICLE VIII
GUARANTY
8.01 Guaranty; Limitation of Liability. (a) Holdings hereby
absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees (the undertaking by
Holdings under this Article VIII being, as amended from time to time, the
"HOLDINGS GUARANTY") the punctual payment when due, whether at scheduled
maturity or on any date of a required prepayment or by acceleration, demand or
otherwise, of all Obligations of each other Loan Party now or hereafter existing
under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any
extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all
of the foregoing Obligations), whether direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent, and whether for principal, interest, premiums, fees, indemnities,
contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise (such Obligations being
the "GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS"), and agrees to pay any and all expenses
(including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel)
incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party in enforcing any
rights under this Holdings Guaranty or any other Loan Document. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, Holding's liability shall extend to all amounts
that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by any
other Loan Party to any Secured Party under or in respect of the Loan Documents
but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the
existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving such
other Loan Party.
(b) Holdings, and by its acceptance of this Holdings Guaranty,
the Administrative Agent and each other Secured Party, hereby confirms that it
is the intention of all such Persons that this Holdings Guaranty and the
Obligations of Holdings hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or
conveyance for purposes of Debtor Relief Law, the Uniform
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Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar
foreign, federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Holdings Guaranty
and the Obligations of Holdings hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing
intention, Holdings, the Administrative Agent and each of the other Secured
Parties hereby irrevocably agree that, solely with respect to the Guaranteed
Obligations and the other liabilities of Holdings under this Holdings Guaranty
which result from or arise out of its guarantee under subsection (a) of this
Section 8.01 of the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the
Loan Documents, such Guaranteed Obligations and other liabilities shall be
limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to such maximum
amount and all other contingent and fixed liabilities of Holdings that are
relevant under such Law, and after giving effect to any collections from, any
rights to receive contributions from, or payments made by or on behalf of, any
of the Subsidiaries of Holdings in respect of the Obligations of such Subsidiary
under the Subsidiary Guaranty and, in the case of this Holdings Guaranty, result
in the Guaranteed Obligations and all other liabilities of Holdings under this
Holdings Guaranty not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
(c) Holdings hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that
in the event any payment shall be required to be made to any Secured Party under
this Holdings Guaranty or the Subsidiary Guaranty or any other guaranty,
Holdings will contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, such amounts
to each other Guarantor and each other guarantor so as to maximize the aggregate
amount paid to the Secured Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents.
8.02 Guaranty Absolute. (a) Holdings guarantees that the
Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the
Loan Documents, regardless of any Law, now or hereafter in effect in any
jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of any Secured Party with
respect thereto. The Obligations of Holdings under or in respect of this
Holdings Guaranty are independent of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other
Obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of the Loan Documents,
and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against Holdings
to enforce this Holdings Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought
against any Borrower or any other Loan Party or whether any Borrower or any
other Loan Party is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of
Holdings under this Holdings Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute and
unconditional irrespective of, and Holdings hereby irrevocably waives any
defenses it may now have or hereafter acquire in any way relating to, any or all
of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document
or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(ii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in
any other term of, all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other
Obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of the Loan
Documents, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure
from any Loan Document, including, without limitation, any increase in the
Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit
to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise;
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(iii) any taking, exchange, release or non-perfection of any
Collateral or any other collateral, or any taking, release or amendment or
waiver of, or consent to departure from, any other guaranty, for all or
any of the Guaranteed Obligations;
(iv) any manner of application of Collateral or any other
collateral, or proceeds thereof, to all or any of the Guaranteed
Obligations, or any manner of sale or other disposition of any Collateral
or any other collateral for all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or
any other Obligations of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents or any
other assets of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;
(v) any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate
structure or existence of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vi) any failure of any Secured Party to disclose to any Loan
Party any information relating to the business, condition (financial or
otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other
Loan Party now or hereafter known to such Secured Party (Holdings waiving
any duty on the part of the Secured Parties to disclose such information);
(vii) the failure of any other Person to execute or deliver the
Subsidiary Guaranty or any supplement thereto or any other guaranty or
agreement or the release or reduction of liability of any Subsidiary
Guarantor or other guarantor or surety with respect to the Guaranteed
Obligations; or
(viii) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any
statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any
representation by any Secured Party that might otherwise constitute a
defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan Party or any other
guarantor or surety.
This Holdings Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the
case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is
rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Administrative Agent or any
Secured Party or any other Person upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or
reorganization of any Borrower or any other Loan Party or otherwise, all as
though such payment had not been made and Holdings hereby unconditionally and
irrevocably agrees that it will indemnify the Administrative Agent and each of
the other Secured Parties, upon demand, for all of the costs and expenses
(including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel)
incurred by the Administrative Agent or such other Secured Party in connection
with any such rescission or restoration, including any such costs and expenses
incurred in defending against any claim alleging that such payment constituted a
preference, a fraudulent transfer or a similar payment under any bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar Law.
(b) Holdings hereby further agrees that, as between Holdings on
the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties, on the other
hand, (i) the Guaranteed Obligations of Holdings may be declared to be forthwith
due and payable as provided in Section 9.02 (and shall be deemed to have become
automatically due and payable in the circumstances provided in Section 9.01) for
purposes of Section 8.01, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or
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other prohibition preventing such declaration in respect of the Obligations of
any of the Loan Parties guaranteed hereunder (or preventing such Guaranteed
Obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as against any other
Person and (ii) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such
Guaranteed Obligations (or such Guaranteed Obligations being deemed to have
become automatically due and payable) as provided in Section 9.02, such
Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not due and payable by any other Person)
shall forthwith become due and payable by Holdings for all purposes of this
Holdings Guaranty.
8.03 Waivers and Acknowledgments. (a) Holdings hereby
unconditionally and irrevocably waives promptness, diligence, notice of
acceptance, presentment, demand for performance, notice of nonperformance,
default, acceleration, protest or dishonor and any other notice with respect to
any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Holdings Guaranty and any requirement
that the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party protect, secure, perfect or
insure any Lien or any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any
action against any Loan Party or any other Person or any Collateral.
(b) Holdings hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any
right to revoke this Holdings Guaranty and acknowledges that this Holdings
Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed Obligations,
whether existing now or in the future.
(c) Holdings hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (i)
any defense arising by reason of any claim or defense based upon an election of
remedies by the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party that in any manner
impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise adversely affects the subrogation,
reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification rights of Holdings
or other rights of Holdings to proceed against any of the other Loan Parties,
any other guarantor or any other Person or any Collateral and (ii) any defense
based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or in respect of the
Obligations of Holdings hereunder.
(d) Holdings acknowledges that the Administrative Agent may,
without notice to or demand upon Holdings and without affecting the liability of
Holdings under this Holdings Guaranty, foreclose under any mortgage by
nonjudicial sale, and Holdings hereby waives any defense to the recovery by the
Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties against Holdings of any
deficiency after such nonjudicial sale and any defense or benefits that may be
afforded by applicable law.
(e) Holdings hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any
duty on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party to disclose to
Holdings any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, financial
condition, operations, or performance of any other Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries now or hereafter known by the Administrative Agent or such Secured
Party.
(f) Holdings acknowledges that it will receive substantial
direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the
Loan Documents and that the waivers set forth in Section 8.02 and this Section
8.03 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
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8.04 Subrogation. Holdings hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
agrees not to exercise any rights that it may now have or hereafter acquire
against any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor that
arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of Holding's
Obligations under or in respect of this Holdings Guaranty or any other Loan
Document, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation,
reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification and any right to
participate in any claim or remedy of the Administrative Agent or any Secured
Party against any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor
or any Collateral, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity
or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the
right to take or receive from any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other
insider guarantor, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by
set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim,
remedy or right, unless and until all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all
other amounts payable under this Holdings Guaranty shall have been paid in full
in cash, all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements shall have
expired or been terminated or Cash Collateralized and the Commitments shall have
expired or been terminated. If any amount shall be paid to Holdings in violation
of the immediately preceding sentence at any time prior to the latest of (a) the
payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Holdings Guaranty, (b) the Termination Date and (c) the
latest date of expiration or termination or Cash Collateralization of all
Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, such amount shall be
received and held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall be
segregated from other property and funds of Holdings and shall forthwith be paid
or delivered to the Administrative Agent in the same form as so received (with
any necessary endorsement or assignment) to be credited and applied to the
Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Holdings
Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Loan
Documents, or to be held as Collateral for any Guaranteed Obligations or other
amounts payable under this Holdings Guaranty thereafter arising. If (i) Holdings
shall make payment to any Secured Party of all or any part of the Guaranteed
Obligations, (ii) all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Holdings Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash, (iii)
the Termination Date shall have occurred and (iv) all Letters of Credit and all
Secured Hedge Agreements shall have expired or been terminated or Cash
Collateralized, the Secured Parties will, at Holding's request and expense,
execute and deliver to Holdings appropriate documents, without recourse and
without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the transfer by
subrogation to Holdings of an interest in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting
from such payment made by Holdings pursuant to this Holdings Guaranty.
8.05 Subordination. Holdings hereby subordinates any and all
debts, liabilities and other Obligations owed to Holdings by each other Loan
Party (the "SUBORDINATED OBLIGATIONS") to the Guaranteed Obligations to the
extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this Section 8.05:
(a) Prohibited Payments, Etc. Except during the continuance of
a Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under
any Debtor Relief Law relating to any other Loan Party), Holdings may receive
regularly scheduled payments from any other Loan Party on account of the
Subordinated Obligations. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any
Default (including the commencement and continuation of any
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proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any other Loan Party),
however, unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, Holdings shall not demand,
accept or take any action to collect any payment on account of the Subordinated
Obligations.
(b) Prior Payment of Guaranteed Obligations. In any proceeding
under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any other Loan Party, Holdings agrees
that the Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive payment in full in cash of
all Guaranteed Obligations (including all interest and expenses accruing after
the commencement of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, whether or not
constituting an allowed claim in such proceeding ("POST PETITION INTEREST"))
before Holdings receives payment of any Subordinated Obligations.
(c) Turn-Over. After the occurrence and during the continuance
of any Event of Default (including the commencement and continuation of any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any other Loan Party),
Holdings shall, if the Administrative Agent so requests, collect, enforce and
receive payments on account of the Subordinated Obligations as trustee for the
Secured Parties and deliver such payments to the Administrative Agent on account
of the Guaranteed Obligations (including all Post Petition Interest), together
with any necessary endorsements or other instruments of transfer, but without
reducing or affecting in any manner the liability of Holdings under the other
provisions of this Holdings Guaranty.
(d) Administrative Agent Authorization. After the occurrence
and during the continuance of any Event of Default (including the commencement
and continuation of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any
other Loan Party), the Administrative Agent is authorized and empowered (but
without any obligation to so do), in its discretion, (i) in the name of
Holdings, to collect and enforce, and to submit claims in respect of,
Subordinated Obligations and to apply any amounts received thereon to the
Guaranteed Obligations (including any and all Post Petition Interest), and (ii)
to require Holdings (A) to collect and enforce, and to submit claims in respect
of, Subordinated Obligations and (B) to pay any amounts received on such
obligations to the Administrative Agent for application to the Guaranteed
Obligations (including any and all Post Petition Interest).
8.06 Continuing Guaranty; Assignments. This Holdings Guaranty
is a continuing guaranty and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the
latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all
other amounts payable under this Holdings Guaranty, (ii) the Termination Date
and (iii) the latest date of expiration or termination or Cash Collateralization
of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, (b) be binding upon
Holdings, its successors and assigns and (c) inure to the benefit of and be
enforceable by the Secured Parties and their successors, transferees and
assigns. Without limiting the generality of clause (c) of the immediately
preceding sentence, any Secured Party may assign or otherwise transfer all or
any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including,
without limitation, all or any portion of its Commitments, the Loans owing to it
and the Note or Notes held by it) to any other Person, and such other Person
shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted
to such Secured Party herein or otherwise, in each case as and to the extent
provided in Section 11.06. Holdings shall not have the right to assign its
rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the
Secured Parties.
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ARTICLE IX
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
9.01 Events of Default. Any of the following shall constitute an
Event of Default:
(a) Non-Payment. The Borrowers or any other Loan Party fails to
pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of
any Loan or any L/C Obligation, (ii) within three Business Days after the
same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or on any L/C Obligation, or
any fee due hereunder, or (iii) within five Business Days after the same
becomes due, any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan
Document; or
(b) Specific Covenants. Any Borrower or Holdings fails to
perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of
Sections 6.02(a), 6.05(a)(i), 6.11, 6.12, or Article VII; or
(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe
(i) any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 6.10 on its part
to be performed or observed and such failure continues for 10 days or (ii)
any other covenant or agreement (not specified in Section 9.01(a) or (b)
or clause (i) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be
performed or observed and such failure continues for 30 days, in each
case, after the earlier of the date that a Responsible Officer of such
Loan Party has knowledge of such failure and the date of receipt by such
Loan Party of notice of such failure from the Administrative Agent or any
Lender; or
(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation,
warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on
behalf of any Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan
Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith
shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or
deemed made; or
(e) Cross-Default. (i) Any Loan Party or any Significant
Subsidiary (A) fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled
maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in
respect of any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness
hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate
principal amount (including amounts owing to all creditors under any
combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than the Threshold
Amount, or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or
condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee or contained in
any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or
any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to
cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the
beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (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 be
demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or
redeemed (automatically or otherwise, other than by a regularly
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scheduled required prepayment or redemption), or an offer to repurchase,
prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made (other than by a
regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption), prior to its
stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or cash collateral in
respect thereof to be demanded, in each case referred to in this clause
(i), beyond the end of any grace period provided therefor; or (ii) there
occurs under any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in
such Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default under such
Swap Contract as to which any Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary is
the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or (B) any
Termination Event (as so defined) under such Swap Contract as to which any
Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary is an Affected Party (as defined in
such Swap Contract) and, in either event, the Swap Termination Value owed
by the Loan Party or such Significant Subsidiary as a result thereof is
greater than the Threshold Amount; or
(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. Any Loan Party or any
Significant Subsidiaries institutes or consents to the institution of any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law; or applies for or consents to the
appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator,
rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of
its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator,
liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the
application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues
undischarged or unstayed for 90 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 60 calendar days, or an order for
relief is entered in any such proceeding; or
(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) Any Loan Party or
any Significant 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 having a
fair market value in excess of the Threshold Amount of any such Person and
is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 30 days after its issue or
levy; or
(h) Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any
Significant Subsidiary (i) a final judgment or order for the payment of
money in an aggregate amount exceeding $3,500,000 (to the extent not
covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is
rated at least "A-" by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of the
potential claim and has not disputed coverage in writing, excluding
customary deductibles), or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final
judgments that have, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and, in either case, (A)
enforcement proceedings are commenced and have not been effectively stayed
within 20 days thereafter by any creditor upon such judgment or order, or
(B) there is a period of 30 consecutive days during which such judgment
remains undischarged, unvacated, unsatisfied or unbonded, by reason of a
pending appeal or otherwise, is not in effect; or
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(i) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension
Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in
liability of any Loan Party under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan or
the PBGC in an aggregate amount that would reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) an ERISA Event occurs that constitutes
grounds for termination by the PBGC of any Multiemployer Plan or
appointment of a trustee for any Multiemployer Plan; any Multiemployer
Plan is terminated or any such trustee is requested or appointed; any
Obligor is in "default" (as defined in Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA) with
respect to payments to a Multiemployer Plan resulting from any withdrawal
therefrom; or (iii) any event similar to the foregoing occurs or exists
with respect to a Foreign Plan; 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 or
satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force
and effect; or any Loan Party or any other Person contests in any manner
the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or
any Loan Party denies that it has any or further liability or obligation
under any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any
Loan Document; or
(k) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control; or
(l) Collateral Document. Any Collateral Document after delivery
thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 or 6.12 shall for any reason (other than
(i) pursuant to the terms thereof or (ii) the satisfaction in full in all
of the Obligations) cease to create a valid and perfected first priority
lien on and security interest in the Collateral purported to be covered
thereby to the extent the terms of such Collateral Document intended that
a perfected first priority security interest would be obtained.
9.02 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, take any or all of the following
actions:
(a) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any
obligation of the L/C Issuer 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
Borrowers;
(c) require that the Borrowers Cash Collateralize the L/C
Obligations (in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof);
and
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(d) exercise on behalf of itself, the other Agents and the
Lenders all rights and remedies available to it, the other Agents and the
Lenders under the Loan Documents;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an
order for relief with respect to any Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the
United States, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of
the L/C Issuer 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 Borrowers to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as
aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act
of any Agent or any Lender.
9.03 Application of Funds. After the exercise of remedies
provided for in Section 9.02 (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 9.02),
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 then due and
owing constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts
(including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the
Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the
Agents in their capacities as such ratably among them in proportion to the
amounts described in this clause First payable to them;
Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations then due and
owing constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than
principal and interest) payable to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, ratably
among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Second
payable to them;
Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting
accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans, L/C Borrowings and other
Obligations, ratably among the Lenders and the L/C Issuer in proportion to
the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;
Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting
unpaid principal of the Loans, Bank Product Debt and L/C Borrowings,
ratably among the Lenders the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective
amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;
Fifth, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C
Issuer, to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of
the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit;
Sixth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties
owing under or in respect of the Loan Documents that are due and payable
to the Agents and the other Secured Parties on such date, ratably based
upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations owing to the
Agents and the other Secured Parties on such date; and
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Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been
paid in full, to the Borrowers or as otherwise required by Law.
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.
ARTICLE X
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
10.01 Appointment and Authority.
(a) Each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably
appoints Bank of America 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 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 are solely for the benefit of the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, and neither the Borrowers nor any other
Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such
provisions.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall also act as the "collateral
agent" and "security trustee" under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders
(in its capacities as a Lender, Swing Line Lender (if applicable) and potential
Hedge Bank) and the L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the
Administrative Agent to act as the agent and, if required by any applicable Law,
trustee of such Lender and the L/C Issuer 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" or, as the case may be, "security trustee" and any
co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative
Agent pursuant to Section 10.05 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 X and Article XI (including, without limitation, Section 11.04(c),
as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the "collateral
agent" under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect
thereto.
(c) Any reference to Bank of America in its capacity as
collateral agent shall also be read and construed, as the content so requires,
to include Bank of America acting in its capacity as security trustee.
10.02 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
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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 a
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.
10.03 Exculpatory Provisions. The Administrative Agent shall not
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
duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;
(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action
or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary 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 law; 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 any 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) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders
(or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as
the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under
the circumstances as provided in Sections 11.01 and 9.02) or (ii) in the absence
of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct or breach in bad faith of its
obligations hereunder. 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 Agent, a Lender or the L/C
Issuer.
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 covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set
forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity,
enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan
Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or the perfection or
priority of any Lien or security interest created or purported to be created by
the Collateral Documents, or (v) the satisfaction of
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any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm
receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
10.04 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 the L/C
Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory
to such Lender or the L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have
received notice to the contrary from such Lender or the 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 Borrowers),
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 or experts.
10.05 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. 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 provisions of this
Article 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.
10.06 Resignation of Administrative Agent. The Administrative
Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C
Issuer and the Borrower Agent. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation,
the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrowers,
to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United
States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If
no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall
have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative
Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent
may on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, appoint a successor
Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that
if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower Agent and the Lenders that
no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall
nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the retiring
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 or
the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative
Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a
successor
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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 the L/C Issuer directly, until
such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as
provided for above in this Section. 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) Administrative Agent, and the retiring 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 Section). The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor
Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor
unless otherwise agreed between the Borrowers and such successor. After the
retiring Administrative Agent's resignation hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 11.04 shall continue in
effect for the benefit of such retiring 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 Administrative Agent was acting as
Administrative Agent.
Any resignation by Bank of America as Administrative Agent pursuant
to this Section shall also constitute its resignation as L/C Issuer and Swing
Line Lender. Upon the acceptance of a successor's appointment as Administrative
Agent hereunder, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all
of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer and
Swing Line Lender, (b) the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be
discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or
under the other Loan Documents, and (c) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue
letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding
at the time of such succession or make other arrangement satisfactory to the
retiring L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of the retiring L/C
Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.
10.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each
Lender and the 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 the 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.
10.08 No Other Duties, Etc. Anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, none of the Book Managers or Arrangers 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 the L/C Issuer hereunder. No documentation
agent or syndication agent that may from time to time be named hereunder shall
have any powers or discretion under this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents other than those bestowed upon it as a co-agent or sub-agent from time
to time by the Administrative
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Agent pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 10.01, and each Lender hereby
acknowledges that no such documentation agent or syndication agent shall have
any liability under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
10.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case
of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of
whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation 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 Borrowers)
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, L/C
Obligations and all other 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 and the Agents (including any claim for the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Lenders and the Agents and their respective agents and counsel and all
other amounts due the Lenders and the Agents under Sections 2.03(i) and
(j), 2.09 and 11.04) 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 to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event
that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Agents
and their respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Agents
under Sections 2.09 and 11.04.
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 any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the
Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such
proceeding.
10.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters. The Lenders and the L/C
Issuer irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its
discretion,
(a) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by
the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document (i) upon termination of
the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other
than contingent indemnification obligations not yet accrued and payable)
and the expiration or termination or cash collateralization of all Letters
of Credit, (ii) that is sold or to be sold
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as part of or in connection with any sale permitted hereunder or under any
other Loan Document, (iii) that does not attach to any material portion of
the Collateral or (iv) subject to Section 11.01, if approved, authorized
or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders;
(b) to release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations
under the Subsidiary Guaranty if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as
a result of a transaction permitted hereunder; and
(c) to (x) release 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 in connection with a transaction permitted by
Section 7.01(a)(E) or 7.01(a)(K) or (y) release 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(a)(E) or 7.01(a)(K).
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
Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty pursuant
to this Section 10.10. In each case as specified in this Section 10.10, the
Administrative Agent will, at the Borrowers' 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 or property from the
assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents, or to
release such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary
Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Section 10.10.
10.11 Delivery of Reports. The Administrative Agent shall
promptly, upon receipt thereof, forward to each Lender copies of the results of
any field audit or other examination or any appraisal prepared by or on behalf
of the Administrative Agent with respect to any Loan Party or Collateral
("REPORT"). Each Lender agrees (a) that neither Bank of America nor the
Administrative Agent makes any representation or warranty as to the accuracy or
completeness of any Report, and shall not be liable for any information
contained in or omitted from any Report; (b) that the Reports are not intended
to be comprehensive audits or examinations, and that Administrative Agent or any
other Person performing any audit or examination will inspect only specific
information regarding Obligations or the Collateral and will rely significantly
upon Borrowers' books and records as well as upon representations of Borrowers'
officers and employees; and (c) to keep all Reports confidential and strictly
for such Lender's internal use, and not to distribute any Report (or the
contents thereof) to any Person (except to such Lender's Participants, attorneys
and accountants) or use any Report in any manner other than administration of
the Loans and other Obligations. Each Lender agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless the Administrative Agent and any other Person preparing a Report from
any action such Lender may take as a result of or any conclusion it may draw
from any Report, as well as any claims arising in connection with any third
parties that obtain all or any part of a Report through such Lender.
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ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
11.01 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of
this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by
any Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in
writing signed by the Required Lenders and the Borrower Agent or the applicable
Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent,
and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance
and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(a) waive any condition set forth in Section 4.02, or, in the
case of the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01(a), without the written
consent of each Lender;
(b) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or
reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 9.02) without the
written consent of such Lender;
(c) postpone any date scheduled for any payment of principal or
interest under Sections 2.07 or 2.08, or any date fixed by the
Administrative Agent for the payment of fees or other amounts due to the
Lenders (or any of them) hereunder or under any other Loan Document
without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;
(d) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified
herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clause (v) of the
second proviso to this Section 11.01) any fees or other amounts payable
hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or change the manner of
computation of any financial ratio (including any change in any applicable
defined term) used in determining the Applicable Rate that would result in
a reduction of any interest rate on any Loan or any fee payable hereunder
without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;
provided, however, 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 Borrowers to pay interest or Letter of Credit Fees at
the Default Rate;
(e) change the order of application of any reduction in the
Commitments or any prepayment of Loans between the Facilities from the
application thereof set forth in the applicable provisions of Section
2.06(b), respectively, in any manner that materially and adversely affects
the Lenders under such Facilities or require the permanent reduction of
the Revolving Credit Facility without the written consent of each such
Lender directly affected thereby;
(f) change any provision of this Section 11.01 or the definition
of "Required Lenders" or any other provision hereof specifying the number
or percentage of Lenders
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required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make
any determination or grant any consent hereunder, without the written
consent of each Lender;
(g) release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any
transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent
of each Lender;
(h) release all or substantially all of the value of the
Guaranties, without the written consent of each Lender;
(i) increase any advance rate applicable to the calculation of
the Borrowing Base; or
(j) impose any greater restriction on the ability of any Lender
to assign any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the written
consent of Lenders having more than 50% of the Aggregate Credit Exposures
then in effect. For purposes of this clause, the aggregate amount of each
Lender's risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations
and Swing Line Loans shall be deemed to be held by such Lender;
and provided further that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in
writing and signed by the L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above,
affect the rights or duties of the L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Issuer
Document 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 the Swing
Line Lender in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or
duties of the Swing Line Lender under this Agreement; (iii) no amendment, waiver
or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by an Agent in addition to the
Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of, or any fees or other
amounts payable to, such Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document;
(iv) Section 11.06(h) 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) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder
waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto. 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
the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended without the
consent of such Lender.
11.02 Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies.
(a) Notices Generally. Except in the case of notices and other
communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as
provided in subsection (b) below), all notices and other communications provided
for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight
courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopier as
follows, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder
to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as
follows:
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(i) if to any Borrower, Holdings, the Administrative Agent, the
L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, to the address, telecopier number,
electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on
Schedule 11.02; and
(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address, telecopier number,
electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its
Administrative Questionnaire.
Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or
registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent
by telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not
given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have
been given at the opening of business on the next business day for the
recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent
provided in subsection (b) below shall be effective as provided in such
subsection (b).
(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications
to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereunder may be delivered or furnished by
electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites)
pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the
foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to
Article II if such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the
Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such
Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent, any Borrower or
Holdings may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other
communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to
procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be
limited to particular notices or communications.
Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices
and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon
the sender's receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as
by the "return receipt requested" function, as available, return e-mail or other
written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other communication is
not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or
communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on
the next business day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications
posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the
deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in
the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is
available and identifying the website address therefor.
(c) Change of Address, Etc. Each of the Borrowers, Holdings,
the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender may change
its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications
hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change
its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications
hereunder by notice to the Borrower Agent, the Administrative Agent, the L/C
Issuer and the Swing Line Lender.
(d) Reliance by Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and Lenders.
The Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders shall be entitled to
rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Loan Notices and Swing Line
Loan Notices) purportedly given by
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or on behalf of any Borrower or Holdings, as the case may be, 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. Each Borrower and Holdings shall indemnify the Administrative Agent,
the L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them 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 Borrowers or
Holdings, as the case may be, except to the extent that such losses, costs,
expenses or liabilities are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a
final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence,
willful misconduct or breach in bad faith of such indemnified parties'
obligations hereunder. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic
communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the
Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such
recording.
11.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by any Lender,
the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such
Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or 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.
11.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
(a) Costs and Expenses. The Borrowers shall pay (i) all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its
Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel
for the Administrative Agent), in connection with the syndication of the credit
facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution,
delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or
any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof
(whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be
consummated); provided that certain out-of-pocket expenses are subject to the
Fee Letter as provided therein, (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
incurred by the L/C Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal
or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and
(iii) after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, all
out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the
L/C Issuer (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer), and shall pay all
reasonable fees and time charges for attorneys of the Administrative Agent, any
Lender or the L/C Issuer, in connection with the enforcement or protection of
its rights in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
including its rights under this Section.
(b) Indemnification by the Borrowers. Each Borrower and Holdings
shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each
Agent, each Lender and the L/C Issuer, and each Related Party of any of the
foregoing Persons (each such Person being
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called an "INDEMNITEE") against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and
all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (including the
reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee),
and shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee from all fees and time
charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of any Indemnitee,
incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party
or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with,
or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other
Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the
performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or
thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the
proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the 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), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials
on or from any property owned or operated by the Borrowers or any of their
Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrowers
or any of their Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim,
litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing,
whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third
party or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party or any of such Borrower's or
such Loan Party's directors, shareholders or creditors, and regardless of
whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto and whether or not any of the
transactions contemplated hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents is
consummated, in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in
part, out of the comparative, contributory or sole negligence of the Indemnitee;
provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to
the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses
(x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and
nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim brought by any Borrower
or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such
Indemnitee's obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if such
Borrower or such Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in
its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(c) Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that the Borrowers
or Holdings for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under
subsection (a) or (b) of this Section (other than amounts due under or in
connection with enforcement of the Fee Letter) to be paid by it to the
Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the L/C Issuer or any Related
Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the
Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or such Related
Party, as the case may be, such Lender's Applicable Percentage (determined as of
the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is
sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or
indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may
be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such
sub-agent) or the L/C Issuer in its capacity as such, or against any Related
Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such
sub-agent) or L/C Issuer in connection with such capacity. The obligations of
the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section
2.12(d).
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(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, neither the Borrowers nor Holdings shall assert,
and each hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of
liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed
to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result
of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument
contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan
or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee referred
to in subsection (b) above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use
by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it
through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems
in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
(e) Payments. All amounts due under this Section shall be
payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.
(f) Survival. The agreements in this Section shall survive the
resignation of the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, the replacement of
any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment,
satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations and Guaranteed
Obligations.
11.05 Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on
behalf of any Borrower is made to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or
any Lender, or the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer 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 the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer 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 shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such
payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender
and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon
demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered
from or repaid by the Administrative 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
Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders
and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the
payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
11.06 Successors and Assigns.
(a) Successors and Assigns Generally. 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
neither the Borrowers nor any other Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer
any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of
the Administrative Agent and each Lender 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 11.06(b), (ii) by way of
participation in accordance with the provisions
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of Section 11.06(d), (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest
subject to the restrictions of Section 11.06(f), or (iv) to an SPC in accordance
with the provisions of Section 11.06(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 subsection (d) of this Section and, to
the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Assignments by Lenders. 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 11.06(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 principal outstanding 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 or, if "Trade Date" is specified in the Assignment
and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $5,000,000 (and
treating assignments by an assignor to multiple Approved Funds as one assignee
for purposes of such minimum assignment amount), unless each of the
Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Borrower Agent otherwise consents (each such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed); (ii) 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 (ii) 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;
(iii) any assignment of a Revolving Credit Commitment must be approved by the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender unless the Person
that is the proposed assignee is itself a Revolving Credit Lender (whether or
not the proposed assignee would otherwise qualify as an Eligible Assignee); and
(iv) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing
and recordation fee of $2,500 (provided that (x) no such fee shall be payable in
the case of assignments to an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such assignor and
(y) only one such fee shall be payable in connection with simultaneous
assignments to or by two or more Approved Funds) and the Eligible Assignee, if
it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an
Administrative Questionnaire. Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, 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
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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 Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05
and 11.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the
effective date of such assignment). Upon request, each 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 subsection 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 11.06(d).
(c) Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this
purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, 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 of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to,
each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the "REGISTER"). The
entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the Agents and
the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register
pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be
available for inspection by each of the Borrower Agent and the L/C Issuer at any
reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. In addition,
at any time that a request for a consent for a material or other substantive
change to the Loan Documents is pending, any Lender may request and receive from
the Administrative Agent a copy of the Register.
(d) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the
consent of, or notice to, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell
participations to any Person (other than a natural person or a Borrower or any
of the Borrowers' Affiliates or Subsidiaries or an Excluded Lender) (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 and/or Swing
Line 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 Borrowers, 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 to approve any amendment,
modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; 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 first proviso to Section 11.01 that directly affects such
Participant. Subject to subsection (e) of this Section, each Borrower agrees
that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04
and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest
by assignment pursuant to Section 11.06(b). To the extent permitted by law, each
Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 11.08 as though it
were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as
though it were a Lender.
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(e) Limitations upon Participant Rights. A Participant shall
not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01 or 3.04 than
the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the
participation sold to such Participant. A Participant that would be a Foreign
Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01
unless the Borrower Agent is notified of the participation sold to such
Participant and such Participant complies with Section 3.01(e) as though it were
a Lender.
(f) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time 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; 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.
(g) Electronic Execution of Assignments. 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.
(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 Agent (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, and (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 or, if it fails to do so, to make such payment to the
Administrative Agent as is required under Section 2.13. Each party hereto hereby
agrees that (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 Borrowers under this Agreement (including its obligations
under Section 3.04), (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. In furtherance of the
foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the
termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one
day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other
senior debt of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other Person
in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency, or liquidation proceeding under the laws of the United States or any
State thereof. Notwithstanding anything to
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the contrary contained herein, any SPC may (i) with notice to the Borrower
Agent, but without prior consent of the Borrowers 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) Resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender after
Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if at any
time Bank of America assigns all of its Commitments and Loans pursuant to
Section 11.06(b), Bank of America may, (i) upon 30 days' notice to the Borrower
Agent and the Lenders, resign as L/C Issuer and/or (ii) upon 30 days' notice to
the Borrower Agent, resign as Swing Line Lender. In the event of any such
resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, the Borrowers shall be entitled
to appoint from among the Lenders a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender
hereunder; provided, however, that no failure by the Borrowers to appoint any
such successor shall affect the resignation of Bank of America as L/C Issuer or
Swing Line Lender, as the case may be. If Bank of America resigns as L/C Issuer,
it shall retain all the rights and obligations of the L/C Issuer hereunder with
respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its
resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto
(including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk
participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c)). If Bank of
America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the
Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing Line Loans made
by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including
the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk
participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c).
11.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality. Each of
the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer agrees to maintain the
confidentiality of the Information, except that Information may be disclosed (a)
to its Affiliates and to its Affiliates' respective partners, directors,
officers, employees, agents, trustees, advisors and representatives (it being
understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of
the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such
Information confidential); (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory
authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it; (c) to the extent required by
applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process; (d)
to any other party to this Agreement; (e) in connection with the exercise of any
remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement
or the enforcement of rights hereunder; (f) subject to an agreement containing
provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 11.07, to (i) any
Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective Eligible Assignee of
or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, (ii)
any pledgee referred to in Section 11.06(f) or (iii) any direct or indirect
contractual counterparty or prospective counterparty (or such contractual
counterparty's or prospective counterparty's professional advisor) to any credit
derivative transaction relating to obligations of the Loan Parties; (g) with the
consent of the Borrower Agent; (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes
publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 11.07 or
(y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or
any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source
other
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than the Borrowers; (i) to any state, Federal or foreign authority or examiner
(including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any other
similar organization) regulating any Lender; or (j) to any rating agency when
required by it (it being understood that, prior to any such disclosure, such
rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any Information
relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Lender). In addition, the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders may disclose the existence
of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to market data
collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry, and service
providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration
and management of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Commitments, and
the Credit Extensions. For the purposes of this Section, "INFORMATION" means all
information received from any Loan Party relating to any Loan Party or its
business, other than any such information that is available to the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis
prior to disclosure by any Loan Party; provided that, in the case of information
received from a Loan Party after the date hereof, such information is clearly
identified in writing at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person
required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this
Section 11.07 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so
if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the
confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own
confidential information.
11.08 Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of their respective
Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all
deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever
currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any
time owing by such Lender, the L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the
credit or the account of any Borrower or any other Loan Party against any and
all of the obligations of any Borrower or such Loan Party now or hereafter
existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or the
L/C Issuer, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall
have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and
although such obligations of such Borrower or such Loan Party may be contingent
or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or the L/C Issuer
different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such
indebtedness. The rights of each Lender, the L/C Issuer and their respective
Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies
(including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, the L/C Issuer or their
respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer agrees to notify
the Borrower Agent and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff
and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect
the validity of such setoff and application.
11.09 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid
under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious
interest permitted by applicable Law (the "MAXIMUM RATE"). If any Agent or any
Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the
excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds
such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrowers. In determining whether the
interest contracted for, charged, or received by an Agent or a Lender exceeds
the Maximum
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Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a)
characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium
rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof,
and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the
total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations
hereunder.
11.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may
be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different
counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when
taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other
Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the
subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and
understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except
as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall
have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent
shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the
signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed
counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy shall be effective
as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
11.11 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All
representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or
other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or
therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such
representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by each Agent
and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by any Agent or any Lender
or on their behalf and notwithstanding that any Agent or any Lender may have had
notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Credit Extension, and
shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other
Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit
shall remain outstanding.
11.12 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the
legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby
and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the
illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic
effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or
unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction.
11.13 Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation
under Section 3.04, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any additional
amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender
pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or if any
other circumstance exists hereunder that gives the Borrowers the right to
replace a Lender as a party hereto or if a Lender has not consented to a waiver
or amendment of any provision hereunder, and a vote of the Required Lenders has
been obtained in connection with such waiver or amendment, then the Borrowers
may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the
Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without
recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in,
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and consents required by, Section 11.06), all of its interests, rights and
obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee
that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a
Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:
(a) the Borrowers shall have paid to the Administrative Agent
the assignment fee specified in Section 11.06(b);
(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal
to the outstanding principal of its Loans and L/C Advances, accrued interest
thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the
assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and
fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts);
(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim
for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to
Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or
payments thereafter; and
(d) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws.
A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or
delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or
otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment
and delegation cease to apply.
11.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.
(a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EACH BORROWER AND EACH OTHER
LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY,
TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING
IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE
PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT
OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK
STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH
FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY
SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER
JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW.
NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT
THAT THE
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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR THE L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING
ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT
AGAINST ANY BORROWER OR ANY OTHER LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF
ANY JURISDICTION.
(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH BORROWER AND EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY
IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF
VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT
OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS
SECTION. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE
MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS
TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 11.02.
NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE
PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW
11.15 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE
TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF
OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS
CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER
THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR
ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH
OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE
FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE
BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG
OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
11.16 USA PATRIOT Act Notice. Agent and Lenders hereby notify
Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, Agent and
Lenders are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies
each Borrower, including its legal name, address, tax ID number and other
information that will allow Agent and Lenders to identify it in accordance with
the Patriot Act. Agent and Lenders will also require information regarding each
personal guarantor, if any, and may require information regarding Borrowers'
management and owners, such as legal name, address, social security number and
date of birth.
11.17 Amendment and Restatement.
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(a) The Borrowers, the Guarantor, the Administrative Agent, the
L/C Issuer and the Lenders hereby agree that upon the effectiveness of this
Agreement, the terms and provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement shall be
and hereby are amended and restated in their entirety by the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and the terms and provisions of the Existing Credit
Agreement, except as otherwise provided in the next paragraph, shall be
superseded by this Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding the amendment and restatement of the
Existing Credit Agreement by this Agreement, ATT and the Guarantor shall
continue to be liable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect
to agreements on the part of ATT and the Guarantor under the Existing Credit
Agreement to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders from and against all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses,
costs, charges and expenses to which the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
may be subject arising in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement. This
Agreement is given as a substitution of, and not as a payment of, the
obligations of the Borrowers under the Existing Credit Agreement and is not
intended to constitute a novation of the Existing Credit Agreement. On the
Closing Date, a portion of the indebtedness issued under the Existing Credit
Agreement shall be allocated among the Lenders in order that after giving effect
thereto Lenders shall have the Revolving Credit Commitments described on
Schedule 2.10. Upon the effectiveness of this Agreement all amounts outstanding
and owing by Borrowers under the Existing Credit Agreement shall constitute
Advances hereunder.
(c) By execution of this Agreement all parties hereto agree that
(i) each of the Collateral Documents and other Loan Documents is hereby amended
such that all references to the Existing Credit Agreement and the Loans
thereunder shall be deemed to refer to this Credit Agreement and the
continuation of the Loans hereunder, (ii) each of the Guaranties is reaffirmed
and (iii) all security interests and liens granted under the Collateral
Documents shall continue and secure the Obligations hereunder and the
obligations of the Guarantor under the Guaranties.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first above written.
BORROWERS:
XXXX TRUE TEMPER, INC., as a Borrower
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Title: President and CEO
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ACORN PRODUCTS, INC., as a Borrower
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Title: President and CEO
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UNIONTOOLS, INC., as a Borrower
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Title: President and CEO
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XXXX TRUE TEMPER PROPERTIES, INC.,
as a Borrower
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Title: President and CEO
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GUARANTOR:
ATT HOLDING CO., as Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Dell
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Title: President and CEO
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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as
Administrative Agent
By: /s/ Bank of America
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Name:
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Title:
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LENDERS:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender, L/C
Issuer and Swing Line Lender
By: /s/ Bank of America
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Name:
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Title:
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