Contract
Exhibit 10.29
EXECUTION VERSION
AMENDMENT NO. 4, dated as of February 14, 2022 (this “Amendment”), to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 1, 2017 (as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 11, 2018, as further amended by Amendment No. 2, dated as of August 26, 2019 and as further amended by Amendment No. 3 dated as of March 26, 2021, the “Existing 2021 Credit Agreement”, and as modified by this Amendment and as further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among TREEHOUSE FOODS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), each lender from time to time party thereto, each L/C Issuer from time to time party thereto, and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”), Swing Line Lender and a L/C Issuer. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment.
The parties hereto have agreed to amend the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement to provide for certain amendments to the terms hereof as agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders party hereto and as further set forth herein.
Accordingly, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
SECTION 1.Amendments to Existing 2021 Credit Agreement. Subject to the conditions to effectiveness set forth in Section 2 below, the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement is amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text) as set forth in the pages of the Credit Agreement attached as Exhibit A hereto.
SECTION 2.Effectiveness. The amendments set forth in Section 1 shall become binding and effective on the parties hereto upon the satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions precedent (the date upon which this Amendment becomes effective, the “Amendment No. 4 Effective Date”):
(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 as of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:
(i)executed counterparts of this Amendment from the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent and Lenders constituting the Required Lenders;
(ii)such customary certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Amendment and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party;
(iii)such documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require and as are customary for transactions of this type to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, validly existing, and in good standing in its jurisdiction of organization; and
(iv)a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 2(b) and 2(c) have been satisfied.
(b)Both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to this Amendment on the date hereof, the representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, are true and correct in all material respects (except, if a qualifier relating to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or a similar concept applies to any representation or warranty, such representation or warranty shall be required to be true and correct in all respects), 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 (except, if a qualifier relating to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or a similar concept applies to any representation or warranty, such representation or warranty shall be required to be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date.
(c)No Default or Event of Default exists, or will result from the execution of this Amendment on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date.
(d)There shall not have occurred since December 31, 2020 any event or circumstance that has had or could be reasonably expected, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(e)All accrued costs, fees and expenses (including reasonable and documented legal fees and expenses and the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of any other advisors) and other compensation payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender required to be paid on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date pursuant to the Amendment No. 4 Fee Letter, to the extent invoiced at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (or such later date as the Borrower may reasonably agree), shall have been paid.
SECTION 3.Representations and Warranties. To induce the other parties hereto to enter into this Amendment, the Borrower and each other Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that, on and as of the date hereof:
(a)The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of this Amendment has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and does not conflict with or result in any material breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under (other than Liens permitted by clause (a) of Section 7.01 of the Credit Agreement), or require any payment to be made under any material Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or its properties or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) violate any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (iv) violate any Law in any material respect.
(b)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 the execution, delivery or performance by any Loan Party of this Amendment except such approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions as have been made or obtained, as applicable, and are in full force and effect.
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(c)This Amendment has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party. Each of this Amendment and the Credit Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general principles of equity.
(d)Both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to this Amendment on the date hereof, the representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, are true and correct in all material respects (except, if a qualifier relating to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or a similar concept applies to any representation or warranty, such representation or warranty shall be required to be true and correct in all respects), 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 (except, if a qualifier relating to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or a similar concept applies to any representation or warranty, such representation or warranty shall be required to be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date.
(e)No Default or Event of Default exists, or will result from the execution of this Amendment on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date.
SECTION 4.Fees; Costs and Expenses. The Borrower agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent for its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses in connection with this Amendment as and to the extent required pursuant to Section 10.04(a) of the Credit Agreement, including the fees, charges and disbursements of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP.
SECTION 5.Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent. Each Lender represents to the Administrative Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis, appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their Affiliates and made its own decisions to enter into this Amendment. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Amendment, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their Affiliates.
SECTION 6.Counterparts. This Amendment 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 Amendment, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent, or any L/C Issuer 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. So long as this Amendment shall have become binding and effective on the parties hereto as of the date hereof in accordance with the provisions of Section 2, delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by any other Lender shall, immediately upon delivery, bind such Lender as a Lender to the terms of this Amendment and this Amendment shall be binding and effective as to such Lender in accordance with Section 2. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or other electronic imaging means (including
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PDF) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in this Agreement 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 applicable state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
SECTION 7.Severability. If any provision of this Amendment, the Credit 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 Amendment, the Credit 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.
SECTION 8.Governing Law. THIS AMENDMENT AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AMENDMENT AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 9.Submission to Jurisdiction. EACH LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT COMMENCE ANY ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND OR DESCRIPTION, WHETHER IN LAW OR EQUITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR IN TORT OR OTHERWISE, AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER, OR ANY RELATED PARTY OF THE FOREGOING IN ANY WAY RELATING TO THIS AMENDMENT, THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, THE COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO, IN ANY FORUM OTHER THAN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS AND AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION 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, LITIGATION 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 AMENDMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AMENDMENT, THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, THE COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
SECTION 10.WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
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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 AMENDMENT, THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, THE COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS, OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN SECTION 9. 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.
SECTION 11.SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02 OF THE EXISTING 2021 CREDIT AGREEMENT. NOTHING IN THIS AMENDMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
SECTION 12.No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates’ understanding, that: (i)(A) the arranging and other services regarding this Amendment provided by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Borrower and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, (B) the Borrower has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) the Borrower is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby, by the Credit Agreement and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) none of the Administrative Agent or any Lender has any obligation to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein, in the Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Borrower and its Affiliates, and none of the Administrative Agent or any Lender has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrower or its Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Borrower hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.
SECTION 13.Headings. The headings of this Amendment are for purposes of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
SECTION 14.Effect of Amendment. Except as expressly set forth herein, this Amendment shall not by implication or otherwise limit, impair, constitute a waiver of, or otherwise affect the rights and remedies of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent or the Loan Parties under the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, and shall not alter, modify, amend or in any way affect any of the terms, conditions, obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, all of which are ratified and affirmed in all respects and shall continue in full force and effect. Nothing herein shall be deemed to entitle any Loan Party to a consent to, or a waiver, amendment, modification or other change of, any of the terms, conditions, obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document in
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similar or different circumstances. Except as expressly set forth herein or in the Credit Agreement, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that this Amendment and all other Loan Documents executed and delivered herewith do not constitute a novation, payment and reborrowing or termination of the Obligations under the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents as in effect prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date. This Amendment shall apply and be effective only with respect to the matters set forth herein. After the date hereof, any reference to the Agreement shall mean the Existing 2021 Credit Agreement, as modified hereby.
SECTION 15.Loan Document. This Amendment shall be a Loan Document for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed by their duly authorized officers, all as of the date and year first above written.
TREEHOUSE FOODS, INC., as Borrower
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
BAY VALLEY FOODS, LLC, as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
XXXXX FOODS, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
S.T. SPECIALTY FOODS, INC., as Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
ASSOCIATED BRANDS, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
TREEHOUSE PRIVATE BRANDS, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
TREEHOUSE FOODS SERVICES, LLC, as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
XXXXXXX QUALITY CHOCOLATES, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
RALCORP FROZEN BAKERY PRODUCTS, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
COTTAGE BAKERY, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
THE CARRIAGE HOUSE COMPANIES, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
AMERICAN ITALIAN PASTA COMPANY, as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
PROTENERGY HOLDINGS, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
PROTENERGY NATURAL FOODS, INC., as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Secretary
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Manduk Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Manduk Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
Bank of the West, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
Bank of Montreal, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
Capital One, National Association, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx XxXxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx XxXxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
Citizens Bank, N.A, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
CoBank, FCB, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx X Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx X Xxxxxx
Title: Assistant Corporate Secretary
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
COMPEER FINANCIAL, PCA, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Director, Capital Markets
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
CREDIT SUISSE AG, NEW YORK BRANCH as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxx
Title: Authorized Signatory
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Authorized Signatory
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
FIFTH THIRD BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
[OTHER LENDERS], as a Lender First Independence Bank
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Chief Operating Officer, EVP
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Title: Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
MUFG Union Bank, N.A., as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Authorized Signatory
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
The Northern Trust Company, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
COOPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
TD Bank N.A., as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
TRUIST BANK, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Director
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
XXXXX FARGO BANK, National Associaton, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxx
Name: Xxxx Xxxx
Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to Amendment No. 4]
Exhibit A
[see attached]
Exhibit A |
Deal CUSIP : 00000XXX0
Revolver CUSIP: 00000XXX0
Term A CUSIP: 00000XXX0
Term A-1 CUSIP: 00000XXX0
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of December 1, 2017,
as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 11, 2018,
as amended by Amendment No. 2, dated as of August 26, 2019 and,
as amended by Amendment No. 3, dated as of March 26, 2021 and
as amended by Amendment No. 4, dated as of February 14, 2022
among
TREEHOUSE FOODS, INC.
as the Borrower,
as the Borrower,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer,
and
The Other Lenders and L/C Issuers Party Hereto
Arranged By:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
BOFA SECURITIES, INC.,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CORP,
TRUIST SECURITIES,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CORP,
TRUIST SECURITIES,
COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH and
COBANK, FCB
as Joint Lead Arrangers, Joint Bookrunners and Co-Syndication Agents
BANK OF THE WEST
CAPITAL ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
FIFTH THIRD BANK,
MUFG UNION BANK, N.A.,
PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, and
TD BANK, N.A.
as Joint Lead Arrangers, Joint Bookrunners and Co-Documentation Agents
as Joint Lead Arrangers, Joint Bookrunners and Co-Documentation Agents
AmericasActive: 15500212.2
CITIZENS BANK
NORTHERN TRUST CO.,
CREDIT SUISSE AG and
FIRST INDEPENDENCE BANK
as Co-Documentation Agents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section | Page |
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 | Defined Terms | 1 | ||||||
1.02 | Other Interpretive Provisions | 55 | ||||||
1.03 | Accounting Terms | 56 | ||||||
1.04 | Rounding | 56 | ||||||
1.05 | Times of Day; Rates | 57 | ||||||
1.06 | Letter of Credit Amounts | 57 | ||||||
1.07 | Divisions | 57 | ||||||
1.08 | Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents | 57 | ||||||
1.09 | Limited Condition Transactions | 57 | ||||||
1.10 | Effect of Restatement | 59 |
ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
2.01 | Revolving Credit Loans and Term Loans | 59 | ||||||
2.02 | Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Committed Loans. | 61 | ||||||
2.03 | Letters of Credit | 63 | ||||||
2.04 | Swing Line Loans | 73 | ||||||
2.05 | Prepayments | 76 | ||||||
2.06 | Termination or Reduction of Commitments | 79 | ||||||
2.07 | Repayment of Loans | 80 | ||||||
2.08 | Interest | 81 | ||||||
2.09 | Fees | 81 | ||||||
2.10 | Computation of Interest and Fees | 82 | ||||||
2.11 | Evidence of Debt | 82 | ||||||
2.12 | Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback | 83 | ||||||
2.13 | Sharing of Payments by Lenders | 85 | ||||||
2.14 | Increase in Commitments | 86 | ||||||
2.15 | Cash Collateral | 89 | ||||||
2.16 | Defaulting Lenders | 90 | ||||||
2.17 | Extensions of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments | 92 | ||||||
2.18 | Refinancing Facilities | 95 |
ARTICLE III.
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
3.01 | Taxes | 98 | ||||||
3.02 | Illegality | 101 | ||||||
3.03 | Inability to Determine Rates | 102 | ||||||
3.04 | Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans | 104 | ||||||
3.05 | Compensation for Losses | 106 | ||||||
3.06 | Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders | 107 | ||||||
3.07 | Survival | 107 |
ARTICLE IV.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
4.01 | Conditions of Initial Credit Extension | 107 | ||||||
4.02 | Conditions to all Credit Extensions | 109 |
ARTICLE V.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
5.01 | Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws | 110 | ||||||
5.02 | Authorization; No Contravention | 110 | ||||||
5.03 | Governmental Authorization; Other Consents | 110 | ||||||
5.04 | Binding Effect | 110 | ||||||
5.05 | Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect | 110 | ||||||
5.06 | Litigation | 111 | ||||||
5.07 | No Default | 111 | ||||||
5.08 | Ownership of Property; Liens | 111 | ||||||
5.09 | Environmental Compliance | 111 | ||||||
5.10 | Insurance | 111 | ||||||
5.11 | Taxes | 111 | ||||||
5.12 | ERISA Compliance | 112 | ||||||
5.13 | Subsidiaries; Equity Interests | 112 | ||||||
5.14 | Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act | 112 | ||||||
5.15 | Disclosure | 113 | ||||||
5.16 | Compliance with Laws | 113 | ||||||
5.17 | Solvency | 113 | ||||||
5.18 | Anti-Terrorism Laws | 113 | ||||||
5.19 | Security Agreement; Pledge Agreement | 114 |
ARTICLE VI.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
6.01 | Financial Statements | 115 | ||||||
6.02 | Certificates; Other Information | 115 |
6.03 | Notices | 117 | ||||||
6.04 | Payment of Taxes | 117 | ||||||
6.05 | Preservation of Existence, Etc. | 117 | ||||||
6.06 | Maintenance of Properties | 118 | ||||||
6.07 | Maintenance of Insurance | 118 | ||||||
6.08 | Compliance with Laws | 118 | ||||||
6.09 | Books and Records | 118 | ||||||
6.10 | Inspection Rights | 118 | ||||||
6.11 | Use of Proceeds | 118 | ||||||
6.12 | Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions | 119 | ||||||
6.13 | Farm Credit Equities | 119 | ||||||
6.14 | Collateral Matters; Guaranty | 120 | ||||||
6.15 | Designation of Subsidiaries | 121 | ||||||
6.16 | Further Assurances | 121 |
ARTICLE VII.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
7.01 | Liens | 122 | ||||||
7.02 | Investments | 124 | ||||||
7.03 | Indebtedness | 127 | ||||||
7.04 | Fundamental Changes | 131 | ||||||
7.05 | Dispositions | 132 | ||||||
7.06 | Restricted Payments | 134 | ||||||
7.07 | Prepayments etc. of Indebtedness | 135 | ||||||
7.08 | Change in Nature of Business; Fiscal Year | 136 | ||||||
7.09 | Transactions with Affiliates | 136 | ||||||
7.10 | Burdensome Agreements | 136 | ||||||
7.11 | Use of Proceeds | 137 | ||||||
7.12 | Financial Covenant | 138 | ||||||
7.13 | Sale and Leaseback Transactions | 138 | ||||||
7.14 | Organizational Documents | 138 |
ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
8.01 | Events of Default | 138 | ||||||
8.02 | Remedies Upon Event of Default | 140 | ||||||
8.03 | Application of Funds | 141 |
ARTICLE IX.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
9.01 | Appointment and Authority | 142 |
9.02 | Rights as a Lender | 143 | ||||||
9.03 | Exculpatory Provisions | 143 | ||||||
9.04 | Reliance by Administrative Agent | 144 | ||||||
9.05 | Delegation of Duties | 144 | ||||||
9.06 | Resignation of Administrative Agent | 144 | ||||||
9.07 | Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders | 145 | ||||||
9.08 | No Other Duties, Etc. | 146 | ||||||
9.09 | Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding | 146 | ||||||
9.10 | Guaranty Matters; Collateral Matters | 148 | ||||||
9.11 | Guaranteed Cash Management Agreements and Guaranteed Hedge Agreements | 149 | ||||||
9.12 | ERISA Matters. | 149 | ||||||
9.13 | Recovery of Erroneous Payments. | 150 |
ARTICLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
10.01 | Amendments, Etc. | 150 | ||||||
10.02 | Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication | 152 | ||||||
10.03 | No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement | 154 | ||||||
10.04 | Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver | 155 | ||||||
10.05 | Payments Set Aside | 156 | ||||||
10.06 | Successors and Assigns | 157 | ||||||
10.07 | Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality | 162 | ||||||
10.08 | Right of Setoff | 163 | ||||||
10.09 | Interest Rate Limitation | 164 | ||||||
10.10 | Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness | 164 | ||||||
10.11 | Survival of Representations and Warranties | 164 | ||||||
10.12 | Severability | 164 | ||||||
10.13 | Replacement of Lenders | 165 | ||||||
10.14 | Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc. | 165 | ||||||
10.15 | Waiver of Jury Trial | 166 | ||||||
10.16 | USA PATRIOT Act Notice | 167 | ||||||
10.17 | No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility | 167 | ||||||
10.18 | Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents | 167 | ||||||
10.19 | Judgment Currency | 168 | ||||||
10.20 | Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions. | 168 | ||||||
10.21 | Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs. | 169 |
SIGNATURES | S-1 |
SCHEDULES
1.01(A) Unrestricted Subsidiaries
1.02 Existing Letters of Credit
2.01 Revolving Credit Commitments and Applicable Percentages
2.01(b)(i) Term A Commitments and Applicable Percentages
2.01(b)(ii) Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitments and Applicable Percentages
5.13 Subsidiaries; Other Equity Investments
6.03(c) ERISA Events
7.01 Existing Liens
7.02(w) Existing Investments
7.03 Existing Indebtedness
10.02 Administrative Agent’s Office; Certain Addresses for Notices
10.06(e) Voting Participants
EXHIBITS
Form of
A Committed Loan Notice
B Swing Line Loan Notice
C-1 Revolving Credit Note
C-2 Term Loan Note
D Compliance Certificate
E Assignment and Assumption
F Guaranty
G Global Intercompany Note
H Solvency Certificate
I Reaffirmation Agreement
J Pledge Agreement
K Security Agreement
L Amendment No. 1 Reaffirmation Agreement
M Amendment No. 3 Reaffirmation Agreement
N Notice of Loan Prepayment
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into as of December 1, 2017, among TREEHOUSE FOODS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”), each L/C Issuer (as defined below) from time to time party hereto and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
On the Restatement Date, the Borrower entered into the 2017 Credit Agreement (as defined below), under which the lenders party thereto made or continued, as applicable, (i) Term A Loans in an initial aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000 (the “Initial 2017 Term A Loans”), (ii) Tranche A-1 Term Loans in an initial aggregate principal amount of $900,000,000 (the “Initial 2017 A-1 Term Loans”) and (iii) Revolving Credit Commitments in an initial aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000 (collectively, the “Existing 2017 Credit Facilities”). Pursuant to that certain Amendment No. 3, dated as of March 26 2021 (“Amendment No. 3”), by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer party thereto and the Lenders party thereto, the parties thereto have agreed to amend the Existing Credit Agreement (as defined below) to provide for (a) an amendment and extension of the Existing Credit Facilities and (b) certain other amendments to the terms hereof as agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders party hereto and as further set forth herein.
Capitalized terms used in the Preliminary Statements and not defined herein shall have the meanings specified in Section 1.01.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“2017 Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of “Existing Credit Agreement.”
“2024 Notes” means the Borrower’s 6.00% senior notes due 2024 issued on January 29, 2016, in the aggregate principal amount of $775,000,000, pursuant to the Base Indenture dated as of March 2, 2010 and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of January 29, 2016.
“2028 Notes” means the Borrower’s 4.00% senior notes due 2028 issued on September 9, 2020, in the aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000, pursuant to the Base Indenture dated as of March 2, 2010 and the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 9, 2020.
“Acquired Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of any Person (a) that is existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged or consolidated with or into, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, and (b) that is not incurred in contemplation of such event.
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“Acquisition” means the acquisition of (a) a controlling equity or other ownership interest in another Person or (b) assets of another Person which constitute all or substantially all of the assets of such Person or of a line or lines of business conducted by such Person.
“Acquisition Compliance Period” means a Test Period in which a Trigger Quarter has occurred.
“Additional Credit Extension Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement (which may be in the form of an amendment and restatement), including an Increase Joinder, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent providing for Incremental Term Loans, Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or Refinancing Term Loans and/or Replacement Revolving Credit Commitments in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
“Administrative Agent” means Bank of America (as defined below) in its capacity as administrative 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 10.02, or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the Lenders.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“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.
“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all of the Lenders.
“Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments” means the Revolving Credit Commitments of all of the Lenders. The amount of the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments in effect on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date is $750,000,000.
“Agreement” means this Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as amended by Amendment No. 1, as amended by Amendment No. 2, as amended by Amendment No. 3, as amended by Amendment No. 4 and as may be further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Amendment No. 1” means the Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 11, 2018, by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.
“Amendment No. 2” means the Amendment No. 2, dated as of August 26, 2019, by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.
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“Amendment No. 3” means the Amendment No. 3, dated as of March 26 2021, by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.
“Amendment No. 4” means the Amendment No. 4, dated as of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.
“Amendment No. 3 CoBank Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated March 2, 2021, between the Borrower and CoBank.
“Amendment No. 1 Effective Date” means June 11, 2018.
“Amendment No. 3 Effective Date” means March 26 2021.
“Amendment No. 4 Effective Date” means February 14, 2022.
“Amendment No. 1 Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated May 30, 2018, among the Borrower, Bank of America and MLPFS.
“Amendment No. 3 Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated March 1, 2021, among the Borrower, Bank of America and BofA.
“Amendment No. 4 Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated February 14, 2022, among the Borrower, Bank of America and BofA.
“Amendment No. 1 Reaffirmation Agreement” means that certain Reaffirmation Agreement, dated as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date and executed by the Guarantors (as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date) pursuant to which such Guarantors reaffirm their obligations under the Guaranty, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit L.
“Amendment No. 3 Reaffirmation Agreement” means that certain Reaffirmation Agreement, dated as of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date and executed by the Loan Parties (as of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date) pursuant to which such Loan Parties reaffirm their obligations under the Guaranty, the Security Agreement and the other Loan Documents, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit M.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.
“Applicable Fee Rate” means, at any time, in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below determined by reference to the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a) or Corporate Rating (whichever results in lower pricing):
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Applicable Fee Rate
Pricing Level | Corporate Rating (S&P/Xxxxx’x) | Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio | Undrawn Commitment Fee | ||||||||
1 | ≥ BBB- / Baa3 | Less than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00 | 0.200% | ||||||||
2 | BB+ / Ba1 | Less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 but greater than 2.00 to 1.00 | 0.225% | ||||||||
3 | BB /Ba2 | Less than or equal to 4.00 to 1.00 but greater than 3.00 to 1.00 | 0.250% | ||||||||
4 | BB- / Ba3 | Less than or equal to 4.50 to 1.00 but greater than 4.00 to 1.00 | 0.300% | ||||||||
5 | < B+ / B1 | Greater than 4.50 to 1.00 | 0.350% |
Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Fee Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of this definition shall be deemed to be in Pricing Level 5 from the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered until the date that is the first Business Day immediately after the date such Compliance Certificate is delivered; provided, further, however, that during the Covenant Relief Period. the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio and the Corporate Rating for purposes of this definition shall be deemed to be in Pricing Level 5. Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Fee Rate resulting from a change in the Corporate Rating shall become effective as set forth in the definition thereof.
“Applicable Percentage” means with respect to any Lender at any time (a) with respect to such Lender’s portion of all of the Facilities, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the sum of (x) the outstanding Term Loans of all Classes held by such Lender at such time and (y) the portion of the Revolving Credit Facility represented by such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time, in each case, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.16 and the penultimate sentence of this paragraph; (b) with respect to such Lender’s portion of the outstanding Term Loans of any Class at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans of such Class held by such Lender at such time, subject to adjustments as provided in Section 2.16; and (c) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Revolving Credit Facility represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.16. If the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuers to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 or if the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of each Facility on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on
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Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.
“Applicable Rate” means, at any time, (a) with respect to the Term Loans of any Class other than the Term A Loans and the Tranche A-1 Term Loans, any percentage(s) per annum set forth in the related Additional Credit Extension Amendment, (b) with respect to the Term A Loans, (i) at all times prior to the establishment of the Quoted Rate Period, the percentages per annum set forth in the chart below based upon the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a) or the Corporate Rating (whichever results in lower pricing) and (ii) at any time after the Quoted Rate Period has been established, the Quoted Rate and (c) with respect to the Tranche A-1 Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Facility, the percentages per annum set forth in the chart below, based upon the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a) or the Corporate Rating (whichever results in lower pricing):
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Applicable Rate
Revolving Credit Facility | Term A Facility | Tranche A-1 Term Facility | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pricing Level | Borrower’s Credit Rating (S&P/Xxxxx’x) | Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio | Euro- dollar Rate + Letter of Credit Fee | Base Rate | Euro- dollar Rate | Base Rate | Euro- dollar Rate | Base Rate | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | ≥ BBB- / Baa3 | Less than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00 | 1.200% | 0.200% | 1.675% | 0.675% | 1.200% | 0.200% | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | BB+ / Ba1 | Less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 but greater than 2.00 to 1.00 | 1.300% | 0.300% | 1.775% | 0.775% | 1.300% | 0.300% | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | BB /Ba2 | Less than or equal to 4.00 to 1.00 but greater than 3.00 to 1.00 | 1.400% | 0.400% | 1.875% | 0.875% | 1.400% | 0.400% | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | BB- / Ba3 | Less than or equal to 4.50 to 1.00 but greater than 4.00 to 1.00 | 1.600% | 0.600% | 2.075% | 1.075% | 1.600% | 0.600% | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | < B+ / B1 | Greater than 4.50 to 1.00 | 1.700% | 0.700% | 2.175% | 1.175% | 1.700% | 0.700% |
Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of this definition shall be deemed to be in Pricing Level 5 from the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered until the date that is the first Business Day immediately after the date such Compliance Certificate is delivered; provided, further, however, that during the Covenant Relief Period. the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio and the Corporate Rating for purposes of this definition shall be deemed to be in Pricing Level 5. Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Corporate Rating shall become effective as set forth in the definition thereof.
“Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage” means with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility at such time.
“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to a Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or holds a Revolving Credit Loan, at such time, (b) with respect to the Term A Facility, the Tranche A-1 Term Facility or any Facility in connection with any Incremental Term Commitment, the Lenders holding a Term A Loan, Tranche A-1 Term Loan or Incremental Term Loan under such Facility, respectively, at such time, (c) with respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i) the applicable L/C Issuer and (ii) if any Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders and (d) with respect to the Swing Line Sublimit, (i) the Swing Line
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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.
“Arrangers” means, collectively, the Revolving Credit Arrangers, the Term A Arrangers and the Tranche A-1 Arrangers.
“Asset Swap” means a concurrent purchase and sale or exchange of Related Business Assets (or assets which prior to their sale or exchange by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries have ceased to be Related Business Assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) between the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided that the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration at least equal to the fair market value (such fair market value to be determined on the date the definitive agreement regarding such transaction was entered into) as determined in good faith by the Borrower.
“Assignee Group” means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
“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 clause (d) of the definition of “Eligible Assignee,” if applicable), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by use of an electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date and without duplication, in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019, and December 31, 2020.
“Available Financial Statements” means the most recently provided financial statements under Section 6.01(a) and (b), and for periods prior to the delivery of financial statements for the applicable period(s), the most recent annual or quarterly financial statements of the Borrower filed with the SEC.
“Availability Period” means, with respect to the Revolving Credit Commitments or any given Class of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the period from and including the Original Closing Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date for such Facility, (b) the date of termination of the Commitments for such Facility pursuant to Section 2.06, and (c) the date of termination of the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and of the obligation of the applicable L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.
“Available Liquidity” means the sum of (a) the Unencumbered Cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, plus (b) to the extent the Borrower has the present ability to satisfy all conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02, the positive
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remainder (if any) of (i) the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments minus (ii) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, rule, regulation or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank of America” means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.
“Bank of the West” means Bank of the West.
“Bankruptcy Default” means an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g).
“Base Rate” means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1%, (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,” and (c) the Eurodollar Rate plus 1.00%. 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 prime 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.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“BMOCM” means BMO Capital Markets Corp. and its successors.
“BofA Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated October 12, 2017, among the Borrower, Bank of America and MLPFS.
“BofA” means BofA Securities, Inc. and its successors.
“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
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“Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Swing Line Borrowing or a Term Borrowing, as the context may require.
“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 that is also a London Banking Day.
“Capital One” means Capital One, National Association and its successors.
“Capitalized Lease” means any lease that has been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as a capitalized lease.
“Canadian Dollar” means lawful money of Canada.
“Canadian Dollar Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in Canadian Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Canadian Dollars with Dollars.
“Captive Insurance Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is subject to regulation as an insurance company (or any Subsidiary thereof).
“Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender (as applicable) and the Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations, Obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans, or obligations of Lenders to fund participations in respect of either thereof (as the context may require), cash or deposit account balances or, if the applicable L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender benefitting from such collateral shall agree in its sole discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance satisfactory to (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender (as applicable).
“Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.
“Cash Consideration Requirement” has the meaning specified in Section 7.05(no).
“Cash Equivalents” means:
(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) commercial paper rated as described in clause
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(c) of this definition, (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000, or (iv) has combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000 and a Thomson Bank Watch Rating of “B” or better, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days 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;
(d) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted 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 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; and
(e) solely with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Foreign Subsidiary, (x) such local currencies in those countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary transacts business from time to time in the ordinary course of business and (y) Investments of comparable tenor and credit quality to those described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (d) customarily utilized in countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary operates for short term cash management purposes.
“Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card (including purchasing and commercial cards, prepaid cards, including payroll, stored value and gift cards, and merchant services processing), electronic funds transfer, supply chain financing and other cash management arrangements.
“Cash Management Bank” means any Person that, (a) at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, (b) at the time it (or its Affiliate) becomes a Lender, is a party to a Cash Management Agreement with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary, or (c) has entered into a Cash Management Agreement with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary prior to the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date and is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, in each case, in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Restatement Date, 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, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
“CFC” means a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code.
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“Change of Control” means an event or series of events by which:
(a) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, 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) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the equity securities of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis; or
(b) during any period of 12 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the Borrower 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.
“Class” (a) when used with respect to Lenders, refers to whether such Lenders are Lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility or Lenders holding a portion of a Class of Term Loans, (b) when used with respect to Commitments, refers to whether such Commitments are Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments that are designated as an additional Class of Commitments, Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, Replacement Revolving Commitments that are designated as an additional Class of Commitments, Term A Commitments, Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitments, or Incremental Term Commitments, and (c) when used with respect to Loans or a Borrowing, refers to whether such Loans, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Credit Loans, Revolving Credit Loans under Extended Revolving Credit Commitments that are designated as an additional Class of Revolving Credit Loans, Replacement Revolving Commitments that are designated as an additional Class of Revolving Credit Loans, Term A Loans, Tranche A-1 Term Loans, Extended Term Loans that are designated as an additional Class of Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans that are designated as an additional Class of Term Loans or Refinancing Term Loans that are designated as an additional Class of Term Loans. Revolving Credit Commitments, Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Term A Commitments, Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitments, or Incremental Term Commitments (and in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) and Extended Term Loans or any tranche of Loans created pursuant to a Credit Agreement Refinancing Facility that have different terms and conditions shall be construed to be in different Classes. Commitments (and, in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) and Extended Term Loans that have the same terms and conditions shall be construed to be in the same Class.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“CoBank” means CoBank, ACB and its successors.
“CoBank Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated October 23, 2017, between the Borrower and CoBank.
“Collateral” means all of the “Collateral” or other similar term referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property that is or is intended or purports under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
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“Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at all times on and after the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, subject to (x) the applicable limitations set forth in this Agreement and/or any other Loan Document and (y) the time periods (and extensions thereof) set forth in Section 6.14 and, to the extent applicable, Section 6.16, the requirement that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered (x) on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date pursuant to 2(a)(ii) and (iii) of Amendment No. 1 or (y) pursuant to Section 6.14 or, to the extent applicable, Section 6.16 at such time required by such Section to be delivered, in each case, duly executed by each Loan Party that is party thereto;
(b) all Obligations shall have been unconditionally guaranteed by each Domestic Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary);
(c) except to the extent otherwise provided hereunder or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a perfected security interest, subject to no Liens other than the Liens permitted under Section 7.01, in all Equity Interests of each wholly-owned Material Subsidiary directly owned by the Borrower or any Loan Party (which security interest, in the case of Equity Interests ordinarily entitled to vote (for U.S. federal income tax purposes) of any Foreign Subsidiary or any Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company shall be limited to 65% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests ordinarily entitled to vote (for U.S. federal income tax purposes) of such Foreign Subsidiary or Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, as the case may be), in each case other than any Excluded Equity Interests; and
(d) except to the extent otherwise provided hereunder or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a perfected security interest, subject to no Liens other than the Liens permitted under Section 7.01, in the Collateral, in each case, with the priority required by the Collateral Documents, to the extent required under, and subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Agreement and the Collateral Documents.
The foregoing definition shall not require, and the Loan Documents shall not contain any requirements as to, the creation or perfection of pledges of or security interests in, any Excluded Assets.
The Administrative Agent may grant extensions of time for the perfection of security interests in particular assets and the delivery of assets where it reasonably determines, in consultation with the Borrower, that perfection cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents.
No actions required by the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction shall be required in order to create any security interests in any assets or to perfect or make enforceable such security interests (including any intellectual property registered in any non-U.S. jurisdiction) (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements governed under the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction or any requirement to make any filings in any foreign jurisdiction including with respect to foreign intellectual property). No actions shall be required with respect to assets requiring perfection through control agreements or perfection by “control” (as defined in the UCC) (other than in respect of Indebtedness for borrowed money
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(other than intercompany Indebtedness) owing to the Loan Parties evidenced by a note in excess of $5,000,000, Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party that is owing to any Loan Party (which shall be evidenced by the Global Intercompany Note and pledged to the Administrative Agent) and certificated Equity Interests of wholly owned Restricted Subsidiaries that are Material Subsidiaries otherwise required to be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement to the extent required under clause (c) above).
Any Domestic Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) that is formed, acquired or designated a Restricted Subsidiary (or ceases to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary) shall guarantee the Obligations hereunder as soon as practicable, and in any event, within thirty (30) days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may reasonably agree in its sole discretion) of such formation, acquisition, designation or cessation.
“Collateral Documents” means the Security Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, the Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements and any other documents delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.14, and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or intends 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, an Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, a Replacement Revolving Credit Commitment, a Term A Commitment, a Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitment and/or an Incremental Term Loan Commitment.
“Committed Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing and/or a Term Borrowing, as the context may require.
“Committed Loan” means a Revolving Credit Loan and/or a Term Loan, as the context may require.
“Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Committed Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Committed Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A (or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Communication” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
“Consolidated Domestic Assets” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the net book value of all assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries less (b) the net book value of all assets of Foreign Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower, in each case, on such date determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any Test Period, the Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period:
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(a) increased (without duplication) by the following:
(i) provision for taxes based on income or profits or capital, including, without limitation, state, franchise and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries paid or accrued during such Test Period, including any penalties and interest relating to any tax examinations, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(ii) consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period (including (x) fees paid to lenders in connection with Indebtedness, (y) payments made under any Swap Contracts entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk and (z) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities) and any amortization or write-off of debt discount or deferred financing costs and commissions, discounts and other fees, costs and expenses and charges associated with indebtedness during such Test Period net of payments received under any Swap Contracts entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(iii) consolidated depreciation and amortization expense of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(iv) any expenses related to the Transactions and any other expenses or charges related to any equity offering, Investment, Acquisition, Disposition or recapitalization permitted hereunder or the incurrence of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under this Agreement (including a refinancing thereof) (in each case, whether or not successful), including (A) such fees, expenses or charges related to the Loans and any other credit facilities and (B) any amendment or other modification of the Loans and any other credit facility or issuance of Indebtedness, in each case, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(v) the amount of any extraordinary loss, charge or expense deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(vi) the amount of any (A) unusual or nonrecurring loss, charge or expense deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income and (B) restructuring charge or reserve, integration cost or other business optimization expense or cost associated with establishing new facilities that is deducted (and not added back) in such Test Period in computing Consolidated Net Income, including any one-time costs incurred in connection with Acquisitions on and after the Initial Restatement Date, and costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities; provided that the aggregate amount added back pursuant to this clause (vi)(B) and any increase to Consolidated EBITDA as a result of clause (b) of the definition of Pro Forma Adjustment (other than as a result of an actual increase in revenues or an actual reduction in costs) for any Test Period shall not exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period (before giving effect to such adjustments); plus
(vii) any other non-cash charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items reducing Consolidated Net Income for such Test Period including any impairment charges (including any goodwill or other intangible asset impairment charge or write-off thereof) or the impact of purchase accounting, (excluding any such non-cash charge, write-down, expense, loss or item to the extent it represents an accrual or reserve for a cash expenditure for a future Test Period ); plus
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(viii) the amount of “run-rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies projected by the Borrower in good faith and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent to result from actions either taken or initiated prior to or during the period referred to in clause (y)(1) below (which cost savings and synergies shall be subject only to certification by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies had been realized on the first day of such Test Period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized prior to or during such Test Period from such actions; provided that (A) a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall have certified to the Administrative Agent that (x) such cost savings and synergies are reasonably identifiable and (y) (1) such actions have been taken or are expected to be taken within twenty-four (24) months after the date of determination to take such action (and such date of determination has occurred prior to or during the relevant period being measured) and (2) are expected to result in such projected savings, expense reductions and synergies within such twenty-four (24) month period, (B) no cost savings, expense reductions or synergies shall be added pursuant to this clause (viii) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges relating to such cost savings that are included in clause (vi) above with respect to such Test Period and (C) the aggregate amount added back pursuant to this clause (viii) and any increase to Consolidated EBITDA as a result of clause (b) of the Pro Forma Adjustment (other than as a result of an actual increase in revenues or an actual reduction in costs) for any Test Period shall not exceed 20% of Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period (before giving effect to such adjustments); plus
(ix) cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenditures) not representing Consolidated EBITDA or Consolidated Net Income in any Test Period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such income were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to paragraph (b) below for any previous Test Period and not added back; plus
(x) realized foreign exchange losses, including those resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent deducted (and not added back) in the computation of Consolidated Net Income; plus
(xi) net realized losses from Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standard Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements to the extent deducted (and not added back) in the computation of Consolidated Net Income; plus
(xii) [Reserved]
(xiii) any (A) non-cash compensation charge or expense arising from any grant of stock, stock options, stock appreciation rights or other equity based awards and any non-cash deemed finance charges in respect of any pension liabilities or other provisions and (B) income (loss) attributable to deferred compensation plans or trusts, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in the computation of Consolidated Net Income; plus
(xiv) any after-tax effect of income (loss) from the early extinguishment or cancellation of Indebtedness or any obligations under any Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments to the extent deducted (and not added back) in the computation of Consolidated Net Income; plus
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(xv) accruals and reserves that are established within twelve months after the Restatement Date that are so required to be established as a result of the Transactions in accordance with GAAP to the extent deducted (and not added back) in the computation of Consolidated Net Income; plus
(xvi) to the extent not included in Consolidated Net Income for such Test Period, proceeds of business interruption insurance, in an amount actually received during such Test Period (or, to the extent relating to such Test Period, prior to the earlier of (A) the date on which financial statements have been delivered for the most recently ended fiscal quarter in such Test Period and (B) the date for which financial statements are required to have been delivered for the most recently ended fiscal quarter in such Test Period; provided, that amounts not received during such Test Period and included in Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period will not be included in Consolidated EBITDA for any subsequent Test Period) and to the extent representing the earnings for the applicable Test Period that such proceeds are intended to replace; plus
(xvii) to the extent not otherwise excluded from the Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (A) any expenses and charges that are reimbursed by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any Investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other Disposition of assets permitted hereunder and (B) (x) to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or (y) so long as the Borrower has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (1) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (2) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent so denied within 180 days or not so reimbursed within such 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption (provided that, in the case of clause (A) and (B)(x), such reimbursement is not included in Consolidated Net Income in such Test Period or any subsequent Test Period, and in the case of clause (B)(y), any such subsequent reimbursement will not be included in Consolidated Net Income in such Test Period or any subsequent Test Period);
(b) increased or decreased (without duplication) by, as applicable, any adjustments resulting from the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 460 or any comparable regulation;
(c) increased or decreased (to the extent not already included in determining Consolidated EBITDA) by any Pro Forma Adjustment; and
(d) reduced by any extraordinary, non-recurring or unusual gain, income related to the early extinguishment of indebtedness, unrealized net gains in the fair market value of any swap agreements, non-cash gains or items of income and foreign exchange gains.
There shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any Test Period, without duplication, (a) the acquired EBITDA of any person, property, business or asset acquired by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such Test Period (but not the acquired EBITDA of any related person, property, business or assets to the extent not so acquired), to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary during such Test Period, and the acquired EBITDA of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such Test Period, based on the actual acquired EBITDA of such acquired entity or business or converted Restricted Subsidiary for such Test Period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such
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acquisition) and (b) an adjustment in respect of each acquired entity or business equal to the amount of the Pro Forma Adjustment with respect to such acquired entity or business for such Test Period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition) as specified in a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer and delivered to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent. For purposes of determining the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio or the Secured Net Leverage Ratio, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any Test Period the disposed Consolidated EBITDA of or attributable to any person, property, business or asset (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such Test Period and the Consolidated EBITDA of or attributable to any Restricted Subsidiary that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such Test Period, based on the actual Consolidated EBITDA of or attributable to such sold entity or business or the actual Consolidated EBITDA of or attributable to any converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for such Test Period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer, disposition or conversion).
“Consolidated Funded Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination and without duplication, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date, determined on a consolidated basis, with respect to (a) the outstanding principal amount of all obligations, whether current or long term, for borrowed money, including, without limitation, (i)(x) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans and (y) the maximum amount of all drawn and unreimbursed Letters of Credit and letters of credit issued or created for the account of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (b) all obligations for the deferred purchase price of property or services other than (x) trade payables arising in the ordinary course of business and (y) contingent earn-outs, hold-backs and other deferred payment of consideration in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, (c) all obligations in respect of Capitalized Leases and (d) all Guarantees with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through (c) above of Persons other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case with respect to clauses (a) through (c) above, that would be required to be shown as debt or capital lease obligations on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower prepared in accordance with GAAP.
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“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, the net income of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for that period (and in any event excluding the income (or loss) of any Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided, that amounts included in net income actually received in cash by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries as a dividend or similar distribution from an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be included).
“Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date minus all Unencumbered Cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to such date.
“Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of any date of determination, the net book value of all assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) on such date determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (calculated in each case as of the most recent date for which there are Available Financial Statements).
“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.
“Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Corporate Rating” means, as of any date, the corporate credit and/or corporate family rating assigned by the Rating Agencies with respect to the Borrower. For purposes of the foregoing: (i) if the ratings established by the Rating Agencies for the Borrower shall fall within the same Pricing Level, the Applicable Rate and Applicable Fee Rate shall be determined by reference to such Pricing Level, (ii) if each Rating Agency shall have in effect a rating for the Borrower and such ratings shall fall within different Pricing Levels, the Applicable Rate and Applicable Fee Rate shall be based on (a) the higher of the two ratings if one rating is one Pricing Level lower than the other, (b) the Pricing Level that is one Pricing Level below that of the higher rating if one rating is two Pricing Levels lower than the other and (c) one Pricing Level higher than the lower rating if one rating is more than two Pricing Levels lower than the other, (iii) if only one Rating Agency shall have in effect a rating for the Borrower, the Applicable Rate and Applicable Fee Rate shall be determined by reference to the Pricing Level in which such rating falls, (iv) if no Rating Agency shall have in effect a rating for the Borrower (other than by reason of the circumstances referred to in the penultimate sentence of this definition), then each Rating Agency shall be deemed to have established a rating in Pricing Xxxxx 0, (v) if at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, then each Rating Agency shall be deemed to have established a rating in Pricing Level 4 and (vi) if the ratings established or deemed to have been established by a Rating Agency for the Borrower shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating system of such Rating Agency), such change shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by the applicable Rating Agency, irrespective of when notice of such change shall have been furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent. Each change in the Applicable Rate and Applicable Fee Rate shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. If the rating system of any Rating Agency shall change, or if any Rating Agency shall cease to be in the business of rating
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corporate obligors, the Borrower and the Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend the definition of the Applicable Rate and Applicable Fee Rate to reflect such changed rating system or the unavailability of ratings from such Rating Agency and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Rate and Applicable Fee Rate shall, at the option of the Borrower, be determined (i) as set forth above using the rating from such Rating Agency most recently in effect prior to such change or cessation or (ii) disregarding the rating from such Rating Agency.
“Covenant Relief Period” means the period commencing on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date through the Covenant Relief Period Termination Date.
“Covenant Relief Period Termination Date” means the date of delivery of the Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(a) for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2022 demonstrating compliance for such fiscal quarter with the covenant set forth in Section 7.12 on such date.
“Credit Agreement Refinancing Facilities” means (a) with respect to any Class of Revolving Credit Commitments or Revolving Credit Loans, Replacement Revolving Credit Commitments or Replacement Revolving Loans and (b) with respect to any Class of Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans.
“Credit Agreement Refinancing Facility Lenders” means a Lender with a Replacement Revolving Credit Commitment or Refinancing Term Loans.
“Credit Extension” means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
“Credit Party” has the meaning specified in Section 9.13.
“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.
“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means (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 under the applicable Facility or if not related to a particular Facility, the highest Applicable Rate then applicable to Base Rate Loans hereunder plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan or Quoted 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% per annum, and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Rate for the Revolving Credit Facility plus 2% per annum.
“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.16(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii)
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pay to the Administrative Agent, the applicable L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-in Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.16(b)) as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, each L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and each other Lender promptly following such determination.
“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the fair market value (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) of non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with a Disposition pursuant to Section 7.05(no) that is designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, setting forth the basis of such valuation (which amount will be reduced by the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale or conversion of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration to cash or Cash Equivalents).
“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of any property by any Person, including (i) any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith, (ii) the issuance of Equity Interests in any Subsidiary owned directly by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Person other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Disqualified Equity Interests permitted to be issued under Section 7.03 or directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required under applicable Laws) and (iii) any disposition of property to a Division.
“Disqualified Equity Interest” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the
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happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date in effect at the time of issuance of such Equity Interest (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale or as a result of the bankruptcy, insolvency or similar event of the issuer thereof so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event or bankruptcy, insolvency or similar event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable).
“Disqualified Institution” means (a) competitors of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that are in the same or a similar line of business and, in each case, identified in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time, which identification shall (i) be effective after the third (3rd) Business Day after such list or supplement thereto has been posted to the Lenders and (ii) not apply retroactively for any purpose, including to disqualify any Persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation interest in any Loans and/or Commitments (each such entity, a “Competitor”) and (b) Affiliates of Competitors to the extent such Affiliates (i) are clearly identifiable on the basis of such Affiliates’ names or designated in writing by the Borrower from time to time and (ii) are not bona fide debt funds or investment vehicles that are engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business with appropriate information barriers in place; provided, however, that a list of Disqualified Institutions identified above shall be made available to all Lenders upon request to the Administrative Agent (it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with Section 10.06 hereof).
“Dividing Person” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of “Division.”
“Division” means the division of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations of a Person (the “Dividing Person”) among two or more Persons (whether pursuant to a “plan of division” or similar arrangement), which may or may not include the Dividing Person and pursuant to which the Dividing Person may or may not survive.
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Dollar Equivalent” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in Canadian Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with Canadian Dollars.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United States.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a Subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
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“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Electronic Copy” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Electronic Record” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Electronic Signature” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Eligible Assignee” means, with respect to any Facility (a) a Lender under such Facility; (b) an Affiliate of a Lender under such Facility; (c) an Approved Fund; and (d) any other Person approved by (i)(A) the Administrative Agent and (B), with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the L/C Issuers and the Swing Line Lender, and (ii) unless a Payment Default or Bankruptcy Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment, the Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten (10) Business Days after having received notice thereof); provided, however, that the Borrower’s consent shall not be required for assignments of the Loans to lenders identified by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower on or prior to the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date during the primary syndication of the Loans, which shall end on the date that is sixty (60) days after the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date; provided further that notwithstanding the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include (w) the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries, (x) any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons described in this clause (x), (y) a natural person or a trust for the benefit of a natural person or (z) any Disqualified Institution.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, judgments, orders, decrees, permits or licenses 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, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Equity 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
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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.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and, for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code, Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code).
“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan that could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; (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; (f) the imposition of any material liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; (g) the determination that any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered or critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA; or (h) a failure by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to meet all applicable requirements under the Pension Funding Rules in respect of a Pension Plan, whether or not waived, or the failure by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time to time.
“Eurodollar Rate” means,
(a) for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or a comparable or successor rate, which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on the applicable Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; and
(b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR, at or about 11:00 a.m., London time, determined two London Banking Days prior to such date for U.S. Dollar deposits with a term of one month commencing that day; and
(c) if the Eurodollar Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement;
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provided that to the extent a comparable or successor rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection herewith, the approved rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided, further, that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such approved rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed that all of the terms and conditions of this definition of “Eurodollar Rate” shall be subject to Section 3.03.
“Eurodollar Rate Loan” means a Committed Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) (and subject to clause (c)) of the definition of “Eurodollar Rate.”
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
“Excluded Assets” means:
(a) (x) any fee-owned real property and (y) any real property leasehold rights and interests (it being understood there shall be no requirement to obtain any landlord or other third party waivers, estoppels or collateral access letters);
(b) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title;
(c) letter of credit rights (other than to the extent consisting of supporting obligations that can be perfected solely by the filing of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement (it being understood that no actions shall be required to perfect a security interest in letter of credit rights other than filing of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement));
(d) commercial tort claims that in the reasonable determination of the Borrower, are not expected to result in a judgment in excess of $5,000,000;
(e) assets to the extent the pledge thereof or grant of security interests therein (x) is prohibited or restricted by applicable Law, rule or regulation, (y) would cause the destruction, invalidation or abandonment of such asset under applicable Law, rule or regulation, or (z) requires any consent, approval, license or other authorization of any third party or Governmental Authority (excluding any prohibition or restriction that is ineffective under the Uniform Commercial Code);
(f) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations, to the extent a security interest in any such license, franchise, charter or authorization is prohibited or restricted thereby (excluding any prohibition or restriction that is ineffective under the Uniform Commercial Code);
(g) Excluded Equity Interests;
(h) any lease, license or agreement, or any property subject to a purchase money security interest, Capitalized Lease obligation or similar arrangement, in each case to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement or purchase money or similar arrangement or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than any Borrower or a Guarantor) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, other than proceeds and receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Uniform Commercial Code notwithstanding such prohibition;
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(i) any assets to the extent a security interest in such assets would result in material adverse Tax consequences as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent;
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(j) any trademark application filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on the basis of the applicant’s intent-to-use such trademark, unless and until evidence of use of the trademark has been filed with, and accepted by, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to Section 1(c) or Section 1(d) of the Xxxxxx Act (15 X.X.X. §0000, et seq.), to the extent that granting a security interest in such trademark application prior to such filing and acceptance would adversely affect the enforceability or validity of such trademark application or the resulting trademark registration;
(k) assets where the cost of obtaining a security interest therein is excessive in relation to the practical benefit to the Lenders afforded thereby as reasonably determined in good faith between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent;
(l) any property (and any related rights and any related assets) subject to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction permitted under this Agreement;
(m) notes and other Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount less than $5,000,000 individually and $10,000,000 in the aggregate;
(n) any acquired property (including property acquired through Acquisition or merger of another entity) if at the time of such Acquisition the granting of a security interest therein or the pledge thereof is prohibited by any contract or other agreement (in each case, not created in contemplation thereof) to the extent and for so long as such contract or other agreement prohibits such security interest or pledge (excluding any prohibition or restriction that is ineffective under the Uniform Commercial Code); and
(o) accounts receivable and related supporting obligations and books and records subject to Liens securing any Permitted Securitization Facility.
“Excluded Equity Interest” means (a) margin stock, (b) Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary that is not directly owned by the Borrower or any Loan Party, (c) Equity Interests ordinarily entitled to vote (for U.S. federal income tax purposes) of any Material Subsidiary that is a wholly-owned Foreign Subsidiary or Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company directly owned by the Borrower or any other Loan Party in excess of 65% of such Material Subsidiary’s issued and outstanding Equity Interests ordinarily entitled to vote (for U.S. federal income tax purposes), (d) Equity Interests of any Domestic Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect subsidiary of a (i) CFC, (ii) Foreign Subsidiary or (iii) Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, (e) any Equity Interest to the extent the pledge thereof would be prohibited by any Law or contractual obligation (excluding any prohibition or restriction that is ineffective under the Uniform Commercial Code), (f) any Equity Interests with respect to which the Borrower and the Administrative Agent have reasonably determined that the cost or other consequences (including material adverse Tax consequences) of pledging or perfecting a security interest in such Equity Interests are excessive in relation to the benefit to the Secured Parties of the security to be afforded thereby, (g) Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary; (h) Equity Interests of any Captive Insurance Subsidiary; (i) Equity Interests of any not for profit Subsidiary; (j) Equity Interests of any special purpose securitization vehicle (or similar entity); (k) Equity Interests of any Person other than wholly-owned Subsidiaries to the extent such Person is prohibited by its Organization Documents from pledging its Equity Interests (excluding any prohibition or restriction that is ineffective under the Uniform Commercial Code); and (l) any other Equity Interests that constitute Excluded Assets.
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“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, (b) any Foreign Subsidiary, (c) any Domestic Subsidiary (i) that is a direct or indirect subsidiary of a CFC or (ii) that is a Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, (d) any Subsidiary, including any regulated entity, that is prohibited or restricted by applicable Law or by contractual obligation existing on the Restatement Date (or, with respect to any Subsidiary acquired by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Restatement Date (and so long as such contractual obligation was not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition), on the date such Subsidiary is so acquired) from providing a Guaranty, or if such Guaranty would require governmental (including regulatory) or third party consent, approval, license or authorization, (e) any bankruptcy remote special purpose securitization vehicle (or similar entity), (f) any Captive Insurance Subsidiary designated by the Borrower, (g) any not for profit Subsidiary, (h) any Immaterial Subsidiary, (i) each Unrestricted Subsidiary, (j) any Restricted Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition with Indebtedness assumed pursuant to Section 7.03(d) to the extent such Restricted Subsidiary would be prohibited from providing the Guaranty, or consent would be required (that has not been obtained), pursuant to the terms of such Indebtedness, (k) any Subsidiary with respect to which the Guaranty would result in material adverse Tax consequences as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent and (l) any other Subsidiary with respect to which the Administrative Agent and the Borrower reasonably agree that the burden or cost of providing the Guaranty shall outweigh the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranty thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to Section 14 of the Guaranty and any other “keepwell, support or other agreement” for the benefit of such Guarantor and any and all guarantees of such Guarantor’s Swap Obligations by other Loan Parties) at the time the Guaranty of such Guarantor, or a grant by such Guarantor of a security interest, becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranty or security interest is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by its net income (however denominated), branch profits Taxes and franchise Taxes imposed on it, in each case, by the 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 which it is otherwise doing business (other than jurisdictions in which such Person is doing business solely as a result of this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or any Loan made by it) 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 the Borrower is located, (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 10.13), 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
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inability 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 the Borrower with respect to such withholding Tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a), (d) in the case of any Lender other than a Foreign Lender, any backup withholding Tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party hereto or is attributable to such Lender’s failure or inability to comply with Section 3.01(e) and (e) any Taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA.
“Existing Credit Agreement” means that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 1, 2017 (the “2017 Credit Agreement”) (as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 11, 2018, as further amended by Amendment No. 2, dated as of August 26, 2019 and as further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof), among the Borrower, the lenders party thereto, the L/C issuers party thereto and Bank of America as administrative agent, an L/C issuer and swing line lender.
“Existing Letters of Credit” means the Letters of Credit set forth on Schedule 1.02.
“Existing Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.211.10(b).
“Existing Revolving Credit Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 10.211.10(b).
“Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).
“Extended Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).
“Extending Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).
“Extending Term Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).
“Extension” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).
“Extension Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).
“Facility” means (a) the Term A Facility, (b) the Tranche A-1 Facility, (c) any other Class of Term Loans or Term Loan Facility or (d) the Revolving Credit Facility, as the context may require; and “Facilities” means all of them.
“Farm Credit Equities” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(a).
“Farm Credit Lender” means a lending institution organized and existing pursuant to the provisions of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended and under the regulation of the Farm Credit Administration.
“FASB ASC” means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not
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materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471 (b) (1) of the Code and any Laws or official agreement implementing an official governmental agreement with respect thereto.
“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the federal funds effective rate; 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.
“Fifth Third” means Fifth Third Bank, National Association.
“Fixed Incremental Amount” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Incremental Cap”.
“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes (including such a Lender when acting in the capacity of an L/C Issuer). 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 Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, a State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company” means any Subsidiary of any Person that (x) has no material assets other than (1) Equity Interest of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries at least one of which is a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code and (2) intercompany loans/receivables owed to such Subsidiary by one or more Subsidiaries described in clause (1), (y) no material liabilities other than those reasonably relating to the assets described in clauses (1) and (2) above and as contemplated by clause (z) below and (z) is not a guarantor of any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary other than as permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(t)(iii).
“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, (a) with respect to the applicable L/C Issuer, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the outstanding L/C Obligations other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) with respect to the Swing Line Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of Swing Line Loans other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.
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“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 activities.
“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.
“Global Intercompany Note” means the intercompany note, dated as of the Restatement Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit G executed by the Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary.
“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 10.06(g).
“Group Member” means the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“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 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 stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
“Guaranteed Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Cash Management Bank.
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“Guaranteed Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract that is entered into by and between any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Hedge Bank.
“Guaranteed Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05.
“Guarantors” means, each of the existing wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) of the Borrower that is a Material Subsidiary who (i) is a party to the Security Agreement on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date and is a party to the Guaranty as of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date and (ii) following such dates, as applicable, becomes a Guarantor pursuant to a Guaranty Joinder Agreement or other documentation in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in each case, together with their respective successors and permitted assigns. In addition, any wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary that executes a Guaranty Joinder Agreement and satisfies the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall also be a Guarantor of the Obligations hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Subsidiary that is a “Guarantor” of the Senior Notes, any Incremental Equivalent Debt, Permitted External Refinancing Debt, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and/or any Permitted Refinancing thereof (and successive Permitted Refinancings) shall be a Guarantor of the Obligations hereunder.
“Guaranty” means the Amended and Restated Guaranty, dated as of February 1, 2016, made by the Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Guaranteed Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit F, as amended and reaffirmed by the Reaffirmation Agreement, the Amendment No. 1 Reaffirmation Agreement and the Amendment No. 3 Reaffirmation Agreement, together with each Guaranty Joinder Agreement.
“Guaranty Joinder Agreement” means each Guaranty Joinder Agreement substantially in the form thereof attached to the Guaranty, executed and delivered by a Guarantor to the Administrative Agent under the Guaranty pursuant to Section 6.14.
“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, (a) at the time it enters into a Swap Contract, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, (b) at the time it (or its Affiliate) becomes a Lender, is a party to a Swap Contract not prohibited under Article VI or VII or (c) has entered into a Swap Contract with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary prior to the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date and is a Lender of an Affiliate of a Lender on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, in each case, in its capacity as a party to such Swap Contract.
“ICC” has the meaning specified in the definition of “UCP”.
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means any Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Material Subsidiary.
“Increase Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.14(b).
“Increase Joinder” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.14(c).
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“Incremental Cap” means the sum of (a) an unlimited amount if, after giving effect to the incurrence of any Incremental Facilities (which for this purpose will be deemed to include the full amount of any (x) Incremental Revolving Facility or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments assuming the full amount of such facility or commitment was drawn or (y) Incremental Facility consisting of delayed draw facilities) and after giving effect to any Permitted Acquisition, other Investment, or any sale, transaction or other Disposition or any incurrence of Indebtedness or repayment of Indebtedness consummated concurrently therewith, the Borrower has, on a Pro Forma Basis, (i) with respect to any secured Incremental Equivalent Debt, a Secured Net Leverage Ratio equal to or less than 3.50:1.00 and (ii) with respect to any Incremental Facility or Incremental Equivalent Debt, a Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio equal to or less than 4.50:1.00, in the case of each of clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii), as of the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which there are Available Financial Statements (such amount, the “Ratio Incremental Amount”); provided that, for purposes of clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii), Consolidated Funded Indebtedness shall not take into account any Unencumbered Cash or Cash Equivalents constituting proceeds of any Loans made under any Incremental Commitments to be provided on such date and any Incremental Equivalent Debt to be incurred or issued on such date that may otherwise reduce the amount of Consolidated Funded Indebtedness; provided further that for purposes of this clause (a), if the proceeds of the relevant Incremental Facility will be applied to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, the Ratio Incremental Amount will be determined in accordance with Section 1.09 plus (b) the sum of (i) $750,000,000 plus (ii) the aggregate principal amount of voluntary prepayments of Term Loans made after the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, except to the extent (x) such prepayments were funded with the proceeds of long-term Indebtedness or (y) such Loans being repaid were incurred pursuant to the Ratio Incremental Amount (the “Fixed Incremental Amount”, which shall be reduced by previously used amounts of the Fixed Incremental Amount for Incremental Facilities and Incremental Equivalent Debt). For the avoidance of doubt, (1) Incremental Facilities and Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred under clause (b) shall not be subject to any incurrence test set forth in clause (a) above, (2) Incremental Facilities and Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred under clause (a) shall not reduce the Fixed Incremental Amount, (3) Incremental Facilities and Incremental Equivalent Debt shall be deemed to be incurred under the Ratio Incremental Amount to the extent permitted by clause (a) above prior to utilizing any of the Fixed Incremental Amount and (4) the aggregate principal amount of all Incremental Facilities and Incremental Equivalent Debt shall not exceed the Incremental Cap.
“Incremental Commitments” means Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments and/or the Incremental Term Commitments.
“Incremental Equivalent Debt” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.03(h).
“Incremental Facility” means any facility established pursuant to Section 2.14.
“Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Term Commitments” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Term Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.02(c).
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“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) all direct or contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments;
(c) net obligations, if any, 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 accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business);
(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) Capitalized Leases of such Person;
(g) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Disqualified Equity Interest; and
(h) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of any Capitalized Lease as of any date shall be deemed to be the amount of Attributable Indebtedness in respect thereof as of such date. For the avoidance of doubt, any obligations in respect of workers’ compensation claims, early retirement or termination obligations, pension fund obligations or contributions or similar claims, obligations or contributions or social security or wage taxes shall not constitute “Indebtedness”.
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes (including Other Taxes) other than Excluded Taxes.
“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).
“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.
“Initial 2017 Term A Loans” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements.
“Initial 2017 Tranche A-1 Term Loans” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements.
“Initial Restatement Date” means February 1, 2016.
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“Intellectual Property Security Agreements” means the Intellectual Property Security Agreements as such term is defined in the Security Agreement.
“Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements” means the Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements as such term is defined in the Security Agreement.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Eurodollar 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; (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made (with Swing Line Loans being deemed made under the Revolving Credit Facility for purposes of this definition); and (c) as to any Quoted Rate Loan, the last day of the Quoted Rate Period applicable thereto, and the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Quoted Rate Period.
“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter (or, if approved by the applicable Lenders, any period less than one month) (in each case, subject to availability), as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice or such other period of twelve months requested by the Borrower and consented to by all the Appropriate 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.
“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 other securities 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 such Person Guarantees Indebtedness of such other 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. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment (provided that the amount of any Investment made other than in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents shall be the fair market value thereof valued at the time of the making thereof); plus the cost of all additions thereto, net of all actual cash returns on such Investments, whether as principal, interest, profits, distributions or otherwise (but not in excess of the initial amount of such Investment) but without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups,
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write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment; provided further, that, in the case of Guarantees that constitute Investments which are not funded, such Investments shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding following the termination of such Guarantee.
“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.
“ISP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (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 applicable L/C Issuer and the Borrower (or any Restricted Subsidiary) or in favor of the applicable L/C Issuer and relating to any such Letter of Credit.
“JPMSL” means X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC and its successors.
“Junior Financing” has the meaning specified in Section 7.07(a).
“Laws” means, collectively, (a) all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, regulations, ordinances, codes and publicly available administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case having the force of law, and (b) for the purposes of Article II, Article III, Section 10.13 and any related definitions, all of the foregoing and any related rules and guidelines, including any interpretations thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, in each case whether or not publicly available or having the force of law.
“Latest Maturity Date” means, at any time, the latest maturity or expiration date applicable to any Facility, Loan or Commitment hereunder at such time.
“Latest Term Loan Maturity Date” means, at any time, the latest maturity date applicable to any Class of Term Loans hereunder, in each case, as extended in accordance with the terms of this Agreement from time to time.
“L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit 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.
“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.
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“L/C Issuer” means Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder (and, at the option of the Borrower, any other issuer mutually agreed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent), 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.
“Lender” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto and includes each Class of Lenders 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 and the Administrative Agent, which office may include any Affiliate of such Lender or any domestic or foreign branch of such Lender or such Affiliate. Unless the context otherwise requires each reference to a Lender shall include its applicable Lending Office.
“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued hereunder providing for the payment of cash upon honoring of a presentation thereunder and shall include the Existing Letters of Credit. A Letter of Credit may be a commercial letter of credit or a standby letter of credit.
“Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the applicable L/C Issuer.
“Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means the day that is seven days prior to the five year anniversary of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day); provided with the written consent of the applicable L/C Issuer, the Letter of Credit Expiration Date with respect to Letters of Credit issued or to be issued by such L/C Issuer may be seven days prior to the then Latest Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility.
“Letter of Credit Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(h).
“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to $75,000,000. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Leverage Maintenance Covenant” means the financial covenant set forth in Section 7.12.
“LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Eurodollar Rate.”
“LIBOR Replacement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a).
“LIBOR Screen Rate” means the LIBOR quote on the applicable screen page the Administrative Agent designates to determine LIBOR (or such other commercially available
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source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time).
“LIBOR Successor Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a).
“LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any proposed LIBOR Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definition of Base Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the definition of Business Day, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices and length of lookback periods) as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such LIBOR Successor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such LIBOR Successor Rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and any other Loan Document).
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, easement, right-of-way or other encumbrance on title to real property, 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 and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
“Limited Condition Transaction” means any Permitted Acquisition or permitted Investment in any assets, business or Person, in each case the consummation of which is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing.
“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower under Article II in the form of a Committed Loan or a Swing Line Loan (including any Incremental Term Loans, any Extended Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans, loans made pursuant to any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment, loans made pursuant to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitment and loans made pursuant to any Replacement Revolving Credit Commitment).
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, each Note, the Guaranty, each Guaranty Joinder Agreement, each Issuer Document, each Collateral Document, each Additional Credit Extension Amendment, each Increase Joinder, each Extension Offer, any agreement creating or perfecting rights in Cash Collateral pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.15, the BofA Fee Letter and any other document or instrument specified as a “Loan Document” under the provisions thereof.
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor.
“London Banking Day” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
“Market Intercreditor Agreement” means an intercreditor agreement the terms of which are consistent with market terms governing security arrangements for the sharing of liens or arrangements relating to the distribution of payments, as applicable, at the time the intercreditor agreement is proposed to be established in light of the type of Indebtedness subject thereto.
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“Material Acquisition” means any Permitted Acquisition involving the payment of consideration (including non-cash, contingent and deferred consideration (including the assumption of any liabilities and obligations under any purchase price adjustment but excluding earnout or similar payments)) by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with a fair market value in excess of $500,000,000 (as determined by the Borrower in good faith upon consummation thereof).
“Material Adverse Effect” means any event, circumstance or condition that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect upon (a) the operations, business, properties or financial condition of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower and the Guarantors taken as a whole to perform their obligations under the Loan Documents or (c) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of the Loan Documents or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and Lenders thereunder.
“Material Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower (a) the total assets of which exceed, as at the end of the most recent fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which there are Available Financial Statements or, in the case of the consummation of any Permitted Acquisition, as of the end of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended prior to the effective date of such Acquisition for which there are Available Financial Statements (calculated on a pro forma basis taking into account the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition), 5% of Consolidated Domestic Assets, or (b) that contributed 5% or more of Consolidated EBITDA in the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ended of the Borrower for which there are Available Financial Statements or, in the case of the consummation of any Permitted Acquisition (calculated on a pro forma basis taking into account the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition) as if such Acquisition occurred on the first day of the four fiscal quarter period of the Borrower most recently ended for which there are Available Financial Statements; provided, further, that if the combined (i) total assets of all Immaterial Subsidiaries shall exceed 10% of the Consolidated Domestic Assets as of the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which there are Available Financial Statements or (ii) contributions of all Immaterial Subsidiaries shall exceed 10% or more of Consolidated EBITDA at the end of the four fiscal quarter period most recently ended for which there are Available Financial Statements, the Borrower shall redesignate one or more of such Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower as Material Subsidiaries within ten (10) Business Days after such date, such that only Domestic Subsidiaries as shall then have combined (x) total assets of less than 10% of the Consolidated Domestic Assets for such fiscal quarter of the Borrower (based on the most recently Available Financial Statements) or (ii) contributed less than 10% of Consolidated EBITDA for such four fiscal quarter period of the Borrower (based on the most recently Available Financial Statements) shall constitute Immaterial Subsidiaries.
“Maturity Date” means (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility (but excluding any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and any Loans made pursuant thereto), Xxxxx 00 0000, (x) with respect to the Term A Loans, March 26 2028, (c) with respect to the Tranche X-0 Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 00 0000, (x) with respect to any other Class of Term Loans or any Credit Agreement Refinanced Indebtedness, the date specified as the “Maturity Date” therefor in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment and (e) with respect to any Class of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the date specified as the “Maturity Date” therefor in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment, as the context may require; provided, however, that, in each case, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.
“MLPFS” means Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated and its successors.
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“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.
“MUFG” means MUFG Union Bank, N.A. and its successors.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means (a) with respect to any proceeds of a Recovery Event or Disposition received or paid to the account of any Loan Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of any cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction minus (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other amounts on any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset and that is required (directly or indirectly) to be repaid in connection with such transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by such Loan Party or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such transaction, (C) Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable within 2 years of the date of the relevant transaction as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith; provided that, if the amount of any estimated Taxes pursuant to subclause (C) exceeds the amount of Taxes actually required to be paid in cash in respect of such Recovery Event or Disposition, the aggregate amount of such excess shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds and (D) amounts which are required to be reserved for on the balance sheet or otherwise required to be placed in escrow in connection with such transaction unless and until such amounts are no longer required to be subject to a reserve or are released to any Loan Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, further, that Net Cash Proceeds shall be deemed to exclude (x) proceeds of business interruption insurance to the extent such proceeds constitute compensation for lost earnings) and (y) cash receipts from proceeds of insurance or condemnation awards (or payments in lieu thereof) to the extent that such proceeds, awards or payments are received by any Person in respect of any third party claim against such Person and applied to pay (or to reimburse such Person for its prior payment of) such claim and the costs and expenses of such Person with respect thereto except to the extent such Person is contractually entitled to retain such proceeds, awards or payments; and (b) with respect to any sale or issuance of Equity Interests by the Borrower, any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary or any incurrence or issuance of Indebtedness by the Borrower, any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum or the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction, minus (ii) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, commissions, costs and other out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including attorneys’ fees, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant, accountant and other customary fees) incurred by such Loan Party or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such transaction.
“Note” means a Revolving Credit Note or a Term Loan Note, as the context may require.
“Notice of Loan Prepayment” means a notice of loan prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05, which, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit N or such other form as approved by the Administrative Agent or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable.
“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, Letter of Credit, Guaranteed Cash Management Agreement or Guaranteed Hedge Agreement, in each case whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including
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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, or which would accrue but for the commencement of such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided that the Obligations shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations.
“OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.
“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.
“Original Closing Date” means May 6, 2014.
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to any Loan Document other than any such Taxes resulting from an assignment or participation (other than an assignment pursuant to Section 10.13).
“Outstanding Amount” means (i) with respect to any 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 such Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; (ii) with respect to any Class of Term Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of such Term Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (iii) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate outstanding 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 Borrower of Unreimbursed Amounts.
“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
“Patriot Act” has the meaning specified in Section 10.16.
“Payment Default” means the failure of the Borrower to pay any Obligation when due (after giving effect to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
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“Pension Funding Rules” means the rules of the Code and ERISA regarding minimum required contributions (including any installment payment thereof) to Pension Plans and set forth in Section 412, 430, 431, 432 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302, 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.
“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.
“Perfection Certificate” means that certain Perfection Certificate, dated as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, executed and delivered by the Borrower on behalf of the Borrower and each of the other Loan Parties existing on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition that is permitted by the terms of Section 7.02(e).
“Permitted External Refinancing Debt” means any Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower to refinance all or a portion of any existing Class of Loans or Commitments in the form of one or more series of debt securities or loans; provided that (i) the final maturity date of any such Indebtedness shall not be earlier than the Latest Maturity Date of the Class of Loans or Commitments being refinanced; (ii) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness shall be no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Class of Loans or Commitments being refinanced, (iii) the terms of such Indebtedness shall not provide for any scheduled repayment, mandatory redemption, sinking fund obligations or other payment (other than periodic interest payments) prior to the Latest Maturity Date of the Class of Loans or Commitments being refinanced (other than customary offers to purchase upon a change of control, asset sale or offers to prepay, redeem, or repurchase based on excess cash flow (in the case of loans) and customary acceleration rights upon an event of default); (iv) such debt securities or loans shall be unsecured; (v) none of the obligors or guarantors with respect to such Indebtedness shall be a Person that is not a Loan Party; (vi) the terms and conditions (excluding any amortization, subordination, pricing, fees, rate floors, discounts, premiums and optional prepayment or redemption terms) of such Indebtedness, taken as a whole, shall not be materially more favorable to the investors or lenders thereunder than those applicable to investors or lenders in the Loans or Commitments, except for covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement of this clause (vi) shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five (5) Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees)); (vii) the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the refinanced Loans except by an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid interest, any premium or other reasonable amount paid, fees and costs and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder; and (viii) substantially concurrently with the incurrence or issuance of such debt securities or loans, 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied
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to repay the refinanced Loans or Commitments, as applicable, including accrued interest, fees, costs and expenses relating thereto.
“Permitted Lines of Business” means, collectively, (a) food services, (b) food-related manufacturing, production and processing, (c) consumer products, (d) private label products, (e) animal feed production and processing, (f) any other business conducted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the Restatement Date, and (g) any business reasonably related or incidental to any of the foregoing.
“Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided that (i) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended except by an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid interest, any premium or other reasonable amount paid, fees and costs and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder; (ii) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or longer than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended; (iii) if the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable, taken as a whole, to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended; (iv) if such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended is secured, the terms and conditions relating to collateral of any such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially less favorable to the Loan Parties or the Lenders than the terms and conditions with respect to the collateral for the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, taken as a whole (and the Liens on any Collateral securing any such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended Indebtedness shall have the same (or lesser) priority relative to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations); (v) the terms and conditions (excluding any amortization, collateral, subordination, pricing, fees, rate floors, discounts, premiums and optional prepayment or redemption terms) of any such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended Indebtedness, taken as a whole, shall not be materially less favorable to the Loan Parties than the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, except for covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement of this clause (v) shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five (5) Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees)); and (vi) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension is incurred by the Person who is the obligor on the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended.
“Permitted Securitization Facility” means any transaction or series of transactions involving the sale of accounts receivable (and related supporting obligations and books and records) so long as the Indebtedness thereunder and other payment obligations with respect thereto are nonrecourse to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than any Special Purpose
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Finance Subsidiary), other than limited recourse provisions that are customary for transactions of such type and do not have the effect of Guaranteeing the repayment of any such Indebtedness or limiting the loss or credit risk of lenders or purchasers with respect to payment or performance by the obligors of the accounts receivable so transferred.
“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), other than a Multiemployer Plan, established by the Borrower or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to the Pension Funding Rules (other than a Multiemployer Plan) or Title IV of ERISA, the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.
“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Pledge Agreement” means, collectively, (a) the pledge agreement dated as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date given by the Loan Parties party thereto, as pledgors, to the Administrative Agent to secure the Obligations substantially in the form of Exhibit J and (b) any other pledge agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent to secure all or some portion of the Obligations that may be given by any Person pursuant to the terms hereof.
“PNC” means PNC Bank National Association and its successors.
“Pre-Adjustment Successor Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a).
“Pro Forma Adjustment” means, for any test period that includes all or any part of a fiscal quarter included in any period beginning on the date the relevant transaction is consummated and ending on the last day of the fourth full consecutive fiscal quarter immediately following the date on which such transaction is consummated, with respect to the acquired EBITDA of the applicable acquired entity or business or converted Restricted Subsidiary or the Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower, (a) the pro forma increase or decrease in such acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, that is factually supportable and is expected to have a continuing impact, in each case as determined on a basis consistent with Article 11 of Regulation S-X of the Securities Act, as interpreted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and (b) additional good faith pro forma adjustments arising out of cost savings initiatives attributable to such transaction and additional costs associated with the combination of the operations of such acquired entity or business or converted Restricted Subsidiary with the operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case being given Pro Forma Effect, that (i) have been realized or (ii) will be implemented within twenty-four (24) months of such Acquisition and are supportable and quantifiable and expected to be realized within the succeeding twenty-four (24) months following such implementation and, in each case, including, but not limited to, (w) reduction in personnel expenses, (x) reduction of costs related to administrative functions, (y) reductions of costs related to leased or owned properties and (z) reductions from the consolidation of operations and streamlining of corporate overhead) taking into account, for purposes of determining such compliance, the historical financial statements of the acquired entity or business or converted Restricted Subsidiary and the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, assuming such Permitted Acquisition or Disposition, and all other Permitted Acquisitions or Dispositions that have been consummated during the period, and any Indebtedness or other liabilities repaid in connection therewith had been consummated and incurred or repaid at the beginning of such period (and assuming that such Indebtedness to be incurred bears interest during any portion of the applicable measurement period prior to the relevant Acquisition at the interest rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination); provided that, so long as
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such actions are taken during such specified period or such costs are incurred during such specified period, as applicable, for purposes of projecting such pro forma increase or decrease to such acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, it may be assumed that such cost savings will be realizable during the entirety of such test period, or such additional costs, as applicable, will be incurred during the entirety of such test period; provided, further, that (A)(I) the aggregate amount added back to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (vi)(B) of the definition thereof and any increase in Consolidated EBITDA as a result of such Pro Forma Adjustment (other than as a result of an actual increase in revenues or an actual reduction in costs) pursuant to this clause (b)(A)(I) shall not exceed 25% of total Consolidated EBITDA on a Pro Forma Basis for such test period and (II) the aggregate amount added back to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (viii) of the definition thereof and any increase in Consolidated EBITDA as a result of such Pro Forma Adjustment (other than as a result of an actual increase in revenues or an actual reduction in costs) pursuant to this clause (b)(A)(II) shall not exceed 20% of total Consolidated EBITDA on a Pro Forma Basis for such test period, and (B) any such pro forma increase or decrease in Consolidated EBITDA shall be without duplication of cost savings or additional costs already included in such Consolidated EBITDA.
“Pro Forma Basis” and “Pro Forma Effect” mean, with respect to compliance with any test hereunder for an applicable period of measurement, that (a) to the extent applicable, the Pro Forma Adjustment shall have been made and (b) any Investment, Disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, Restricted Payment, subsidiary designation (as a Restricted Subsidiary or an Unrestricted Subsidiary), discontinuance of operations, the incurrence of any Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, or any other event or action requiring or permitting such test to be calculated on a “Pro Forma Basis” or after giving “Pro Forma Effect” and the following shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement (as of the last date in the case of a balance sheet item) in such test: (i) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or person subject to such transaction, event or action (A) in the case of a Disposition of all or substantially all Equity Interests in any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any division, product line, or facility used for operations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, shall be excluded, and (B) in the case of a Permitted Acquisition or Investment described in (b) above, shall be included, (ii) any retirement of Indebtedness, and (iii) any Indebtedness incurred or assumed by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and if such indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination; provided that, without limiting the application of the Pro Forma Adjustment pursuant to (a) above (and without duplication thereof), the foregoing pro forma adjustments may be applied to any such test solely to the extent that such adjustments are consistent with the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” and give effect to events (including cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies, but subject to the limitations in the final proviso of the definition of “Pro Forma Adjustment”) that are (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) (1) (x) directly attributable to such transaction and expected to be realized within twenty-four (24) months following such transaction or event or implementation of such action, as applicable, (y) expected to have a continuing impact on the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (z) factually supportable or (2) otherwise consistent with the definition of Pro Forma Adjustment.
“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, at any time, each Loan Party with total assets exceeding $10,000,000 or that qualifies at such time as an “eligible contract participant” under
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the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time under §1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Quoted Rate” means, for a Quoted Rate Period, the per annum rate quoted by 100% of the Term A Lenders, in their sole discretion, pursuant to Section 2.02(b)(ii).
“Quoted Rate Loan” means a Committed Loan for Term A Loans which bears interest at a rate determined by reference to the Quoted Rate.
“Quoted Rate Period” means, relative to any Quoted Rate Loan, the period beginning on (and including) the date on which such Quoted Rate Loan is made, or converted into, a Quoted Rate Loan and ending on the Maturity Date of the Term A Loans; provided, however, in no event shall the Quoted Rate Period be less than one (1) year.
“Rabobank” means Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., New York Branch.
“Rating Agency” means each of S&P and Xxxxx’x.
“Ratio Incremental Amount” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Incremental Cap”.
“Reaffirmation Agreement” means that certain Reaffirmation Agreement executed by the Guarantors (as of the Restatement Date) pursuant to which such Guarantors reaffirm their obligations under the Guaranty, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit I.
“Recovery Event” means the receipt by the Borrower or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries of any cash insurance proceeds or condemnation award payable by reason of theft, loss, physical destruction or damage, taking or similar event with respect to any of their respective property or assets.
“Refinancing Term Loans” means one or more new Classes of Term Loans that result from an Additional Credit Extension Amendment in accordance with Section 2.18.
“Refinanced Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.18.
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).
“Registered Public Accounting Firm” has the meaning specified in the Securities Laws and shall be independent of the Borrower as prescribed in the Securities Laws.
“Related Adjustment” means, in determining any LIBOR Successor Rate, the first relevant available alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent applicable to such LIBOR Successor Rate:
(A) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the relevant Pre-Adjustment Successor Rate (taking into account the interest period, interest payment date or payment period for interest calculated and/or tenor thereto) and which adjustment or method (x) is published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion or (y) solely with respect to Term SOFR, if not currently published, which was previously so recommended for Term SOFR and published on an information service acceptable to the Administrative Agent; or
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(B) the spread adjustment that would apply (or has previously been applied) to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions (taking into account the interest period, interest payment date or payment period for interest calculated and/or tenor thereto).
“Related Business” means any business which is the same as or related, ancillary or complementary to, or a reasonable extension or expansion of, any of the businesses of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the Restatement Date.
“Related Business Assets” means any property, plant, equipment or other assets (excluding assets that are qualified as current assets under GAAP) to be used or useful by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in a Related Business or capital expenditures relating thereto.
“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.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“Relevant Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(iii).
“Replaced Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.18(a).
“Replacement Revolving Credit Commitments” means one or more new Classes of Revolving Credit Commitments established pursuant to an Additional Credit Extension Amendment in accordance with Section 2.18.
“Replacement Revolving Lender” means a Revolving Credit Lender with a Replacement Revolving Credit Commitment or an outstanding Replacement Revolving Loan.
“Replacement Revolving Loans” means Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to Replacement Revolving Credit Commitments.
“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.
“Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) aggregate unused Commitments; provided that any Commitments or Loans held by Defaulting Lenders shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders, and the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that a Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender, shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the
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Swing Line Lender or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
“Required Revolving Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Revolving Credit Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of (a) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that any Commitments or Loans held by Defaulting Lenders shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Lenders, and the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that a Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender, shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swing Line Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Lenders.
“Required Term Loan Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to Lenders of any Class of Term Loans, Lenders holding more than 50% of such Class of Term Loans on such date; provided that the portion of such Class of Term Loans held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Term Loan Lenders.
“Rescindable Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(b)(ii).
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, executive vice president, senior vice president, vice president, assistant treasurer or controller of a Loan Party; provided, solely for purposes of the delivery of incumbency certificates pursuant to Section 4.01, the secretary or any assistant secretary of a Loan Party and, solely for purposes of notices given to Article II, any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party so designated by any of the foregoing officers in a notice to the Administrative Agent or any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party designated in or pursuant to an agreement between the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent. 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.
“Restatement Date” means the first date on which all of the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.01.
“Restatement Date Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21.
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Borrower’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Person thereof).
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“Restricted Subsidiaries” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Revaluation Date” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, each of the following: (a) each date of issuance of a Letter of Credit denominated in Canadian Dollars, (b) each date of an amendment of any such Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof, (c) each date of any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit denominated in Canadian Dollars, and (d) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer shall determine or the Required Revolving Lenders shall require.
“Revolving Credit Arrangers” means, collectively, Bank of America, JPMSL, WFS, Truist Securities, BMOCM, Capital One, MUFG, PNC, Bank of the West, CoBank, Fifth Third, Rabobank and TD Bank in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and/or joint bookrunners, as applicable.
“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(a).
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation to (a) make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 (including loans made pursuant to any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment, loans made pursuant to any Replacement Revolving Credit Commitment and loans made pursuant to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitment), (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 or in any documentation executed by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.14, Section 2.17 or Section 2.18, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to any Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of its outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and such Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans at such time.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments (including any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and any Replacement Revolving Credit Commitments) at such time.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means, as of any date of determination, a Lender with a Revolving Credit Commitment or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving Credit Exposure.
“Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.
“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Revolving Credit Lender evidencing Revolving Credit Loans made by such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC.
“Sale and Leaseback Permitted Amount” means, on any date and without duplication, in respect of any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, the net present value (discounted
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using (x) the cost of debt stated in the lease or (y) if no such cost is stated in the lease, the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate in effect on the date of such Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of the obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the then remaining term of any applicable lease.
“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby a seller or transferor shall sell or otherwise transfer any real or personal property and then or thereafter lease, or repurchase under an extended purchase contract, conditional sales or other title retention agreement, the same or similar property.
“Sanctions” means economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by OFAC or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any EU member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.
“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, any person that is the target of Sanctions, including (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC or the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any EU member state or Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom, (b) any Person located, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person directly or indirectly owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b).
“Scheduled Unavailability Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Secured Net Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) secured Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date minus all Unencumbered Cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to such date.
“Secured Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, and other Persons the Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.
“Securities Laws” means the Securities Act of 1933, the Exchange Act, Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the applicable accounting and auditing principles, rules, standards and practices promulgated, approved or incorporated by the SEC or the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, as each of the foregoing may be amended and in effect on any applicable date hereunder.
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“Security Agreement” means, collectively, (a) the security agreement dated as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date given by the Loan Parties party thereto, as grantors, to the Administrative Agent to secure the Obligations substantially in the form of Exhibit K and (b) any other security agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent to secure all or some portion of the Obligations that may be given by any Person pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Senior Notes” means, collectively, (i) the 2024 Notes, (ii) the 2028 Notes and (iii) any additional amounts issued pursuant to a supplemental indenture to the Base Indenture after the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date to the extent such additional amounts are permitted to be incurred under this Agreement.
“SOFR” with respect to any Business Day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website (or any successor source) at approximately 8:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the immediately succeeding Business Day and, in each case, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.
“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 debt and liabilities, including direct, subordinated or contingent liabilities or otherwise, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts and other liabilities, direct, senior, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, 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, (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, and (e) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, direct, senior, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, and other commitments as they become absolute and mature. 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 10.06(g).
“Special Purpose Finance Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower created solely for the purpose of, and whose sole activity shall consist of, acquiring and financing accounts receivable of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries pursuant to a Permitted Securitization Facility.
“Specified Loan Party” means any Loan Party that is not an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act (determined prior to giving effect to Section 14 of the Guaranty.
“Spot Rate” for Canadian Dollars means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent or an L/C Issuer, as applicable, to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of Canadian Dollars with Dollars, or Dollars with Canadian Dollars, as applicable, through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided that the Administrative Agent or such L/C Issuer may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent or such L/C Issuer if the Person acting in such capacity does not have as of
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the date of determination a spot buying rate for Canadian Dollars or Dollars, as applicable; and provided further that such L/C Issuer may use such spot rate quoted on the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made in the case of any Letter of Credit denominated in Canadian Dollars.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“Swap Contract” means 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 entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided, that any and all such transactions, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, the same master agreement, including any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other form of master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), shall be deemed to be a single Swap Contract to the extent such transactions and related confirmations are subject to legally enforceable netting agreements.
“Swap Obligations” means with respect to any Guarantor any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any Swap Contract, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contract, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contract has been closed out and termination value determined in accordance therewith, such termination value, and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount determined as the xxxx-to-market value for such Swap Contract (or, if applicable, the net aggregate xxxx-to-market value of all transactions constituting such Swap Contract), as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such type of Swap Contract (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.
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“Swing Line Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).
“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B or such other form as approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form of an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent) appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
“Swing Line Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $50,000,000 and (b) the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments.
“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.
“TD Bank” means TD Bank, N.A. and its successors.
“Term A Arrangers” means, collectively, Bank of America and CoBank, in their capacities as joint lead arrangers.
“Term A Commitment” means as to each Lender, its obligation to make (or continue, as applicable) Term A Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b)(i), 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(b)(i) under the caption “Term A Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Term A Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The aggregate principal amount of the Term A Commitments of all of the Term A Lenders as in effect on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date is $500,000,000.
“Term A Facility” means, at any time, (a) on or prior to the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, the aggregate amount of the Term A Commitments at such time and (b) thereafter, the aggregate principal amount of the Term A Loans of all Term A Lenders outstanding at such time.
“Term A Lender” means (a) at any time on or prior to the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, any Lender that has a Term A Commitment at such time and (b) at any time after the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, any Lender that holds Term A Loans at such time.
“Term A Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b)(i).
“Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans or Quoted Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period or Quoted Rate Period, respectively, made by each of the Term Lenders under the applicable Facility pursuant to Section 2.01(b) or 2.01(c).
“Term Lender” means, as of any date of determination, a Term A Lender, a Tranche A-1 Term Lender, an Extending Term Lender or a Lender holding an Incremental Term Commitment, Incremental Term Loans, or Refinanced Term Loans, as the context may require.
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“Term Loan” means any Term A Loan, any Tranche A-1 Term Loan, any Incremental Term Loan, any Refinanced Term Loan or any Extended Term Loan, as the context may require.
“Term Loan Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Term Loan Lender evidencing Term Loans made by such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2.
“Term SOFR” means the forward-looking term rate for any period that is approximately (as determined by the Administrative Agent) as long as any of the Interest Period options set forth in the definition of “Interest Period” and that is based on SOFR and that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body, in each case as published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion.
“Test Period” means a period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations.
“Total Pro Rata Outstandings” means the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings and the Outstanding Amount of Term A Loans and Tranche A-1 Term Loans.
“Total Revolving Credit Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations.
“Tranche A-1 Arrangers” means, collectively, Bank of America, JPMSL, WFS, Truist Securities, BMOCM, Capital One, MUFG, PNC, Bank of the West, CoBank, Fifth Third, Rabobank and TD Bank in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and/or joint bookrunners, as applicable.
“Tranche A-1 Facility” means, at any time the aggregate principal amount of the Tranche A-1 Term Loans of all Tranche A-1 Term Lenders outstanding at such time.
“Tranche A-1 Term Lender” means a Lender with an outstanding Tranche A-1 Term Loan.
“Tranche A-1 Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b)(ii).
“Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitment” means as to each Lender, its obligation to make (or continue, as applicable) Tranche A-1 Term Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b)(ii), 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(b)(ii) under the caption “Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Tranche A-1 Term Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The aggregate principal amount of the Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitments of all of the Tranche A-1 Term Lenders as in effect on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date is $930,000,000.
“Transactions” means: (a) the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the funding of the Loans on the Restatement Date; and (b) the
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transactions related to the foregoing, including the payment of all fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the transactions described in the foregoing provisions of this definition.
“Trigger Quarter” means a fiscal quarter in which the Borrower has consummated a Material Acquisition; provided that, following the occurrence of a Trigger Quarter, no subsequent Trigger Quarter shall be deemed to have occurred or to exist for any reason unless and until the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 4.50 to 1.00 as of the end of any fiscal quarter following the occurrence of such initial Trigger Quarter; provided further that no more than two Trigger Quarters shall occur during the term of this Agreement; provided further that no Trigger Quarter shall be deemed to occur or to exist for any reason during the Covenant Relief Period.
“Truist Securities” means Truist Securities, Inc. and its successors.
“Type” means, with respect to any Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan, a Eurodollar Rate Loan or Quoted Rate Loan.
“UCP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) Publication No. 600 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person subject to IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unaudited Financial Statements” means the unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2020, June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2020, together with the corresponding periods in the prior year.
“Unencumbered Cash and Cash Equivalents” means, with respect to any Person, the cash or Cash Equivalents owned by such Person (excluding assets of any retirement plan) which (a) are not the subject of any Lien or other arrangement with any creditor to have its claim satisfied out of such cash or Cash Equivalents prior to the general creditors of such Person (other than banker’s liens, rights of set-off or similar rights or remedies as to deposit accounts or securities accounts in which such cash or Cash Equivalents are held), and (b) if not cash, may be converted to cash within thirty (30) days.
“Unfunded Pension Liability” means the excess of a Pension Plan’s benefit liabilities under Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that Pension Plan’s assets, determined in accordance with the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code for the applicable plan year.
“Unrestricted Subsidiaries” means (a) as of the Restatement Date, the Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 1.01(A), (b) each Subsidiary of the Borrower designated by the Borrower as an “Unrestricted Subsidiary” pursuant to Section 6.15 and (c) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted
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Subsidiary (in each case, unless such Subsidiary is no longer a Subsidiary of the Borrower or is subsequently designated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to this Agreement).
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
“Voting Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(e).
“Voting Participant Notification” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(e).
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years (and/or portion thereof) obtained by dividing: (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment by (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
“WFS” means Xxxxx Fargo Securities, LLC and its successors.
“Withholding Agent” means the Administrative Agent and/or any Loan Party.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
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 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
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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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 and FASB ASC 470-20 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded.
(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 or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower 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 Borrower 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for all purposes of this Agreement, in no event will any lease that would have been categorized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP as of the Restatement Date be considered a Capitalized Lease.
(c) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. All references herein to consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that the Borrower is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB ASC 810 as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.
1.04 Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower 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; Rates. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Central time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of “Eurodollar Rate” or with respect to any rate that is an alternative or replacement for or successor to any of such rate (including, without limitation, any LIBOR Successor Rate) or the effect of any of the foregoing, or of any LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes.
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 Dollar Equivalent of 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 Dollar Equivalent of 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.
1.07 Divisions. Any reference herein to a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to a division of or by a limited liability company, or an allocation of assets to a series of a limited liability company (or the unwinding of such a division or allocation), as if it were a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, as applicable, to, of or with a separate Person. Any division of a limited liability company shall constitute a separate Person hereunder (and each division of any limited liability company that is a Subsidiary, joint venture or any other like term shall also constitute such a Person or entity).
1.08 Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents.
(a) The Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts of L/C Credit Extensions and Outstanding Amounts with respect to L/C Obligations denominated in Canadian Dollars. Such Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur. Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Loan Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the Administrative Agent or such L/C Issuer, as applicable.
(b) Wherever in this Agreement in connection with the issuance, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such Letter of Credit is denominated in Canadian Dollars, such amount shall be the relevant Canadian Dollar Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest unit of Canadian Dollars, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded upward), as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be.
1.09 Limited Condition Transactions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, to the extent that the terms of this Agreement require (i) compliance with any financial ratio or test (including any Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio test, any Secured Net Leverage Ratio test, the amount of Consolidated Total Assets or the amount of Consolidated EBITDA) or (ii) the absence of a Default (or any type of Default) as a condition to the making of
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any Limited Condition Transaction or incurrence of Indebtedness in the form of Term Loans or Incremental Equivalent Debt in connection therewith, the determination of whether the relevant condition is satisfied may be made, at the irrevocable election of the Borrower (such election, a “Limited Condition Transaction Election”), at the time of (and on the basis of Available Financial Statements) either (x) the execution of the definitive agreement with respect to such Limited Condition Transaction or (y) the consummation of the Limited Condition Transaction and related incurrence of Indebtedness, in each case, after giving effect to the relevant Limited Condition Transaction and related incurrence of Indebtedness, on a Pro Forma Basis (such date, the “Limited Condition Transaction Test Date”); provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, the absence of a Payment Default or Bankruptcy Default shall be a condition to the consummation of any such Limited Condition Transaction and incurrence of Indebtedness; provided further that any Limited Condition Transaction Election shall be made pursuant to a written notice from the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent (which the Administrative Agent may provide to the Lenders) at the time of the execution of the definitive agreements with respect to the Limited Condition Transaction; provided however, to the extent the Borrower has not delivered such written notice to the Administrative Agent by the time of execution of the definitive agreements with respect to such transaction, the relevant conditions required to be satisfied as a condition to consummating such transaction and/or incurring such Indebtedness will be tested at the time of consummation of such transaction and the related incurrence of Indebtedness in the form of Term Loans or Incremental Equivalent Debt in connection therewith. In addition, if the proceeds of an Incremental Facility are to be used to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, then at the option of the Borrower and subject to the agreement of the lenders providing such financing, the representations and warranties which constitute conditions to such financing may be limited to the representations and warranties under Sections 5.01(a), 5.01(b)(ii), 5.02(a), 5.03, 5.04, 5.14, 5.17 and 5.18 and such other representations and warranties under the relevant agreements relating to such Limited Condition Transaction as are material to the Lenders and only to the extent that the Borrower or its applicable Restricted Subsidiary has the right to terminate its obligations under such agreement as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties or the failure of those representations and warranties to be accurate.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, with respect to any amounts incurred or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement that does not require compliance with a financial ratio (any such amounts, the “Fixed Amounts”) substantially concurrently with any amounts incurred or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement that requires compliance with a financial ratio (including any Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio test or any Secured Net Leverage Ratio) (any such amounts, the “Incurrence-Based Amounts”), it is understood and agreed that the Fixed Amounts shall be disregarded in the calculation of the financial ratio or test applicable to any substantially concurrent utilization of the Incurrence-Based Amounts.
For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has made a Limited Condition Transaction Election and any of the ratios or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the Limited Condition Transaction Test Date (including with respect to the incurrence of any Indebtedness) are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio or basket (including due to fluctuations of the target of any Limited Condition Transaction) at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets or ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations. If the Borrower has made a Limited Condition Transaction Election for any Limited Condition Transaction, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio or basket on or following the relevant Limited Condition Transaction Test Date and prior to the earlier of (a) the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is consummated or (b) the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction, any such ratio or basket shall be required to be satisfied (1) on a Pro Forma Basis
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assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith have been consummated and (2) assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith have not been consummated. The foregoing provisions shall apply with similar effect during the pendency of two Limited Condition Transactions such that each of the possible scenarios is separately tested. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall there be more than two Limited Condition Transactions at any time outstanding.
1.10 Effect of Restatement.
(a) This Agreement shall, except as otherwise expressly stated herein, supersede the Existing Credit Agreement from and after the Restatement Date with respect to the transactions hereunder and with respect to the Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement as of the Restatement Date. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree, however, that (a) this Agreement and all other Loan Documents executed and delivered herewith do not constitute a novation, payment and reborrowing or termination of the Obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents as in effect prior to the Restatement Date, (b) such Obligations are in all respects continuing with only the terms being modified as provided in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (c) all references in the other Loan Documents to the Credit Agreement shall be deemed to refer without further amendment to this Agreement. Each existing Lender party to the Existing Credit Agreement immediately prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement on the Restatement Date shall be bound by the terms hereof.
(b) On the Restatement Date, each Revolving Credit Lender party to the Existing Credit Agreement immediately prior to the Restatement Date (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Lender”) will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each Revolving Credit Lender party to the Credit Agreement as of the Restatement Date (each, a “Restatement Date Revolving Credit Lender”), and each such Restatement Date Revolving Credit Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Existing Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans outstanding immediately prior to the Restatement Date (“Existing Revolving Credit Loans”) and participations under the Agreement in outstanding Letters of Credit (if any are outstanding on the Restatement Date) such that, after giving effect to each such deemed assignment and assumption of Existing Revolving Credit Loans and participations, the percentage of the aggregate outstanding (i) Revolving Credit Loans, (ii) participations under the Credit Agreement in Letters of Credit and (iii) participations under the Agreement in Swing Line Loans held by each Revolving Credit Lender (including each such Restatement Date Revolving Credit Lender) will equal the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders represented by such Revolving Credit Lender's Commitment as of the Restatement Date.
ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
2.01 Revolving Credit Loans and Term Loans.
(a) Revolving Credit Loans. 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 Borrower 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 Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments, and (ii) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment. Within
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the limits of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01. Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
(b) Term Loans.
(i) Term A Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term A Lender severally agrees to make (or continue, as applicable) a single term loan in Dollars (each, a “Term A Loan”) to the Borrower on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date in an amount not to exceed such Lender’s Term A Commitment. Each Term A Lender with outstanding Initial 2017 Term A Loans under the Existing Credit Agreement immediately prior to the effective time on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date who elects to continue its Initial 2017 Term A Loans will be deemed to have converted its outstanding Initial 2017 Term A Loans as Term A Loans and in connection therewith agrees to continue all of its existing Initial 2017 Term A Loans outstanding on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date as Term A Loans in a principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Term A Loans so continued as set forth on Schedule 2.01(b)(i) hereto opposite such Lender’s name under the caption “Term A Loans”. Each Person (other than a Term A Lender with outstanding Initial 2017 Term A Loans choosing to continue such Loans) who agrees to make Term A Loans to the Borrower on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date shall make Term A Loans in a principal amount equal to the amount set forth on Schedule 2.01(b)(i) hereto opposite such Lender’s name under the caption “Term A Loans”. The aggregate principal amount of Term A Loans made (or continued, as applicable) by the Term A Lenders and outstanding as of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date is set forth on Schedule 2.01(b)(i) hereto. Amounts borrowed as a Term A Loan under this Agreement and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term A Loans may consist of Base Rate Loans, Eurodollar Rate Loans, or Quoted Rate Loans or, in the case of Base Rate Loans and Eurodollar Rate Loans only, a combination thereof, as further provided herein.
(ii) Tranche A-1 Term Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Tranche A-1 Term Lender severally agrees to make (or continue, as applicable) a single term loan in Dollars (each, a “Tranche A-1 Term Loan”) to the Borrower on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date in an amount not to exceed such Lender’s Tranche A-1 Term Loan Commitment. Each Tranche A-1 Term Lender with outstanding Initial 2017 Tranche A-1 Term Loans under the Existing Credit Agreement immediately prior to the effective time on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date who elects to continue its Initial 2017 Tranche A-1 Term Loans will be deemed to have converted its outstanding Initial 2017 Tranche A-1 Term Loans as Tranche A-1 Term Loans and in connection therewith agrees to continue all of its existing Initial 2017 Tranche A-1 Term Loans outstanding on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date as Tranche A-1 Term Loans in a principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Tranche A-1 Term Loans so continued as set forth on Schedule 2.01(b)(ii) hereto opposite such Lender’s name under the caption “Tranche A-1 Term Loans”. Each Person (other than a Tranche A-1 Term Lender with outstanding Initial 2017 Tranche A-1 Term Loans choosing to continue such Loans) who agrees to make Tranche A-1 Term Loans to the Borrower on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date shall make Tranche A-1 Term Loans in a principal amount equal to the amount set forth on Schedule 2.01(b)(ii) hereto opposite such Lender’s name
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under the caption “Tranche A-1 Term Loans”. The aggregate principal amount of Tranche A-1 Term Loans made (or continued, as applicable) by the Tranche A-1 Term Lenders and outstanding as of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date is set forth on Schedule 2.01(b)(ii) hereto. Amounts borrowed as a Tranche A-1 Term Loan under this Agreement and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Tranche A-1 Term Loans may consist of Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, or a combination thereof, as further provided herein.
(c) Incremental Term Loans. Subject to Section 2.14, as set forth in any Increase Joinder or other Additional Credit Extension Amendment entered into pursuant to Section 2.14, each Incremental Term Loan Lender party thereto severally agrees to make its portion of a term loan (each, an “Incremental Term Loan”) in a single advance (or, in the case of a delayed draw or multiple draw Incremental Term Loan, in the number of advances provided for in the applicable Increase Joinder or Additional Credit Extension Amendment) to the Borrower in the amount of its respective Incremental Term Loan Commitment as set forth in such Increase Joinder or such other Additional Credit Extension Amendment. Amounts repaid on any Incremental Term Loan may not be reborrowed. Each Incremental Term Loan may be a Base Rate Loan, Eurodollar Rate Loan or Quoted Rate Loan, as further provided herein.
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Committed Loans.
(a) Each Committed Borrowing, each conversion of Committed Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by (A) telephone or (B) a Committed Loan Notice; provided that any telephone notice must be confirmed immediately by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Committed Loan Notice. Each such Committed Loan Notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. (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 Base Rate Loans, and (ii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that if the 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 10:00 a.m. four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Appropriate Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them. Not later than 10:00 a.m., three Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower (which notice may be by telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the Appropriate Lenders. Each Committed Borrowing of a Quoted Rate Loan or conversion of a Committed Loan under the Term A Facility from either a Eurodollar Rate Loan or Base Rate Loan to a Quoted Rate Loan shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by (A) telephone or (B) a Committed Loan Notice; provided that any telephone notice must be confirmed immediately by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Committed Loan Notice. Each such Committed Loan Notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. at least three Business Days prior to the proposed effective date of such Borrowing of, or conversion to, a Quoted Rate Loan. 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 $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Each Borrowing of, or conversion to, a Quoted Rate Loan must apply to the entire outstanding principal balance of the Term A Loans. 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 shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Committed Borrowing, a conversion of Committed Loans
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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 Committed Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Committed Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Committed Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Committed Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Committed Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Swing Line Loan may not be converted to a Eurodollar Rate Loan.
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(i) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice for Eurodollar Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage under the applicable Facility of the applicable Committed Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Appropriate Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans described in the preceding subsection. In the case of a Committed Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Committed Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 12:00 noon 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 Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower; provided, however, that if, on the date a Committed Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Credit Borrowing is given by the Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made available to the Borrower as provided above.
(ii) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice for a Quoted Rate Loan, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Term A Lender of the request for a Quoted Rate Loan and request that such Term A Lenders quote an applicable Quoted Rate and Quoted Rate Period for such requested Quoted Rate Loan. If 100% of the Term A Lenders agree upon a proposed Quoted Rate and Quoted Rate Period, as determined in each such Term A Lender’s sole discretion, and provide notice thereof to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon at least two Business Days prior to the first day of the requested Quoted Rate Period, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of the proposed Quoted Rate and Quoted Rate Period applicable to the requested Quoted Rate Loan. The Borrower may decline to accept a proposed Quote Rate and Quoted Rate Period quoted by the Term A Lenders by notifying
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the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon at least one Business Day prior to the first day of the proposed Quoted Rate Period. If the Borrower declines to accept a proposed Quoted Rate and the Quoted Rate Period quoted by the Term A Lenders, or if less than 100% of the Term A Lenders provide notice to the Administrative Agent of their agreement to a proposed Quoted Rate and the Quoted Rate Period at least two Business Days prior to the first day of the proposed Quoted Rate Period, the requested Quoted Rate Loan shall automatically and without further request by the Borrower be continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan or Base Rate Loan, as applicable. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Quoted Rate Period for a Quoted Rate Loan under the Term A Facility shall begin on a Business Day and shall end on the Maturity Date for the Term A Loans; provided, however, in no event shall the Quoted Rate Period be less than one (1) year.
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(i) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan. During the existence of any Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans with Interest Periods in excess of one month without the consent of the Required Lenders. During the existence of any Event of Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans without the consent of the Required Lenders.
(ii) During the existence of any Default or Event of Default, no Term A Loans may be requested as, or converted to, Quoted Rate Loans without the consent of 100% of the Term A Lenders.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower 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 Term Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than seven Interest Periods in effect with respect to Term Loans. 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 with respect Revolving Credit Loans.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, any Lender may exchange, continue or rollover all or any portion of its Loans in connection with any refinancing, extension, loan modification or similar transaction permitted by the terms of this Agreement, pursuant to a cashless settlement mechanism approved by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and such Lender.
2.03 Letters of Credit
(a) The Letter of Credit Commitment.
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(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or in Canadian Dollars for the account of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, and to amend or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with subsection (b) below, 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 Borrower or its Subsidiaries 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 Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments, (y) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and (z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit. Each request by the Borrower for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by the Borrower 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, the Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed. All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.
(ii) The applicable 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 Revolving Credit 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, (x) unless all the Revolving Credit Lenders and the L/C Issuer have approved such expiry date and (y) such Letter of Credit is Cash Collateralized on terms and pursuant to arrangements satisfactory to such L/C Issuer.
(iii) The applicable 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 such L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in
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particular or shall impose upon such 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 Restatement Date, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Restatement Date and which such L/C Issuer in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it;
(B) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of such L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally;
(C) except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and such 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;
(D) such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Canadian Dollars;
(E) such Letter of Credit provides for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing thereunder; or
(F) any Revolving Credit Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless such L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements, including the delivery of Cash Collateral, satisfactory to such L/C Issuer (in its sole discretion) with the Borrower or such Lender to eliminate such L/C Issuer’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.16(a)(iv)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either such Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which such L/C Issuer has actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion.
(iv) An L/C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if such 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) An L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.
(vi) Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and such L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX 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
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“Administrative Agent” as used in Article IX included such L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein with respect to L/C Issuers.
(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 delivered to the applicable 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. Such Letter of Credit Application may be sent by facsimile, by United States mail, by overnight courier, by electronic transmission using the system provided by such L/C Issuer, by personal delivery or by any other means acceptable to such L/C Issuer. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. at least two Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and such 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 applicable L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount and currency thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose and nature of the requested Letter of Credit; and (H) such other matters as such L/C Issuer may 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 satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer (1) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (2) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (3) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (4) such other matters as such L/C Issuer may require. Additionally, the Borrower shall furnish to such 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 such L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent may require.
(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the applicable 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 and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Unless the applicable L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Revolving Credit 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 Borrower (or the applicable Subsidiary) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with such 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 such L/C Issuer a risk participation in
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such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.
(iii) If the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer may, in its sole and absolute discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an “Auto-Extension Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit such 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 notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Extension Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by such L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to such L/C Issuer for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) such 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 such L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) such 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 clause (ii) or (iii) of 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 seven Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Revolving Credit Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (2) from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing such 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 applicable L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.
(c) Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.
(i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the applicable L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof. In the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in Canadian Dollars, the Borrower shall reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer in Canadian Dollars, unless (A) such L/C Issuer (at its option) shall have specified in such notice that it will require reimbursement in Dollars, or (B) in the absence of any such requirement for reimbursement in Dollars, the Borrower shall have notified such L/C Issuer promptly following receipt of the notice of drawing that the Borrower will reimburse such L/C Issuer in Dollars. In the case of any such reimbursement in Dollars of a drawing under a Letter of Credit denominated in Canadian Dollars, the applicable L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of the drawing promptly following the determination thereof. Not later than 10:00 a.m. on the date of any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an “Honor
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Date”), the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing and in the applicable currency. If the Borrower fails to so reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (expressed in Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in Canadian Dollars) (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof. In such event, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Aggregate 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 applicable 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 (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral provided for this purpose) for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agent’s Office for Dollar-denominated payments in an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Dollar Equivalent of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 12:00 noon on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the applicable L/C Issuer in Dollars.
(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the applicable L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such event, each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.
(iv) Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse such L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of such L/C Issuer.
(v) Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section
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2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against such L/C Issuer, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, 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 the Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
(vi) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii) then, without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, such L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by such L/C Issuer in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such L/C Issuer in connection with the foregoing. If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Revolving Credit Loan included in the relevant Revolving Credit Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be. A certificate of an L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) At any time after an L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), 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 Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit 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 Dollars and 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 applicable L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the
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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 Borrower to reimburse the applicable 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 the 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), such 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) waiver by such L/C Issuer of any requirement that exists for the L/C Issuer’s protection and not the protection of the Borrower or any waiver by the L/C Issuer which does not in fact materially prejudice the Borrower;
(v) honor of a demand for payment presented electronically even if such Letter of Credit requires that demand be in the form of a draft;
(vi) any payment made by such L/C Issuer in respect of an otherwise complying item presented after the date specified as the expiration date of, or the date by which documents must be received under such Letter of Credit if presentation after such date is authorized by the UCC, the ISP or the UCP, as applicable;
(vii) any payment by such 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 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;
(viii) any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of Canadian Dollars to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally; or
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(ix) 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, the Borrower or any Subsidiary.
The Borrower 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’s instructions or other irregularity in the terms or form of such Letter of Credit or amendment, as the case may be, the Borrower will promptly notify the applicable L/C Issuer. The Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the applicable L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.
(f) Role of L/C Issuers. Each Lender and the Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the applicable 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 Issuers, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuers shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Revolving Credit Lenders or the Required Revolving Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document. The Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrower’s pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuers, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuers 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 Borrower may have a claim against an L/C Issuer, and an L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower which the Borrower proves were caused by such L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence or such 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, an 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 such 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. Each L/C Issuer may send a Letter of Credit or conduct any communication to or from the beneficiary via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication message or overnight courier, or any other commercially reasonable means of communicating with a beneficiary.
(g) Applicability of ISP and UCP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Borrower 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 UCP shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the applicable L/C Issuer shall not be responsible to the Borrower for, and the applicable L/C Issuer’s rights and remedies against the Borrower shall not be impaired by, any action or inaction of such L/C Issuer required or permitted under any
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law, order, or practice that is required or permitted to be applied to any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, including the Law or any order of a jurisdiction where such L/C Issuer or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in the ISP or UCP, as applicable, or in the decisions, opinions, practice statements, or official commentary of the ICC Banking Commission, the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade – International Financial Services Association (BAFT-IFSA), or the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, whether or not any Letter of Credit chooses such law or practice.
(h) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage a Letter of Credit fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) in Dollars for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate times the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit; provided, however, any Letter of Credit Fees otherwise payable for the account of a Defaulting Lender with respect to any Letter of Credit as to which such Defaulting Lender has not provided Cash Collateral satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer pursuant to this Section 2.03 shall be payable, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, to the other Lenders in accordance with the upward adjustments in their respective Applicable Revolving Credit Percentages allocable to such Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.16(a)(iv), with the balance of such fee, if any, payable to such L/C Issuer for its own account. 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 be (i) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and (ii) due and payable on the first Business Day after 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, so long as any Payment Default exists, upon the request of the Required Revolving Lenders all Letter of Credit Fees will accrue at the Default Rate.
(i) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer. The Borrower shall pay directly to the applicable L/C Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, a fronting fee (i) with respect to each commercial Letter of Credit issued by the applicable L/C Issuer, at the rate separately agreed by the applicable L/C Issuer, 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 issued by the applicable L/C Issuer increasing the amount of such Letter of Credit, at a rate separately agreed between the Borrower and the applicable 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 issued by the applicable L/C Issuer, at the rate per annum in an amount separately agreed by the applicable L/C Issuer, computed on the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit and on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the tenth Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in respect of the most recently-ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), 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 Borrower shall pay directly to the applicable L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.
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(j) 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.
(k) 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 Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the Borrower, and that the Borrower’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Subsidiaries.
(l) Provisions Related to Letters of Credit in respect of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments. If the expiry date of any Letter of Credit occurs after the date that is seven days prior to the Maturity Date in respect of any Class of Revolving Credit Commitments (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day), then (i) if consented to by the applicable L/C Issuer, if another Class of Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of which the Maturity Date shall not have so occurred are then in effect, such Letters of Credit for which consent has been obtained shall automatically be deemed to have been issued (including for purposes of the obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders to purchase participations therein and to make Revolving Credit Loans and payments in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and (d)) under (and ratably participated in by Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to) the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such non-terminating Classes up to an aggregate amount not to exceed the aggregate amount of the unutilized Revolving Credit Commitments thereunder at such time (it being understood that no partial face amount of any Letter of Credit may be so reallocated); (ii) the obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders under the terminating Class to purchase participations in such Letters of Credit and to make Revolving Credit Loans and payments in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and (d) shall terminate on the Maturity Date for such Class; and (iii) to the extent not reallocated pursuant to immediately preceding subclause (i), the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize any such Letter of Credit in accordance with Section 2.15. Upon the maturity date of any Class of Revolving Credit Commitments, the sublimit for Letters of Credit may be reduced as agreed between the L/C Issuers and the Borrower, without the consent of any other Person.
2.04 Swing Line Loans.
(a) The Swing Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, may, in its sole discretion, make loans (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) to the Borrower 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 Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations of the Revolving Credit Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however, that (i) after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, (A) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments, and (B) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender (other than the Revolving Credit Lender acting as Swing Line Lender as described above) shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; (ii) the Borrower shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan; and (iii) the Swing Line Lender shall not be under any obligation to make any Swing Line Loan if it shall determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that it has, or by such Credit Extension may have, Fronting Exposure. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions
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hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04. Each Swing Line Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan. Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.
(b) Borrowing Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by (A) telephone or (B) by a Swing Line Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a Swing Line Loan Notice. Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon 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. 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 1:00 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 2:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the Borrower at its office by crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of the Swing Line Lender in immediately available funds.
(c) Refinancing of Swing Line Loans.
(i) The Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of the 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 Revolving Credit 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 Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral available with respect to the applicable Swing Line Loan) for the account of the Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 12:00 noon 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
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made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower 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, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Swing Line Lender in connection with the foregoing. If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Revolving Credit Loan included in the relevant Borrowing or funded participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan, as the case may be. 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.
(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 Revolving Credit Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, 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 Borrower 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 Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such payment (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s risk
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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 10.05 (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 Revolving Credit 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 Revolving Credit 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. The Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the Borrower for interest on the Swing Line Loans. Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Base Rate Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage shall be solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.
(f) Payments Directly to Swing Line Lender. The Borrower shall make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans directly to the Swing Line Lender.
2.05 Prepayments.
(a) Voluntary Prepayments of Loans.
(i) Revolving Credit Loans and Term Loans. The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Loan Prepayment, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Revolving Credit Loans or any Class of Term Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (i) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans or Quoted Rate Loan, as applicable and (B) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (ii) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans or Quoted Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (iii) 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 and, if Eurodollar Rate Loans or Quoted Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) or Quoted Rate Period, as applicable, of such Loans. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Appropriate Lender’s ratable portion of such prepayment (based on such Appropriate Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility). If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan or Quoted Rate Loan shall be
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accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05, as applicable. Subject to Section 2.16, each such prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans of any Class pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to such Class as directed by the Borrower (and absent any such direction, in direct order of maturity of remaining amortization payments of such Class), and each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans of any Class or the Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of each of the relevant Classes or Facilities, as applicable.
(ii) Swing Line Loans. The Borrower may, upon notice to the Swing Line Lender pursuant to the delivery to the Swing Line Lender of a Notice of Loan Prepayment (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon on the date of the prepayment, and (B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.
(b) Mandatory Prepayments of Loans.
(i) Revolving Credit Commitments. If for any reason the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings at any time exceed the Aggregate Credit Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect, the Borrower shall immediately prepay Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and/or L/C Borrowings and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (other than L/C Borrowings) in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) unless after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect.
(ii) Recovery Events. Subject to Section 2.05(b)(vi) below, to the extent of Net Cash Proceeds received in connection with a Recovery Event which are in excess of $50,000,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year and which are not applied to repair, replace or relocate damaged property or to purchase or acquire fixed or capital assets in replacement of the assets lost or destroyed within eighteen (18) months of the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds (or in the case of a binding commitment in respect of an application within such eighteen (18) months, twenty-four (24) months of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds), the Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans in an aggregate amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such Net Cash Proceeds by the fifth (5th) Business Day following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (viii) below); provided that if such Net Cash Proceeds have not been reinvested or committed to be reinvested within the time periods set forth above, the Borrower shall be required to prepay the Term Loans with such Net Cash Proceeds.
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(iii) Dispositions. Subject to Section 2.05(b)(vi) below, the Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans on the fifth (5th) Business Day following receipt of Net Cash Proceeds from a Disposition in reliance on Section 7.05(no) in an aggregate amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the amount that such Net Cash Proceeds exceed $50,000,000 in any fiscal year (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (viii) below) (any such transaction or series of related transactions resulting in Net Cash Proceeds being a “Relevant Transaction”); provided that if (1) the Borrower shall deliver a certificate of a Responsible Officer to the Administrative Agent at the time of receipt thereof setting forth the Borrower’s intent to reinvest such proceeds in capital assets useful in the business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary within eighteen (18) months of the receipt of such proceeds and (2) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such certificate or at the proposed time of the application of such proceeds, such proceeds shall not be required to be applied to prepay the Term Loans except to the extent such proceeds are not so reinvested within such eighteen (18) month period (or in the case of a binding commitment in respect of an application within such eighteen (18) months, twenty-four (24) months of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds); provided further, however, that any Net Cash Proceeds not subject to such binding commitment or so reinvested shall be immediately applied to the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05(b)(iii).
(iv) Incurrence of Indebtedness. The Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans substantially concurrently following receipt of Net Cash Proceeds from any incurrence or issuance of Indebtedness (including, for purposes hereof, any debt instrument convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Equity Interests) by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, other than Indebtedness expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03 (other than any Credit Agreement Refinancing Facilities and any Permitted External Refinancing Indebtedness) in an aggregate amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such Net Cash Proceeds (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (viii) below).
(v) [Reserved].
(vi) Repatriation Considerations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of Sections 2.05(b)(ii) and 2.05(b)(iii), (i) to the extent that any of or all the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition with respect to any property or assets of Foreign Subsidiaries giving rise to a mandatory prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) are prohibited, delayed or restricted by applicable local Law , an amount equal to the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.05(b) but may be retained by the applicable Restricted Subsidiary (the Borrower hereby agreeing to cause the applicable Restricted Subsidiary to promptly take commercially reasonable actions available under applicable local Law to permit such repatriation or a part thereof if full repatriation is not permitted) and (ii) to the extent that the Borrower has determined in good faith that repatriation of any of or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition with respect to any property or assets of Foreign Subsidiaries to the jurisdiction of organization of the Borrower would have a material adverse Tax consequence with respect to such Net Cash Proceeds, the Net Cash Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to repay the Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.05(b)