CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of May 25, 2017 among BLUE BUFFALO PET PRODUCTS, INC., as Borrower, The Lenders Party Hereto and CITIBANK, N.A., as the Administrative Agent, a Swingline Lender and an Issuing Bank CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. and JPMORGAN...
Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of
May 25, 2017
among
BLUE BUFFALO PET PRODUCTS, INC.,
as Borrower,
The Lenders Party Hereto
and
CITIBANK, N.A.,
as the Administrative Agent, a Swingline Lender and an Issuing Bank
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE | ||||
ARTICLE I. Definitions |
1 | |||
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms |
1 | |||
SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings |
83 | |||
SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally |
83 | |||
SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP |
84 | |||
SECTION 1.05. Currency Translation |
84 | |||
SECTION 1.06. Additional Alternative Currencies |
85 | |||
SECTION 1.07. Rounding |
86 | |||
SECTION 1.08. Times of Day |
86 | |||
SECTION 1.09. Timing of Payment or Performance |
86 | |||
SECTION 1.10. Limited Condition Acquisitions |
86 | |||
SECTION 1.11. Pro Forma and Other Calculations |
87 | |||
ARTICLE II. The Credits |
90 | |||
SECTION 2.01. Commitments |
90 | |||
SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings |
90 | |||
SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings |
91 | |||
SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans |
91 | |||
SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit |
93 | |||
SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings |
98 | |||
SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections |
99 | |||
SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments |
100 | |||
SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt |
101 | |||
SECTION 2.10. Amortization of Term Loans |
101 | |||
SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans |
102 | |||
SECTION 2.12. Fees |
112 | |||
SECTION 2.13. Interest |
113 | |||
SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest |
114 | |||
SECTION 2.15. Increased Costs |
114 | |||
SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments |
115 | |||
SECTION 2.17. Taxes |
116 | |||
SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs |
119 | |||
SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
120 | |||
SECTION 2.20. Incremental Credit Extensions |
121 | |||
SECTION 2.21. Maturity Extension |
126 | |||
SECTION 2.22. Defaulting Lenders |
130 | |||
SECTION 2.23. Illegality |
132 | |||
ARTICLE III. Representations and Warranties |
132 | |||
SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers |
132 | |||
SECTION 3.02. Authorization |
133 | |||
SECTION 3.03. Enforceability |
133 | |||
SECTION 3.04. Governmental Approvals |
133 | |||
SECTION 3.05. Financial Statements |
133 | |||
SECTION 3.06. No Material Adverse Change or Material Adverse Effect |
134 |
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SECTION 3.07. Title to Properties |
134 | |||
SECTION 3.08. Subsidiaries |
134 | |||
SECTION 3.09. Litigation; Compliance with Laws |
134 | |||
SECTION 3.10. Federal Reserve Regulations |
134 | |||
SECTION 3.11. Investment Company Act |
135 | |||
SECTION 3.12. Use of Proceeds |
135 | |||
SECTION 3.13. Taxes |
135 | |||
SECTION 3.14. No Material Misstatements |
135 | |||
SECTION 3.15. ERISA |
136 | |||
SECTION 3.16. Environmental Matters |
136 | |||
SECTION 3.17. Security Documents |
136 | |||
SECTION 3.18. Solvency |
137 | |||
SECTION 3.19. Labor Matters |
137 | |||
SECTION 3.20. Senior Debt |
137 | |||
SECTION 3.21. Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. |
138 | |||
SECTION 3.22. Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions Laws |
138 | |||
ARTICLE IV. Conditions |
139 | |||
SECTION 4.01. Effective Date |
139 | |||
SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event |
140 | |||
ARTICLE V. Affirmative Covenants |
141 | |||
SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information |
141 | |||
SECTION 5.02. Existence; Business and Properties |
144 | |||
SECTION 5.03. Insurance |
144 | |||
SECTION 5.04. Payment of Taxes and Obligations, etc. |
145 | |||
SECTION 5.05. Notices of Material Events |
145 | |||
SECTION 5.06. Compliance with Laws |
146 | |||
SECTION 5.07. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and Inspections |
146 | |||
SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds |
146 | |||
SECTION 5.09. Compliance with Environmental Laws |
146 | |||
SECTION 5.10. Additional Subsidiaries |
147 | |||
SECTION 5.11. Further Assurances |
147 | |||
SECTION 5.12. Maintenance of Ratings |
148 | |||
SECTION 5.13. Designation of Subsidiaries |
148 | |||
SECTION 5.14. [reserved] |
148 | |||
SECTION 5.15. Business of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries |
148 | |||
SECTION 5.16. Fiscal Year |
149 | |||
ARTICLE VI. Negative Covenants |
149 | |||
SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness |
149 | |||
SECTION 6.02. Liens |
159 | |||
SECTION 6.03. Limitation on Fundamental Changes |
164 | |||
SECTION 6.04. Limitation on Sale of Assets |
167 | |||
SECTION 6.05. Limitation on Investments |
171 | |||
SECTION 6.06. Limitations on Restricted Payments |
176 | |||
SECTION 6.07. Limitations on Debt Payments and Amendments |
181 | |||
SECTION 6.08. Negative Pledge Clauses |
182 |
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SECTION 6.09. Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio |
185 | |||
SECTION 6.10. Transactions with Affiliates |
185 | |||
ARTICLE VII. Events of Default |
188 | |||
SECTION 7.01. Events of Default |
188 | |||
SECTION 7.02. Right to Cure |
191 | |||
ARTICLE VIII. Administrative Agent |
192 | |||
SECTION 8.01. Appointment and Authority |
192 | |||
SECTION 8.02. Rights as a Lender |
193 | |||
SECTION 8.03. Exculpatory Provisions |
193 | |||
SECTION 8.04. Reliance by Administrative Agent |
194 | |||
SECTION 8.05. Delegation of Duties |
194 | |||
SECTION 8.06. Resignation of Administrative Agent |
194 | |||
SECTION 8.07. Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders |
195 | |||
SECTION 8.08. No Other Duties, Etc. |
196 | |||
SECTION 8.09. Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim |
196 | |||
SECTION 8.10. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement |
197 | |||
SECTION 8.11. Authorization to Release Liens and Guarantees |
198 | |||
SECTION 8.12. Intercreditor Agreements |
198 | |||
SECTION 8.13. Secured Cash Management Obligations and Secured Swap Obligation |
198 | |||
ARTICLE IX. Miscellaneous |
198 | |||
SECTION 9.01. Notices |
198 | |||
SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments |
200 | |||
SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
203 | |||
SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns |
205 | |||
SECTION 9.05. Survival |
209 | |||
SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
210 | |||
SECTION 9.07. Severability |
210 | |||
SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff |
210 | |||
SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process |
211 | |||
SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
212 | |||
SECTION 9.11. Headings |
212 | |||
SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality |
212 | |||
SECTION 9.13. USA Patriot Act |
214 | |||
SECTION 9.14. Judgment Currency |
214 | |||
SECTION 9.15. Release of Liens and Guarantees |
214 | |||
SECTION 9.16. No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
216 | |||
SECTION 9.17. Interest Rate Limitation |
216 | |||
SECTION 9.18. Additional Secured Indebtedness |
217 | |||
SECTION 9.19. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions |
217 |
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SCHEDULES: | ||||||
Schedule 2.01 |
— | Commitments | ||||
Schedule 3.08 |
— | Subsidiaries | ||||
Schedule 6.01 |
— | Existing Indebtedness | ||||
Schedule 6.02 |
— | Existing Liens | ||||
Schedule 6.04 |
— | Asset Sales | ||||
Schedule 6.05 |
— | Existing Investments | ||||
Schedule 6.08 |
— | Existing Restrictions | ||||
Schedule 6.10 |
— | Existing Affiliate Transactions | ||||
Schedule 9.01 |
— | Notices | ||||
EXHIBITS: | ||||||
Exhibit A-1 |
— | Form of Assignment and Assumption | ||||
Exhibit A-2 |
— | Form of Assignment and Assumption (Affiliated Lender) | ||||
Exhibit B |
— | Form of Guarantee Agreement | ||||
Exhibit C |
— | Form of Collateral Agreement | ||||
Exhibit D |
— | Form of Perfection Certificate | ||||
Exhibit E |
— | Form of Initial Term Note | ||||
Exhibit F |
— | Form of Revolving Note | ||||
Exhibit G |
— | Form of Closing Certificate | ||||
Exhibit H |
— | Form of Solvency Certificate | ||||
Exhibit I |
— | Form of Specified Discount Prepayment Notice | ||||
Exhibit J |
— | Form of Specified Discount Prepayment Response | ||||
Exhibit K |
— | Form of Discount Range Prepayment Notice | ||||
Exhibit L |
— | Form of Discount Range Prepayment Offer | ||||
Exhibit M |
— | Form of Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice | ||||
Exhibit N |
— | Form of Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer | ||||
Exhibit O |
— | Form of Acceptance and Prepayment Notice | ||||
Exhibit P-1 |
— | Form of Tax Certificate for Non-U.S. Lenders that are not Partnerships | ||||
Exhibit P-2 |
— | Form of Tax Certificate for Non-U.S. Lenders that are Partnerships | ||||
Exhibit P-3 |
— | Form of Tax Certificate for Non-U.S. Participants that are not Partnerships | ||||
Exhibit P-4 |
— | Form of Tax Certificate for Non-U.S. Participants that are Partnerships | ||||
Exhibit Q |
— | Form of Intercompany Note | ||||
Exhibit R-1 |
— | Form of Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement | ||||
Exhibit R-2 |
— | Form of Junior Priority Intercreditor Agreement | ||||
Exhibit R-3 |
— | Form of Notice of Borrowing |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of May 25, 2017 (this “Agreement”), among BLUE BUFFALO PET PRODUCTS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”; as hereinafter further defined), the LENDERS party hereto and CITIBANK, N.A., as the Administrative Agent, a Swingline Lender and an Issuing Bank.
The parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
“ABR,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
“Acceptable Discount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Acceptable Prepayment Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment” means a binding commitment of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary entered into at any time prior to the end of the Reinvestment Period to reinvest the proceeds of an Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Casualty Prepayment Event.
“Acceptance and Prepayment Notice” means a written notice from the Borrower accepting a Solicited Discounted
Prepayment Offer to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment at the Acceptable Discount specified therein pursuant to
Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D) substantially in the form of
Exhibit O.
“Acceptance Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Accounting Change” means any change in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or, if applicable, the SEC.
“Acquired EBITDA” means, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any Converted Restricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Pro Forma Entity (determined as if references to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA” were references to such Pro Forma Entity and its subsidiaries that will become Restricted Subsidiaries), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Pro Forma Entity in accordance with GAAP.
“Acquired Entity or Business” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Acquired Person” shall have the meaning provided in Section 6.01(k)(i)(E).
“Acquisition” means any acquisition by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, whether by purchase, merger, consolidation, contribution or otherwise, of (a) at least a majority of the assets or property and/or liabilities (or any other substantial part for which financial statements or other financial information is available), or a business line, product line, unit or division of, any other Person, (b) the Equity Interest of any other Person such that such other Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or (c) additional Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary not then held by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
“Additional Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.20(f).
“Additional Revolving Lender” means, at any time, any bank, financial institution or other investor that agrees to provide any portion of any Incremental Revolving Commitment or Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase pursuant to an Incremental Amendment in accordance with Section 2.20; provided that each Additional Revolving Lender shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and, if such Additional Revolving Lender will provide an Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase, each Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender (such approval in each case not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and the Borrower, in each case, to the extent any such approvals would otherwise be required for an assignment to a Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 9.04(b)(i) hereof.
“Additional Term Lender” means, at any time, any bank, financial institution or other investor that agrees to provide any portion of any Incremental Term Loan or Incremental Term Loan Commitment pursuant to an Incremental Amendment in accordance with Section 2.20; provided that each Additional Term Lender (other than any Person that is a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund of a Lender at such time) shall be subject to the approval of the Borrower, in each case, to the extent any such approval would otherwise be required for an assignment to a Lender of Term Loans pursuant to Section 9.04(b)(i) hereof.
“Administrative Agent” means Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent and collateral agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Article VIII.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an administrative questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly or indirectly Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.
“Affiliated Lender” means, at any time, a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate or a Debt Fund Affiliate.
“Agent Parties” has the meaning given to such term in Section 9.01(c).
“Agreement” has the meaning given to such term in the preliminary statements hereto.
“AHYDO Catch-Up Payment” shall mean any payment with respect to any obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, including subordinated debt obligations to avoid the application of Section 163(e)(5) of the Code thereto.
“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect for such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%, (c) the Eurocurrency Rate determined pursuant to clause (b) of the definition thereof on such day
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(or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) for a deposit in Dollars with a maturity of one month plus 1.00% and (d) 0.00%. If the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination should be conclusive absent manifest error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate for any reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative Agent to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms of the definition thereof, the Alternate Base Rate shall be determined without regard to clause (b) of the preceding sentence until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate, respectively.
“Alternative Currency” means each currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.06.
“Alternative Currency Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Alternative Currency (rounded to the nearest unit of such Alternative Currency, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded upward) as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Bank, 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 such Alternative Currency with Dollars.
“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means any Requirements of Law applicable to a Loan Party or its Restricted Subsidiaries, related to terrorism financing or money laundering, including any applicable provision of Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act and The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act (also known as the “Bank Secrecy Act” 31 U.S.C. §§ 5311-5330 and 12 U.S.C. §§ 1818(s), 1820(b) and 1951-1959).
“Anticipated Cure Deadline” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.02(b).
“Applicable Account” means, with respect to any payment to be made to the Administrative Agent hereunder, the account specified by the Administrative Agent from time to time for the purpose of receiving payments of such type.
“Applicable Discount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Applicable Percentage” means, (a) at any time with respect to any Revolving Lender, the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Commitments represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitment at such time, (b) at any time with respect to any Lender with an Incremental Revolving Commitment of any Class, the percentage of the aggregate Incremental Revolving Commitments of such Class represented by such Lender’s Incremental Revolving Commitment at such time and (c) at any time with respect to any Lender with an Extended Revolving Commitment of any Class, the percentage of the aggregate Extended Revolving Commitments of such Class represented by such Lender’s Extended Revolving Commitment at such time; provided that, at any time any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender, “Applicable Percentage” means the percentage of the total Revolving Commitments, Incremental Revolving Commitments or Extended Revolving Commitments, as applicable, (disregarding any such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment) represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, Incremental Revolving Commitment or Extended Revolving Commitment, as applicable. If the applicable Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the applicable Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments pursuant to this Agreement and to any Lender’s status as a Defaulting Lender at the time of determination.
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“Applicable Rate” means, for any day,
(a) with respect to any Initial Term Loan, Revolving Loan with respect to Revolving Commitments established on the Effective Date or the Revolving Commitment Fee with respect to such Revolving Commitments, the lower of (1) the applicable rate per annum set forth below, based upon the Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(d); provided that, for the purposes of clause (b), until the date of the delivery of the consolidated financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) as of and for the first full fiscal quarter ended after the Effective Date, the Applicable Rate shall be based on the rates per annum set forth in Category 1:
Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio |
ABR Spread for Revolving Loans and Initial Term Loans |
Eurocurrency Spread for Revolving Loans and Initial Term Loans |
Revolving Commitment Fee |
|||||||||
Category 1 Greater than 1.00 to 1.00 |
1.00 | % | 2.00 | % | 0.25 | % | ||||||
Category 2 Less than or equal to 1.00 to 1.00 or |
0.75 | % | 1.75 | % | 0.25 | % |
and (2) if the Borrower has an Investment Grade Rating as of the date of the most recent Compliance Certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(d), (A) 0.75% per annum, in the case of an ABR Loan, and (B) 1.75% per annum, in the case of a Eurocurrency Loan and
(b) with respect to any Incremental Revolving Facility, Incremental Term Loan Facility, Extended Revolving Facility or Extended Term Facility, the rate set forth in the applicable Incremental Amendment or Extension Amendment.
For purposes of the foregoing, each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio and/or Investment Grade Rating shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the Business Day following the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) of the consolidated financial statements and related Compliance Certificate indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Applicable Rate for Initial Term Loans, Revolving Loans and the Revolving Commitment Fee, at the option of the Administrative Agent or the Required Revolving Lenders, shall be based on the rates per annum set forth in Category 1 (i) at any time that an Event of Default under Section 7.01(a) has occurred and is continuing and shall continue to so apply to but excluding the date on which such Event of Default shall cease to be continuing (and thereafter, the Category otherwise determined in accordance with this definition shall apply) or (ii) if the Borrower fails to deliver the consolidated financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) or any Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant hereto, in each case within the time periods specified herein for such delivery, during the period commencing on and including the day of the occurrence of a Default resulting from such failure and until the delivery thereof.
“Applicable Tax Owner” means the applicable direct or indirect equity owner of a Lender to which the applicable U.S. federal withholding tax relates.
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“Approved Bank” means any commercial bank that (i) is a Lender or (ii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000.
“Approved Foreign Bank” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Cash Equivalents.”
“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
“Asset Sale Prepayment Event” means any Disposition (or series of related Dispositions) of any business unit, asset or property of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (including any Disposition of any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Borrower owned by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, but not, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with a Casualty Prepayment Event) made pursuant to clauses (b), (c), (d)(ii), (q) and (r) of Section 6.04 or made in violation of Section 6.04.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any Person whose consent is required by Section 9.04), substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 or Exhibit A-2, as appropriate or any other form reasonably approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Auction Agent” means (a) the Administrative Agent or (b) any other financial institution or advisor employed or engaged by the Borrower (whether or not an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent) to act as an arranger in connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii); provided that the Borrower shall not designate the Administrative Agent as the Auction Agent without the written consent of the Administrative Agent (it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to agree to act as the Auction Agent).
“Australian Dollars” and “A$” means freely transferable lawful money of the Commonwealth of Australia (expressed in Australian dollars).
“Available Amount” means, at any time (the “Available Amount Reference Time”), an amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to
(a) the sum (without duplication) of:
(i) the amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to 50% of the Cumulative Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries; plus
(ii) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, the aggregate amount of all dividends, returns, interest, profits, distributions, income and similar amounts received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from any Investment (which amounts when combined with any such amount set forth in clause (iii) below shall not exceed the original amount of such Investment (valued at the time such Investment was made)) to the extent such Investment was made by using the Available Amount during the period from the Business Day immediately following the Effective Date through the Available Amount Reference Time;
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(iii) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income or applied to prepay the Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.11(b) or to prepay, repurchase, redeem, defease or make any similar payment of any Permitted Additional Debt, any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or other Indebtedness, the aggregate amount of all Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the Disposition of its ownership interest in any Investment (which amounts when combined with any such amount set forth in clause (ii) above shall not exceed the original amount of any such Investment (valued at the time such Investment was made)) to any Person other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary and to the extent such Investment was made by using the Available Amount during the period from the Business Day immediately following the Effective Date through the Available Amount Reference Time;
(iv) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, the aggregate amount of all cash or Cash Equivalent repayments of principal received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from any Investment (which amounts shall not exceed the original amount of such Investment (valued at the time such Investment was made)) to the extent such Investment was made by using the Available Amount during the period, from the Business Day immediately following the Effective Date through the Available Amount Reference Time in respect of loans made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and that constituted Investments; and
(v) the amount of any Investment of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in any Unrestricted Subsidiary that has been re-designated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 5.13 or that has been merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 6.05 or the amount of assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary Disposed of to the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case following the Effective Date and through the Available Amount Reference Time, in each case, such amount not to exceed the lesser of (x) the Fair Market Value of the Investments of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary immediately prior to giving pro forma effect to such re-designation or merger, amalgamation or consolidation or Disposal of assets and (y) the amount originally invested from the Available Amount by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary;
minus
(b) the sum of, without duplication and without taking into account the proposed portion of the amount calculated above to be used at the applicable Available Amount Reference Time:
(i) the aggregate amount of any Investments made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Amount pursuant to Section 6.05 after the Effective Date and prior to the Available Amount Reference Time;
(ii) the aggregate amount of any Restricted Payments made by the Borrower using the Available Amount pursuant to Section 6.06(f) after the Effective Date and prior to the Available Amount Reference Time; and
(iii) the aggregate amount of prepayments, repurchases, redemptions, defeasances, acquisitions and other similar payments made by the Borrower or any
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Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Amount pursuant to Section 6.07(a) after the Effective Date and prior to the Available Amount Reference Time.
“Available Amount Reference Time” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Available Amount”.
“Available Equity Amount” means, at any time (the “Available Equity Amount Reference Time”), an amount equal at such time to
(a) the sum of, without duplication:
(i) the aggregate amount of cash and the Fair Market Value of marketable securities or other property, in each case, contributed to the capital of the Borrower or the proceeds received by the Borrower from the issuance of any Equity Interests (or Incurrences of Indebtedness that have been converted into or exchanged for Qualified Equity Interests), in each case during the period after the Effective Date through and including the Available Equity Amount Reference Time and to the extent Not Otherwise Applied and excluding (for the avoidance of doubt):
(A) all proceeds from the issuance of Disqualified Equity Interests;
(B) any Excluded Contribution; and
(C) any Cure Amount;
(ii) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, the aggregate amount of all Returns (to the extent made in cash or Cash Equivalents) received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary on Investments made using the Available Equity Amount during the period after the Effective Date through and including the Available Equity Amount Reference Time (which shall not exceed the original amount of such Investment (valued at the time of such Investment was made));
(iii) (x) the Fair Market Value or (y) if the Fair Market Value of such Term Loans cannot be ascertained, the Fair Market Value shall be the purchase price of such Term Loans (which, in the case of each of clause (x) or (y), shall not in any event be calculated in excess of par) of Term Loans contributed directly or indirectly by the Controlling Shareholder or a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate to the Borrower during the period after the Effective Date through and including the Available Equity Amount Reference Time and such Term Loans are cancelled following such contribution;
(iv) the greater of $95,000,000 and 33% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries; and
(v) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income or the Available Amount, the aggregate amount (which amount shall not be less than zero) of any Declined Amounts retained by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during the period after the Effective Date through and including the Available Equity Amount Reference Time;
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(b) the sum of, without duplication and without taking into account the proposed portion of the Available Equity Amount calculated above to be used at the applicable Available Equity Amount Reference Time:
(i) the aggregate amount of any Permitted Investments made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Equity Amount pursuant to Section 6.05 after the Effective Date and prior to the Available Equity Amount Reference Time;
(ii) the aggregate amount of any Restricted Payments made by the Borrower using the Available Equity Amount pursuant to Section 6.06(f) after the Effective Date and prior to the Available Equity Amount Reference Time; and
(iii) the aggregate amount of prepayments, repurchases, redemptions, defeasances, acquisitions and other similar payments made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Equity Amount pursuant to Section 6.07(a) after the Effective Date and prior to the Available Equity Amount Reference Time.
“Available Equity Amount Reference Time” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Available Equity Amount”.
“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 EEA Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means 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 for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.
“Basel III” means, collectively, those certain agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in “Basel III: A Global Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and Banking Systems,” “Basel III: International Framework for Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards and Monitoring,” and “Guidance for National Authorities Operating the Countercyclical Capital Buffer,” each as published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010 (as revised from time to time) and as interpreted by a Lender’s primary U.S. federal bank regulatory authority or primary non-U.S. financial regulatory authority, as applicable.
“Board of Directors” means, with respect to any Person, (a) in the case of any corporation, the board of directors of such Person or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board, (b) in the case of any limited liability company, the board of managers of such Person, (c) in the case of any partnership, the board of directors or board of managers of the general partner of such Person and (d) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the foregoing.
“Borrower” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble and shall include any Successor Borrower pursuant to Section 6.03(a), to the extent applicable.
“Borrower Materials” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.01.
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“Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment” means the offer by the Borrower to make a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a specified discount to par pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by the Borrower of offers for, and the corresponding acceptance by a Term Lender of, a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a specified range at a discount to par pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by the Borrower of offers for, and the subsequent acceptance, if any, by a Term Lender of, a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a discount to par pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Borrowing” means (a) Loans of the same Class and Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, or (b) a Swingline Loan.
“Borrowing Minimum” means (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Revolving Loan Borrowing, $1,000,000, (b) in the case of an ABR Revolving Loan Borrowing, $1,000,000 and (c) in the case of a Swingline Loan, $100,000.
“Borrowing Multiple” means (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Revolving Loan Borrowing, $500,000, (b) in the case of an ABR Revolving Loan Borrowing, $500,000 and (c) in the case of a Swingline Loan, $10,000.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law or other government action to remain closed; provided that (a) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Loan, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in respect of any such Eurocurrency Loan, or any other dealings to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Loan, “Business Day” also means any such day on which commercial banks in New York are open and on which dealings in deposits in Dollars are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market and (b) if such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in connection with a Borrowing in or Letter of Credit issued in an Alternative Currency, “Business Day” means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such currency.
“Canadian Dollars” and “CAN$” means freely transferable lawful money of Canada (expressed in Canadian dollars).
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any Person in respect of any period, the aggregate of, without duplication, (a) all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as a liability) incurred by such Person during such period that, in accordance with GAAP, are or should be included in “capital expenditures,” “additions to property, plant or equipment” or similar items reflected in the statement of cash flows of such Person, (b) all Capitalized Software Expenditures and Capitalized Research and Development Costs during such period and (c) all fixed asset additions financed through Financing Lease Obligations Incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and recorded on the balance sheet in accordance with GAAP during such period.
“Capitalized Research and Development Costs” means, for any period, all research and development costs that are, or are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
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“Capitalized Software Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of purchased software or internally developed software and software enhancements that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Cash Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “Cash Collateralize.”
“Cash Collateralize” means, in respect of an obligation, provide and pledge (as a perfected first priority security interest) cash or deposit account balances in Dollars (“Cash Collateral”), at a location and pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the applicable Issuing Banks and/or the Swingline Lender, as applicable (which documents are hereby consented to by the Lenders) (and “Cash Collateralization” has a corresponding meaning).
“Cash Equivalents” means:
(a) Dollars;
(b) Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euros, Pounds Sterling or any national currency of any participating member state of the EMU;
(c) other currencies held by the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries from time to time in the ordinary course of business;
(d) securities issued or unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, in each case having maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition thereof;
(e) securities issued by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States of America or any political subdivision or taxing authority of any such state, commonwealth or territory or any public instrumentality thereof or any political subdivision or taxing authority of any such state or commonwealth or territory or any public instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having an Investment Grade Rating;
(f) commercial paper or variable or fixed rate notes issued by or guaranteed by any Lender or any bank holding company owning any Lender;
(g) commercial paper or variable or fixed rate notes maturing no more than 24 months from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having an Investment Grade Rating;
(h) time deposits with, or domestic and eurocurrency certificates of deposit, demand deposits or bankers’ acceptances maturing no more than two years after the date of acquisition thereof and overnight bank deposits, in each case, issued by, any Lender or any other bank having combined capital and surplus of not less than $100,000,000 (or the Dollar equivalent as of the date of determination);
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(i) repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the type described in clauses (d), (e) and (h) above entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (h) above or securities dealers of recognized national standing;
(j) marketable short-term money market and similar securities having a rating of at least A-2 or P-2 from either S&P or Xxxxx’x (or, if at any time neither S&P nor Xxxxx’x shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another Rating Agency);
(k) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any non-U.S. government or any political subdivision or public instrumentality thereof, in each case having an Investment Grade Rating with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
(l) Investments with average maturities of no more than 24 months from the date of acquisition in money market funds rated AAA- (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or Aaa3 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Xxxxx’x (or, if at any time neither Xxxxx’x nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another Rating Agency);
(m) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary: (i) obligations of the national government of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business; provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of acquisition thereof, (ii) certificates of deposit of, bankers acceptances of, or time deposits with, any commercial bank which is organized and existing under the laws of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business; provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and who otherwise meets the qualifications specified in clause (f) above (any such bank being an “Approved Foreign Bank”), and in each case with maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition and (iii) the equivalent of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank;
(n) Indebtedness or Preferred Equity Interests issued by Persons with a rating of “A” or higher from S&P or “A-2” or higher from Xxxxx’x (or, if at any time neither S&P or Xxxxx’x shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another Rating Agency) with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
(o) in the case of investments by any Foreign Subsidiary or investments made in a country outside the United States of America, Cash Equivalents shall also include (i) investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (a) through (n) above of foreign obligors, which investments or obligors (or the parents of such obligors) have ratings, described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign Rating Agencies and (ii) other short term investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries in accordance with normal investment practices for cash management in investments analogous to the foregoing investments described in clauses (a) through (n) of this paragraph; and
(p) investment funds investing 90% of their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (a) through (o) above.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in currencies other than those set forth in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above; provided that such amounts are converted into any currency or securities listed in clauses (a) through (d) as promptly as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days following the receipt of such amounts.
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“Cash Management Agreement” shall mean any agreement entered into from time to time by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with cash management services for collections, other Cash Management Services or for operating, payroll and trust accounts of such Person, including automatic clearing house services, controlled disbursement services, electronic funds transfer services, information reporting services, lockbox services, stop payment services and wire transfer services.
“Cash Management Services” means (a) commercial debt or credit cards, merchant card services, purchase or debit cards, including non-card e-payables services, (b) treasury management services (including cash pooling arrangements, controlled disbursement, netting, overdraft and electronic or automatic clearing house fund transfer services, return items and interstate depository network services) and (c) any other demand deposit or operating account relationships or other cash management services.
“Casualty Prepayment Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards arising from any damage to, destruction of, or other casualty or loss involving, or any seizure, condemnation, confiscation or taking under power of eminent domain of, or requisition of title or use of or relating to or in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or Real Property (including any improvements thereon) of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
“CFC” means a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code.
“Change in Control” means:
(a) the occurrence of a “change of control” or any comparable term, under, and as defined in, the documentation governing any Material Indebtedness; or
(b) any “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such “person” or “group” and their respective Subsidiaries and any Person acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan), other than the Permitted Holders (or any holding company parent of the Borrower owned directly or indirectly by the Permitted Holders), shall at any time have acquired direct or indirect beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act) of Equity Interests having the power to vote or direct the voting of such Equity Interests for the election of directors of the Borrower having more than 50% of the ordinary voting power for the election of members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower, unless the Permitted Holders have, at such time, the right or the ability by voting power, contract or otherwise to elect or designate for election at least a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower.
Notwithstanding the preceding or any provision of Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act (or any successor provision), (i) a Person or group shall not be deemed to beneficially own securities subject to an equity or asset purchase agreement, merger agreement or similar agreement (or voting or option or similar agreement related thereto) until the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such agreement, (ii) if any group includes one or more Permitted Holders, the issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower (or, for the avoidance of doubt, any Successor Borrower) beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any Permitted Holders that are part of such group shall not be treated as being beneficially owned by any other member of such group for purposes of determining whether a Change in Control has occurred and (iii) a Person or group will not be deemed to beneficially own the Voting Stock of another
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Person as a result of its ownership of Voting Stock or other securities of such other Person’s Parent Entity (or related contractual rights) unless it owns 50.0% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such Parent Entity. For purposes of this definition and any related definition to the extent used for purposes of this definition, at any time when 50.0% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Borrower (or, for the avoidance of doubt, any Successor Borrower) is directly or indirectly owned by a Parent Entity, all references to the Borrower (or, for the avoidance of doubt, any Successor Borrower) shall be deemed to refer to its ultimate Parent Entity (but excluding any Permitted Holder) that directly or indirectly owns such Voting Stock.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Effective Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption of any Requirement of Law, (b) any change in any Requirement of Law or in the administration, interpretation 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 of 2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-203) 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.
“Class” when used in reference to (a) any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Incremental Revolving Loans, Extended Revolving Loans (and related swingline loans thereunder), Initial Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Extended Term Loans or Swingline Loans, (b) any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Commitment, Incremental Revolving Commitment (of the same series and any related swingline commitments thereunder), Extended Revolving Commitment (of the same series and any related swingline commitments thereunder), Initial Term Commitment, or Incremental Term Loan Commitment and (c) any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment with respect to a particular Class of Loans or Commitments. Incremental Term Loans, Extended Term Loans, Incremental Revolving Loans (and Incremental Revolving Commitments made pursuant thereto) and Extended Revolving Commitments (and Extended Revolving Loans made pursuant thereto) that have different terms and conditions shall be construed to be in different Classes.
“Closing Date Indebtedness” means Indebtedness outstanding on Effective Date and, to the extent in excess of $5,000,000, described on Schedule 6.01.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (unless as otherwise indicated).
“Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term or any similar term in each of the Security Documents; provided, that with respect to any Mortgages, “Collateral” shall mean “Mortgaged Property” or “Trust Property” as defined therein.
“Collateral Agreement” means the Collateral Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, among the Borrower, each other Loan Party that is a party thereto and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
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“Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, and subject to applicable limitations set forth in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the requirement that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from (i) the Borrower and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) either (x) a counterpart of the applicable Guarantee Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person or (y) in the case of any Person that is required to become a Loan Party after the Effective Date (including by ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary), a supplement to the applicable Guarantee Agreement, in substantially the form specified therein (with such changes as may be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent), duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person and (ii) each Loan Party either (x) a counterpart of the Collateral Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person or (y) in the case of any Person that becomes a Loan Party after the Effective Date (including by ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary), a supplement to the Collateral Agreement, in substantially the form specified therein (with such changes as may be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent), duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person, in each case under this clause (a) together with, in the case of any such Loan Documents executed and delivered after the Effective Date, but only to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, documents of the type referred to in Section 4.01(c);
(b) all outstanding Equity Interests of each Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Equity Interests) owned by any Loan Party shall have been pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and the Administrative Agent shall have received certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests (if any), together with undated share powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto, if any, endorsed in blank;
(c) (i) except with respect to intercompany Indebtedness, if any Indebtedness for borrowed money in a principal amount in excess of $5,000,000 (individually) is owing to any Loan Party and such Indebtedness is evidenced by a promissory note, the Administrative Agent shall have received such promissory note, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank and (ii) with respect to intercompany Indebtedness, all Indebtedness of the Borrower and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries that is owing to any Loan Party (or Person required to become a Loan Party) shall be evidenced by the Intercompany Note, and the Administrative Agent shall have received such Intercompany Note duly executed by the Borrower, each such Restricted Subsidiary and each such other Loan Party, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank;
(d) all certificates, agreements, documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements and intellectual property security agreements, required to be filed, delivered, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the Security Documents and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required by, the Security Documents and the other provisions of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement,” shall have been filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Administrative Agent for filing, registration or recording; and
(e) within 90 days after the Mortgage Springing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received, to the extent customary and appropriate (as determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion) in the applicable jurisdiction,
(i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each Mortgaged Property duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such Mortgaged Property and
(ii) the Flood Documentation,
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(f) within 90 days after the Title Insurance Springing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received, to the extent customary and appropriate (as determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion) in the applicable jurisdiction,
(i) a fully paid policy or policies of title insurance (or an unconditional commitment to issue such policy or policies) in an amount not to exceed the Fair Market Value of the Mortgaged Property as reasonably determined by the Borrower issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a first priority Lien on the Mortgaged Property described therein, free of any other Liens except as expressly permitted by Section 6.02 or otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to the extent available in the relevant jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates,
(ii) such legal opinions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgage or Mortgaged Property and
(iii) a Survey (provided, however, that a Survey shall not be required to the extent that the issuer of the applicable title insurance policy provides reasonable and customary survey-related coverages (including, without limitation, survey-related endorsements) in the applicable title insurance policy based on an existing survey and/or such other documentation as may be reasonably satisfactory to the title insurer).
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition or anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary,
(x) Liens required to be granted from time to time pursuant to the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” shall be subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in the Security Documents,
(y) no Loan Party shall be required to perfect the security interests in any property (other than Real Property) purported to be created by the Security Documents other than by
(i) filings pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code,
(ii) filings with United States’ federal governmental offices with respect to Intellectual Property,
(iii) in the case of Collateral that constitutes Tangible Chattel Paper, Instruments, Certificated Securities or Negotiable Documents (each as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code), in each case, to the extent included in the Collateral and required by the Collateral Agreement or any other applicable Security Document, delivery to the Administrative Agent, together with undated share powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank, to be held in its possession in the United States,
(iv) in the case of Collateral that constitutes Commercial Tort Claims (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code) taking the actions specified by Section 3.04 of the Collateral Agreement and
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(v) in the case of pledged Collateral constituting Uncertificated Securities (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code) to the extent such Uncertificated Securities do not constitute General Intangibles perfected pursuant to filings pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code, taking such actions as may be required by Section 5.11,
(z) no Loan Party shall be required to (1) complete any filings or other action with respect to the perfection of any Liens required to be granted pursuant to the terms of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement in any jurisdiction outside of the United States, (2) deliver Certificated Securities, if any, representing or evidencing the Equity Interests of an Immaterial Subsidiary or any Minority Investment or (3) except as described in clause (b) above, take actions to perfect by Control (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code), including delivering agreements or other control or similar arrangements with respect to deposit accounts, commodity accounts, securities accounts, collateral accounts, letter of credit rights or other assets requiring perfection by control (other than as required by clause (b) of this definition), (d) in no event shall landlord lien waivers, bailee letters, estoppels and collateral access letters be required to be delivered and (e) in no event shall the Collateral include any Excluded Assets and no Loan Party shall be deemed to have granted a security interest in any of such Loan Party’s rights or interests in any Excluded Assets. Notwithstanding anything herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary, the Loans Parties shall not be required to take any action intended to cause Excluded Assets to constitute Collateral (but without limitation of any of the requirements set forth in the definition of Excluded Subsidiary) The Administrative Agent may grant extensions of time for the creation and perfection of security interests in or the obtaining of title insurance, legal opinions or other deliverables with respect to particular assets or the provision of any Guarantee by any Restricted Subsidiary (including extensions beyond the Effective Date or in connection with assets acquired, or Restricted Subsidiaries formed or acquired, after the Effective Date) where it reasonably determines that such action cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required to be accomplished by this Agreement or the Security Documents, and each Lender hereby consents to any such extensions of time.
“Commitment” means (a) with respect to any Lender, its Revolving Commitment, Incremental Revolving Commitment of any Class, Extended Revolving Commitment of any Class, Initial Term Commitment, Incremental Term Loan Commitment of any Class, or any combination thereof (as the context requires) and (b) with respect to any Swingline Lender, its Swingline Commitment.
“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.
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate of a Financial Officer required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(d).
“Consolidated Debt” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of (without duplication) all Indebtedness of the type set forth in clauses (a), (b), (e) and (g) (but only with respect to any drawn amounts under such clause (g)) of the definition of “Indebtedness” of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP on such date.
“Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including the amortization of (a) intangible assets established through purchase accounting and (b) deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, and commissions, fees and expenses of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP.
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“Consolidated EBITDA” means, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period:
(a) increased by (without duplication) the sum of the following amounts for such period:
(i) provision for taxes based on income or profits or capital, including federal, state, franchise, excise, value added or similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes, paid or accrued, during such period (including any future taxes or other levies which replace or are intended to be in lieu of such taxes and any penalties and interest related to such taxes or arising from tax examinations) and the net tax expense associated with any adjustment made pursuant to clauses (a) through (r) of the definition of “Consolidated Net Income,” in each case, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period minus any corresponding payments by a Governmental Authority in connection with an Industrial Revenue Bond, plus
(ii) Consolidated Interest Expense and, to the extent not reflected in such Consolidated Interest Expense, bank and letter of credit fees, debt rating monitoring fees and net losses on Swap Obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, amortization of deferred financing fees or costs, costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities, together with items excluded from the definition of “Consolidated Interest Expense” pursuant to clauses (i) through (xiii) thereof, in each case, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus
(iii) Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense for such period to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus
(iv) any other non-cash charges, including (A) all non-cash compensation expenses and costs, (B) the non-cash impact of recapitalization or purchase accounting, (C) the non-cash impact of accounting changes or restatements, (D) any non-cash portion of Consolidated Lease Expense and (E) other non-cash charges; provided that, to the extent that any such non-cash charges represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA in such future period to such extent; and provided, further, that amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period shall be excluded, plus
(v) the amount of any restructuring charge, accrual or reserve or non-recurring (on a per-transaction basis) integration costs and related costs and charges, including proposed or actual hiring and on-boarding of any senior level executives and any one-time (on a per-transaction basis) costs or charges incurred in connection with Permitted Business Acquisitions and other Investments, and costs, charges and expenses, including put arrangements and headcount reductions or other similar actions including severance charges in respect of employee termination or relocation costs, excess pension charges, severance and lease termination expenses related to the closure, discontinuance and/or consolidation of locations and/or facilities, plus
(vi) the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income for such period attributable to non-controlling interests of third parties in any non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary, excluding cash distributions in respect thereof to the extent already included in Consolidated Net Income, plus
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(vii) the amount of management, monitoring, consulting and advisory fees, termination payments, indemnities and related expenses paid or accrued in such period to (or on behalf of) the Controlling Shareholder (including amortization thereof) to the extent otherwise permitted under Section 6.10 on or prior to the Effective Date (and following the Effective Date, with respect to indemnification or other amounts owed in respect of arrangements in effect prior to the Effective Date) to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus
(viii) (A) pro forma adjustments, including pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and other synergies related to the Transactions projected by the Borrower in good faith to result from actions that have been taken, actions with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or actions that are expected to be taken (in each case, in the good faith determination of the Borrower), in any such case within eight fiscal quarters after the Effective Date (or, to the extent identified to the Joint Bookrunners, undertaken or implemented prior to the Effective Date) and (B) without duplication, pro forma adjustments, including pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions, and other synergies related to mergers, business combinations, Acquisitions, Dispositions and other similar transactions, or related to restructuring initiatives, cost savings initiatives and other initiatives projected by the Borrower in good faith to result from actions that have been taken, actions with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or actions that are expected to be taken (in each case, in the good faith determination of the Borrower), in any such case, within eight fiscal quarters after the date of consummation of such merger, business combination, Acquisition, Disposition or other similar transaction or the initiation of such restructuring initiative, cost savings initiative or other initiative; provided, that, for the purpose of this clause (viii), (I) any such adjustments shall be added to Consolidated EBITDA for each Test Period until fully realized and shall be calculated on a pro forma basis as though such adjustments had been realized on the first day of the relevant Test Period and shall be calculated net of the amount of actual benefits realized from such actions, (II) any such adjustments shall be reasonably identifiable and (III) no such adjustments shall be added pursuant to this clause (viii) to the extent duplicative of any items related to adjustments included in the definition of Consolidated Net Income, clause (iv) above or pursuant to the effects of Section 1.11 (it being understood that for purposes of the foregoing and Section 1.11 “run rate” shall mean the full recurring benefit that is associated with any such action), plus
(ix) cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenditures) not representing Consolidated EBITDA in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such receipts were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to paragraph (b) below for any previous period and not added back, plus
(x) to the extent funded with cash contributed to the capital of the Borrower or the Net Cash Proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interest of the Borrower (other than Disqualified Equity Interest) solely to the extent that such Net Cash Proceeds are excluded from the calculation of the Available Equity Amount, Excluded Contributions and Cure Amount, (A) any deductions, charges, costs or expenses (including compensation charges and expenses) incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted
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Subsidiary pursuant to any management equity plan or share option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement, pension plan, any severance agreement or any equity subscription or shareholder agreement or any distributor equity plan or agreement or in connection with grants of stock appreciation or similar rights or other rights to directors, officers, managers and/or employees of any Parent Entity, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and (B) any charges, costs, expenses accruals or reserves in connection with the rollover or acceleration of Equity Interest held by directors, officers, managers and/or employees of any Parent Entity, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period plus
(xi) any net pension or other post-employment benefit costs representing amortization of unrecognized prior service costs, actuarial losses, including amortization of such amounts arising in prior periods, amortization of the unrecognized net obligation (and loss or cost) existing at the date of initial application of Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Accounting Standards Codification No. 715, any non-cash deemed finance charges in respect of any pension liabilities, the curtailment or modification of pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans (including settlement of pension liabilities), and any other items of a similar nature, in each case, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period plus
(xii) in respect of any Swap Obligations that are terminated (or early extinguished) prior to the stated settlement date, any loss (or gain as applicable) reflected in Consolidated Net Income in or following the quarter in which such termination or early extinguishment occurs, in each case, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period plus
(xiii) costs, expenses, charges, accruals, reserves (including restructuring costs related to acquisitions prior to, on or after the Effective Date) or expenses attributable to the undertaking and/or the implementation of cost savings initiatives, operating expense reductions and other restructuring and integration and transition costs, costs associated with inventory category and distribution optimization programs, pre-opening, opening and other business optimization expenses (including software development costs), future lease commitments, consolidation, discontinuance and closing costs and expenses for locations and/or facilities, signing, retention and completion bonuses, costs related to entry and expansion into new markets (including consulting fees) and to modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans, system design, establishment and implementation costs and project start-up costs, plus
(xiv) changes in earn-out obligations incurred in connection with any Acquisition or other Investment permitted under this Agreement and paid during the applicable period and any similar acquisitions completed prior to the Effective Date, to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus
(xv) the amount of indemnities and related expenses paid or accrued in such period to (or on behalf of) the Controlling Shareholder (including any amortization thereof), to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus
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(xvi) the amount of any expenses, charges or losses during such period that are covered by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any Investment, Permitted Business Acquisition or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other Disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement, to the extent actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Borrower has made a determination that a reasonable basis exists for indemnification or reimbursement and only to the extent that such amount is in fact indemnified or reimbursed within 365 days of such determination (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so indemnified or reimbursed within such 365 day period); plus
(xvii) to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, 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 (i) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (ii) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of the insurable event (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within such 365 days), the amount of any expenses, charges or losses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption during such period;
(b) decreased by (without duplication) any non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower for such period, excluding any non-cash gains that represent the reversal of any accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period (other than any such accruals or cash reserves that have been added back to Consolidated Net Income in calculating Consolidated EBITDA in accordance with this definition).
in each case, as determined on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP,
provided that
(I) there shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, without duplication, the Acquired EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset acquired by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (other than any Unrestricted Subsidiary) to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise Disposed of during such period (but not including the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or assets to the extent not so acquired) (each such Person, property, business or asset acquired, including pursuant to a transaction consummated prior to the Effective Date, and not subsequently so Disposed of, an “Acquired Entity or Business”), and the Acquired EBITDA of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each, a “Converted Restricted Subsidiary”), in each case based on the Acquired EBITDA of such Pro Forma Entity for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or conversion) determined on a historical pro forma basis and
(II) there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset sold, transferred or otherwise Disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent not subsequently reacquired, reclassified or continued, in each case, during such period (each such Person (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary), property, business or asset so sold, transferred or otherwise Disposed of, closed or classified, a “Sold Entity or Business”), and the Disposed EBITDA of any Restricted Subsidiary that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such period (each, a “Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary”), in each case based on the Disposed EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer, disposition, closure, classification or conversion) determined on a historical pro forma basis.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein and subject to adjustment as provided in clauses (I) and (II) above of the immediately preceding proviso with respect to acquisitions and Dispositions occurring prior to, on or following the Effective Date and, without duplication of any adjustments already included in the amounts below, other adjustments contemplated by Section 1.11, clause (a)(viii) above and under the foregoing proviso and adjustments as provided under clause (c) above, Consolidated EBITDA shall be deemed to be $68,300,000, $74,300,000, $65,300,000, and $78,200,000, respectively, for the fiscal quarters ended June 30, 2016, September 30, 2016, December 31, 2016 and March 31, 2017.
“Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Debt” means, as of any date of determination, Consolidated Debt on such date that is secured by Liens on the Collateral that do not rank junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations.
“Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Debt as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to such date of determination to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated First Lien Net Debt” means, as of any date of determination, Consolidated Debt on such date that is secured by Liens on the Collateral that do not rank junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations less (ii) the Unrestricted Cash of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on such date.
“Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated First Lien Net Debt as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to such date of determination to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, without duplication, the sum of:
(a) the consolidated cash interest expense of such Person for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of such Person, (including (x) all commissions, discounts and other cash fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financings, (y) the cash interest component of Financing Lease Obligations, and (z) net cash payments, if any, made (less net cash payments, if any, received), pursuant to obligations under Swap Agreements for Indebtedness), but in any event excluding, for the avoidance of doubt,
(i) accretion or amortization of original issue discount resulting from the Incurrence of Indebtedness at less than par;
(ii) amortization of deferred financing costs, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses;
(iii) any accretion or accrual of, or accrued interest on discounted liabilities not constituting Indebtedness during such period and any prepayment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or similar premium, penalty or inducement or other loss in connection with the early Refinancing or modification of Indebtedness paid or payable during such period;
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(iv) any interest in respect of items excluded from Indebtedness in the proviso to the definition thereof;
(v) penalties or interest relating to taxes and any other amount of non-cash interest resulting from the effects of the acquisition method of accounting or pushdown accounting;
(vi) non-cash interest expense attributable to the movement of the xxxx to market valuation of obligations under Swap Agreements or other derivative instruments pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Accounting Standards Codification No. 815 (Derivatives and Hedging);
(vii) any one-time cash costs associated with breakage in respect of Swap Agreements for interest rates and any payments with respect to make-whole premiums or other breakage costs in respect of any Indebtedness;
(viii) all additional interest or liquidated damages then owing pursuant to any registration rights agreement and any comparable “additional interest” or liquidated damages with respect to other securities designed to compensate the holders thereof for a failure to publicly register such securities;
(ix) any expense resulting from the discounting of any Indebtedness in connection with the application of recapitalization accounting or purchase accounting;
(x) any expensing of bridge, arrangement, structuring, commitment or other financing fees or closing payments (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any commitment fees);
(xi) any lease, rental or other expense in connection with Non-Financing Lease Obligations,
(xii) any capitalized interest, whether paid in cash or otherwise; and
(xiii) any other non-cash interest expense, including capitalized interest, whether paid or accrued;
less
(b) cash interest income of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period.
For purposes of this definition, interest on a Financing Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such Financing Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Lease Expense” means, for any period, all rental expenses of any Person during such period in respect of Non-Financing Lease Obligations for real or personal property (including in connection with Sale Leasebacks), but excluding real estate taxes, insurance costs and common area
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maintenance charges and net of sublease income; provided that Consolidated Lease Expense shall not include (a) obligations under vehicle leases entered into in the ordinary course of business, (b) all such rental expenses associated with assets acquired pursuant to the Transactions and pursuant to an Acquisition (or other Investment) to the extent that such rental expenses relate to Non-Financing Lease Obligations (i) in effect at the time of (and immediately prior to) such acquisition and (ii) related to periods prior to such acquisition, (c) Financing Lease Obligations, all as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and (d) the effects from applying purchase accounting.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate of the Net Income attributable to such Person for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that, without duplication:
(a) any extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring gains, losses or expenses, costs associated with preparations for, and implementation of, compliance with the requirements of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and other public company costs, earn-out payments or other consideration paid or payable in connection with an Acquisition to the extent recorded as cash compensation expense, severance costs, relocation costs, integration costs, pre-opening, opening, consolidation, discontinuation and closing costs and expenses for locations and/or facilities, signing, retention and completion bonuses, transition costs, restructuring costs and litigation settlements, fines, judgments, orders or losses and related costs and expenses shall be excluded,
(b) the Net Income for such period shall not include the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles and changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies during such period, whether effected through a cumulative effect adjustment or a retroactive application in each case in accordance with GAAP;
(c) any net gains or losses realized on (i) Disposed of, discontinued or abandoned operations (which shall not, unless the Borrower otherwise elects, include assets then held for sale), or (ii) the sale or other Disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person, shall be excluded;,
(d) effects of adjustments (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries) in such Person’s consolidated financial statements pursuant to GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including in the inventory, property and equipment, software, goodwill, intangible assets, in-process research and development, deferred revenue and debt like items thereof) resulting from the application of recapitalization accounting or purchase accounting, as the case may be, in relation to any consummated acquisition or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof, net of taxes, shall be excluded;
(e) accruals and reserves that are established or adjusted within twelve months after the closing of any Acquisition or other Investment that are so required to be established as a result of such Acquisition or other Investment in accordance with GAAP or changes as a result of adoption or modification of accounting policies in accordance with GAAP shall be excluded;
(f) the Net Income for such period of any Person that is not the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, shall be excluded; provided that Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower shall be increased by the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments that are actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or, if not paid in cash or Cash Equivalents, but later converted into cash or Cash Equivalents, upon calculating such conversion) (or to the extent converted into cash) to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period, to the extent not already included therein;
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(g) solely for the purpose of determining the amount available under clause (i) of the definition “Available Amount”, the Net Income for such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Subsidiary Loan Party) shall be excluded to the extent that the payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of its Net Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its Organizational Documents or any agreement, instrument or Requirements of Law applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders, unless such restriction with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions has been legally waived; provided that Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries will be increased by the amount of dividends or other distributions or other payments actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or, if not paid in cash or Cash Equivalents, but later converted into cash or Cash Equivalents, upon calculating such conversion) (or to the extent converted into cash) to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period, to the extent not already included therein;
(h) (i) any net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting in such period from obligations in respect of Swap Agreements and the application of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 815 (Derivatives and Hedging), (ii) any net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting in such period from currency transaction or translation gains or losses related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including the net loss or gain (A) resulting from Swap Agreements for currency exchange risk and (B) resulting from intercompany Indebtedness) and all other foreign currency translation gains or losses to the extent such gain or losses are non-cash items, and (iii) any net after-tax effect of income (loss) for such period attributable to the early extinguishment or conversion of (A) Indebtedness, (B) obligations under any Swap Agreements or (C) other derivative instruments, shall be excluded;
(i) any income (loss) (less all fees and expenses or charges related thereto) from the purchase, acquisition, early extinguishment, conversion or cancellation of Indebtedness or Swap Obligations or other derivative instruments (including deferred financing costs written off and premiums paid) shall be excluded;
(j) any impairment charge, asset write-off or write-down, including impairment charges or asset write-offs or write-downs related to intangible assets (including goodwill), long lived assets, Investments in debt and equity securities, the amortization of intangibles, and the effects of adjustments to accruals and reserves during a prior period relating to any change in the methodology of calculating reserves for returns, rebates, warranties, inventories and other chargebacks (including government program rebates), shall be excluded;
(k) any (i) non-cash compensation expense as a result of grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, profits interests, stock options, restricted stock or other rights or equity incentive programs and any non-cash charges associated with the rollover, acceleration or payout of Equity Interests or options with respect thereto by, or to, officers, directors, employees or consultants of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, or any Parent Entity, (ii) income (loss) attributable to deferred compensation plans or trusts and (iii) any expense in respect of payments made to option holders or holders of profits interests or restricted stock or restricted stock units of the Borrower or any Parent Entity in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to equityholders of the Borrower or any Parent Entity, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders or holders of profits interests or restricted stock or restricted
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stock units as though they were equityholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution (to the extent such distribution to equityholders is excluded from Consolidated Net Income), shall be excluded,
(l) any fees and expenses (including any commissions or discounts) incurred during such period, or any amortization thereof for such period, in connection with any Acquisition, Investment, asset Disposition, Change in Control, Incurrence, Refinancing, prepayment, redemption, repurchase, acquisition, defeasance, extinguishment, retirement or repayment of Indebtedness, issuance of Equity Interests , or amendment, supplement or other modification of any debt instrument (in each case, including any such transaction consummated prior to the Effective Date and any such transaction undertaken, but not completed and/or not successful) and any charges or non-recurring merger costs incurred during such period as a result of any such transaction shall be excluded;
(m) accruals and reserves that are established or adjusted as a result of the Transactions in accordance with GAAP or changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies during such period, whether effected through a cumulative effect adjustment, restatement or a retroactive application in accordance with GAAP, shall be excluded,;
(n) any foreign exchange gains or losses (whether or not realized) resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets and liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower shall be excluded;
(o) any non-cash interest expense and non-cash interest income, in each case to the extent there is no associated cash disbursement or receipt, as the case may be, before the Latest Maturity Date, shall be excluded;
(p) Transaction Costs shall be excluded;
(q) income or expense related to changes in the fair value of contingent liabilities recorded in connection with the Transactions or any Acquisition or other Investment shall be excluded;
(r) proceeds received from business interruption insurance (to the extent not reflected as revenue or income in Net Income and to the extent that the related loss was deducted in the determination of Net Income), shall be included.
“Consolidated Secured Gross Debt” means, as of any date of determination Consolidated Debt on such date that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral.
“Consolidated Secured Gross Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Secured Gross Debt as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to such date of determination to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of any date of determination, the total assets of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, as set forth on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to such date of determination.
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“Consolidated Total Gross Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Debt as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to such date of determination to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Working Capital” mean, at any date, the excess of (a) the sum of all amounts (excluding all cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date less (b) the sum of all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current liabilities” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on such date, including (for purposes of both clauses (a) and (b)) current and long-term deferred revenue but excluding (for purposes of both clauses (a) and (b) above, as applicable), without duplication, (i) the current portion of any Consolidated Debt, (ii) all Indebtedness (including LC Exposure) under the Revolving Facility, any Incremental Revolving Facility, any Extended Revolving Facility or any other revolving credit facility that is effective in reliance on Section 6.01(u), to the extent otherwise included therein, (iii) the current portion of interest, (iv) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes, (v) non-cash compensation costs and expenses, (vi) any other liabilities that are not Indebtedness and will not be settled in cash or Cash Equivalents during the next succeeding twelve month period after such date, (vii) the effects from applying recapitalization or purchase accounting, (viii) any earn out obligations until 30 days after such obligation becomes contractually due and payable and any earn-out obligation that becomes contractually due and payable to the extent (A) such Person is indemnified for the payment thereof by a solvent Person reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent or (B) amounts to be applied to the payment thereof are in escrow through customary arrangements and (ix) any asset or liability in respect of net obligations of such Person in respect of Swap Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business; provided that Consolidated Working Capital shall be calculated without giving effect to (x) the depreciation of the Dollar relative to other foreign currencies or (y) changes to Consolidated Working Capital resulting from non-cash charges and credits to consolidated current assets and consolidated current liabilities (including, without limitation, derivatives and deferred income tax).
“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 other than the Secured Obligations.
“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies, or the dismissal or appointment of the management, of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Controlled Investment Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person, which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person and is organized by such Person (or any Person controlling such Person) primarily for making direct or indirect equity or debt investments in the Borrower and/or other Persons.
“Controlling Shareholder” means the Invus Group, LLC, Invus L.P. or any investment or similar affiliated fund managed by the Invus Group, LLC, Invus L.P. or any of its Affiliates (in each case, other than any operating portfolio companies).
“Converted Restricted Subsidiary” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
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“Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” means
(a) | Permitted Equal Priority Refinancing Debt, |
(b) | Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt or |
(c) | Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt; |
provided that, in each case, such Indebtedness is Incurred to Refinance, in whole or in part, existing Term Loans or existing Revolving Loans (or unused Revolving Commitments), any then-existing Incremental Revolving Loans (or unused Incremental Revolving Commitments), any then-existing Extended Revolving Loans (or unused Extended Revolving Commitments), or any Loans under any then-existing Incremental Term Loan Facility (or, if applicable, unused Commitments thereunder) (“Refinanced Debt”); provided, further, that
(i) except for any of the following that are only applicable to periods after the Latest Maturity Date, the covenants, events of default and guarantees of such Indebtedness (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, interest rates (including through fixed interest rates), interest margins, rate floors, fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts, maturity and prepayment or redemption premiums and terms) (when taken as a whole) are determined by the Borrower to be either (A) consistent with market terms and conditions and conditions at the time of Incurrence or effectiveness (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) or (B) not materially more restrictive on the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries than those applicable to the Refinanced Debt, when taken as a whole (provided that if the documentation governing such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness contains a Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant, the Administrative Agent shall be given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement shall be amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant for the benefit of each Facility (provided, however, that if (x) both the Refinanced Debt and the related Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness that includes a Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant consists of a revolving credit facility (whether or not the documentation therefor includes any other facilities) and (y) the applicable Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant is a “springing” financial maintenance covenant for the benefit of such revolving credit facility or a covenant only applicable to, or for the benefit of, a revolving credit facility, the Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant shall only be required to be included in this Agreement for the benefit of each Revolving Facility hereunder (and not for the benefit of any term loan facility hereunder) and such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be deemed “more restrictive” solely as a result of such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant benefiting only such Revolving Facilities)); provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five 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 foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees),
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(ii) any such Indebtedness which Refinances, in whole or in part, existing Term Loans, shall have a final maturity date that is no earlier than the final maturity date of the Refinanced Debt and a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Refinanced Debt; provided that the foregoing requirements of this clause (ii) shall not apply to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes (1) a customary bridge facility, so long as the long-term Indebtedness into which any such customary bridge facility is to be converted or exchanged satisfies the requirements of this clause (ii) and such conversion or exchange is subject only to conditions customary for similar conversions or exchanges or (2) Permitted Term Loan A Indebtedness,
(iii) any such Indebtedness which Refinances any existing Revolving Loans (or unused Revolving Commitments), any then-existing Incremental Revolving Loans (or unused Incremental Revolving Commitments) or any then-existing Extended Revolving Loans (or unused Extended Revolving Commitments) shall have a maturity that is no earlier than the maturity of such Refinanced Debt and shall not require any mandatory commitment reductions prior to the maturity of such Refinanced Debt; provided that the foregoing requirements of this clause (iii) shall not apply to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes a customary bridge facility, so long as the long-term Indebtedness into which any such customary bridge facility is to be converted or exchanged satisfies the requirements of this clause (iii) and such conversion or exchange is subject only to conditions customary for similar conversions or exchanges,
(iv) subject to Section 1.11(g), such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount (or shall not have a greater accreted value, if applicable) than the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Refinanced Debt plus accrued interest, dividends, fees and premiums (including tender premiums) (if any) thereon, defeasance costs, underwriting discounts and fees and expenses (including OID, closing payments, upfront fees and similar fees) associated with the Refinancing plus an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized and letters of credit undrawn plus an amount equal to any dollar for dollar usage of any other basket set forth in Section 6.01,
(v) such Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, repurchased, redeemed, defeased, acquired or satisfied and discharged on a dollar-for-dollar basis, and all accrued interest, fees and premiums (including tender premiums) (if any) in connection therewith shall be paid substantially concurrently with the date such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred or made effective,
(vi) subject to Section 1.11(g), the aggregate unused revolving commitments under such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall not exceed the unused Revolving Commitments, Incremental Revolving Commitments or Extended Revolving Commitments, as applicable, being replaced plus undrawn letters of credit plus an amount equal to a dollar for dollar usage of any other basket set forth in Section 6.01,
(vii) in the case of any such Indebtedness in the form of bonds, notes or debentures or which Refinances, in whole or in part, existing Term Loans, the terms thereof shall not require any mandatory repayment, redemption, repurchase, acquisition or defeasance (other than (x) in the case of bonds, notes or debentures, customary change of control, asset sale event or casualty, eminent domain or condemnation event offers, AHYDO Catch-Up Payments and customary acceleration any time after an event of default and (y) in the case of any term loans, mandatory
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prepayments that are on terms (when taken as a whole) not materially more favorable to the lenders or holders providing such Indebtedness than those applicable to the Refinanced Debt (when taken as a whole and as determined by the Borrower in its sole discretion; provided that the Borrower may provide written notice to the Administrative Agent of such determination not less than one Business Day prior to the Incurrence of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and such determination by the Borrower shall be deemed conclusive) prior to the maturity date of the Refinanced Debt),
(viii) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness may not be guaranteed by any Subsidiaries of the Borrower that do not guarantee the Secured Obligations, and
(ix) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness may not be secured by any assets that do not secure the Secured Obligations.
“Credit Extension” means the making of a Borrowing or Letter of Credit Extension.
“Cumulative Consolidated Net Income” means, as at any date of determination, Consolidated Net Income for the period (taken as one accounting period) commencing on April 1, 2017 and ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b).
“Cure Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.02(a).
“Cure Deadline” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.02(a).
“Cure Right” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.02(a).
“Customary Intercreditor Agreement” means (a) to the extent executed in connection with the Incurrence of secured Indebtedness the Liens on the Collateral securing which Indebtedness are intended to rank equal in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies), at the option of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent acting together in good faith, either (i) any intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of the Equal Priority Lien Intercreditor Agreement or (ii) a customary intercreditor agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, which agreement shall provide that the Liens on the Collateral securing such Indebtedness shall rank equal in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies) and (b) to the extent executed in connection with the Incurrence of secured Indebtedness the Liens on the Collateral securing which Indebtedness are intended to rank junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations, at the option of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent acting together in good faith, either (i) an intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of the Junior Priority Lien Intercreditor Agreement or (ii) a customary intercreditor agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, which agreement shall provide that the Liens on the Collateral securing such Indebtedness shall rank junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations.
“Debt Fund Affiliate” means any Affiliate of the Borrower (other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) that is primarily engaged in, or advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course and that exercises investment discretion independent from the private equity business of the Controlling Shareholder.
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“Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event” means any issuance or incurrence by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness, but excluding any Indebtedness permitted to be issued or incurred under Section 6.01 (other than Incremental Term Loans Incurred in reliance on clause (i)(x) of the proviso to Section 2.20(b), to the extent relating to Term Loans, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness).
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Declined Amounts” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11(d)(ii).
“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
“Defaulting Lender” means at any time, subject to Section 2.22(b), (i) any Lender that has failed for two or more Business Days to comply with its obligations under this Agreement to make a Loan, make a payment to an Issuing Bank in respect of a Letter of Credit, make a payment to the Swingline Lender in respect of a Swingline Loan or make any other payment due hereunder (each, a “funding obligation”), unless subject to a good faith dispute, (ii) any Lender that has notified the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, an Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender in writing, or has stated publicly, that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, unless such writing or statement states that such position is based on a good faith dispute, (iii) any Lender that has, for three or more Business Days after written request of the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, failed 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 will cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (iii) upon the Administrative Agent’s and the Borrower’s receipt of such written confirmation), (iv) any Lender with respect to which a Lender Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to such Lender or its Parent Company (provided that, in each case neither the reallocation of funding obligations provided for in Section 2.22(a)(ii) as a result of a Lender’s being a Defaulting Lender nor the performance by Non-Defaulting Lenders of such reallocated funding obligations will by themselves cause the relevant Defaulting Lender to become a Non-Defaulting Lender) or (v) any Lender has become the subject of a Bail-In Action. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any of clauses (i) through (iv) above will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender will be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.22(b)) upon notification of such determination by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, the Issuing Banks, the Swingline Lender and the Lenders.
“Defaulting Lender Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, (a) with respect to the Issuing Banks, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the outstanding Letter of Credit obligations other than Letter of Credit 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 Swingline Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of Swingline Loans other than Swingline Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of consideration that is not deemed to be cash or Cash Equivalents and that is received by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a Disposition pursuant to Section 6.04(c) that is designated as Designated
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Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent, setting forth the basis of such valuation (less the amount of the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent Disposition, redemption or repurchase of, or collection or payment on, such Designated Non-Cash Consideration).
“Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B).
“Discount Range” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Discount Range Prepayment Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Discount Range Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of a Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C) substantially in the form of Exhibit K.
“Discount Range Prepayment Offer” means the written offer by a Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit L, submitted in response to an invitation to submit offers following the Auction Agent’s receipt of a Discount Range Prepayment Notice.
“Discount Range Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Discount Range Proration” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Discounted Prepayment Determination Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Discounted Prepayment Effective Date” means in the case of a Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment or Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offer, five (5) Business Days following the receipt by each relevant Term Lender of notice from the Auction Agent in accordance with Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B), Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C) or Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D), as applicable unless a shorter period is agreed to between the Borrower and the Auction Agent.
“Discounted Term Loan Prepayment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(A).
“Disposed EBITDA” means, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business or any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary (determined as if references to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA” were references to such Pro Forma Entity and its subsidiaries that will become Restricted Subsidiaries), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Disposition” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.04. The terms “Disposal”, “Dispose” and “Disposed of” shall have correlative meanings.
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“Disqualified Equity Interest” means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest in such Person that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable, either mandatorily or at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event or condition:
(a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests in such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests), whether pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise;
(b) is convertible or exchangeable, either mandatorily or at the option of the holder thereof, for Indebtedness or Equity Interests (other than solely for Equity Interests in such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests); or
(c) is redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests in such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests) or is required to be repurchased by such Person or any subsidiary or parent entity of such Person, in whole or in part, at the option of the holder thereof;
in each case, on or prior to the date 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date; provided, however, that (i) an Equity Interest in any Person that would not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest but for terms thereof giving holders thereof the right to require such Person to redeem or purchase such Equity Interest upon the occurrence of an “asset sale”, “casualty event”, “eminent domain” or “condemnation event” or a “change of control” shall not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest if any such requirement becomes operative only after repayment in full of all the Loans and all other Loan Document Obligations then due and payable, the cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit and the termination of the Commitments and (ii) if an Equity Interest in any Person is issued pursuant to any plan for the benefit of employees of the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any of its subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interest shall not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent company thereof) or any of its subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations of such Person or as a result of an officer’s, director’s employee’s or consultant’s termination, death or disability.
“Disqualified Lenders” means (a) such Persons that have been specified in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Joint Bookrunners on or prior to the Effective Date as being “Disqualified Lenders,” (b) those Persons who are competitors of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are separately identified in writing by the Borrower from time to time to the Administrative Agent and (c) in the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), any of their Affiliates (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include any bona fide debt investment funds that are Affiliates of the Persons referenced in clause (b) above) that are either (i) identified in writing to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower from time to time or (ii) readily identifiable on the basis of the similarity of such Affiliate’s name as an Affiliate of such entity; provided that any Person that is a Lender and subsequently becomes a Disqualified Lender (but was not a Disqualified Lender on the Effective Date or at the time it became a Lender) shall not retroactively be deemed to be a Disqualified Lender hereunder; provided, further that a designation of a Person as a Disqualified Institution shall only become effective one Business day after such Person is identified in writing to the Administrative Agent.
“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 any Alternative Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars (rounded to the nearest Dollar, with 0.5 of a Dollar being rounded upward) as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Bank, 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 such Alternative Currency.
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“Dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary.
“Economic Sanctions Laws” means the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. §§ 5(b) and 16, as amended), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. §§ 1701-1706, as amended) and Executive Order 13224 (effective September 24, 2001), as amended.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country that is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any Person established in an EEA Member Country that is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country that is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“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.
“Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02) and the Initial Term Loans are funded, which date was May 25, 2017.
“Effective Yield” means, as to any Indebtedness, the effective yield paid by the Borrower on such Indebtedness as determined by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in a manner consistent with generally accepted financial practices, taking into account the applicable interest rate margins, any interest rate “floors” (the effect of which floors shall be determined in a manner set forth in the proviso below and assuming that, if interest on such Indebtedness is calculated on the basis of a floating rate, that the “Eurocurrency Rate” or similar component of such formula is included in the calculation of “Effective Yield”) or similar devices and all fees, including upfront or similar fees or original issue discount (amortized over the shorter of (x) the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness and (y) the four years following the date of Incurrence thereof and, if applicable, assuming any commitments were fully drawn) payable generally to Lenders or other institutions providing such Indebtedness, but excluding any bridge, commitment, arrangement, structuring, closing payment or other similar fees payable in connection therewith that are not generally shared with the relevant Lenders (including Citibank, N.A. in its capacity as such) and, if applicable, ticking fees accruing prior to the funding of such Indebtedness and customary consent or amendment fees for an amendment paid generally to consenting Lenders (and regardless of whether any such fees are paid to, or shared in whole or in part with, any Lender); provided that, with respect to any Indebtedness that includes a “floor”, (a) to the extent that the Reference Rate on the date that the Effective Yield is being calculated is less than such floor, the amount of such difference shall be deemed added to the interest rate margin for such Indebtedness for the purpose of calculating the Effective Yield and (b) to the extent that the Reference Rate on the date that the Effective Yield is being calculated is greater than such floor, then the floor shall be disregarded in calculating the Effective Yield.
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“Elected Payments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11(c).
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund and (d) any other Person, other than, in each case, a natural person, a Defaulting Lender, any Disqualified Lender or, except as contemplated by Section 2.11(a)(ii) or Section 9.04(g), the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Embargoed Person” means (a) any country or territory that is the target of a sanctions program administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) or (b) any Person that (i) is or is owned or controlled by a Person publicly identified on the most current list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” published by OFAC, (ii) is the target of a sanctions program or sanctions list (A) administered by OFAC, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury, or (B) under the Iran Sanctions Act, as amended, section 1245 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 or Executive Order 13590 “Authorizing the Imposition of Certain Sanctions with respect to the Provision of Services, Technology or Support for Iran’s Energy and Petro-chemical Sectors,” effective November 21, 2011 (collectively, “Sanctions”) or (iii) resides, is organized or chartered, or has a place of business in a country or territory that is the subject of a sanctions program administered by OFAC.
“Employee Benefit Plan” means any employee benefit plan (within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA) established or maintained by the Borrower or, with respect to any such plan subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, an ERISA Affiliate.
“EMU” means the economic and monetary union as contemplated in the Treaty on European Union.
“EMU Legislation” means the legislative measures of the EMU for the introduction of, changeover to, or operation of the Euro in one or more member states.
“Environment” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, land surface and subsurface strata and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.
“Environmental Laws” means all applicable treaties, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, judgments, orders, decrees and other applicable Requirements of Law, and all applicable injunctions or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by or with any Governmental Authority, in each instance relating to the protection of the Environment, to preservation or reclamation of natural resources, to the Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Material or to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Material, to health or safety matters.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, obligation, loss, claim, action, order or cost, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of medical monitoring, costs of environmental remediation or restoration, administrative oversight costs, consultants’ fees, fines, penalties and indemnities), of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) any actual or alleged violation of any Environmental Law or permit, license or approval issued thereunder, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage or treatment of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Equal Priority Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means an Equal Priority Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit R-1 to this Agreement to be entered into
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among the Administrative Agent and one or more Senior Representatives for holders of Indebtedness secured by Liens on the Collateral that rank equal in priority with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies), with such modifications thereto as the Administrative Agent may reasonably agree.
“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) with respect to a Plan, a failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code); (e) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a 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; (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) an event or condition which would reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan or the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (h) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (i) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA.
“Escrowed Proceeds” means the proceeds from the offering of any debt securities or other Indebtedness paid into an escrow account with an independent escrow agent on the date of the applicable offering or Incurrence pursuant to escrow arrangements that permit the release of amounts on deposit in such escrow account upon satisfaction of certain conditions or the occurrence of certain events. The term “Escrowed Proceeds” shall include any interest earned on the amounts held in escrow.
“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.
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“Eurocurrency” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate.
“Eurocurrency Rate” means, (a) with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the greater of (i) 0.00% and (ii) the product of (A) the LIBOR in effect for such Interest Period and (B) Statutory Reserves,
where,
“LIBOR” means, (i) the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate which appears on the page of the Reuters Screen which displays the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (such page currently being the LIBOR01 page) for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time), two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, or (ii) in the event the rate referenced in the preceding clause (i) does not appear on such page or service or if such page or service shall cease to be available, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other service which displays LIBOR for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that if LIBOR is quoted under either of the preceding clauses (i) or (ii), but there is no such quotation for the Interest Period elected, LIBOR shall be equal to the Interpolated Rate; and
“Statutory Reserves” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Federal Reserve and any other banking authority, domestic or foreign, to which the Administrative Agent or any Lender (including any branch, Affiliate, or other fronting office making or holding a Loan) is subject for Eurocurrency Liabilities (as defined in Regulation D of the Board). Eurocurrency Loans shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency Liabilities (as defined in Regulation D of the Board) and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D. Statutory Reserves shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
and (b) with respect to any ABR Loan, an interest rate per annum equal to the LIBOR in effect for an Interest Period of one month
Where,
“LIBOR” means (i) the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate which appears on the page of the Reuters Screen which displays the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (such page currently being the LIBOR01 page) for deposits in Dollars with a one-month term, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time), on the day of determination of such rate, or (ii) in the event the rate referenced in the preceding clause (i) does not appear on such page or service or if such page or service shall cease to be available, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other service which displays LIBOR for deposits in Dollars with a one-month term, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) on the date of determination of such rate; provided that if LIBOR is quoted under either of the preceding clauses (i) or (ii), but there is no such quotation for a one-month Interest Period, LIBOR shall be equal to the Interpolated Rate.
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“Euro” and “€” mean the single currency of the Participating Member States introduced in accordance with the provisions of Article 109(i)4 of the EU Treaty.
“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.01.
“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any Excess Cash Flow Period, an amount equal to the excess of:
(a) the sum, without duplication, of:
(i) Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower for such Excess Cash Flow Period;
(ii) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash charges (including depreciation and amortization) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, but excluding any such non-cash charges representing an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Excess Cash Flow in such future period, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period;
(iii) decreases in Consolidated Working Capital, decreases in long-term accounts receivable and increases in the long-term portion of deferred revenue, in each case, as of the end of such Excess Cash Flow Period from the Consolidated Working Capital, long-term accounts receivable and deferred revenue as of the beginning of such period for such period (except as a result of an accounting reclassification of items from short-term to long-term or vice versa) (other than any such decreases or increases, as applicable, arising from acquisitions or Dispositions outside the ordinary course of business by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries completed during such period or the application of recapitalization purchase accounting);
(iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash loss on Dispositions by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income;
(v) the amount deducted as income tax expense in determining Consolidated Net Income in such Excess Cash Flow Period; and
(vi) cash payments received in respect of Swap Agreements during such Excess Cash Flow Period to the extent not otherwise included in such Consolidated Net Income; over
(b) the sum, without duplication, of:
(i) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income (but excluding any non-cash credit to the extent representing the reversal of an accrual or reserve described in clause (a)(ii) above) and cash charges excluded by virtue of clauses (a) through (r) of the definition of “Consolidated Net Income”;
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(ii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (ix) below in prior Excess Cash Flow Periods, the amount of Capital Expenditures or acquisitions of Intellectual Property made in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period, except to the extent financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness) or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside the ordinary course of business;
(iii) the aggregate amount of all principal payments of Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (including (A) the principal component of payments in respect of Financing Lease Obligations, (B) all principal repayments of Term Loans, Permitted Additional Debt and Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (C) the amount of any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans actually made pursuant to Section 2.11(b) and any mandatory redemption, repurchase, defeasance, prepayment or similar payment of Permitted Additional Debt or Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, in each case, constituting First Lien Obligations and pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the governing documentation thereof, in any such case from the proceeds of any Disposition and that resulted in an increase to Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase, but excluding (1) Specified Voluntary Prepayments and all other prepayments, repurchases, defeasances and/or redemptions of Term Loans, Permitted Additional Debt, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or other Indebtedness and (2) all prepayments of revolving credit loans and swingline loans (other than the Loans) except to the extent there is an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder), made during such Excess Cash Flow Period, in each case except to the extent financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness) or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside the ordinary course of business;
(iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash gain on Dispositions by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income and the net cash loss on Dispositions to the extent otherwise added to arrive at Consolidated Net Income;
(v) increases in Consolidated Working Capital, increases in long-term accounts receivable and decreases in the long-term portion of deferred revenue, in each case, as of the end of such period from the Consolidated Working Capital, long-term accounts receivable and deferred revenue as of the beginning of such period (except as a result of an accounting reclassification of items from short-term to long-term or vice versa) (other than any such increases or decreases, as applicable, arising from acquisitions or Dispositions outside the ordinary course of business by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period or the application of purchase accounting);
(vi) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (ix) below in prior Excess Cash Flow Periods, the amount of Investments and Permitted Business Acquisitions made pursuant to Section 6.05 (other than Investments made pursuant to
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Xxxxxxxx 0.00(x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x) and (s)) during such Excess Cash Flow Period, except to the extent that such Investments or Permitted Business Acquisitions were financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness), or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside the ordinary course of business;
(vii) the amount of Restricted Payments (other than Restricted Investments) paid during such Excess Cash Flow Period pursuant to Section 6.06, except to the extent that such Restricted Payments were financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness) or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside the ordinary course of business;
(viii) the aggregate amount of any premium, make-whole or penalty payments actually paid in cash by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period that are made in connection with any redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or prepayment or similar payment of Indebtedness, except to the extent that such Restricted Payments were financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness) or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside the ordinary course of business;
(ix) (A) without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior periods, the aggregate consideration required to be paid in cash by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to binding contracts (the “Contract Consideration”) entered into prior to or during such Excess Cash Flow Period and (B) any planned Capital Expenditures by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries (the “Planned Expenditures”), in the case of clauses (A) and (B), relating to Permitted Business Acquisitions (or Investments similar to those made for Permitted Business Acquisitions), Capital Expenditures (including Capitalized Software Expenditures) or acquisition of Intellectual Property to be consummated or made during the following Excess Cash Flow Period (except to the extent financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness), or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries); provided that, to the extent the aggregate amount of cash actually utilized to finance such Permitted Business Acquisitions (or Investments similar to those made for Permitted Business Acquisitions), Capital Expenditures (including Capitalized Software Expenditures) or acquisitions of Intellectual Property during the following Excess Cash Flow Period is less than the Contract Consideration or Planned Expenditures, the amount of such shortfall shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow at the end of such following Excess Cash Flow Period;
(x) cash payments by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of long-term liabilities of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness, except to the extent that such payments were financed by the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness) or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside of the ordinary course of business;
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(xi) the aggregate amount of expenditures (other than expenditures constituting Investments, Restricted Payments or payments on any Indebtedness) actually made by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in cash during such period (including expenditures for the payment of financing fees) to the extent that such expenditures are not expensed during such period, except to the extent that such payments were financed by the proceeds of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving Indebtedness) or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside of the ordinary course of business;
(xii) [reserved]; and
(xiii) cash expenditures in respect of Swap Agreements during such Excess Cash Flow Period to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income.
“Excess Cash Flow Period” means each Fiscal Year of the Borrower beginning with the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2018.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Excluded Assets” means:
(a) (i) prior to the Mortgage Springing Date, any Real Property and
(ii) thereafter, (1) any fee-owned real property, in each case, with a Fair Market Value of less than $20,000,000 and (2) any leasehold interests of a Loan Party (as tenant, lessee, ground lessee, sublessor, subtenant or sublessee) in Real Property (other than any leasehold of a Loan Party that is created in connection with an Industrial Revenue Bond that does not prohibit a Mortgage thereon and the Fair Market Value of such leasehold interest is equal to or greater than $20,000,000); provided, Fair Market Value of any such fee-owned real property or leasehold interest shall be determined at the time of acquisition thereof, or, if acquired prior to the date the applicable Person became a Loan Party, the date such Person became a Loan Party, or, to the extent that any improvements are constructed on any such Real Property after the date of acquisition, including with respect to the Missouri Property, on the date of “substantial completion” or similar timing, as determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent, of such improvements or if owned or leased as of the date the Mortgage Springing Date, the Mortgage Springing Date;
(b) motor vehicles, aircraft, aircraft engines and other assets subject to certificates of title or ownership to the extent a security interest therein which cannot be perfected by a filing of a financing statement;
(c) any asset (including Equity Interests) if, to the extent and for so long as the grant of a Lien thereon to secure the Secured Obligations is prohibited by any Requirements of Law (other than to the extent that any such prohibition would be rendered ineffective pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable Requirements of Law);
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(d) any Excluded Equity Interests;
(e) any property to the extent that such grant of a security interest in or Lien on such property is prohibited by any Requirements of Law or requires a consent not obtained of any Governmental Authority pursuant to any Requirements of Law and any Governmental Authority licenses or state or local Governmental Authority franchises, charters or authorizations, to the extent the grant of a security interest in any such licenses, franchise, charter or authorization would be prohibited or restricted by such license, franchise, charter or authorization;
(f) any contract, license, lease, agreement, permit, instrument, security or franchise agreement or other document to which any Loan Party is a party or any asset, right or property (including any property that is subject to a Lien permitted pursuant to the following clauses of Section 6.02: (c), (e) (but only in the case of clauses (c), (f), (p) or, to the extent constituting a Lien on vehicles, (ee) of Section 6.02), (f), (p), or, to the extent constituting a Lien on vehicles, (ee)) (and accessions and additions to such assets, rights or property, replacements and products thereof and customary security deposits, related contract rights and payment intangibles) of a Grantor (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) that is subject to a purchase money security interest, Financing Lease Obligation, similar arrangement or contract, license, lease, agreement, permit, instrument, security or franchise agreement or other document and any of its rights or interests thereunder, in each case only to the extent and for so long as the grant of such security interest or Lien in such contract, license, lease, agreement, permit, instrument, security or franchise agreement or other document or such asset, right or property is prohibited by or constitutes or results or would constitute or result in the invalidation, violation, breach, default, forfeiture or unenforceability of any right, title or interest of such Grantor (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) under such contract, license, lease, agreement, permit, instrument, security or franchise agreement or other document or purchase money, capital lease or similar arrangement or contract, license, lease, agreement, permit, instrument, security or franchise agreement or other document or creates or would create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than the Borrower or any wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary), or requires consent not obtained of any third party that is a party to the contract or other agreement in which such Lien is granted (or the documentation providing for such purchase money security interest, Financing Lease Obligation or similar arrangement) (it being understood and agreed that no Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary shall be required to seek any such consent), after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment clauses of the Uniform Commercial Code and Requirements of Law, other than the proceeds thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Uniform Commercial Code or any similar Requirements of Law notwithstanding such prohibition;
(g) those assets as to which the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall reasonably determine in writing that the costs or other consequences of obtaining or perfecting such a security interest are excessive in relation to the value of the security interest to be afforded thereby; and
(h) any intent-to-use trademark application filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office to the extent that an amendment to allege use or a verified statement of use with respect to such intent-to-use application has not been filed with and accepted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
“Excluded Contribution” means the Net Cash Proceeds, the Fair Market Value of marketable securities or the Qualified Proceeds, in each case received by the Borrower from capital contributions to the common Equity Interests of the Borrower or sales or issuances of common Equity
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Interests of the Borrower permitted hereunder, in each case, after the Effective Date (other than any amount to the extent used in the Cure Amount), Not Otherwise Applied and designated by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent as an Excluded Contribution within 10 Business Days of the date such capital contributions are made or the date the applicable Equity Interests is issued or sold.
“Excluded Equity Interests” means:
(a) any Equity Interest as to which the Borrower and the Administrative Agent reasonably determine in writing that the costs or other consequences of pledging such Equity Interest are excessive in relation to the value of the security interest to be afforded thereby,
(b) solely in the case of any pledge of the Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary or FSHCO to secure the Secured Obligations, any Equity Interests that are Voting Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary or FSCHO in excess of 65% of the outstanding Equity Interests that are Voting Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary or FSHCO,
(c) any Margin Stock and Equity Interests of any Person, other than any Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the extent, and for so long as, the pledge of such Equity Interests is prohibited by the terms of any Contractual Obligation, Organizational Document, joint venture agreement or shareholders’ agreement applicable to such Person,
(d) the Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary,
(e) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary to the extent that the pledge of such Equity Interests would result in material adverse tax consequences to the Borrower or any Subsidiary as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent, and confirmed in writing by notices to the Administrative Agents,
(f) the Equity Interests in any Minority Investment; and
(g) any other Equity Interests that constitute Excluded Assets.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means
(a) any Subsidiary that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary on any date such Subsidiary would otherwise be required to become a Subsidiary Loan Party pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.10 (for so long as such Subsidiary remains a non-wholly owned Subsidiary),
(b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by (x) Requirements of Law or (y) Contractual Obligation from guaranteeing the Secured Obligations (and for so long as such restrictions or any replacement or renewal thereof is in effect); provided that in the case of clause (y), such Contractual Obligation existed on the Effective Date or, with respect to any Subsidiary acquired by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Effective Date (and so long as such Contractual Obligation was not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition), on the date such Subsidiary is so acquired,
(c) any Domestic Subsidiary that is (i) a FSHCO or (ii) a direct or indirect Subsidiary of a CFC,
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(d) any Immaterial Subsidiary (provided that the Borrower shall not be permitted to exclude Immaterial Subsidiaries from guaranteeing the Secured Obligations to the extent that (i) the aggregate amount of gross revenue for all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) excluded by this clause (d) exceeds 10% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are not otherwise Excluded Subsidiaries by virtue of any of the other clauses of this definition, except for this clause (d), for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination or (ii) the aggregate amount of total assets for all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) excluded by this clause (d) exceeds 10% of the aggregate amount of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are not otherwise Excluded Subsidiaries by virtue of any other clauses of this definition, except for this clause (d), as at the end of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination),
(e) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (confirmed in writing by notice to the Borrower), the cost or other consequences (including any material adverse tax consequences) of providing a guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties therefrom,
(f) each Foreign Subsidiary and each Unrestricted Subsidiary,
(g) each other Restricted Subsidiary acquired pursuant to an Acquisition or other Investment and financed with secured Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(j) and the Liens securing which are permitted by Section 6.02(f) (and, for the avoidance of doubt, not Incurred in contemplation of such Acquisition or other Investment), and each Restricted Subsidiary acquired in such Acquisition or other Investment that guarantees such Indebtedness, in each case to the extent that, and for so long as, the documentation relating to such Indebtedness to which such Restricted Subsidiary is a party prohibits such Subsidiary from guaranteeing the Secured Obligations,
(h) any Subsidiary to the extent that the guarantee of the Secured Obligations would result in material adverse tax consequences to the Borrower or any Subsidiary as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent, and confirmed in writing by notice to the Borrower,
(i) any Subsidiary that would require any consent, approval, license or authorization from any Governmental Authority to provide a guarantee unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received, or is received after commercially reasonable efforts by such Subsidiary to obtain the same, which efforts may be requested by the Administrative Agent,
(j) any Subsidiary that does not have the legal capacity to provide a guarantee of the Secured Obligations (provided that the lack of such legal capacity does not arise from any action or omission of the Borrower or any other Loan Party) and
(k) any Special Purpose Subsidiary.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Subsidiary Loan Party or the Borrower, 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 (any such obligation, a “Swap Obligation”), if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of such Subsidiary Loan Party or the Borrower pursuant to the Guarantee of, or the grant by such Subsidiary Loan Party or the
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Borrower of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any guarantee pursuant to the Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof).
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by its net income (however denominated) and franchise Taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income Taxes), including, for the avoidance of doubt, any backup withholding with respect to any such Taxes, as a result of (i) such recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax or (ii) any other present or former connection between such recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax, other than any connections arising solely from such recipient having executed, delivered, or become a party to, performed its obligations or received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, sold or assigned an interest in, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, and/or enforced, any Loan Documents, (b) any branch profits Tax imposed under Section 884(a) of the Code, or any similar Tax, imposed by any jurisdiction described in clause (a) above, (c) any Tax that is attributable to a recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.17(e), (d) any U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed pursuant to a Requirement of Law in effect at the time a Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, becomes a party hereto (or, in the case of any Lender which is a flow-through entity for US federal income tax purposes, the later date (if any) on which the Applicable Tax Owner acquired its indirect interest in this Agreement) or designates a new lending office (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 2.19), except to the extent that such Lender (or Applicable Tax Owner) or Issuing Bank (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, immediately prior to the designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts with respect to such withholding Tax under Section 2.17(a) and (e) any withholding Tax imposed pursuant to FATCA.
“Expected Cure Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.02(b).
“Extended Revolving Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extended Revolving Facility” means each Class of Extended Revolving Commitments made pursuant to Section 2.21(a).
“Extended Revolving Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extended Term Facility” means each Class of Extended Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.21(a).
“Extended Term Loan Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extended Term Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extending Term Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extension” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
“Extension Offer” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(a).
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“Facility” means the Initial Term Loan Facility, any Incremental Term Loan Facility, the Revolving Facility, any Incremental Revolving Facility, any Extended Revolving Facility and any Extended Term Facility, as the context may require.
“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or property or group of assets or property on any date of determination, the price that could be negotiated in an arms’-length transaction between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction.
“FATCA” means current Sections 1471-1474 of the Code as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version of such provisions that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), and any current or future regulations issued thereunder or published administrative guidance issued pursuant thereto, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of the foregoing, and any laws, fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, guidance notes, or official administrative practices adopted pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreement.
“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Federal Reserve” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America, or any successor thereto.
“Financial Covenant” means the covenant set forth in Section 6.09.
“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, controller or other financial officer of the Borrower.
“Financing Lease Obligation” means, as applied to any Person, an obligation that is required to be accounted for as a financing or capital lease (and, for the avoidance of doubt, not a straight-line or operating lease) on both the balance sheet and income statement for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP. At the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a financing or capital lease would be the amount required to be reflected as a liability on such balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) in accordance with GAAP.
“Financing Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is to be a party, the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder.
“First Lien Obligations” means the Secured Obligations, any Permitted Additional Debt Obligations (other than any Permitted Additional Debt Obligations that are unsecured or are secured by a Lien on the Collateral ranking junior to the Lien on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations), any Permitted Equal Priority Refinancing Debt, collectively, and any other Indebtedness secured by a Lien on any or all of the Collateral on an equal priority with the Liens securing the Secured Obligations.
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“Fiscal Year” means the four fiscal quarter period of the Borrower ending December 31.
“Flood Documentation” means, with respect to each Mortgaged Property located in the United States or any territory thereof, (i) a completed “life-of-loan” Federal Emergency Management Agency standard flood hazard determination (together with a notice about Special Flood Hazard Area status and flood disaster assistance duly executed by the Borrower and the applicable Loan Party relating thereto) and (ii) a copy of, or a certificate as to coverage under, and a declaration page relating to, the insurance policies required by Section 5.03 hereof and the applicable provisions of the Security Documents, each of which shall (A) be endorsed or otherwise amended to include a “standard” or “New York” lender’s loss payable or mortgagee endorsement (as applicable), (B) name the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as additional insured and loss payee/mortgagee and (C) identify the address of each property located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, the applicable flood zone designation and the flood insurance coverage and deductible relating thereto and (iv) be otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.
“Flood Insurance Laws” means, collectively, (i) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (which comprehensively revised the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973) as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (iii) the Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxx Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“FSHCO” means any direct or indirect Domestic Subsidiary that has no material assets other than Capital Stock (including any debt instrument treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes) and, if any, Indebtedness of one or more direct or indirect Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect from time to time.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or 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).
“Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other payment obligation (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by agreement to keep well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay or otherwise) or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security
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for the payment of such Indebtedness or other payment obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other payment obligation of the payment thereof, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other payment obligation, (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the holders of such Indebtedness or other payment obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such holders against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part) or (v) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or other payment obligation; provided, however, that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Effective Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or Disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined in good faith by a Financial Officer. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
“Guarantee Agreement” means the Guarantee Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, among the Loan Parties party thereto and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Hazardous Materials” means any substance, material, pollutant, contaminant, chemical, waste, compound or constituent in any form, including petroleum or petroleum by-products or distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes regulated pursuant to or under any Environmental Law.
“Identified Participating Lenders” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Identified Qualifying Lenders” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (a) whose total assets (when combined with the assets of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) at the last day of the most recent Test Period ended on or prior to such determination date were less than 10.0% of the Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such date and (b) whose gross revenues (when combined with the revenues of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) for such Test Period were less than 10.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Immediate Family Members” means with respect to any individual, such individual’s estate, heirs, legatees, distributees, child, stepchild, grandchild or more remote descendant, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, former spouse, qualified domestic partner, sibling, niece, nephew, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law (including adoptive relationships), any person sharing an individual’s household (other than an unrelated tenant or employee) and any trust, partnership or other bona fide estate-planning vehicle the only beneficiaries of which are any of the foregoing individuals or any private foundation or fund that is controlled by any of the foregoing individuals or any donor-advised fund of which any such individual is the donor.
“Incremental Amendment” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(g).
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“Incremental Base Amount” shall mean, as of any date of determination,
(a) (x) the greater of $285,000,000 and (y) 100.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to such date of determination (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 5.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date plus
(b) the aggregate principal amount of (i) Term Loans voluntarily prepaid prior to such date pursuant to Section 2.14(a), (ii) the aggregate amount of cash consideration paid by any Purchasing Borrower Party to effect any assignment to it of Term Loans pursuant to Section 9.04, but only to the extent that such Term Loans (x) have been acquired pursuant to an offer made to all Lenders within any Class of Term Loans on a pro rata basis and (y) have been cancelled, plus
(c) all permanent reductions of Revolving Commitments, Extended Revolving Commitments and Incremental Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 2.14(b) effected prior to such date (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any such commitment reductions required by the proviso to Section 2.20(b) or in connection with the Incurrence of any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to Refinance any Revolving Commitments, Incremental Revolving Commitments and/or Extended Revolving Commitments) plus
(d) redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or similar payments or permanent reductions of commitments of all other Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the Collateral on an equal priority basis with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(ii), 6.01(k) and 6.01(u),
in each case of clauses (b), (c) and (d), except to the extent financed by the Incurrence of long term Indebtedness (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such Indebtedness Incurred under a revolving credit facility, Incurred as Permitted Additional Debt or otherwise Incurred under Section 2.20), or the issuance of Equity Interests by, or the making of capital contributions to, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or using the proceeds of any Disposition outside the ordinary course of business, minus
(e) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Indebtedness incurred
pursuant to Section 2.20(b)(A),
Section 6.01(j)(i)(B)(I), Section 6.01(k)(i)(B)(I), Section 6.01(s)(i) and Section 6.01(u)(i)(A) and, in each case, any Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness and Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof.
“Incremental Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).
“Incremental Facilities” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).
“Incremental Facility Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(g).
“Incremental Limit” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(b).
“Incremental Ratio Debt Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(b) and Section 6.01(u).
“Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).
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“Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(i).
“Incremental Revolving Commitments” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.20(a).
“Incremental Revolving Facility” means each Class of Incremental Revolving
Commitments made pursuant to
Section 2.20(a).
“Incremental Revolving Loans” means any loan made to the Borrower under a Class of Incremental Revolving Commitments or any Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase.
“Incremental Term Loan Commitment” means the Commitment of any Lender to make Incremental Term Loans of a particular Class pursuant to Section 2.20(a).
“Incremental Term Loan Facility” means each Class of Incremental Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.20.
“Incremental Term Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).
“Incur” means to create, issue, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable for any Indebtedness; provided, however, that any Indebtedness of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be incurred by such Person at the time it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary. The term “Incurrence” when used as a noun shall have a correlative meaning. Solely for purposes of determining compliance with Section 6.01:
(a) amortization of debt discount or the accretion of principal with respect to a non interest bearing or other discount security;
(b) the payment of regularly scheduled interest in the form of additional Indebtedness of the same instrument or the payment of regularly scheduled dividends on Equity Interests in the form of additional Equity Interests of the same class and with the same terms; and
(c) the obligation to pay a premium in respect of Indebtedness arising in connection with the issuance of a notice of prepayment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or similar payment or making of a mandatory offer to prepay, redeem, repurchase, defease, acquire, or similarly pay such Indebtedness;
will not be deemed to be the Incurrence of Indebtedness.
“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money;
(b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments;
(c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property or assets purchased by such Person;
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(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) current trade or other ordinary course payables or liabilities or accrued expenses (but not any refinancings, extensions, renewals, or replacements thereof) Incurred in the ordinary course of business and maturing within 365 days after the Incurrence thereof except if such trade or other ordinary course payables or liabilities or accrued expenses bear interest, (ii) any earn-out or similar obligation, unless such obligation has not been paid within 30 days after becoming due and payable and becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and (iii) obligations resulting from take-or-pay contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business);
(e) all Financing Lease Obligations of such Person;
(f) net obligations under any Swap Agreements;
(g) the maximum amount (after giving pro forma effect to any prior drawings or reductions which have been reimbursed) of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;
(h) [reserved];
(i) all obligations of such Person with respect to Disqualified Equity Interests;
(j) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed; and
(k) all Guarantees by such Person in respect of any of the foregoing;
provided that Indebtedness shall not include (i) prepaid or deferred revenue arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) purchase price holdbacks arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warrants or other unperformed obligations of the seller of such asset, (iii) amounts owed to dissenting equityholders in connection with, or as a result of, their exercise of appraisal rights and the settlement of any claims or actions (whether actual, contingent or potential) with respect thereto (including any accrued interest), with respect to the Transactions or any other Acquisition permitted under the Loan Document, (iv) liabilities associated with customer prepayments and deposits and other accrued obligations (including transfer pricing), in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business, (v) Non-Financing Lease Obligations or other obligations under or in respect of straight-line leases, operating leases or Sale Leasebacks (except resulting in Financing Lease Obligations) or any investment or other obligations of the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with any transaction resulting in the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries purchasing or holding Industrial Revenue Bonds, (vi) customary obligations under employment agreements and deferred compensation arrangements, (vii) post-closing purchase price adjustments, non-compete or consulting obligations or earn-outs to which the seller in an Acquisition or Investment may become entitled, in each case, to the extent contingent and (viii) Indebtedness of any Parent Entity appearing on the balance sheet of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary solely by reason of “pushdown” accounting under GAAP.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall (A) 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, except to the
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extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise limited and only to the extent such Indebtedness would be included in the calculation of Consolidated Debt of such Person and (B) in the case of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, exclude all intercompany Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any net Swap Obligations on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) above shall, unless such Indebtedness has been assumed by such Person, be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the Fair Market Value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Indemnified Taxes” means all Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document, other than Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.03(b).
“Independent Financial Advisor” shall mean an accounting, appraisal, investment banking firm or consultant to Persons engaged in similar businesses of nationally recognized standing that is, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged.
“Industrial Revenue Bond” shall mean any industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond or similar financings or programs; provided, that to the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries enter into a Sale Leaseback with a Governmental Authority in connection with an Industrial Revenue Bond, the associated lease shall be deemed an operating lease notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein and any investment or other obligations of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection therewith shall not be deemed to constitute Indebtedness thereunder.
“Information” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.12(a).
“Initial Revolving Facility” means the Revolving Commitments as of the Effective Date.
“Initial Term Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make an Initial Term Loan hereunder on the Effective Date, expressed as an amount representing the maximum principal amount of the Initial Term Loan to be made by such Lender hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. The amount of each Lender’s Initial Term Commitment as of the Effective Date is set forth on Schedule 2.01. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Initial Term Commitments on the Effective Date is $400,000,000.
“Initial Term Facility” means the initial term loan facility with respect to the Initial Term Commitments and Initial Term Loans borrowed on the Effective Date.
“Initial Term Lender” means a Lender with an Initial Term Commitment or an outstanding Initial Term Loan.
“Initial Term Loan” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.01(a).
“Initial Term Loan Facility” means the Initial Term Loans.
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“Initial Term Maturity Date” means May 25, 2024; provided that if such date is not a Business Day, the “Initial Term Maturity Date” will be the next Business Day immediately following such date.
“Intellectual Property” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement.
“Intercompany Note” means a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit Q.
“Interest Coverage Ratio” means as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for the most recent Test Period ended on or prior to such date of determination to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period; provided that, for purposes of calculating the Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Interest Expense ratio for any period ending prior to the first anniversary of the Effective Date, Consolidated Interest Expense shall be an amount equal to actual Consolidated Interest Expense from the Effective Date through the date of determination multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is 365 and the denominator of which is the number of days from the Effective Date through the date of determination.
“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07.
“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (including a Swingline Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing on June 30, 2017, and (b) with respect to any Eurocurrency Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing, the period commencing on the date such Borrowing is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Borrowing and ending on the date that is one, two, three or six months thereafter as selected by the Borrower in its Notice of Borrowing (or, if available from each Lender (or with respect to any Interest Period beginning on the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent) participating therein, twelve months or any such other period may be agreed by each such Lender); provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day, (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month at the end of such Interest Period and (c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the maturity date for the applicable Class of Loans. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
“Interpolated Rate” means, in relation to LIBOR, the rate which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:
(a) the applicable LIBOR for the longest period (for which LIBOR is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan; and
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(b) the applicable LIBOR for the shortest period (for which LIBOR is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,
each as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period of that Loan.
“Investment” means, as to any Person, any acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or Indebtedness or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of Indebtedness of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other Indebtedness or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person (excluding, in the case of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, intercompany loans, advances, or Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business) or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person. The amount, as of any date of determination, of (a) any Investment in the form of a loan or an advance shall be the principal amount thereof outstanding on such date, minus any cash payments actually received by such investor representing repayments of principal and payments of interest in respect of such Investment (to the extent any such aggregate payments to be deducted do not exceed the original principal amount of such Investment), but without any adjustment for write-downs or write-offs (including as a result of forgiveness of any portion thereof) with respect to such loan or advance after the date thereof, (b) any Investment in the form of a Guarantee shall be 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 in good faith by a Financial Officer, (c) any Investment in the form of a transfer of Equity Interests or other non-cash property or services by the investor to the investee, including any such transfer in the form of a capital contribution, shall be the Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by a Financial Officer) of such Equity Interests or other property or services as of the time of the transfer, minus any payments actually received by such investor representing a return of capital of, or dividends or other distributions in respect of, such Investment (to the extent such payments do not exceed, in the aggregate, the original amount of such Investment), but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the date of such Investment, and (d) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) above) by the specified Person in the form of a purchase or other acquisition for value of any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities of any other Person shall be the original cost of such Investment, except that the amount of any Investment in the form of a Permitted Business Acquisition shall be the Permitted Business Acquisition Consideration, minus (i) the amount of any portion of such Investment that has been repaid to the investor as a repayment of principal or a return of capital, and of any payments or other amounts actually received by such investor representing interest, dividends, or other distributions or similar payments in respect of such Investment (to the extent the amounts referred to in clause (i) do not, in the aggregate, exceed the original cost of such Investment plus the costs of additions thereto), but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the date of such Investment. For purposes of Section 6.04, if an Investment involves the acquisition of more than one Person, the amount of such Investment shall be allocated among the Acquired Persons in accordance with GAAP; provided that pending the final determination of the amounts to be so allocated in accordance with GAAP, such allocation shall be as reasonably determined by a Financial Officer. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary issues, sells or otherwise Disposes of any Equity Interest of a Person that is a Restricted Subsidiary such that, after giving effect thereto, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary, any Investment by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Person remaining after giving effect thereto shall not be deemed to be a new Investment at such time.
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“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s (with a stable outlook or better) and BBB- (or the equivalent) (with a stable outlook or better) by S&P or an equivalent rating by any other Rating Agency.
“Investment Grade Securities” mean, (a) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents), (b) securities or debt instruments with an Investment Grade Rating, but excluding any debt securities or instruments constituting loans or advances among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (c) investments in any fund that invests at least a 95% of its assets in investments of the type described in clauses (a) and (b) above, which fund may also hold immaterial amounts of cash pending investment or distribution and (d) corresponding instruments in countries other than the United States customarily utilized for high-quality investments.
“IRS” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
“ISP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
“Issuing Bank” means (a) Citibank, N.A. and (b) each Revolving Lender that shall have become an Issuing Bank hereunder as provided in Section 2.05(k) (other than any Person that shall have ceased to be an Issuing Bank as provided in Section 2.05(l)), each in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. Each Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.
“Joint Bookrunners” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., each in its capacity as a joint bookrunner and joint lead arranger.
“Joint Venture” means a joint venture, partnership or similar arrangement, whether in corporate, partnership or other legal form.
“Junior Financing” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary that is subordinated in right of payment to the Loan Document Obligations.
“Junior Financing Documentation” means any document or instrument issued or executed with respect to any Junior Financing.
“Junior Priority Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means a Junior Priority Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit R-2 to this Agreement, entered into among the Administrative Agent and one or more Senior Representatives for holders of Indebtedness secured by Liens on the Collateral that rank junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations, with such modifications thereto as the Administrative Agent may reasonably agree.
“Latest Maturity Date” means, with respect to any incurrence, issuance, extension or other obtaining of Indebtedness or any issuance of Equity Interests, in each case at any date of determination, the latest maturity or expiration date applicable to any Loan or Commitment (or applicable Class of Loan or Commitment) outstanding hereunder as determined on the date of any such incurrence,
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issuance, extension or obtaining, including the latest maturity or expiration date of any Incremental Term Loan, any Extended Term Loan, any Incremental Revolving Loan, any Extended Revolving Loan, any Incremental Revolving Commitment or any Extended Revolving Commitment.
“LC Disbursement” means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount of all Letters of Credit that remains available for drawing at such time and (b) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time. 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 International Standby Practices (ISP98), such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so remaining available to be drawn. 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 that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any 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.
“Lender Insolvency Event” means that such Lender or its Parent Company is the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws, or a receiver, trustee, conservator, intervenor or sequestrator or the like has been appointed for such Lender or its Parent Company, or such Lender or its Parent Company has taken any action in furtherance of or indicating its consent to or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment under any Debtor Relief Laws.
“Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, an Incremental Amendment or an Extended Amendment, in each case, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lender.
“Lending Office” means for any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit or bank guarantee issued pursuant to this Agreement other than any such letter of credit or bank guarantee that shall have ceased to be a “Letter of Credit” outstanding hereunder pursuant to Section 9.05.
“Letter of Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the renewal or increase of the amount thereof.
“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to $10,000,000. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of and not in addition to the aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, hypothecation, pledge, encumbrance, charge or security interest in or on such asset and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement or
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extended title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset; provided, that in no event shall a Non-Financing Lease Obligation or an agreement to sell be deemed to constitute a Lien.
“Limited Condition Acquisition” means any acquisition by the Borrower and/or one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted by this Agreement whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing.
“Loan Document Obligations” means (a) the due and punctual payment by the Borrower of (i) the principal of and interest at the applicable rate or rates provided in this Agreement (including interest accruing during the pendency of any proceeding under any applicable Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, (ii) each payment required to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement in respect of any Letter of Credit, when and as due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of disbursements, interest thereon (including interest accruing during the pendency of any proceeding under any applicable Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) and obligations to provide cash collateral, and (iii) all other monetary obligations of the Borrower under or pursuant to this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including obligations to pay fees, expense reimbursement obligations and indemnification obligations, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any proceeding under any applicable Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), (b) the due and punctual payment and performance of all other obligations of the Borrower under or pursuant to each of the Loan Documents and (c) the due and punctual payment and performance of all the obligations of each other Loan Party under or pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any proceeding under any applicable Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding).
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Guarantee Agreement, the Security Documents, any Customary Intercreditor Agreement and, except for purposes of Section 9.02, any promissory notes delivered pursuant to Section 2.09(e).
“Loan Parties” means the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties.
“Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.
“Margin Stock” has the meaning set forth in Regulation U of the Federal Reserve.
“Market Capitalization” means an amount equal to (a) the total number of issued and outstanding shares of common Equity Interests of the Borrower on the date of the declaration of a Restricted Payment permitted pursuant to Section 6.06(k) multiplied by (b) the arithmetic mean of the closing prices per share of such common Equity Interests on the principal securities exchange on which such common Equity Interests are traded for the 30 consecutive trading days immediately preceding the date of declaration of such Restricted Payment.
“Master Agreement” has the meaning given such term in the definition of the term “Swap Agreement”.
“Material Adverse Effect” means any event, development or circumstance or condition that would materially adversely affect (a) the business, operations or the financial condition of the
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Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (b) the ability of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) to fully and timely perform any of their payment obligations under the Loan Documents; or (c) the rights and remedies available to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document.
“Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loan Document Obligations) of any one or more of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $75,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be its Swap Termination Value.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17.
“MFN Exceptions” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20(c).
“MFN Protection” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20(c).
“Minimum Extension Condition” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(b).
“Minority Investment” shall mean any Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary owns capital stock.
“Missouri Property” means that certain property located at Crossroads Business & Distribution Park at the northeast corner of Highway FF and Prigmore Avenue in the City of Joplin, County of Jasper, Missouri.
“MNPI” means any material information with respect to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective securities for purposes of United States federal securities laws that is not publicly available and has not been made available to investors in the Borrower’s public securities.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor to its rating agency business.
“Mortgage” means a mortgage, deed of trust, security deed, hypothec, charge or other security document granting a Lien on any Mortgaged Property to secure the Secured Obligations (provided, that in the event any Mortgaged Property is located in a jurisdiction which imposes mortgage, documentary, intangible taxes or other similar mortgage taxes or recording fees, such Mortgage shall only secure an amount not to exceed the Fair Market Value of the Mortgaged Property as reasonably determined by Borrower). Each Mortgage shall be substantially in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.
“Mortgage Springing Date” means the date on which financial statements are delivered or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), as applicable, for any Test Period where the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage of the Borrower equals or exceeds 3.25 to 1.00 as of such Test Period.
“Mortgaged Property” means each parcel of real property and the improvements thereon owned or leased by a Loan Party (unless such parcel is an Excluded Asset) with respect to which a Mortgage is granted.
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“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Necessary Cure Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.02(b).
“Net Cash Proceeds” means with respect to any Prepayment Event, Incurrence of Indebtedness, any issuance of Equity Interests or any capital contribution or any Disposition of any Investment (including any Designated Non-Cash Consideration):
(a) the gross cash proceeds (including payments from time to time in respect of installment or earn-out obligations, if applicable, but only as and when received and, with respect to any Casualty Prepayment Event, any insurance proceeds, eminent domain awards or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Prepayment Event) received by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of such Prepayment Event, issuance of Equity Interests, receipt of a capital contribution or Disposition of any Investment, less
(b) the sum of:
(i) in the case of any Prepayment Event or such Disposition, the amount, if any, of all taxes paid or estimated to be payable by any Parent Entity, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such Prepayment Event or such Disposition (including withholding taxes imposed on the repatriation of any such Net Cash Proceeds),
(ii) in the case of any Prepayment Event or such Disposition, the amount of any reasonable reserve established in accordance with GAAP against any liabilities (other than any amounts deducted pursuant to clause (i) above) (x) associated with the assets that are the subject of such Prepayment Event or such Disposition and (y) retained by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, including any pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction; provided that the amount of any subsequent reduction of such reserve (other than in connection with a payment in respect of any such liability) shall be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds of such Prepayment Event or such Disposition occurring on the date of such reduction,
(iii) in the case of any Prepayment Event or such Disposition, the amount of any principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest or other amounts on any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the assets that are the subject of such Prepayment Event or such Disposition to the extent that the instrument creating or evidencing such Indebtedness requires that such Indebtedness be repaid upon consummation of such Prepayment Event or such Disposition and such Indebtedness is actually so repaid (other than Indebtedness outstanding under the Loan Documents or otherwise subject to a Customary Intercreditor Agreement and any costs associated with the unwinding of any Swap Obligations in connection with such transaction),
(iv) in the case of any Asset Sale Prepayment Event, the amount of any proceeds of such Asset Sale Prepayment Event that the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary has reinvested (or intends to reinvest), or has entered into an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment to reinvest, within the Reinvestment Period, in the business of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (subject to Section 5.02); provided that:
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(A) the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary shall comply with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement with respect to such reinvestment if applicable;
(B) any portion of such proceeds that has not been so reinvested or made subject to an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment within the Reinvestment Period shall (x) be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale Prepayment Event occurring on the later of (1) the last day of the Reinvestment Period and (2) 180 days after the date that the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall have entered into an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment and (y) be applied to the prepayment of Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.11(b) or to the prepayment, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or redemption of any secured Permitted Additional Debt or secured Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the governing documentation thereof, in any such case to the extent permitted under Section 2.11(b); and
(C) any proceeds subject to an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment that is (I) later canceled or terminated for any reason before such proceeds are applied in accordance therewith or (II) not consummated (i.e., the reinvestment contemplated by such Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment is not made) shall be applied to the prepayment of Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.11(b) or to the prepayment, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or redemption of any secured Permitted Additional Debt or secured Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the governing documentation thereof, in any such case to the extent permitted under Section 2.11(b), unless the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary enters into another Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment with respect to such proceeds prior to the end of the Reinvestment Period,
(v) in the case of any Casualty Prepayment Event, the amount of any proceeds of such Casualty Prepayment Event (x) that the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary has reinvested (or intends to reinvest), or has entered into an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment to reinvest, within the Reinvestment Period, in the business of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (subject to Section 5.02), including for the repair, restoration or replacement of the asset or assets subject to such Casualty Prepayment Event, or (y) for which the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary has provided a Restoration Certification prior to the end of the Reinvestment Period; provided that:
(A) the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary shall comply with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement with respect to such reinvestment if applicable;
(B) any portion of such proceeds that has not been so reinvested or made subject to an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment or Restoration Certification within the Reinvestment Period shall (x) be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds of a Casualty Prepayment Event occurring on the later of (1) the last day of the Reinvestment Period and (2) 180 days after the date that the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall have entered into an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment or shall have provided a Restoration Certification and (y) be
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applied to the prepayment of Term Loans in accordance with Section 5.2(a)(i) or to the prepayment, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or redemption of any secured Permitted Additional Debt or secured Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the governing documentation thereof, in any such case to the extent permitted under Section 2.11(b); and
(C) any proceeds subject to an Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment or a Restoration Certification that is (I) later canceled or terminated for any reason before such proceeds are applied in accordance therewith or (II) not consummated (i.e., the reinvestment, repair, restoration or replacement contemplated by such Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment or Restoration Certification, as the case may be, is not made) shall be applied to the prepayment of Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.11(b) or to the prepayment, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or redemption of any secured Permitted Additional Debt or secured Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the governing documentation thereof, in each case to the extent permitted under Section 2.11(b), unless the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary enters into another Acceptable Reinvestment Commitment or provides another Restoration Certification with respect to such proceeds prior to the end of the Reinvestment Period,
(vi) in the case of any Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Casualty Prepayment Event by any non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, the pro rata portion of the net cash proceeds thereof (calculated without regard to this clause (vi)) attributable to minority interests and not available for distribution to or for the account of the Borrower or a wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary as a result thereof,
(vii) in the case of any Prepayment Event, Incurrence of Indebtedness, Disposition, issuance of Equity Interests or receipt of a capital contribution, the reasonable and customary fees, commissions, expenses (including attorney’s fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums and search and recording charges, transfer taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes and other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees or commissions), issuance costs, discounts and other costs and expenses (and, in the case of the Incurrence of any Indebtedness the proceeds of which are required to be used to prepay any Class of Loans and/or reduce any Class of Commitments under this Agreement, accrued interest and premium, if any, on such Loans and any other amounts (other than principal) required to be paid in respect of such Loans and/or Commitments in connection with any such prepayment and/or reduction), and payments made in order to obtain a necessary consent required by Requirements of Law, in each case only to the extent not already deducted in arriving at the amount referred to in clause (a) above, and
(viii) in the case of any Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Disposition, any amounts funded into escrow established pursuant to the documents evidencing any such Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Disposition to secure any indemnification obligations or adjustments to the purchase price associated with any such Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Disposition until such amounts are released to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary;
provided that (x) no net cash proceeds calculated in accordance with the foregoing realized in a single transaction or series of relayed transactions shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds unless such net cash
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proceeds shall exceed $10,000,000 and (y) no such net cash proceeds in any calendar year shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds with respect to any applicable Prepayment Event until the aggregate amount of all such net cash proceeds exceed $25,000,000 (and then only with respect to the amount in excess of $25,000,000).
For purposes of calculating the amount of Net Cash Proceeds, fees, commissions and other costs and expenses payable to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or Parent Entities shall be disregarded.
“Net Income” means, the consolidated net income (loss) of the Borrower, determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(c).
“Non-Debt Fund Affiliate” means any Affiliate of the Borrower (other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) that is not a Debt Fund Affiliate.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, a Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender.
“Non-Financing Lease Obligations” means a lease obligation that is not required to be accounted for as a financing or capital lease on both the balance sheet and the income statement for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP. For avoidance of doubt, (i) a straight-line or operating lease shall be considered a Non-Financing Lease Obligation and (ii) if the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries enter into a Sale Leaseback with a Governmental Authority in connection with an Industrial Revenue Bond, the associated lease shall be deemed to be a Non-Financing Lease Obligation notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein.
“Non-Guarantor” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party or that does not become a Loan Party in accordance with Section 5.11 (after giving effect to any applicable grace periods or extensions of time periods included therein to allow such Restricted Subsidiary to become a Loan Party in accordance with the terms thereof).
“Non-Guarantor Cap” means (a) the greater of (x) $285,000,000 and (y) 100% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to such date of Incurrence (measured as of the date such Indebtedness is Incurred based upon the Section 5.01 Financials which have most recently been delivered on or prior to such date) minus (b) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness then outstanding Incurred by a Non-Guarantor pursuant to Sections 6.01(j), (k), (s), (u) and (v) and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness with respect thereto.
“Non-Guarantor Casualty Prepayment Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11(h).
“Non-Guarantor Disposition” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11(h).
“Not Otherwise Applied” shall mean, with reference to any Net Cash Proceeds of any cash capital contribution, net proceeds of any non-cash capital contribution or the Net Cash Proceeds from the sale or issuance of any Qualified Equity Interests that is proposed to be applied to a particular use or transaction, that such amount was not previously applied or is not simultaneously being applied, to any other use, payment or transactions other than such particular use, payment or transaction.
“Notice of Borrowing” means a notice of borrowing substantially in the form of Exhibit T hereto or such other form as may be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
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“OFAC” has meaning set forth in the definition of “Embargoed Person.”
“Offered Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Offered Discount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Open Market Purchase” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(g).
“Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person, the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person (including any limited liability company or operating agreement).
“Other Taxes” means all present or future recording, stamp, documentary, or similar excise or other Taxes, charges or levies arising from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are imposed with respect to an assignment of a Loan or Commitment (“Assignment Taxes”), but only to the extent such Assignment Taxes are not imposed in respect of an assignment made at the request of the Borrower and are imposed as a result of a present or former connection between the assignor or assignee and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than any connections arising solely from such assignor or assignee having executed, delivered, or become a party to, performed its obligations or received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, sold or assigned an interest in, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, and/or enforced, any Loan Documents).
“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in an Alternative Currency, the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in such Alternative Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by a branch or Affiliate of the Administrative Agent in the applicable offshore interbank market for such Alternative Currency to major banks in such interbank market.
“Parent Company” means, with respect to a Lender, the bank holding company (as defined in Regulation Y of the Federal Reserve), if any, of such Lender, and/or any Person owning, beneficially or of record, directly or indirectly, a majority of the equity interests of such Lender.
“Parent Entity” means any Person that is a direct or indirect parent company (which may be organized as, among other things, a partnership) of the Borrower.
“Participant” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(c)(i).
“Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(c)(ii).
“Participating Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Participating Member State” means each state as described in any EMU Legislation.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.
“Perfection Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
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“Permitted Additional Debt” means
(i) secured or unsecured bonds, notes or debentures (which bonds, notes or debentures, if secured, may be secured either by Liens on the Collateral ranking equal in priority to Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to control of remedies) or by Liens on the Collateral ranking junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations) or
(ii) secured or unsecured loans (which loans, if secured, may be secured by Liens on the Collateral ranking pari passu or junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations),
in each case Incurred by the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party; provided that
(a) the terms of such Indebtedness or commitments do not provide for maturity or any scheduled amortization or mandatory repayment, mandatory redemption, mandatory commitment reduction, mandatory offer to purchase or sinking fund obligation prior to the Latest Maturity Date, other than, subject (except, in the case of any such Indebtedness or commitments that constitute, or are intended to constitute, other First Lien Obligations) to the prior repayment or prepayment of, or the prior offer to repay or prepay (and to the extent such offer is accepted, the prior repayment or prepayment of) the Secured Obligations hereunder (other than Secured Swap Obligations under any Swap Agreement, Secured Cash Management Obligations under Cash Management Agreements or contingent indemnification obligations and other contingent obligations not then due and payable), customary prepayments, commitment reductions, repurchases, redemptions, defeasances, acquisitions or satisfactions and discharges, or offers to prepay, reduce, redeem, repurchase, defease, acquire or satisfy and discharge upon, a change of control, asset sale event or casualty, eminent domain or condemnation event, or on account of the accumulation of excess cash flow (in the case of loans or commitments), AHYDO Catch-Up Payments and customary acceleration rights upon an event of default; provided that the foregoing requirements of this clause (a) shall not apply to the extent such Indebtedness or commitments constitute a customary bridge facility, so long as the long-term Indebtedness into which any such customary bridge facility is to be converted or exchanged satisfies the requirements of this clause (a) and such conversion or exchange is subject only to conditions customary for similar conversions or exchanges, provided, further, that any such Indebtedness that is a First Lien Obligation may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not, except in the case of any Refinancing of such Indebtedness, on a greater than a pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments with the Term Loans hereunder,
(b) except for any of the following that are applicable only to periods following the Latest Maturity Date, the covenants, events of default, Subsidiary guarantees and other terms for such Indebtedness or commitments (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, interest rates (including through fixed interest rates), interest rate margins, rate floors, fees, maturity, funding discounts, original issue discounts and redemption or prepayment terms and premiums), when taken as a whole, are determined by the Borrower to not be materially more restrictive on the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries than the terms of this Agreement, when taken as a whole (other than covenants, events of default, subsidiary guarantors and other terms that are applicable after the Latest Maturity Date or added for the benefit of all Secured Parties, including, if the documentation governing such Indebtedness or commitments contains any Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant, the Administrative Agent shall have been given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement shall have been amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant for the benefit of each Facility (provided, however, that, if (x) the documentation governing the Permitted Additional Debt that includes a Previously Absent Financial Maintenance
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Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant consists of a revolving credit facility (whether or not the documentation therefor includes any other facilities) and (y) such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant is a “springing” financial maintenance covenant for the benefit of such revolving credit facility or a covenant only applicable to, or for the benefit of, a revolving credit facility, then this Agreement shall be amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant only for the benefit of each revolving credit facility hereunder (and not for the benefit of any term loan facility hereunder) and such Indebtedness or commitments shall not be deemed “more restrictive” solely as a result of such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant benefiting only such revolving credit facilities); provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days prior to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness or the providing of such commitments, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or commitments or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees)),
(c) if such Indebtedness is senior subordinated or subordinated Indebtedness, the terms of such Indebtedness provide for customary “high yield” subordination of such Indebtedness to the Secured Obligations,
(d) any Permitted Additional Debt may not be guaranteed by any subsidiaries of the Borrower that do not guarantee the Secured Obligations,
(e) any secured Permitted Additional Debt Incurred may not be secured by any assets that do not secure the Secured Obligations and shall be subject to an applicable Customary Intercreditor Agreement and
(f) any Permitted Additional Debt in the form of loans secured by Liens on the Collateral having a priority ranking equal to the priority of the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to control of remedies) shall be subject to the MFN Protection set forth in Section 2.20(c) (but subject to the MFN Exceptions to such MFN Protection) as if such Permitted Additional Debt were an Incremental Term Loan.
“Permitted Additional Debt Documents” means any document or instrument (including any guarantee, security agreement or mortgage and which may include any or all of the Loan Documents) issued or executed and delivered with respect to any Permitted Additional Debt by any Loan Party.
“Permitted Additional Debt Obligations” means, if any secured Permitted Additional Debt has been Incurred by or provided to any Loan Party and is outstanding, the collective reference to (a) the due and punctual payment of (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest at the applicable rate provided in the applicable Permitted Additional Debt Documents (including interest accruing during the pendency of any proceeding under any applicable Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on any such Permitted Additional Debt, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment, redemption or otherwise and (ii) all other monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any proceeding under any applicable Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to any of the Permitted Additional Debt
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Secured Parties under the applicable Permitted Additional Debt Documents and (b) the due and punctual performance of all covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower or any Loan Party under or pursuant to applicable Permitted Additional Debt Documents.
“Permitted Additional Debt Secured Parties” means the holders from time to time of the secured Permitted Additional Debt Obligations (and any representative on their behalf).
“Permitted Business Acquisition” means any Acquisition by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, so long as (a) such Acquisition and all transactions related thereto shall be consummated in all material respects in accordance with all Requirements of Law, (b) if such Acquisition involves the acquisition of Equity Interests of a Person that upon such Acquisition would become a Subsidiary, such Acquisition shall result in the issuer of such Equity Interests becoming a Restricted Subsidiary and, to the extent required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, a Subsidiary Loan Party, (c) to the extent set forth in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and within the time frames set forth in Section 5.10, such Acquisition shall result in the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, being granted a security interest in any Equity Interests or any assets so acquired and (d) subject to Section 1.10, both immediately prior to and after giving pro forma effect to such Acquisition, no Event of Default under either Section 7.01(a), 7.01(b), 7.01(h) or 7.01(i) shall have occurred and be continuing.
“Permitted Business Acquisition Consideration” means in connection with any Permitted Business Acquisition, the aggregate amount (as valued at the Fair Market Value of such Permitted Business Acquisition at the time such Permitted Business Acquisition is made) of, without duplication: (a) the purchase consideration paid or payable in cash for such Permitted Business Acquisition, whether payable at or prior to the consummation of such Permitted Business Acquisition or deferred for payment at any future time, whether or not any such future payment is subject to the occurrence of any contingency, and including any and all payments representing the purchase price and any assumptions of Indebtedness and/or Guarantee, “earn-outs” and other agreements to make any payment the amount of which is, or the terms of payment of which are, in any respect subject to or contingent upon the revenues, income, cash flow or profits (or the like) of any Person or business and (b) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness incurred, issued, obtained or assumed in connection with such Permitted Business Acquisition; provided, in each case, that any such future payment that is subject to a contingency shall be considered Permitted Business Acquisition Consideration only to the extent of the reserve, if any, required under GAAP (as determined at the time of the consummation of such Permitted Business Acquisition) to be established in respect thereof by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Permitted Cure Securities” means Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower in the form of common equity or in such other form as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in each case, issued pursuant to Section 7.02.
“Permitted Encumbrances” shall mean:
(a) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or claims that are not yet overdue by more than sixty days or more, or if more than sixty days overdue either (i) that are being diligently contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings for which appropriate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP or the equivalent accounting principles in the relevant local jurisdiction or (ii) with respect to which the failure to make payment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(b) Liens in respect of property or assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries imposed by Requirements of Law, such as landlord’s, carriers’, warehousemen’s,
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repairmen’s, construction contractors’ and mechanics’ Liens, supplier of materials, architects’ and other similar Liens, in each case so long as such Liens arise in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice and secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than sixty days or, if more than sixty days overdue either (i) no action has been taken to enforce such Lien, (ii) such amount is being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which appropriate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP or the equivalent accounting principles in the relevant local jurisdiction or (iii) with respect to which the failure to make payment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) Liens arising from judgments, awards, attachments or decrees for the payment of money in circumstances not constituting an Event of Default under Section 7.01(j);
(d) Liens incurred or pledges or deposits (i) made in connection with the Federal Employers Liability Act or any other workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, employers’ health tax and other types of social security or similar legislation, (ii) securing insurance premiums, other liabilities (including in respect of reimbursement and indemnified obligations) to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements (including in respect of deductibles, co-payment, co-insurance, self-insurance retention amounts and premiums and adjustments thereof), (iii) securing the performance of tenders, public or statutory obligations, surety, stay, indemnity, warranty release, customs and appeal bonds, bids, licenses, leases (other than Financing Lease Obligations), contracts (including government contracts and trade contracts (other than for Indebtedness)), performance, performance and completion, completion and return-of-money bonds or guarantees, government contracts, financial assurances and completion obligations and other similar obligations, (iv) securing contested taxes or import duties or the payment of rent, (v) securing letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar items issued or posted to support the payment of or for the benefit of items in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(e) ground leases, leases or subleases, licenses or sublicenses in respect of Real Property on which locations and/or facilities owned or leased by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries are located;
(f) easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, rights-of-way, licenses, special assessments, survey exceptions, restrictions (including zoning restrictions), minor title defects, servitudes, drains, sewers, exceptions or irregularities in title, encroachments, protrusions and other similar charges, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or encumbrances or restrictions on the use of Real Property, which in each case do not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and that were not incurred in connection with and do not secure any Indebtedness, and any exception on any title policies issued for the benefit of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(g) any (i) Lien or interest or title of a lessor, sublessor, licensor or sublicensor or secured by a lessor’s, sublessor’s, licensor’s or sublicensor’s interest under any lease, sublease, license or sublicense permitted by this Agreement (other than in respect of a Financing Lease Obligation), (ii) landlord Liens permitted by the terms of any lease, (iii) restriction or encumbrance that the interest or title of any such lessor, sublessor, licensor or a sublicensor may be subject (including ground lease) or (iv) subordination of the interest of the lessee, sublessee, licensee or sublicensee under such lease or license to any restriction or encumbrance referred to in the preceding clause (iii);
(h) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of Requirements of Law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods or to secure the performance of leases of Real Property;
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(i) Liens on goods or inventory or proceeds thereof the purchase, shipment or storage price of which is financed by a documentary letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance issued or created for the account of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that such Lien secures only the obligations of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of such letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance to the extent permitted under Section 6.01;
(j) licenses, sublicenses and cross-licenses of Intellectual Property granted in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(k) Liens arising from precautionary UCC (or equivalent statute) financing statement, other applicable personal property or movable property security registry financing statements or similar filings made in respect of Non-Financing Lease Obligations, consignment arrangements or bailee arrangements entered into by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(l) any zoning, building or similar law or right reserved to, or vested in, any Governmental Authority to control or regulate the use of any Real Property or any structure thereon that does not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(m) (i) leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses (including of Intellectual Property) granted to others in the ordinary course of business that do not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) the rights reserved or vested in any Person (including any Governmental Authority) by the terms of any lease, license, franchise, grant or permit held by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or by a statutory provision, to terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual or periodic payments as a condition to the continuance thereof;
(n) Liens given to a public utility or any municipality or Governmental Authority when required by such utility or other authority in connection with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such Liens do not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(o) servicing agreements, development agreements, site plan agreements, subdivision agreements and other agreements with Governmental Authorities pertaining to the use or development of any of the Real Property of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, including, without limitation, any obligations to deliver letters of credit and other security as required so long as the same do not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(p) undetermined or inchoate Liens, rights of distress and charges incidental to current operations that have not at such time been filed or exercised, or which relate to obligations not due or payable or if due, the validity of such Liens are being contested in good faith by appropriate actions diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such Person in accordance with GAAP;
(q) reservations, limitations, provisos and conditions expressed in any original grant from any Governmental Authority or other grant of real or immovable property or interests therein;
(r) Liens consisting of royalties payable with respect to any asset, right or property of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries;
(s) statutory Liens incurred or pledges or deposits made in favor of a Governmental Authority to secure the performance of obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under
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Environmental Laws to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, in each case incurred or made in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(t) all rights of expropriation, access or use or other similar right conferred by or reserved by any federal, state or municipal Governmental Authority;
(u) the right reserved to, or vested in, any Governmental Authority by any statutory provision or by the terms of any lease, license, franchise, grant or permit of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, to terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual or other payments as a condition to the continuance thereof;
(v) Liens arising from Cash Equivalents described in clause (i) of the definition of the term “Cash Equivalents”; and
(w) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary, other Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by any Requirements of Law.
“Permitted Equal Priority Refinancing Debt” mean any secured Indebtedness Incurred by the Borrower and/or the guarantors in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes, bonds or debentures; provided that
(a) such Indebtedness is secured by Liens on all or a portion of the Collateral on an equal priority basis with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies) and is not secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral,
(b) such Indebtedness satisfies the applicable requirements set forth in the provisos to the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”,
(c) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries of the Borrower other than Subsidiaries that are guarantors and
(d) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their representative) and collateral agent shall become parties to a Customary Intercreditor Agreement providing that the Liens on the Collateral securing such obligations shall rank equal in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies).
“Permitted Holder” means (i) the Controlling Shareholder, (ii) Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx and his Immediate Family Members, (iii) the executors and administrators of the estate of any such individual referred to in the foregoing clause (ii) hereof and (iv) any trust for the benefit of any such individual referred to in the foregoing clause (ii).
“Permitted Investment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.05.
“Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt” means secured Indebtedness Incurred by the Borrower and/or any guarantor in the form of one or more series of junior lien secured notes, bonds or debentures or junior lien secured loans; provided that
(a) such Indebtedness is secured by Liens on all or a portion of the Collateral on a junior priority basis to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations and any other First Lien Obligations and is not secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral,
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(b) such Indebtedness satisfies the applicable requirements set forth in the provisos in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” (provided that such Indebtedness may be secured by a Lien on the Collateral that ranks junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations and any other First Lien Obligations, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”),
(c) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their representative) and the collateral agent shall become parties to a Customary Intercreditor Agreement providing that the Liens on the Collateral securing such obligations shall rank junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations, and
(d) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries of the Borrower other than Subsidiaries that are guarantors.
“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Indebtedness (the “Refinanced Indebtedness”), any Indebtedness Incurred in exchange for or as a replacement of (including by entering into alternative financing arrangements in respect of such exchange or replacement (in whole or in part), by adding or replacing lenders, creditors, agents, borrowers and/or guarantors, or, after the original instrument giving rise to such Indebtedness has been terminated, by entering into any credit agreement, loan agreement, note purchase agreement, indenture or other agreement), or the net proceeds of which are to be used for the purpose of modifying, extending, refinancing, renewing, replacing, redeeming, repurchasing, defeasing, acquiring, amending, supplementing, restructuring, repaying, prepaying, retiring, extinguishing or refunding (collectively to “Refinance” or a “Refinancing” or “Refinanced”), such Refinanced Indebtedness (or previous refinancing thereof constituting Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness); provided that
(A) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of any such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Refinanced Indebtedness outstanding immediately prior to the consummation of such Refinancing except by an amount equal to the unpaid accrued interest, dividends and premium (including tender premiums), if any, thereon plus defeasance costs, underwriting discounts and other amounts paid and fees and expenses (including OID, closing payments, upfront fees and similar fees) incurred in connection with such Refinancing plus an amount equal to any existing commitment unutilized and letters of credit undrawn thereunder,
(B) subject to Section 1.11(g), any Loan Party that was not a direct or contingent obligor with respect to such Refinanced Indebtedness shall not become a direct or contingent obligor with respect to such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness,
(C) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall have a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and shall have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Refinanced Indebtedness; provided that the foregoing requirements of this clause (C) shall not apply to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes a customary bridge facility, so long as the long-term Indebtedness into which any such customary bridge facility is to be converted or exchanged satisfies the requirements of this clause (C) and such conversion or exchange is subject only to conditions customary for similar conversions or exchanges;
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(D) subject to Section 1.11(g), to the extent such Refinanced Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms in all material respects at least as favorable, taken as a whole, to the Lenders (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) as those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Indebtedness (except, for the avoidance of doubt, to the extent permitted by dollar for dollar usage of any other basket set forth in Section 6.01);
(E) subject to Section 1.11(g), (1) if such Refinanced Indebtedness is secured by any Collateral on a pari passu basis to the Secured Obligations, the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be secured on a pari passu or junior lien basis to the Secured Obligations or unsecured, (2) if such Refinanced Indebtedness is secured by any Collateral on a junior basis to the Obligations, the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be secured on a junior lien basis to the Secured Obligations or unsecured and (3) if such Refinanced Indebtedness is unsecured, the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be unsecured (except, for the avoidance of doubt, in the case of each of clauses (1), (2) and (3), to the extent of any dollar for dollar usage of any other basket set forth in Section 6.01),
(F) subject to Section 1.11(g), if such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is secured, it may only be secured by such collateral (or replacement collateral of the same or similar type) that secured the Refinanced Indebtedness (except, for the avoidance of doubt, to the extent of any dollar for dollar usage of any other basket set forth in Section 6.01),
(G) if such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subject to an intercreditor agreement and is secured by any Collateral, a Senior Representative validly acting on behalf of holders of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall become party to such intercreditor agreement; and
(H) except for any of the following that are only applicable to periods after the Latest Maturity Date, the terms and conditions contained in the documentation governing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are determined by the Borrower to not be materially more restrictive on the obligor or obligors of such Indebtedness than the terms and conditions contained in the documentation governing such Refinanced Indebtedness being Refinanced (including, if applicable, as to collateral priority and subordination, but excluding as to interest rates (including through fixed exchange rates), interest rate margins, rate floors, fees, maturity, funding discounts, original issue discount and redemption or prepayment terms and premiums) (provided that, if the documentation governing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness contains a Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant, the Administrative Agent shall have been given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement shall be amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant for the benefit of such Facility (provided, however, that if (x) the documentation governing the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness that includes a Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant consists of a revolving credit facility (whether or not the documentation therefor includes any other facilities) and (y) such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant is a “springing” financial maintenance covenant for the benefit of such revolving credit facility or covenant only applicable to, or for the benefit of, a revolving credit facility, the Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant shall only be included in this Agreement for the benefit of each Revolving Facility hereunder (and not for the benefit of any term loan facility hereunder) and such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be deemed “more restrictive” solely as a result of such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant benefiting only such Revolving Facilities)); provided, that a certificate of Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five 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
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relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement in clause (H) shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees).
“Permitted Term Loan A Indebtedness” means Indebtedness consisting of Term Loans (x) with (a) a weighted average scheduled amortization or mandatory repayment, mandatory redemption, mandatory offer to purchase or sinking fund obligation not in excess of 10.0% per annum of the initial aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness and (b) a maturity date of not less than five years from the date of Incurrence of such Indebtedness or (y) on such other terms as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion.
“Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness Incurred by the Borrower and/or the guarantors in the form of one or more series of senior, senior subordinated or subordinated unsecured notes, bonds, debentures or loans; provided that (a) such Indebtedness satisfies the applicable requirements set forth in the provisos in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” and (b) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries of the Borrower other than Subsidiaries that are guarantors.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Platform” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.01.
“Pledged Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement.
“Pounds Sterling” and “£” means freely transferable lawful money of the United Kingdom (expressed in Pounds Sterling).
“Preferred Equity Interests” mean any Equity Interests with preferential rights of payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up.
“Prepayment Event” means any Asset Sale Prepayment Event, Casualty Prepayment Event or Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event.
“Prepayment Percentage” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(b).
“Present Fair Saleable Value” means the amount that could be obtained by an independent willing seller from an independent willing buyer if the assets (both tangible and intangible) of the applicable Person and its subsidiaries taken as a whole are sold on a going-concern basis with reasonable promptness in an arm’s-length transaction under present conditions for the sale of comparable business enterprises insofar as such conditions can be reasonably evaluated.
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“Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant” means, at any time (x) any financial maintenance covenant that is not included in this Agreement at such time and (y) any financial maintenance covenant that is included in this Agreement at such time but with covenant levels in this Agreement that are less restrictive (as reasonably determined by the Borrower) on the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Prime Rate” means the rate publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its “prime rate.” The Prime Rate is based upon various factors including the Administrative Agent’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such rate announced by the Administrative Agent shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.
“Pro Forma Entity” means any Acquired Entity or Business, any Sold Entity or Business, any Converted Restricted Subsidiary or any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Proposed Change” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(c).
“Public Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.01.
“Purchasing Borrower Party” mean the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Transferee pursuant to Section 9.04(f).
“Qualified Equity Interests” means with respect to the Equity Interests of any Person, any Equity Interests other than Disqualified Equity Interests of such Person.
“Qualified Proceeds” means assets that are used or useful in, or Equity Interests of any Person engaged in, a similar business; provided that the Fair Market Value of any such assets or Equity Interests shall be determined by the Borrower in good faith.
“Qualifying Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Rating Agency” shall mean Xxxxx’x and S&P or if Xxxxx’x or S&P or both shall not make a rating on the Initial Term Loans and/or the Borrower and/or any other Person, instrument or security publicly available, a nationally recognized statistical rating agency or agencies, as the case may be, selected by the Borrower which shall be substituted for Xxxxx’x or S&P or both, as the case may be.
“Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned or leased by any person, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership thereof.
“Redemption Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.07(a).
“Reference Rate” means, on any day, an interest rate per annum equal to the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such day by reference to ICE Benchmark Administration Limited’s “LIBOR” rate (or by reference to the rates provided by any Person that take over the administration of such rate if ICE Benchmark Administration Limited is no longer making a “LIBOR” rate available) for deposits in Dollars (as set forth on the Bloomberg screen displaying such “LIBOR” rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a
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Bloomberg page or screen, on any successor or substitute page or screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time, in each case as selected by the Administrative Agent)) for a period equal to three-months.
“Refinance” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness,” and “Refinanced” shall have a meaning correlative thereto.
“Refunding Equity Interests” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.06(a).
“Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(b)(iv).
“Regulation T” has the meaning set forth in Regulation T of the Federal Reserve.
“Regulation U” has the meaning set forth in Regulation U of the Federal Reserve.
“Regulation X” has the meaning set forth in Regulation X of the Federal Reserve.
“Reinvestment Period” means, with respect to any Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Casualty Prepayment Event, the day which is fifteen months after the receipt of cash proceeds by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from such Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Casualty Prepayment Event.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and controlling persons of such Person and of each of such Person’s Affiliates and permitted successors and assigns.
“Release” means any release, spill, emission, leaking, dumping, injection, pouring, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, leaching or migration into or through the Environment (including ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) and including within, from or into any building, or any structure, facility or fixture.
“Repricing Transaction” shall mean (a) the Incurrence by the Borrower of any term loans (including, without limitation, any new or additional term loans under this Agreement, whether Incurred directly or by way of the conversion of Initial Term Loans into a new Class of replacement term loans under this Agreement) that is broadly marketed or syndicated to banks, financial institutions and/or other institutional lenders or investors in financings similar to the Initial Term Loan Facility provided for in this Agreement (i) having an Effective Yield for the respective Type of such Indebtedness that is less than the Effective Yield for the Initial Term Loans of the respective equivalent Type, but excluding Indebtedness Incurred in connection with a Change in Control (or transaction that if consummated would constitute a Change in Control) or Transformative Acquisition and (ii) the proceeds of which are used to prepay (or, in the case of a conversion, deemed to prepay or replace), in whole or in part, outstanding principal of Initial Term Loans or (b) any effective reduction in the Effective Yield for the Initial Term Loans (e.g., by way of amendment, waiver or otherwise), except for a reduction in connection with a Change in Control (or transaction that if consummated would constitute a Change in Control) or Transformative Acquisition and, in the case of any transaction under either clause (a) or clause (b) above, the primary purpose of which is to lower the Effective Yield on the Initial Term Loans. Any determination by the Administrative Agent with respect to whether a Repricing Transaction shall have occurred shall be conclusive and binding on all Lenders holding the Initial Term Loans.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Exposures, Term Loans and unused Commitments (other than Swingline Commitments) representing more than 50% of the
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aggregate Revolving Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments (other than Swingline Commitments) at such time; provided that to the extent set forth in Section 9.02, (a) the Revolving Exposures, Term Loans and unused Commitments of the Borrower and (b) whenever there are one or more Defaulting Lenders, the total outstanding Term Loans and Revolving Exposures of, and the unused Commitments of, each Defaulting Lender shall in each case be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders. Solely for purposes of this definition, Revolving Exposures shall be deemed to include all Extended Revolving Loans of all Classes, all Incremental Revolving Loans of all Classes and any swingline loans or letter of credit exposure, in each case then outstanding under the related Commitments.
“Required Percentage” means, with respect to each Excess Cash Flow Period, 50%; provided that if the Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio at the end of any Excess Cash Flow Period, is (i) less than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00 but greater than 3.00 to 1.00, the Required Percentage shall be 25% or (ii) less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00, the Required Percentage shall be 0%.
“Required Reimbursement Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(f).
“Required Revolving Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the aggregate Revolving Exposures and the unused aggregate Revolving Commitments at such time; provided that to the extent set forth in Section 9.02, (a) the Revolving Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments of the Borrower and (b) whenever there are one or more Defaulting Lenders, the total outstanding Revolving Exposures of, and the unused Revolving Commitments of, each Defaulting Lender shall in each case be excluded for purposes of making a determination of the Required Revolving Lenders.
“Requirements of Law” means, with respect to any Person, any statutes, laws, treaties, rules, regulations, orders, decrees, writs, injunctions or determinations of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, chief accounting officer, chief operating officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer, or other similar officer, manager or a director of a Loan Party and with respect to certain limited liability companies or partnerships that do not have officers, any director, manager, sole member, managing member or general partner thereof, and as to any document delivered on the Effective Date or thereafter pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) of the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement,” any secretary or assistant secretary of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Restricted Investments” means any Investment other than a Permitted Investment.
“Restricted Payment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.06.
“Restricted Payment Amount” means, at any time, the greater of (x) $95,000,000 and (y) 33% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 5.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date, minus the sum of
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(a) the amount utilized by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to make Restricted Payments in reliance on Section 6.06(f)(iv),
(b) the amount utilized by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to prepay, repurchase, redeem or otherwise defease or make similar payments in respect of Junior Financing prior to its stated maturity made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in reliance Section 6.07(a)(iii)(D),
(c) the amount utilized by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to incur Indebtedness pursuant to Section 6.01(w) and
(d) the amount utilized by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to make Investments pursuant to Section 6.05(k).
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Return” means, with respect to any Investment, any dividend, distribution, interest, fee, premium, return of capital, repayment of principal, income, profit (from a Disposition or otherwise) and any other similar amount received or realized in respect thereof.
“Revaluation Date” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, each of the following: (i) each date of issuance of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of an amendment of any such Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof (solely with respect to the increased amount) (iii) each date of any payment by an Issuing Bank under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency and (iv) such additional dates as are set forth in this Agreement.
“Revolving Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
“Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum possible aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08, (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or pursuant to an Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase and (c) established pursuant to an Incremental Amendment or Extension Amendment. The initial amount of each Lender’s Revolving Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments on the Effective Date is $120,000,000.
“Revolving Commitment Fee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.12(a).
“Revolving Exposure” means, with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, the sum of the Dollar Equivalent of the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure and Swingline Exposure at such time.
“Revolving Facility” means the Initial Revolving Facility and any other Revolving Commitments.
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“Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a Revolving Commitment or, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving Exposure.
“Revolving Loans” means Loans made pursuant to clause (b) of Section 2.01.
“Revolving Maturity Date” means (a) with respect to the Revolving Commitments established as of the Effective Date, May 25, 2022; provided that, if such date is not a Business Day, the “Revolving Maturity Date” will be the next Business Day immediately following such date and (b) with respect to each Class of Incremental Revolving Commitments or Extended Revolving Commitments, the revolving termination date set forth in the applicable Incremental Amendment or Extension Amendment.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business.
“Sale Leaseback” l mean any transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (a) sells, transfers or otherwise disposes of any property, real or personal, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and (b) as part of such transaction, thereafter rents or leases such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold, transferred or Disposed of.
“Same Day Funds” means (a) with respect to disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available funds and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments in an Alternative Currency, same day or other funds as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Bank to be customary in the place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of international banking transactions in the relevant Alternative Currency.
“Sanctions” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term Embargoed Person.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Section 5.01 Financials” means the financial statements delivered, or required to be delivered, pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b).
“Secured Cash Management Obligations” means the due and punctual payment and performance of all obligations of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (unless otherwise elected by the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable) in respect of any Cash Management Services provided to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor)) that are (a) owed to the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates, (b) owed on the Effective Date to a Person that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of the Effective Date (or who becomes a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender within 30 days of the Effective Date) or (c) owed to a Person that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time such obligations are incurred or shall become a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender after it has incurred such obligations. Secured Cash Management Obligations shall in no event include any Excluded Swap Obligations.
“Secured Obligations” means (a) the Loan Document Obligations, (b) the Secured Cash Management Obligations and (c) the Secured Swap Obligations. Secured Obligations shall in no event include any Excluded Swap Obligations.
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“Secured Parties” means (a) each Lender, (b) each Issuing Bank, (c) the Administrative Agent, (d) each Person to whom any Secured Cash Management Obligations are owed, (e) each counterparty to any Swap Agreement the obligations under which constitute Secured Swap Obligations, (f) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (g) the permitted successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.
“Secured Swap Obligations” means the due and punctual payment and performance of all obligations of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (unless otherwise elected by the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable) under each Swap Agreement that (a) is with a counterparty that is the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates, (b) is in effect on the Effective Date with a counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of the Effective Date (or who becomes a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender within 30 days of the Effective Date) or (c) is entered into after the Effective Date with any counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time such Swap Agreement is entered into or shall become a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender after it has entered into such agreement. Secured Swap Obligations shall in no event include any Excluded Swap Obligations.
“Security Documents” means the Collateral Agreement, each Mortgage and each other security agreement, pledge agreement or other agreement or document executed and delivered pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, Section 5.10, 5.11 or 5.14 to secure any of the Secured Obligations.
“Senior Representative” means, with respect to any series of Indebtedness, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.
“Significant Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination,
(a) any Restricted Subsidiary whose total assets (when combined with the assets of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries after eliminating intercompany obligations) at the last day of the most recent Test Period ended on or prior to such date of determination were equal to or greater than 15.0% of the Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date,
(b) any Restricted Subsidiary whose gross revenues (when combined with the gross revenues of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries after eliminating intercompany obligations) for such Test Period were equal to or greater than 15.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP or
(c) each other Restricted Subsidiary that, when such Restricted Subsidiary’s total assets or gross revenues (when combined with the total assets or gross revenues of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries after eliminating intercompany obligations) are aggregated with each other Restricted Subsidiary (when combined with the total assets or gross revenues of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries after eliminating intercompany obligations) that is the subject of an Event of Default described in clauses (h) or (i) of Section 7.01 would constitute a “Significant Subsidiary” under clause (a) or (b) above.
“Sold Entity or Business” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Solicited Discount Proration” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
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“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of a Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D) substantially in the form of Exhibit M.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer” means the written offer by each Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit N, submitted following the Administrative Agent’s receipt of a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(D).
“Solvent” and “Solvency” means, with respect to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis on the Effective Date, that (a) each of the Fair Value and the Present Fair Saleable Value of the assets of a Person and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole exceed their Stated Liabilities and Identified Contingent Liabilities; and (b) such Person and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole do not have Unreasonably Small Capital; and (c) such Person and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole can pay their Stated Liabilities and Identified Contingent Liabilities as they mature. Defined terms used in the foregoing definition shall have the meanings set forth in the solvency certificate delivered on the Effective Date pursuant to Section 4.01(g).
“Special Purpose Subsidiary” means any (a) not-for-profit Subsidiary, (b) captive insurance company or (c) any other Subsidiary formed for a specific bona fide purpose not including substantive business operations and that does not own any material assets, in each case, that has been designated as a “Special Purpose Subsidiary” by the Borrower.
“Specified Discount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of the Borrower of a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment made pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B) substantially in the form of Exhibit I.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response” means the written response by each Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit J, to a Specified Discount Prepayment Notice.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B).
“Specified Discount Proration” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(B).
“Specified Restructuring” means any restructuring or other strategic initiative (including cost saving initiative) of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Effective Date and not in the ordinary course and described in reasonable detail in a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent.
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“Specified Transaction” means , with respect to any period, any Acquisition or similar Investment, sale, transfer or other Disposition of assets or property, Incurrence, Refinancing, prepayment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition similar payment, extinguishment, retirement or repayment of Indebtedness, Restricted Payment, Subsidiary designation, Incremental Term Loan, provision of Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases, provision of Incremental Revolving Commitments, creation of Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Commitments or other event that by the terms of the Loan Documents requires pro forma compliance with a test or covenant hereunder or requires such test or covenant to be calculated on a pro forma basis.
“Specified Voluntary Prepayment” means any prepayment of Term Loans (and, to the extent the Revolving Commitments or Incremental Revolving Commitments are permanently reduced in a corresponding amount pursuant to Section 2.08, Revolving Loans or Incremental Revolving Loans) made pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(i), excluding any such prepayment funded with the proceeds of issuances of Equity Interests or Indebtedness (other than revolving Indebtedness).
“Spot Rate” means on any day, with respect to any currency, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into another currency, which shall be the Historical Exchange Rate on the immediately prior day as determined by OANDA Corporation and made available on its website at xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx; provided that the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank if at the time of any such determination, for any reason, no such rate is being quoted; provided further that an Issuing Bank 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 an Alternative Currency.
“Stated Amount” of any Letter of Credit mean, unless otherwise specified herein, the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving pro forma effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.
“Submitted Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“Submitted Discount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii)(C).
“subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any corporation more than 50% of whose stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person directly or indirectly through subsidiaries and (b) any limited liability company, partnership, association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person directly or indirectly through subsidiaries has more than a 50% equity interest at the time.
“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Subsidiary Loan Party” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a party to a Guarantee Agreement.
“Successor Borrower” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.03(a).
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“Survey” means a survey of any Mortgaged Property (and all improvements thereon) which is (a) (i) prepared by a surveyor or engineer licensed to perform surveys in the jurisdiction where such Mortgaged Property is located, (ii) dated (or redated) not earlier than six months prior to the date of delivery thereof unless there shall have occurred within six months prior to such date of delivery any exterior construction on the site of such Mortgaged Property or any easement, right of way or other interest in the Mortgaged Property has been granted or become effective through operation of law or otherwise with respect to such Mortgaged Property which, in either case, can be depicted on a survey, in which events, as applicable, such survey shall be dated (or redated) after the completion of such construction or if such construction shall not have been completed as of such date of delivery, not earlier than 20 days (or such earlier period as the Administrative Agent may agree) prior to such date of delivery, or after the grant or effectiveness of any such easement, right of way or other interest in the Mortgaged Property, (iii) certified by the surveyor (in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) to the Administrative Agent and the title insurance company, (iv) complying in all respects with the minimum detail requirements of the American Land Title Association as such requirements are in effect on the date of preparation of such survey and (v) sufficient for the title insurance company to remove all standard survey exceptions from the title insurance policy (or commitment) relating to such Mortgaged Property and issue the standard survey-related endorsements.
“Swap Agreement” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Swap Obligation” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “Excluded Swap Obligation.”
“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Agreements, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Agreements, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Agreements have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the xxxx-to-market value(s) for such Swap Agreements, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Agreements (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Swingline Commitment” means the commitment of the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans up to an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,000,000.
“Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate Swingline Exposure at such time.
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“Swingline Lender” means (a) Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as a lender of Swingline Loans hereunder and (b) each Revolving Lender that shall have become a Swingline Lender hereunder as provided in Section 2.04(d) (other than any Person that shall have ceased to be a Swingline Lender as provided in Section 2.04(e)), each in its capacity as a lender of Swingline Loans hereunder.
“Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Syndication Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as syndication agent.
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Term Commitment” means an Initial Term Commitment, an Incremental Term Loan Commitment or an Extended Term Loan Commitment, as the context may require.
“Term Lender” means a Lender with a Term Commitment or an outstanding Term Loan.
“Term Loan Maturity Date” means (a) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, the Initial Term Maturity Date and (b) with respect to each Class of Incremental Term Loans and Extended Term Loans, the maturity date set forth in the applicable Incremental Amendment or Extension Amendment.
“Term Loans” means Initial Term Loans, Extended Term Loans and Incremental Term Loans, as the context may require.
“Test Period” means, at any date of determination, the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower
then last ended for which financial statements have been delivered or were required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or
5.01(b) or, prior to the first such
requirement, the four quarter period ended March 31, 2017. A Test Period may be designated by reference to the last day thereof (i.e. the March 31, 2017 Test Period refers to the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower
ended March 31, 2017), and a Test Period shall be deemed to end on the last day thereof.
“Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant” means, at any time any financial maintenance covenant that is included in this Agreement at such time but with covenant levels in this Agreement that are more restrictive (as reasonably determined by the Borrower) on the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Title Insurance Springing Date” mean the date on which financial statements are delivered or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), as applicable, for any Test Period where the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage of the Borrower equals or exceeds 3.75 to 1.00 as of such Test Period.
“Transaction Costs” means all fees, costs and expenses incurred or payable by the Controlling Shareholder, the Borrower, any of their Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates in connection with the Transactions and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
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“Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (b) the Financing Transactions and (c) the payment of the Transaction Costs.
“Transformative Acquisition” means any acquisition by the Borrower and the guarantors that either (a) is not permitted by the terms of this Agreement immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition or (b) if permitted by the terms of this Agreement immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition, would not provide the Borrower and the guarantors with adequate flexibility under this Agreement for the continuation or expansion of their combined operations following such consummation, as determined by the Borrower acting in good faith.
“Treasury Equity Interests” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.06(a).
“Type,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.
“Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York, except as context may otherwise require.
“Unrestricted Cash” means, as of any date of determination, cash or Cash Equivalents of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries on such date that would not appear as “restricted” on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary designated by the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 5.13 subsequent to the Effective Date.
“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.17(e)(ii)(C).
“USA Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, as amended from time to time.
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any Person, shares of such Person’s Equity Interests having the right to vote for the election of the members of the Board of Directors of such Person under ordinary circumstances.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
“Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person at any date, a subsidiary of such Person of which securities or other ownership interests representing 100% of the Equity Interests (other than (a) directors’ qualifying shares and (b) nominal shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent
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required by applicable Requirements of Law) are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by such Person or one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
“Write-Down and Conversion Power” means, 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.
SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Loan”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Revolving Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Revolving Loan Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally. With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a) The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
(b) The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.
(c) The term “including” is by way of example and not limitation.
(d) Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.
(e) The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.
(f) 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.”
(g) 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.
(h) Any reference to any Person shall be constructed to include such Person’s successors or assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignment set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all of the functions thereof.
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(i) Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.
(j) The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning as the word “shall.”
(k) The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP.
(a) 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 in a manner consistent with that used in preparing its historical financial statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein; provided, however, that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any Accounting Change occurring after the Effective Date on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such Accounting Change, then such provision shall be interpreted as if such Accounting Change had not occurred until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.
(b) Where reference is made to “the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis” or similar language, such consolidation shall not include any Subsidiaries of the Borrower other than Restricted Subsidiaries.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Accounting Standards Codification No. 825-Financial Instruments, or any successor thereto (including pursuant to the Accounting Standards Codification), to value any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary at “fair value” as defined therein.
(d) For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding any classification under GAAP of any Person or business in respect of which a definitive agreement for the Disposition thereof has been entered into as discontinued operations, the Net Income of such Person or business shall not be excluded from the calculation of Net Income until such Disposition shall have been consummated.
SECTION 1.05. Currency Translation.
(a) The Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Bank, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating the Dollar Equivalent of Letters of Credit and other outstanding amounts hereunder denominated in Alternative Currencies. 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.
(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 an Alternative Currency, such amount shall be the relevant Alternative Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount.
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(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of any determination under Article V, Article VI (other than the Financial Covenant) or Article VII or any determination under any other provision of this Agreement requiring the use of a current exchange rate, all amounts incurred, outstanding or proposed to be incurred or outstanding in currencies other than Dollars shall be translated into Dollars at the Spot Rate then in effect on the date of such determination; provided, however, that (x) for purposes of determining compliance with Article VI or Article VII with respect to the amount of any Indebtedness, Lien, Investment, Disposition or Restricted Payment or payment under Section 6.07 in a currency other than Dollars, no Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of exchange occurring after the time such Indebtedness, Lien or Investment is incurred or Disposition or Restricted Payment or payment under Section 6.07 is made, (y) for purposes of determining compliance with any Dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, if such Indebtedness is incurred (and, if applicable, associated Lien granted) to Refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such Refinancing would cause the applicable Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such Refinancing, such Dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such Refinanced Indebtedness (and, if applicable, associated Lien granted) does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being Refinanced and (z) for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.05 shall otherwise apply to such Sections, including with respect to determining whether any Indebtedness, Lien or Investment may be incurred or Disposition or Restricted Payment or payment under Section 6.07 made at any time under such Sections. For purposes of the Financial Covenant, amounts in currencies other than Dollars shall be translated into Dollars at the applicable exchange rates used in preparing the most recently delivered financial statements pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) or (b).
(d) Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify with the Borrower’s consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) to appropriately reflect a change in currency of any country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to such change in currency.
SECTION 1.06. Additional Alternative Currencies.
(a) The Borrower may from time to time request that Letters of Credit be issued in a currency other than Dollars; provided that such requested currency is a lawful currency that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars. Such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank.
(b) Any such request shall be made to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon, 20 Business Days prior to the date of the desired Letter of Credit Extension (or such other time or date as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank in their sole discretion). The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Issuing Bank in the case of any such request. Each Issuing Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 12:00 noon, ten Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole discretion, to the issuance of Letters of Credit in such requested currency.
(c) Any failure by an Issuing Bank to respond to such request within the time period specified in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be a refusal by such Issuing Bank to permit Letters of Credit to be issued in such requested currency. If the Administrative Agent and an Issuing Bank consent to the issuance of Letters of Credit in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so
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notify the Borrower and such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for purposes of any Letter of Credit issuances by such Issuing Banks. If the Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an additional currency under this Section 1.06, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Borrower.
SECTION 1.07. Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained or complied with by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement (or required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under this Agreement) shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).
SECTION 1.08. Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to New York City time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
SECTION 1.09. Timing of Payment or Performance. Unless otherwise specified (including pursuant to Section 2.18), when the payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 1.10. Limited Condition Acquisitions.
(a) In connection with any action being taken in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition, for purposes of determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement that requires that no Default, Event of Default or specified Event of Default, as applicable, has occurred, is continuing or would result from any such action, as applicable, such condition shall, at the option of the Borrower, be deemed satisfied, so long as no Default, Event of Default or specified Event of Default, as applicable, exists on the date on which the definitive acquisition agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has exercised its option under the first sentence of this clause (a), and any Default, Event of Default or specified Event of Default occurs following the date on which the definitive acquisition agreements for the applicable Limited Condition Acquisition were entered into and prior to or on the date of the consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such Default, Event of Default or specified Event of Default shall be deemed to not have occurred or be continuing for purposes of determining whether any action being taken in connection with such Limited Condition Acquisition is permitted hereunder.
(b) In connection with any action being taken in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition, for purposes of:
(i) determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires the calculation of the Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Gross Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Total Gross Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio or the Interest Coverage Ratio; or
(ii) testing baskets set forth in this Agreement (including baskets measured as a percentage of Consolidated Total Assets or Consolidated EBITDA);
in each case, at the option of the Borrower (the Borrower’s election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Acquisition, an “LCA Election”), the date of determination of whether any such action is permitted hereunder shall be deemed to be the date on which the definitive acquisition agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into (the “LCA Test Date”), and if, after
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giving pro forma effect to the Limited Condition Acquisition and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith (including any Incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they had occurred at the beginning of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the applicable LCA Test Date, the Borrower could have taken such action on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such ratio or basket, such ratio or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has made an LCA Election and any of the ratios or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCA Test Date are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio or basket, including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA or Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower or the Person subject to such Limited Condition Acquisition, on or prior to the date of 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 an LCA Election for any Limited Condition Acquisition, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio or test with respect to the Incurrence of Indebtedness or Liens, or the making of distributions or Restricted Payments, Investments, payments pursuant to Section 6.07, Dispositions, mergers, Dispositions of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower or the designation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary on or following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated or the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such ratio or test shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated.
SECTION 1.11. Pro Forma and Other Calculations.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, financial ratios and tests (including measurements of Consolidated Total Assets or Consolidated EBITDA), including the Interest Coverage Ratio, Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio, Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Gross Leverage Ratio and Consolidated Total Gross Leverage Ratio shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.11; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clauses (b), (c), (d) or (e) of this Section 1.11, when calculating the Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio for purposes of (i) the definition of “Applicable Rate,” and (ii) Section 2.11, the events described in this Section 1.11 that occurred subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period shall not be given pro forma effect; provided, however, that for purposes of any determination under Section 2.11(b), Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Debt and Consolidated First Lien Net Debt, as applicable, shall be determined after giving pro forma effect to any voluntary prepayments of Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.11(a) after the end of the Borrower’s most recently ended full fiscal year and prior to the date of the applicable payment to be made pursuant to such Section 2.11(b) assuming such prepayments had been made on the last day of such fiscal year. In addition, whenever a financial ratio or test is to be calculated on a pro forma basis or requires pro forma compliance, the reference to “Test Period” for purposes of calculating such financial ratio or test shall be deemed to be a reference to, and shall be based on, the most recently ended Test Period for which Section 5.01 Financials have been delivered. For purposes of calculating Interest Coverage Ratio, Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage ratio, Consolidated Secured Gross Leverage Ratio and Consolidated Total Gross Leverage Ratio in connection with an Incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of Section 2.20 and Sections 6.01(j), (k), (s) and (u), all commitments with respect to such Indebtedness so Incurred shall be deemed fully drawn with respect to such Indebtedness Incurred in reliance upon such ratios (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to any Indebtedness Incurred prior to such applicable Incurrence).
(b) For purposes of calculating any financial ratio or test (including Consolidated Total Assets or Consolidated EBITDA), Specified Transactions (with any Incurrence or Refinancing of any Indebtedness in connection therewith to be subject to clause (d) of this Section 1.11) that have been
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made (i) during the applicable Test Period or (ii) subsequent to such Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Specified Transactions (and any increase or decrease in Consolidated EBITDA and the component financial definitions used therein attributable to any Specified Transaction) had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period (or, in the case of Consolidated Total Assets or “unrestricted” cash and Cash Equivalents, on the last day of the applicable Test Period). If, since the beginning of any applicable Test Period, any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such Test Period shall have made any Specified Transaction that would have required adjustment pursuant to this Section 1.11, then such financial ratio or test (including Consolidated Total Assets and Consolidated EBITDA) shall be calculated to give pro forma effect thereto in accordance with this Section 1.11.
(c) Whenever pro forma effect or a determination of pro forma compliance is to be given to a Specified Transaction or a Specified Restructuring, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and may include, for the avoidance of doubt, the amount of “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and cost synergies and other synergies projected by the Borrower in good faith to result from or relating to any Specified Transaction (including the Transactions) or Specified Restructuring that is being given pro forma effect or for which a determination of pro forma compliance is being made that have been realized or are expected to be realized and for which the actions necessary to realize such cost savings, operating expense reductions, cost synergies or other synergies have been taken, have been committed to be taken, with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or which are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of the Borrower) (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, cost synergies and other synergies had been realized on the first day of such period and as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions, cost synergies and other synergies were realized during the entirety of such period and “run rate” means the full recurring benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken, any action committed to be taken, any action with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or any action that is expected to be taken net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions, and any such adjustments shall be included in the initial pro forma calculations of such financial ratios or tests and during any subsequent Test Period in which the effects thereof are expected to be realized) relating to such Specified Transaction or Specified Transaction, and any such adjustments included in the initial pro forma calculations shall continue to apply to subsequent calculations of such financial ratios or tests, including during any subsequent test periods in which the effects thereof are expected to be realizable; provided that (A) such amounts are reasonably identifiable in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, (B) such actions are taken, such actions are committed to be taken, substantial steps with respect to such action have been taken or such actions are expected to be taken no later than eight fiscal quarters after the date of consummation of such Specified Transaction or the date of initiation of such Specified Restructuring (provided that with respect to any Specified Restructuring, such applicable period shall commence on the earlier of the date such Specified Restructuring is initiated and the date such Specified Restructuring is approved by the Board of Directors and shall be extended to end on the later of last day of such eight fiscal quarter period or the last date of the eighth full fiscal quarter period immediately following the date on which such Specified Restructuring is initiated) and (C) no amounts shall be added to the extent duplicative of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA (or any other components thereof), whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, with respect to such period.
(d) In the event that the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurs (including by assumption or guarantee) or Refinances (including by redemption, repurchase, repayment, retirement or extinguishment) any Indebtedness, in each case included in the calculations of any financial ratio or test, (i) during the applicable Test Period or (ii) subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period and prior
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to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made, then such financial ratio or test shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence or Refinancing of Indebtedness (including pro forma effect to the application of the net proceeds therefrom), in each case to the extent required, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable Test Period (except in the case of the Interest Coverage Ratio (or similar ratio), in which case such Incurrence or Refinancing of Indebtedness will be given effect, as if the same had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period); provided that, with respect to any Incurrence of Indebtedness permitted by the provisions of this Agreement in reliance on the pro forma calculation of the Interest Coverage Ratio, Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio, Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Gross Leverage Ratio and/or Consolidated Total Gross Leverage Ratio, as applicable, shall not give pro forma effect to any Indebtedness being Incurred (or expected to be Incurred) substantially simultaneously or contemporaneously with the Incurrence of any such Indebtedness in reliance on any “basket” set forth in this Agreement (including the Incremental Base Amount, any “baskets” measured as a percentage of Consolidated Total Assets or Consolidated EBITDA) including any Borrowing under any Revolving Facility or, except to the extent expressly required to be calculated otherwise in Section 2.20 or Section 6.01(j), (k), (s) or (u), any revolving or delayed draw facility.
(e) Whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a pro forma event, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the date of the event for which the calculation of the Interest Coverage Ratio is made had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any interest Swap Agreements applicable to such Indebtedness). To the extent interest expense generated by Swap Obligations that have been terminated is included in Consolidated Interest Expense prior to the date of the event for which the calculation of the Interest Coverage Ratio is being made, Consolidated Interest Expense shall be adjusted to exclude such expense. Interest on a Financing Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower to be the rate of interest implicit in such Financing Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be determined to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Borrower or applicable Restricted Subsidiary may designate. For purposes of making the computations referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period or, if lower, the maximum commitments under such revolving credit facility as of the date of the event for which the calculation of the Interest Coverage Ratio is being made, except as set forth in Section 1.11(d).
(f) Any such pro forma calculation may include, without limitation, (1) all adjustments of the type described in
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(a)(viii) of the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” to the extent such adjustments, without duplication, continue to be applicable to such Test Period, and (2) adjustments calculated in accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.
(g) For purposes of determining compliance with Article VI hereof, in the event that an item of Indebtedness, a Lien, a Disposition, an Investment, a Restricted Payment, or a transaction limited by Section 6.07 meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of exceptions described in each applicable Section of such Article VI, the Borrower shall, in its sole discretion, classify and reclassify or later divide, classify or reclassify all or a portion of such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof and including as between the Incremental Base Amount and the Incremental Ratio Debt Amount), Lien, Disposition, Investment, Restricted Payment, or a transaction limited by Section 6.07 in a manner that complies with the applicable Section of Article VI and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness, Lien, Disposition, Investment, Restricted Payment, or transaction
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limited by Section 6.07 in one or more of the above clauses; provided that all Indebtedness outstanding under the Loan Documents and any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to Refinance (in whole or in part) such Indebtedness will be deemed to have been Incurred in reliance only on the exception set forth in Section 6.01(a) (but without limiting the right of the Borrower to classify and reclassify, or later divide, classify or reclassify, Indebtedness incurred under Section 2.20 or Section 6.01(u) as between the Incremental Base Amount and the Incremental Ratio Debt Amount). The accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value and the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of Section 6.01.
ARTICLE II.
The Credits
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (a) each Initial Term Lender agrees to make a loan (an “Initial Term Loan”) to the Borrower on the Effective Date denominated in Dollars in a principal amount not exceeding its Initial Term Commitment and (b) each Revolving Lender agrees to make Revolving Loans to the Borrower denominated in Dollars from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount which will not result in such Lender’s Revolving Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Revolving Commitment or the aggregate Revolving Exposures exceeding the aggregate Revolving Commitments. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans. Amounts repaid or prepaid in respect of Term Loans may not be reborrowed.
SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings.
(a) Each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments of the applicable Class.
(b) Subject to Section 2.14, each Revolving Loan Borrowing and Term Loan Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurocurrency Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith; provided that all Borrowings made on the Effective Date must be made as ABR Borrowings unless the Borrower shall have given the notice required for a Eurocurrency Borrowing under Section 2.03 and provided an indemnity letter extending the benefits of Section 2.16 to Lenders in respect of such Borrowings. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan.
(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurocurrency Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum; provided that a Eurocurrency Borrowing that results from a continuation of an outstanding Eurocurrency Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to such outstanding Borrowing. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum. Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum. Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of twelve Eurocurrency Borrowings outstanding. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, an ABR Revolving Loan Borrowing or a Swingline Loan may be in an aggregate amount equal to the entire unused balance of the aggregate Revolving Commitments or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(f).
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SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Revolving Loan Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing (or, in the case of any Eurocurrency Borrowing to be made on the Effective Date, such shorter period of time as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Business Day of such proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of such ABR Revolving Loan Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(f) may be given not later than 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Notice of Borrowing shall, only in the case of Revolving Loan Borrowings, be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, email of a “pdf” or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of a written Notice of Borrowing signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Notice of Borrowing shall specify the following information:
(i) whether the requested Borrowing is to be a Borrowing of Revolving Loans, a Borrowing of Term Loans or a Borrowing of any other Class (specifying the Class thereof);
(ii) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing;
(iii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iv) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing;
(v) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; and
(vi) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.06, or, in the case of any ABR Revolving Loan Borrowing or Swingline Loan requested to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), the identity of the Issuing Bank that made such LC Disbursement.
If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurocurrency Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Notice of Borrowing in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the applicable Class of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein (including Section 2.22), in reliance upon the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period denominated in Dollars, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) subject to Section 9.04(b)(ii), the outstanding Swingline Loans of the Swingline Lender exceeding its Swingline Commitment or (ii) the aggregate Revolving Exposures exceeding the aggregate Revolving Commitments; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline
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Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Any such Swingline Loans will reduce availability under the Revolving Commitments on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.
(b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent and the Swingline Lender of such request by telephone (confirmed in writing), not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time on the day of such proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day), the amount of the requested Swingline Loan and (x) if the funds are not to be credited to a general deposit account of the Borrower maintained with the Swingline Lender because the Borrower is unable to maintain a general deposit account with the Swingline Lender under applicable Requirements of Law, the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with Section 2.06, or (y) in the case of any ABR Revolving Loan Borrowing or Swingline Loan requested to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), the identity of the Issuing Bank that made such LC Disbursement. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a credit to the general deposit account of the Borrower’s account maintained with the Swingline Lender or to such other account as may be specified in accordance with clause (x) above (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), by remittance to the applicable Issuing Bank) by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.
(c) The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the Revolving Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Revolving Lenders will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Revolving Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans. Each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or any reduction or termination of the Revolving Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Revolving Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of Same Day Funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (with references to 12:00 noon, New York City time, in such Section being deemed to be references to 3:00 p.m., New York City time) (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders pursuant to this paragraph), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other Person on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted by the Swingline Lender to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, and
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thereafter to the Borrower, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.
(d) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, designate as additional Swingline Lenders one or more Revolving Lenders that agree to serve in such capacity as provided below. The acceptance by a Revolving Lender of an appointment as a Swingline Lender hereunder shall be evidenced by an agreement, which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such designated Swingline Lender, and, from and after the effective date of such agreement, (i) such Revolving Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of a Swingline Lender under this Agreement and (ii) references herein to the term “Swingline Lender” shall be deemed to include such Revolving Lender in its capacity as a lender of Swingline Loans hereunder.
(e) The Borrower may terminate the appointment of any Swingline Lender as a “Swingline Lender” hereunder by providing a written notice thereof to such Swingline Lender, with a copy to the Administrative Agent. Any such termination shall become effective upon the earlier of (i) such Swingline Lender’s acknowledging receipt of such notice and (ii) the fifth Business Day following the date of the delivery thereof; provided that no such termination shall become effective until and unless the Swingline Exposure of such Swingline Lender shall have been reduced to zero. Notwithstanding the effectiveness of any such termination, the terminated Swingline Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights of a Swingline Lender under this Agreement with respect to Swingline Loans made by it prior to such termination, but shall not make any additional Swingline Loans.
(f) If at any time that Swingline Loans are outstanding a Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders that are Revolving Lenders in accordance with Section 2.22(a)(iv). If such reallocation cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall within one Business Day following notice and request by the Administrative Agent prepay such unreallocated portion of the Swingline Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Swingline Lender shall be under no obligation to make any Swingline Loan at any time that any Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender unless it is reasonably satisfied that the related exposure will be 100% covered by the Revolving Commitments of the Non-Defaulting Lenders and participating interests in any such newly made Swingline Loan shall be allocated among Non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.22(a)(iv).
SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit.
(a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein (including Section 2.22), each Issuing Bank agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Lenders set forth in this Section 2.05, to issue Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies for the Borrower’s own account (or for the account of any other Subsidiary of the Borrower so long as the Borrower and such other Subsidiary are co-applicants in respect of such Letter of Credit), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, which shall reflect the standard operating procedures of such Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period and prior to the fifth Business Day prior to the Revolving Maturity Date. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, the applicable Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.
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(b) Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall deliver in writing by hand delivery or facsimile (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the recipient) to the applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (at least two Business Days before the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension or such shorter period as the applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent may agree) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (d) of this Section), the currency and amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If reasonably requested by the applicable Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on such Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, (i) the aggregate Revolving Exposures shall not exceed the aggregate Revolving Commitments, (ii) the aggregate LC Exposure shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (iii) the LC Exposure of any Issuing Bank shall not exceed its portion of the Letter of Credit Sublimit and (iv) the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 shall have been satisfied. No Issuing Bank shall be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if (i) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall enjoin or restrain such Issuing Bank from issuing the Letter of Credit, or any Requirement of Law applicable to such Issuing Bank or any directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such Issuing Bank shall prohibit the issuance of letters of credit generally or the Letter of Credit in particular or (ii) any Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, if after giving effect to Section 2.22(a)(iv), any Defaulting Lender Fronting Exposure remains outstanding, unless such Issuing Bank has entered into arrangements, including the delivery of Cash Collateral, reasonably satisfactory to such Issuing Bank with the Borrower or such Lender to eliminate such Issuing Bank’s Defaulting Lender Fronting Exposure arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or such Letter of Credit and all other LC Exposure as to which such Issuing Bank has Defaulting Lender Fronting Exposure.
(c) Notice. Each Issuing Bank agrees that it shall not permit any issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit to occur unless it shall have given to the Administrative Agent written notice thereof required under paragraph (m) of this Section.
(d) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date that is one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is three Business Days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date; provided that if such expiry date is not a Business Day, such Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the next succeeding Business Day; provided, further, that any Letter of Credit may, upon the request of the Borrower, include a provision whereby such Letter of Credit shall be renewed automatically for additional consecutive periods of one year or less (but not beyond the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date except to the extent Cash Collateralized or backstopped pursuant to arrangements reasonably acceptable to the relevant Issuing Bank) unless the applicable Issuing Bank notifies the beneficiary thereof within the time period specified in such Letter of Credit or, if no such time period is specified, at least 30 days prior to the then-applicable expiration date, that such Letter of Credit will not be renewed.
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(e) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank that is the issuer thereof or the Lenders, such Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Revolving Lender, and each Revolving Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, in the event that any LC Disbursement is not reimbursed by the Borrower, each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower as provided in paragraph (f) of this Section in Dollars (in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency), or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or any reduction or termination of the Revolving Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.
(f) Reimbursement. If an Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank shall notify the Borrower of such LC Disbursement in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.05(h) and the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying, whether with its own funds, with the proceeds of Revolving Loans or any other source, to the Administrative Agent the amount of such LC Disbursement (in the currency of such LC Disbursement) (i) within one Business Day of the date that the Borrower receives notice of such LC Disbursement, if the Issuing Bank provides such notice to the Borrower prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the preceding date or (ii) if such notice is received after such time, on the second Business Day following the date of receipt of such notice (such required date for reimbursement under clause (i) or (ii), as applicable (the “Required Reimbursement Date”)), with interest on the amount of such LC Disbursement payable from and including the date of such LC Disbursement to but excluding the Required Reimbursement Date at a rate per annum described in Section 2.05(i). If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof (and in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the Dollar Equivalent thereof). Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in Dollars (in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency), and in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders pursuant to this paragraph), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Revolving Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse any Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.
(g) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (f) of this Section is absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all
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circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of any Alternative Currency to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. No Issuing Bank shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of such Issuing Bank; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse any Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential or punitive damages) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by such Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof or (ii) result from such Issuing Bank’s willful or grossly negligent 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 such Letter of Credit. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, an Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.
(h) Disbursement Procedures. Each Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. Each Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by hand delivery, e-mail of a “pdf” or facsimile) of such demand for payment and whether such Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank and the Revolving Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement in accordance with paragraph (f) of this Section.
(i) Interim Interest. If an Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement by the Required Reimbursement Date, then Section 2.13(c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be paid to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section to reimburse such Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment and shall be payable on demand or, if no demand has been made, on the date on which the Borrower reimburses the applicable LC Disbursement in full.
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(j) Cash Collateralization. If (i) any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing or (ii) as of the third Business Day prior to the Revolving Maturity Date, any Letter of Credit may for any reason remain outstanding and partially or wholly undrawn, on the Business Day on which the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, the Required Revolving Lenders) demanding Cash Collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize an amount equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such Cash Collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in paragraph (h) or (i) of Section 7.01. In addition, if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower at any time that the LC Exposure at such time exceeds 105% of the Letter of Credit Sublimit then in effect, then, within two Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize the LC Exposure in an amount equal to the amount by which the LC Exposure exceeds the Letter of Credit Sublimit. The Administrative Agent may, at any time and from time to time after the initial deposit of Cash Collateral in respect of any one or more Letters of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, request that additional Cash Collateral be provided in order to protect against the results of exchange rate fluctuations, such additional Cash Collateral not to exceed 5.0% of the aggregate LC Exposure. Each such deposit of Cash Collateral shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. At any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, if any Defaulting Lender Fronting Exposure remains outstanding (after giving effect to Section 2.22(a)(iv)), then promptly upon the request of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to cover such Defaulting Lender Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender). The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent in Cash Equivalents and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Banks for LC Disbursements for which they have not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of Cash Collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default or the existence of a Defaulting Lender, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within one Business Day after all Events of Default are no longer continuing or after the termination of Defaulting Lender status, as applicable.
(k) Designation of Additional Issuing Banks. The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, designate as additional Issuing Banks one or more Revolving Lenders that agree to serve in such capacity as provided below. The acceptance by a Revolving Lender of an appointment as an Issuing Bank hereunder shall be evidenced by an agreement, which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such designated Revolving Lender and, from and after the effective date of such agreement, (i) such Revolving Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to include such Revolving Lender in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.
(l) Termination of an Issuing Bank. The Borrower may terminate the appointment of any Issuing Bank as an “Issuing Bank” hereunder by providing a written notice thereof to such Issuing Bank, with a copy to the Administrative Agent. Any such termination shall become effective upon the
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earlier of (i) such Issuing Bank’s acknowledging receipt of such notice and (ii) the fifth Business Day following the date of the delivery thereof; provided that no such termination shall become effective until and unless the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank (or its Affiliates) shall have been reduced to zero or Cash Collateralized in full. At the time any such termination shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the terminated Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12(b). Notwithstanding the effectiveness of any such termination, the terminated Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such termination, but shall not issue any additional Letters of Credit.
(m) Issuing Bank Reports to the Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank (other than the Administrative Agent) shall, in addition to its notification obligations set forth elsewhere in this Section, report in writing to the Administrative Agent (i) periodic activity (for such period or recurrent periods as shall be requested by the Administrative Agent) in respect of Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, including all issuances, extensions, amendments and renewals, all expirations and cancellations and all disbursements and reimbursements, (ii) within five Business Days following the time that such Issuing Bank issues, amends, renews or extends any Letter of Credit, the date of such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, and the currency and face amount of the Letters of Credit issued, amended, renewed or extended by it and outstanding after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (and whether the amounts thereof shall have changed), (iii) within three Business Days prior to the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, a list of all Letters of Credit issued by it that are outstanding at such time and the amount outstanding, (iv) on each Business Day on which such Issuing Bank makes any LC Disbursement, the date, currency and amount of such LC Disbursement, (v) on any Business Day on which the Borrower fails to reimburse an LC Disbursement required to be reimbursed to such Issuing Bank on such day, the date of such failure and the currency and amount of such LC Disbursement and (vi) on any other Business Day, such other information as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request as to the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank.
(n) Applicability of ISP and UCP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable Issuing Bank and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued, (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce at the time of issuance, shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit.
SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings.
(a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of Same Day Funds by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, to the Applicable Account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders; provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent in New York City and/or such other account otherwise designated by the Borrower in the applicable Notice of Borrowing; provided that ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to Section 2.05(f) to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear.
(b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative
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Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance on such assumption and in its sole discretion, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such share on demand of the Administrative Agent. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon demand of the Administrative Agent therefor, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower, and the Borrower agrees to pay such corresponding amount to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand. The Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover from such Lender or Borrower interest on such corresponding amount, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, a rate equal to the Overnight Rate, or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to such Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.13. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.
(c) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Term Loans and Revolving Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 9.03(c) are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 9.03(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and, except with respect to Section 2.22, no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 9.03(c).
SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections.
(a) Each Revolving Loan Borrowing and Term Loan Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Notice of Borrowing or designated by Section 2.03 and, in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Notice of Borrowing or designated by Section 2.03. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline Loans, which may not be converted or continued.
(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Revolving Loan Notice of Borrowing would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, facsimile or other electronic transmission to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request signed by the Borrower.
(c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.03:
(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
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(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing; and
(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is to be a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period.”
If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the applicable Class of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurocurrency Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be continued as a Eurocurrency Borrowing, each with an Interest Period with a duration of one month. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing denominated in Dollars may be converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in Dollars shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Unless previously terminated, (i) the Initial Term Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Effective Date and (ii) each Class of Revolving Commitments shall terminate on the applicable Revolving Maturity Date.
(b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments of any Class; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans in accordance with Section 2.11, the aggregate Revolving Exposures would exceed the aggregate Revolving Commitments; provided further, that (1) the Borrower may allocate any termination or reduction of Commitments among Classes of Commitments at its direction (including, for the avoidance of doubt, to the Commitments with respect to any Class of Extended Revolving Commitments without any termination or reduction of the Commitments with respect to any existing Revolving Commitments of the same specified original Revolving Commitment Class) and (2) in connection with the establishment on any date of any Extended Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 2.21, the original Revolving Commitments of any one or more Lenders providing any such Extended Revolving Commitments on such date shall be reduced in an amount equal to the amount of specified original Revolving Commitments so extended on such date (or, if agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Commitments, by any greater amount so long as the Borrower prepays the original Revolving Loans of such Class owed to such Lenders providing such
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Extended Revolving Commitments to the extent necessary to ensure that after giving effect to such repayment or reduction, the original Revolving Loans of such Class are held by the Lenders of such Class on a pro rata basis in accordance with their original Revolving Commitments of such Class after giving effect to such reduction).
(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least one Business Day prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be made ratably among the Lenders within such Class in accordance with their respective Commitments of such Class.
SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.
(a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan of such Lender on the Revolving Maturity Date, (ii) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Initial Term Loan of such Lender as provided in Section 2.10 and (iii) to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan made by the Swingline Lender on the earlier to occur of (A) the date that is ten (10) Business Days after such Loan is made and (B) the Revolving Maturity Date; provided that on each date that a Revolving Loan Borrowing is made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans that were outstanding on the date such Borrowing was requested.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain the Register in accordance with Section 9.04.
(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein absent manifest error; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to pay any amounts due hereunder in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of any inconsistency between the entries made pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section, the accounts maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall control.
(e) Any Lender may request through the Administrative Agent that Loans of any Class made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E or F, as applicable.
SECTION 2.10. Amortization of Term Loans.
(a) Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(ii)(F) and Section 2.11(f), the Borrower shall repay Initial Term Loans on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December (commencing with September 30, 2017) in the principal amount of Initial Term Loans equal to (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Initial Term Loans immediately after closing on the Effective Date multiplied by (ii) 0.25%.
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(b) To the extent not previously paid, (i) all Initial Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Initial Term Maturity Date and (ii) all other Term Loans shall be due and payable on the applicable Term Loan Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans.
(a) (i) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing at par in whole or in part, subject to the requirements of this Section; provided that in the event that, on or prior to the date that is six months following the Effective Date, the Borrower (x) makes any optional prepayment of Initial Term Loans incurred on the Effective Date in connection with any Repricing Transaction, or (y) effects any amendment of this Agreement resulting in a Repricing Transaction, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of each of the applicable Initial Term Lender, (I) in the case of clause (x), a prepayment premium of 1.00% of the amount of the Initial Term Loans being prepaid and (II) in the case of clause (y), a payment equal to 1.00% of the aggregate amount of the applicable Initial Term Loans outstanding immediately prior to such amendment. Each prepayment in respect of any Class of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.11(a)(i) shall be applied to reduce the installments of principal in such order as the Borrower may determine and may be applied to any Class of Term Loans as directed by the Borrower. For the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower may (i) prepay Term Loans of an original Term Loan Class pursuant to this Section 2.11(a)(i) without any requirement to prepay Extended Term Loans that were converted or exchanged from such original Term Loan Class and (ii) prepay Extended Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.11(a)(i) without any requirement to prepay Term Loans of an original Term Loan Class that were converted or exchanged for such Extended Term Loans. In the event that the Borrower does not specify the order in which to apply prepayments to reduce installments of principal or as between Classes of Term Loans, the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected that such proceeds be applied to reduce the installments of principal in direct order of maturity and/or a pro-rata basis among Term Loan Classes. All prepayments under this Section 2.11(a)(i) shall also be subject to the provisions of Sections 2.11(f) and 2.11(g). At the Borrower’s election in connection with any prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.11(a)(i), such prepayment shall not be applied to any Loan of a Defaulting Lender.
(ii) Notwithstanding anything in any Loan Document to the contrary, so long as (x) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (y) no proceeds of Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans are used for this purpose, the Borrower may prepay the outstanding Term Loans (which shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be automatically and permanently cancelled and the Register updated to reflect such cancellation (calculated on the par amount thereof) immediately upon acquisition by the Borrower) on the following basis:
(A) The Borrower shall have the right to make a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a discount to par (such prepayment, the “Discounted Term Loan Prepayment”) pursuant to a Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment, Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers or Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers, in each case made in accordance with this Section 2.11(a)(ii); provided that the Borrower shall not initiate any action under this Section 2.11(a)(ii) in order to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment unless (I) at least five (5) Business Days shall have passed since the consummation of the most recent Discounted Term Loan Prepayment as a result of a prepayment made by the Borrower on the applicable Discounted Prepayment Effective Date; or (II) at least three (3) Business Days shall have passed since the date the Borrower was notified that no Term Lender was
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willing to accept any prepayment of any Term Loan at the Specified Discount, within the Discount Range or at any discount to par value, as applicable, or in the case of a Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers, the date of the Borrower’s election not to accept any Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers.
(B) (1) Subject to the proviso to subsection (A) above, the Borrower may from time to time offer to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment by providing the Auction Agent with three (3) Business Days’ notice in the form of a Specified Discount Prepayment Notice; provided that (I) any such offer shall be made available, at the sole discretion of the Borrower, to each Term Lender and/or each Lender with respect to any Class of Term Loans on an individual Class basis (but, for the avoidance of doubt, pro rata to all Lenders within such Class), (II) any such offer shall specify the aggregate principal amount offered to be prepaid (the “Specified Discount Prepayment Amount”) with respect to each applicable Class, the Class or Classes of Term Loans subject to such offer and the specific percentage discount to par (the “Specified Discount”) of such Term Loans to be prepaid (it being understood that different Specified Discounts and/or Specified Discount Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different Classes of Term Loans and, in such an event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section), (III) the Specified Discount Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $1,000,000 and whole increments of $500,000 in excess thereof and (IV) each such offer shall remain outstanding through the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each relevant Term Lender with a copy of such Specified Discount Prepayment Notice and a form of the Specified Discount Prepayment Response to be completed and returned by each such Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to the relevant Term Lenders (the “Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date”).
(2) Each relevant Term Lender receiving such offer shall notify the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date whether or not it agrees to accept a prepayment of any of its relevant then outstanding Term Loans at the Specified Discount and, if so (such accepting Term Lender, a “Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender”), the amount and the Classes of such Lender’s Term Loans to be prepaid at such Specified Discount. Each acceptance of a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment by a Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender shall be irrevocable. Any Term Lender whose Specified Discount Prepayment Response is not received by the Auction Agent by the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept the applicable Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment.
(3) If there is at least one Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender, the Borrower will make prepayment of outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this subsection (B) to each Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender in accordance with the respective outstanding amount and Classes of Term Loans specified in such Lender’s Specified Discount Prepayment Response given pursuant to subsection (2); provided that, if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans accepted for prepayment by all Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders exceeds the Specified
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Discount Prepayment Amount, such prepayment shall be made pro-rata among the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders in accordance with the respective principal amounts accepted to be prepaid by each such Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender and the Auction Agent (in consultation with the Borrower and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Specified Discount Proration”). The Auction Agent shall promptly, and in any case within three (3) Business Days following the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date, notify (I) the Borrower of the respective Term Lenders’ responses to such offer, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and the aggregate principal amount of the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the Classes to be prepaid, (II) each Term Lender of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, and the aggregate principal amount and the Classes of Term Loans to be prepaid at the Specified Discount on such date and (III) each Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender of the Specified Discount Proration, if any, and confirmation of the principal amount, Class and Type of Loans of such Lender to be prepaid at the Specified Discount on such date. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to the Borrower and Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error.
(C) (1) Subject to the proviso to subsection (A) above, the Borrower may from time to time solicit Discount Range Prepayment Offers by providing the Auction Agent with three (3) Business Days’ notice in the form of a Discount Range Prepayment Notice; provided that (I) any such solicitation shall be extended, at the sole discretion of the Borrower, to each Term Lender and/or each Lender with respect to any Class of Loans on an individual Class basis (but, for the avoidance of doubt, pro rata to all Lenders within such Class), (II) any such notice shall specify the maximum aggregate principal amount of the relevant Term Loans (the “Discount Range Prepayment Amount”), the Class or Classes of Term Loans subject to such offer and the maximum and minimum percentage discounts to par (the “Discount Range”) of the principal amount of such Term Loans with respect to each relevant Class of Term Loans willing to be prepaid by the Borrower (it being understood that different Discount Ranges and/or Discount Range Prepayment Amounts may be submitted with respect to different Classes of Term Loans and, in such an event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section), (III) the Discount Range Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $1,000,000 and whole increments of $500,000 in excess thereof and (IV) each such solicitation by the Borrower shall remain outstanding through the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each relevant Term Lender with a copy of such Discount Range Prepayment Notice and a form of the Discount Range Prepayment Offer to be submitted by a responding relevant Term Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to the relevant Term Lenders (the “Discount Range Prepayment Response Date”). Each relevant Term Lender’s Discount Range Prepayment Offer shall be irrevocable and shall specify a discount to par within the Discount Range (the “Submitted Discount”) at which such Term Lender is willing to allow prepayment of any or all of its then outstanding Term Loans of the applicable Class or Classes and the maximum aggregate principal amount and Classes of such Lender’s Term Loans (the “Submitted Amount”) (it being understood that different Submitted Discounts may be
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specified in respect of different portions of the Submitted Amount) such Lender is willing to have prepaid at the Submitted Discount. Any Term Lender whose Discount Range Prepayment Offer is not received by the Auction Agent by the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment of any of its Term Loans at any discount to their par value within the Discount Range.
(2) The Auction Agent shall review all Discount Range Prepayment Offers received on or before the applicable Discount Range Prepayment Response Date and shall determine (in consultation with the Borrower and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) the Applicable Discount and Term Loans to be prepaid at such Applicable Discount in accordance with this subsection (C). The Borrower agrees to accept on the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date all Discount Range Prepayment Offers received by Auction Agent by the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date, in the order from the Submitted Discount that is the largest discount to par to the Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par, up to and including the Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par within the Discount Range (such Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par within the Discount Range being referred to as the “Applicable Discount”) which yields a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment in an aggregate principal amount equal to the lower of (I) the Discount Range Prepayment Amount and (II) the sum of all Submitted Amounts. Each Lender that has submitted a Discount Range Prepayment Offer to accept prepayment at a discount to par that is larger than or equal to the Applicable Discount shall be deemed to have irrevocably consented to prepayment of Term Loans equal to its Submitted Amount (subject to any required proration pursuant to the following subsection (3)) at the Applicable Discount (each such Lender, a “Participating Lender”).
(3) If there is at least one Participating Lender, the Borrower will prepay the respective outstanding Term Loans of each Participating Lender in the aggregate principal amount and of the Classes specified in such Lender’s Discount Range Prepayment Offer at the Applicable Discount; provided that if the Submitted Amount by all Participating Lenders offered at a discount to par greater than or equal to the Applicable Discount exceeds the Discount Range Prepayment Amount, prepayment of the principal amount of the relevant Term Loans for those Participating Lenders whose Submitted Discount is a discount to par greater than or equal to the Applicable Discount (the “Identified Participating Lenders”) shall be made pro rata among the Identified Participating Lenders in accordance with the Submitted Amount of each such Identified Participating Lender and the Auction Agent (in consultation with the Borrower and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Discount Range Proration”). The Auction Agent shall promptly, and in any case within five (5) Business Days following the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date, notify (I) the Borrower of the respective Term Lenders’ responses to such solicitation, the
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Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Applicable Discount, and the aggregate principal amount of the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the Classes to be prepaid, (II) each Term Lender of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Applicable Discount, and the aggregate principal amount and Classes of Term Loans to be prepaid at the Applicable Discount on such date, (III) each Participating Lender of the aggregate principal amount and Classes of such Lender to be prepaid at the Applicable Discount on such date, and (IV) if applicable, each Identified Participating Lender of the Discount Range Proration. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to the Borrower and Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error.
(D) (1) Subject to the proviso to subsection (A) above, the Borrower may from time to time solicit Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers by providing the Auction Agent with three (3) Business Days’ notice in the form of a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice; provided that (I) any such solicitation shall be extended, at the sole discretion of the Borrower, to each Term Lender and/or each Lender with respect to any Class of Term Loans on an individual Class basis (but, for the avoidance of doubt, pro rata to all Lenders within such Class), (II) any such notice shall specify the maximum aggregate dollar amount of the Term Loans (the “Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount”) and the Class or Classes of Term Loans the Borrower is willing to prepay at a discount (it being understood that different Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different Classes of Term Loans and, in such an event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section), (III) the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $1,000,000 and whole increments of $500,000 in excess thereof and (IV) each such solicitation by the Borrower shall remain outstanding through the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each relevant Term Lender with a copy of such Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice and a form of the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer to be submitted by a responding Term Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to the relevant Term Lenders (the “Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date”). Each Term Lender’s Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer shall (x) be irrevocable, (y) remain outstanding until the Acceptance Date, and (z) specify both a discount to par (the “Offered Discount”) at which such Term Lender is willing to allow prepayment of its then outstanding Term Loan and the maximum aggregate principal amount and Classes of such Term Loans (the “Offered Amount”) such Lender is willing to have prepaid at the Offered Discount. Any Term Lender whose Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer is not received by the Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined prepayment of any of its Term Loans at any discount.
(2) The Auction Agent shall promptly provide the Borrower with a copy of all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received on or before the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date. The Borrower shall review all such Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers and select the largest of the Offered Discounts specified by the relevant responding Term Lenders in the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers that is acceptable to the Borrower (the “Acceptable Discount”), if any.
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If the Borrower elects to accept any Offered Discount as the Acceptable Discount, then as soon as practicable after the determination of the Acceptable Discount, but in no event later than by the third Business Day after the date of receipt by the Borrower from the Auction Agent of a copy of all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers pursuant to the first sentence of this subsection (2) (the “Acceptance Date”), the Borrower shall submit an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice to the Auction Agent setting forth the Acceptable Discount. If the Auction Agent shall fail to receive an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice from the Borrower by the Acceptance Date, the Borrower shall be deemed to have rejected all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers.
(3) Based upon the Acceptable Discount and the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received by Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, within three (3) Business Days after receipt of an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice (the “Discounted Prepayment Determination Date”), the Auction Agent will determine (in consultation with the Borrower and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) the aggregate principal amount and the Classes of Term Loans (the “Acceptable Prepayment Amount”) to be prepaid by the Borrower at the Acceptable Discount in accordance with this subsection (D). If the Borrower elects to accept any Acceptable Discount, then the Borrower agrees to accept all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received by Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, in the order from largest Offered Discount to smallest Offered Discount, up to and including the Acceptable Discount. Each Lender that has submitted a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer with an Offered Discount that is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount shall be deemed to have irrevocably consented to prepayment of Term Loans equal to its Offered Amount (subject to any required pro rata reduction pursuant to the following sentence) at the Acceptable Discount (each such Lender, a “Qualifying Lender”). The Borrower will prepay outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this subsection (D) to each Qualifying Lender in the aggregate principal amount and of the Classes specified in such Lender’s Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer at the Acceptable Discount; provided that if the aggregate Offered Amount by all Qualifying Lenders whose Offered Discount is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount exceeds the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount, prepayment of the principal amount of the Term Loans for those Qualifying Lenders whose Offered Discount is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount (the “Identified Qualifying Lenders”) shall be made pro rata among the Identified Qualifying Lenders in accordance with the Offered Amount of each such Identified Qualifying Lender and the Auction Agent (in consultation with the Borrower and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Solicited Discount Proration”). On or prior to the Discounted Prepayment Determination Date, the Auction Agent shall promptly notify (I) the Borrower of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and Acceptable
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Prepayment Amount comprising the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the Classes to be prepaid, (II) each Term Lender of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Acceptable Discount, and the Acceptable Prepayment Amount of all Term Loans and the Classes to be prepaid at the Applicable Discount on such date, (III) each Qualifying Lender of the aggregate principal amount and the Classes of such Lender to be prepaid at the Acceptable Discount on such date, and (IV) if applicable, each Identified Qualifying Lender of the Solicited Discount Proration. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to such Borrower and Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error.
(E) In connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment, the Borrower and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Auction Agent may require as a condition to any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment, the payment of such fees and expenses from the Borrower as may be separately agreed between the Borrower and the Auction Agent in connection therewith.
(F) If any Term Loan is prepaid in accordance with paragraphs (B) through (D) above, the Borrower shall prepay such Term Loans on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date. The Borrower shall make such prepayment to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders, Participating Lenders, or Qualifying Lenders, as applicable, at the Administrative Agent’s office in Same Day Funds not later than 12:00 noon (New York City time) on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and all such prepayments (calculated on the par amount thereof) shall be applied to the remaining principal installments of the relevant Class of Term Loans in such order as the Borrower may direct. The Term Loans so prepaid shall be accompanied by all accrued and unpaid interest on the par principal amount so prepaid up to, but not including, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date. Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.11(a)(ii) shall be paid to the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders, Participating Lenders, or Qualifying Lenders, as applicable. The aggregate principal amount of the Classes and installments of the relevant Term Loans outstanding shall be deemed reduced by the full par value of the aggregate principal amount of the Classes of Term Loans prepaid on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment.
(G) To the extent not expressly provided for herein, each Discounted Term Loan Prepayment shall be consummated pursuant to procedures consistent, with the provisions in this Section 2.11(a)(ii), established by the Auction Agent acting in its reasonable discretion and as reasonably agreed by the Borrower.
(H) Notwithstanding anything in any Loan Document to the contrary, for purposes of this Section 2.11(a)(ii), each notice or other communication required to be delivered or otherwise provided to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) shall be deemed to have been given upon Auction Agent’s (or its delegate’s) actual receipt during normal business hours of such notice or communication; provided that any notice or communication actually received outside of normal business hours shall be deemed to have been given as of the opening of business on the next Business Day.
(I) Each of the Borrower and the Lenders acknowledges and agrees that the Auction Agent may perform any and all of its duties under this
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Section 2.11(a)(ii) by itself or through any Affiliate of the Auction Agent and expressly consents to any such delegation of duties by the Auction Agent to such Affiliate and the performance of such delegated duties by such Affiliate. The exculpatory provisions pursuant to this Agreement shall apply to each Affiliate of the Auction Agent and its respective activities in connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment provided for in this Section 2.11(a)(ii) as well as activities of the Auction Agent.
(J) The Borrower shall have the right, by written notice to the Auction Agent, to revoke in full (but not in part) its offer to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and rescind the applicable Specified Discount Prepayment Notice, Discount Range Prepayment Notice or Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice therefor at its discretion at any time on or prior to the applicable Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date (and if such offer is revoked pursuant to the preceding clauses, any failure by such Borrower to make any prepayment to a Term Lender, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 2.11(a)(ii) shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default under Section 7.01 or otherwise).
(b) On each occasion that a Prepayment Event occurs, the Borrower shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of Net Cash Proceeds therefrom, offer to prepay (or, in the case of a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event, prepay), in accordance with Section 2.11(d), Term Loans in an aggregate amount equal to 100% (the “Prepayment Percentage”) of the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided, that, in the case of Net Cash Proceeds from an Asset Sale Prepayment Event or a Casualty Prepayment Event, the Borrower may use a portion of such Net Cash Proceeds to prepay, redeem, defease or repurchase any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on Collateral ranking equal in priority to the to the Liens on such Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies), to the extent that the applicable documentation with respect to such Indebtedness requires the issuer or borrower under such Indebtedness to prepay or make an offer to prepay, redeem, repurchase or defease such Indebtedness with the proceeds of such Prepayment Event, in each case in an amount not to exceed the product of (x) the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds multiplied by (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the Collateral ranking equal in priority to the Liens on such Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to control of remedies) and with respect to which such a requirement to prepay or make an offer to prepay, redeem, repurchase or defease exists and the denominator of which is the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness and the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans; provided, further that if the Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio after giving effect to any applicable Asset Sale Prepayment Event or Casualty Prepayment Event is (i) less than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00 but greater than 3.00 to 1.00, the Prepayment Percentage shall be 50% or (ii) less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00, the Prepayment Percentage shall be 0%.
(c) Following the end of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, commencing with the first Excess Cash Flow Period, the Borrower shall offer to prepay Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.11(d) in an aggregate amount equal to the Required Percentage of Excess Cash Flow for such Excess Cash Flow Period; provided that (i) such amount shall be reduced (without duplication) by (x) the aggregate amount of Specified Voluntary Prepayments made (1) during such Excess Cash Flow Period or (2) at the election of the Borrower, on or before the date such prepayment is due pursuant to this clause (c) (any such elected payments following such Excess Cash Flow Period, “Elected Payments”) and (y) the portion of Excess Cash Flow applied (to the extent the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is required by the terms thereof) to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease Indebtedness that is secured by Liens on the Collateral that are equal in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies) on a no more than pro rata basis with the Term Loans and (ii) such amount shall be increased by the aggregate amount of any Elected Payments made
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during such Excess Cash Flow Period. Each prepayment pursuant to this paragraph shall be offered to be made within ten (10) days after the date financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) with respect to the Excess Cash Flow Period for which Excess Cash Flow is being calculated; provided further that if the applicable amount of any prepayment of Term Loans in accordance with the foregoing is less than $10,000,000, the amount payable under this Section 2.11(c) shall be deemed to be $0.
(d) (i) Subject to clause (ii) of this Section 2.11(d) and the provisos to each of Section 2.11(b) and (c), (A) each prepayment of Term Loans required by Sections 2.11(b) and (c) (other than in connection with a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event) shall be allocated to the Classes of Term Loans outstanding, pro rata, based upon the applicable remaining installment of principal due in respect of each such Class of Term Loans, shall be applied pro rata to Lenders within each Class, based upon the outstanding principal amounts owing to each such Lender under each such Class of Term Loans and shall be applied to reduce such scheduled installments of principal within each such Class in accordance with Section 2.11(f) and (B) each prepayment of Term Loans required by Section 2.11(b) in connection with a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event shall be allocated to any Class of Term Loans outstanding as directed by the Borrower, shall be applied pro rata to Lenders within each Class, based upon the outstanding principal amounts owing to each such Lender under each such Class of Term Loans and shall be applied to reduce such scheduled installments of principal within each such Class in accordance with Section 2.11(f); provided that, with respect to the allocation of such prepayments under clause (A) above only between an original Term Loan Class and Extended Term Loans of the same original Class, the Borrower may allocate such prepayments as the Borrower may specify, subject to the limitation that the Borrower shall not allocate to Extended Term Loans of any such Class any such mandatory prepayment under such clause (A) unless such prepayment is accompanied by at least a pro rata prepayment, based upon the applicable remaining installments of principal due in respect thereof, of the Term Loans of the original existing Term Loan Class, if any, from which such Extended Term Loans were converted or exchanged (or such Term Loans of the original existing Term Loan Class have otherwise been repaid in full).
(ii) With respect to each such prepayment required by Section 2.11(b) and (c) (other than any Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event), (A) the Borrower will, not later than the date specified in such Sections for offering to make such prepayment, give the Administrative Agent telephonic notice (promptly confirmed in writing) requesting that the Administrative Agent provide notice of such prepayment to each Lender of Term Loans and the Administrative Agent will promptly provide such notice to each Lender of Term Loans, (B) other than if such prepayment arises due to a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event, each Lender of Term Loans will have the right to refuse any such prepayment by giving written notice of such refusal to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower within five Business Days after such Lender’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent of such prepayment (and the Borrower shall not prepay any Term Loans until the date that is specified in clause (C) below) (such amounts, the “Declined Amounts”), (C) the Borrower will make all such prepayments not so refused upon the tenth Business Day after the Lender received first notice of prepayment from the Administrative Agent and (D) thereafter, Declined Amounts shall be retained by the Borrower.
(e) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of any prepayment under Section 2.11(a)(i) (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall specify the prepayment date and principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid. Promptly following receipt of any such notice (other than a notice relating solely to Swingline Loans), the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that
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would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02, except as necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.13.
(f) Any prepayment of a Term Loan Borrowing of any Class (i) pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(i) or pursuant to a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event shall be applied to reduce the subsequent scheduled and outstanding repayments of the Term Loan Borrowings of such Class to be made pursuant to this Section as directed by the Borrower (or, absent such direction, in direct order of maturity) and the Borrower may designate the Types of Loans that are to be prepaid and the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made and (ii) pursuant to Section 2.11(b) (other than a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event) or (c) shall be applied, subject to Section 2.11(d), to reduce the subsequent scheduled and outstanding repayments of the Term Loan Borrowings of such Class to be made pursuant to this Section in direct order of maturity and the Borrower may designate the Types of Loans that are to be prepaid and the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made.
(g) (i) With respect to each prepayment of Revolving Loans, Extended Revolving Loans and Incremental Revolving Loans elected by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(i), the Borrower may designate (i) the Class and Types of Loans that are to be prepaid and the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made and (ii) the Revolving Loans, Extended Revolving Loans or Incremental Revolving Loans to be prepaid; provided that (x) each prepayment of any Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall be applied pro rata among such Loans of such Class (except that any prepayment made in connection with a reduction of the Commitments of such Class pursuant to Section 2.08(b) shall be applied pro rata based on the amount of the reduction in the Commitments of such Class of each applicable Lender), and (y) notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding clause (x), at the option of the Borrower, no prepayment made pursuant to Section 2.11(a)(i) of Revolving Loans, Extended Revolving Loans or Incremental Revolving Loans shall be applied to the Loans of any Defaulting Lender.
(ii) With respect to each mandatory reduction and termination of Revolving Commitments, Incremental Revolving Commitments or Extended Revolving Commitments required by clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 2.20(b), the Borrower may designate (A) the Classes of Commitments to be reduced and terminated and (B) the corresponding Classes of Loans to be prepaid; provided that (x) any such reduction and termination shall apply proportionately and permanently to reduce the Commitments of each of the Lenders within any such Class, and (y) after giving effect to such termination or reduction and to any prepayments of Loans or cancellation or cash collateralization of letters of credit made on the date of each such reduction and termination in accordance with this Agreement, the aggregate amount of such Lenders’ credit exposures shall not exceed the remaining Commitments of such Lenders’ in respect of the Class reduced and terminated. In connection with any such termination or reduction, to the extent necessary, the participations hereunder in outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans may be required to be reallocated and related loans outstanding prepaid and then reborrowed, in each case in the manner contemplated by the last three sentences of Section 2.20(c) (as modified to account for a termination or reduction, as opposed to an increase, of such Commitment).
(h) Notwithstanding any other provisions in Sections 2.11(b) and (c), (A) to the extent that any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale Prepayment Event by a Non-Guarantor giving rise to a prepayment event pursuant to Section 2.11(b) (a “Non-Guarantor Disposition”), the Net Cash Proceeds of any Casualty Prepayment Event from a Non-Guarantor (a “Non-Guarantor Casualty Prepayment Event”), or Excess Cash Flow are prohibited or delayed by applicable local law from being repatriated to the United States or from being distributed to a Loan Party, the portion of such Net Cash
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Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.11 but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not permit repatriation to the United States (the Borrower hereby agreeing to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Foreign Subsidiary to promptly take all actions reasonably required by the applicable local law to permit such repatriation) or from being distributed to a Loan Party, and once such repatriation or distribution of any of such affected Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow is permitted under the applicable local law, such repatriation or distribution will be immediately effected and such repatriated Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow will be promptly (and in any event not later than two (2) Business Days after such repatriation or distribution) applied (net of additional Taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the repayment of the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.11 to the extent provided herein and (B) to the extent that the Borrower has determined in good faith that repatriation or distribution of any of or all the Net Cash Proceeds of any Non-Guarantor Disposition, any Non-Guarantor Casualty Prepayment Event or Excess Cash Flow would have material adverse tax consequences (taking into account any foreign Tax credit or benefit actually realized in connection with such repatriation) with respect to such Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow, the Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.11 but may be retained by the applicable Subsidiary unless and until such material adverse tax consequences would no longer result from such repatriation or distribution.
SECTION 2.12. Fees.
(a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent in Dollars for the account of each Revolving Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender) a commitment fee (the “Revolving Commitment Fee”), which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate with respect to Revolving Commitment Fees on the average daily unused amount of the Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate. Accrued Revolving Commitment Fees shall be payable in arrears on the third Business Day following the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate, commencing on July 5, 2017. All Revolving Commitment Fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). For purposes of computing Revolving Commitment Fees, a Revolving Commitment of a Lender shall be deemed to be used to the extent of the outstanding Revolving Loans and LC Exposure of such Lender on a Dollar Equivalent basis (and the Swingline Exposure of such Lender shall be disregarded for such purpose).
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent in Dollars for the account of each Revolving Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender) a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurocurrency Revolving Loans on the daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to and including the later of the date on which such Lender’s Revolving Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to each Issuing Bank in Dollars a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate of 0.125% per annum (or such other amount as may be separately agreed between the Borrower and each applicable Issuing Bank) on the daily amount of the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to and including the later of the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as such Issuing Bank’s standard costs with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and
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excluding the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on July 5, 2017; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to an Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after receipt of a reasonably detailed invoice therefor. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay on the Effective Date to each Revolving Lender party to this Agreement as a Revolving Lender on the Effective Date, an upfront payment in an amount equal to 0.25% of the stated principal amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment. Such upfront payments will be in all respects fully earned, due and payable upon the funding of the Initial Term Loans on the Effective Date.
(d) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to Section 2.22, the Borrower shall not be obligated to pay any amounts to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to this Section 2.12, nor shall any such amounts accrue.
SECTION 2.13. Interest.
(a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.
(b) The Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Borrowing shall bear interest at the Eurocurrency Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the continuance of any Event of Default pursuant to Section 7.01(a), (b), (h) or (i), if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2.00% per annum plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2.00% per annum plus the rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section; provided that no amount shall be payable pursuant to this Section 2.13(c) to a Defaulting Lender so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender; provided further that no amounts shall accrue pursuant to this Section 2.13(c) on any overdue amount, reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement or other amount payable to a Defaulting Lender so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.
(d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Revolving Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.
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(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Eurocurrency Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest. If at least two Business Days prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Borrowing:
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period; or
(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;
the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or facsimile as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, which the Administrative Agent agrees to do promptly thereafter, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be ineffective and (ii) if any Notice of Borrowing requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing in Dollars, then such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing; provided, however, that, in each case, the Borrower may revoke any Notice of Borrowing that is pending when such notice is received.
SECTION 2.15. Increased Costs.
(a) If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender or any Issuing Bank (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Eurocurrency Rate payable pursuant to Section 2.13(b));
(ii) subject any Lender or Issuing Bank to any Tax with respect to this Agreement or any Eurocurrency Loan or ABR Loan made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein (other than any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes indemnified under Section 2.17, and any Excluded Taxes); or
(iii) impose on any Lender or any Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Loans or ABR Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency Loan or ABR Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such
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Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or issue any Letter of Credit) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then, from time to time upon request of such Lender or Issuing Bank, the Borrower will pay to such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such increased costs actually incurred or reduction actually suffered.
(b) If any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has the effect of reducing the rate of return on a Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank to a level below that which such Lender or Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then, from time to time upon request of such Lender or Issuing Bank, the Borrower will pay to such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction actually suffered.
(c) A certificate of a Lender or an Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank or its holding company in reasonable detail, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 15 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender or Issuing Bank shall be entitled to seek compensation under this Section 2.15 based on the occurrence of a Change in Law arising solely from the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Basel III or, in each case, any requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith, unless such Lender or Issuing Bank is generally seeking compensation from other borrowers in the U.S. leveraged loan market with respect to its similarly affected commitments, loans and/or participations under agreements with such borrowers having provisions similar to this Section 2.15.
SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Revolving Loan or Term Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto or (d) the assignment of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19 or Section 9.02(c), then, in any such event, the Borrower shall, after receipt of a written request by any Lender affected by any such event (which request shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for requesting such amount), compensate each Lender for the loss (excluding loss of anticipated profits), cost and expense that such Lender actually incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to fund or maintain Eurocurrency Loans. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 15 days after receipt of such demand.
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SECTION 2.17. Taxes.
(a) Unless required by applicable Requirements of Law, any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction for any Taxes, provided that if any applicable withholding agent shall be required by applicable Requirements of Law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the amount payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after all required deductions have been made (including deductions of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes applicable to additional amounts payable under this Section 2.17), the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the applicable withholding agent shall make such deductions and (iii) the applicable withholding agent shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Requirements of Law. If the applicable withholding agent is a Person other than a Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, the applicable Lender shall be required to establish to the reasonable satisfaction of the Borrower that the Tax in question is in fact an Indemnified Tax or Other Tax (and, upon the reasonable written request of the Borrower, to provide copies of any documentation, including copies of any documentation provided to the applicable withholding agent, that the Applicable Tax Owner is legally eligible to provide that would reduce or eliminate such Tax).
(b) Without limiting the provisions of paragraph (a) above, the Borrower shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Requirements of Law.
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each Issuing Bank, within 30 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes payable by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.17) and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the basis and calculation of the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or an Issuing Bank, or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or an Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by a Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 2.17, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Each Lender shall, at such times as are reasonably requested by Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with any properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by Requirements of Law, or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, certifying as to any entitlement of such Lender to an exemption from, or reduction in, any withholding Tax with respect to any payments to be made to such Lender under the Loan Documents (including, in the case of a Lender seeking exemption from the withholding imposed under FATCA, any documentation necessary to prevent such withholding). In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Requirements of Law, or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Each such Lender shall, whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders such documentation (including any documentation specifically referenced below in this Section 2.17(e)) expired, obsolete or inaccurate
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in any material respect, deliver promptly to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent updated or other appropriate documentation (including any new documentation reasonably requested by the applicable withholding agent) or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its inability to do so.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(i) Each Lender that is a United States person (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter when required by Requirements of Law or upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), two properly completed and duly signed copies of IRS Form W-9 (or any successor forms) certifying that such Lender is a United States person exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding.
(ii) Each Lender that is not a United States person (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter when required by Requirements of Law or upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) whichever of the following is applicable:
(A) two properly completed and duly signed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor forms) claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States of America is a party,
(B) two properly completed and duly signed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms),
(C) in the case of a Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate, in substantially the form of Exhibit X-0, X-0, X-0 or P-4, as applicable (any such certificate a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”), or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent with the written consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), to the effect that such Lender is not (1) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (2) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (3) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code, and that no payments in connection with the Loan Documents are effectively connected with such Lender’s conduct of a U.S. trade or business and (y) two properly completed and duly signed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor forms),
(D) to the extent a Lender is not the beneficial owner of the applicable Loan (for example, where the Lender is a partnership or a participating Lender), two properly completed and duly signed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY (or any successor forms) of the Lender, each accompanied by a Form W-8ECI, W-8EXP, W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate, Form W-9, Form W-8IMY (or other successor forms) or any other required information from each beneficial owner, as applicable (provided that, if the Lender is a partnership (and not a participating Lender) and one or more beneficial owners are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, the U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate may be provided by such Lender on behalf of such beneficial owner(s)), or
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(E) any other form prescribed by applicable Requirements of Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Requirements of Law to permit the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.
(iii) If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times required by Requirements of Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation required by Requirements of Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA, to determine whether such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA and to determine the amount, if any, to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (iii), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.17(e), a Lender shall not be required to deliver any form or documentation that such Lender is not legally eligible to deliver.
(f) If the Administrative Agent, an Issuing Bank or a Lender determines, in its reasonable discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Loan Party or with respect to which any Loan Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.17, it shall pay over an amount equal to such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by Loan Parties under this Section 2.17 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender, agrees promptly to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. The Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, shall, at the Borrower’s request, provide the Borrower with a copy of any notice of assessment or other evidence of the requirement to repay such refund or credit received from the relevant taxing authority (provided that the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank may delete any information therein that the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank deems confidential). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, this clause (f) shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to taxes which it deems confidential).
(g) For purposes of this Section 2.17, the term “Lender” shall include any Issuing Bank and any Swingline Lender.
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SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs.
(a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it under any Loan Document (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.15, 2.16 or 2.17, or otherwise) prior to the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment (or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to 2:00 p.m., New York City time), on the date when due, in Same Day Funds, without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, recoupment or setoff. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to such account as may be specified by the Administrative Agent, except payments to be made directly to any Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender shall be made as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be made to the Persons specified therein. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment (other than payments on the Eurocurrency Loans) under any Loan Document shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day. If any payment on a Eurocurrency Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day. In the case of any payment of principal pursuant to the preceding two sentences, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate for the period of such extension. All payments or prepayments of any Loan, all reimbursements of any LC Disbursements, all payments of accrued interest payable on a Loan or LC Disbursement and all other payments under each Loan Document shall be made in Dollars except as otherwise expressly provided herein.
(b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties.
(c) Except as otherwise permitted hereunder, if any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any of its Loans of any Class or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans of such Class or participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other relevant Lender in respect of such other Lenders’ Loans of such Class or participation in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, as applicable, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans of such Class or participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans from the relevant Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans of such Class or participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by the Borrower or any Loan Party made pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender and as contemplated by Sections 2.11(a)(ii) and 9.04(g)), (B) any payment obtained by a Lender as
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consideration for the assignment of, or sale of, a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans to any assignee or participant or (C) any disproportionate payment obtained by a Lender of any Class as a result of the extension by Lenders of the maturity date or expiration date of some but not all Loans or Commitments of that Class or any increase in the Applicable Rate (or other pricing term, including any fee, discount or premium) in respect of Loans or Commitments of Lenders that have consented to any such extension to the extent such transaction is permitted hereunder. The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under Requirements of Law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing Banks hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption and in its sole discretion, distribute to the Lenders or Issuing Banks, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or Issuing Banks, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at a rate equal to the Overnight Rate.
SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17 or any event gives rise to the operation of Section 2.23, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts (and at the expense of the Borrower) to designate a different Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or its participation in any Letter of Credit affected by such event, or to assign and delegate its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates, if, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment and delegation (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.15 or 2.17 or mitigate the applicability of Section 2.23, as the case may be, and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not be disadvantageous in any material economic, legal or regulatory respect to such Lender. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, to the extent any notice required by Section 2.15, or 2.17 is given by any Lender more than 180 days after such Lender has knowledge of the occurrence of the event giving rise to the additional cost, reduction in amounts, loss, tax or other additional amounts described in such Sections, such Lender shall not be entitled to compensation under Section 2.15 or 2.17, as the case may be, for any such amounts incurred or accruing prior to the giving of such notice to the Borrower; provided that, if the circumstance giving rise to such claim is retroactive, then such 180 day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15 or gives notice under Section 2.23, (ii) the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or to any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17 or (iii) any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate at par, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee that shall
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assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment and delegation); provided that (A) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent to the extent such consent would be required under Section 9.04(b) for an assignment of Loans or Commitments, as applicable (and if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned and delegated, each Issuing Bank and each Swingline Lender), which consents, in each case, shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, (B) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and unreimbursed participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued but unpaid interest thereon, accrued but unpaid fees and all other amounts due and payable to it hereunder from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (C) the Borrower or such assignee shall have paid (unless waived) to the Administrative Agent the processing and recordation fee specified in Section 9.04(b)(ii) and (D) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.15, or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17 or a notice given under Section 2.23, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise (including as a result of any action taken by such Lender under paragraph (a) above), the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. Each party hereto agrees that an assignment required pursuant to this paragraph may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the assignee and that the Lender required to make such assignment need not be a party thereto.
SECTION 2.20. Incremental Credit Extensions.
(a) The Borrower may at any time or from time to time after the Effective Date, by written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent request (i) one or more additional Classes of term loans or additional term loans of the same Class of any existing Class of term loans (the “Incremental Term Loans”), (ii) one or more increases in the amount of the Revolving Commitments of any Class (each such increase, an “Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase”) or (iii) one or more additional Classes of revolving credit commitments (the “Incremental Revolving Commitments,” and, together with the Incremental Term Loans and the Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases, the “Incremental Facilities” and the commitments in respect thereof are referred to as the “Incremental Commitments”); provided that, subject to Section 1.10, at the time that any such Incremental Term Loan, Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase or Incremental Revolving Commitment is made or effected (and after giving pro forma effect thereto), except as set forth in the proviso to clause (b) below, no Event of Default (or, in the case of the Incurrence or provision of any Incremental Facility in connection with an Acquisition, (x) no Event of Default under Section 7.01(a), (b), (h) or (i)) shall have occurred and be continuing and (y) the representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as the case may be before and after giving effect to such Borrowing or issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit and to the application of proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as of such date; provided that, to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date or period, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date or period; provided further that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects on the date of such credit extension or on such earlier date, as the case may be (after giving effect to such qualification).
(b) Each tranche of Incremental Term Loans, each tranche of Incremental Revolving Commitments and each Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $5,000,000 (it being understood that such amount may be less than $5,000,000 if such amount represents all remaining availability under the limit set forth below) (and in
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minimum increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof), and, subject to the proviso at the end of this Section 2.20(b), the aggregate amount of the Incremental Term Loans, Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases and the Incremental Revolving Commitments (after giving pro forma effect thereto and the use of the proceeds thereof) Incurred pursuant to this Section 2.20(b), shall not exceed, as of the date of Incurrence of such Indebtedness or commitments, the sum of
(A) the Incremental Base Amount plus
(B) an aggregate amount of Indebtedness, such that, subject to Section 1.10, after giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence (and after giving pro forma effect to any Specified Transaction or Specified Restructuring to be consummated in connection therewith and assuming that all Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases, Incremental Revolving Commitments and other Incremental Commitments then outstanding and Incurred under this clause (B) were fully drawn), the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated First Xxxx Xxxxx Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the Incurrence of any such Incremental Facility, calculated on a pro forma basis, as if such Incurrence (and transactions) had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 3.50:1.00 (this clause (B), the “Incremental Ratio Debt Amount” and, together with the Incremental Base Amount, the “Incremental Limit”);
provided that
(i) Incremental Term Loans may be Incurred without regard to the Incremental Limit, without regard to whether an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and, without regard to the minimums set forth in the first part of this Section 2.20(b), to the extent that the Net Cash Proceeds from such Incremental Term Loans on the date of Incurrence of such Incremental Term Loans (or substantially concurrently therewith) are used to either (x) prepay Term Loans and related amounts in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.11(b) or (y) permanently reduce and, if applicable, repay the Revolving Commitments, Extended Revolving Commitments or Incremental Revolving Commitments in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.11(b) (and any such Incremental Term Loans shall be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to this proviso), and
(ii) Incremental Revolving Commitments may be provided without regard to the Incremental Limit, without regard to whether an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to the extent that the existing Revolving Commitments, Extended Revolving Commitments or other Incremental Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced in accordance with Section 2.11(b) by an amount equal to the aggregate amount of Incremental Revolving Commitments so provided (and any such Incremental Revolving Commitments shall be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to this proviso).
(c) The Incremental Term Loans
(A) shall rank equal in right of payment and security with the Initial Term Loans, shall be secured only by all or a portion of the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations and shall only be guaranteed by the Loan Parties,
(B) except to the extent constituting Permitted Term Loan A Indebtedness, shall not mature earlier than the Initial Term Maturity Date,
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(C) except to the extent constituting Permitted Term Loan A Indebtedness, shall not have a shorter Weighted Average Life to Maturity than the remaining Initial Term Loans,
(D) any Incremental Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not, except in the case of any Refinancing of such Indebtedness, on a greater than a pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of the Term Loans hereunder, as specified in the applicable Incremental Amendment,
(E) except to the extent constituting Permitted Term Loan A Indebtedness, shall have a maturity date (subject to clause (B)), an amortization schedule (subject to clause (C)), and interest rates (including through fixed interest rates), interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, AHYDO Catch-Up Payments, funding discounts, original issue discounts and prepayment terms (subject to clause (D)) and premiums for the Incremental Term Loans as determined by the Borrower and the lenders of the Incremental Term Loans; provided that, in the event that the Effective Yield for any Incremental Term Loans (other than Incremental Term Loans (w) Incurred pursuant to clause (B) of Section 2.20(b), (x) established pursuant to the proviso of Section 2.20(b), or (y) having a final maturity date that is more than two years after the Initial Term Maturity Date (clauses (w), (x) and (y), collectively, the “MFN Exceptions”)), incurred prior to the date that is one year after the Effective Date is greater than the Effective Yield for the Initial Term Loans by more than 0.50%, then the Applicable Rates for the Initial Term Loans shall be increased to the extent necessary so that the Effective Yield for the Initial Term Loans are equal to the Effective Yield for the Incremental Term Loans minus 0.50% (this proviso, the “MFN Protection”); provided, further, that, with respect to any Incremental Term Loans that do not bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the Eurodollar Rate, for purposes of calculating the applicable increase (if any) in the Applicable Rates for the Initial Term Loans in the immediately preceding proviso, the Applicable Rate for such Incremental Term Loans shall be deemed to be the interest rate (calculated after giving pro forma effect to any increases required pursuant to the immediately succeeding proviso) of such Incremental Term Loans less the then applicable Reference Rate; and
(F) may otherwise have terms and conditions different from those of the Initial Term Loans; provided that (x) except with respect to matters contemplated by clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E) above, any differences shall not be materially restrictive on the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (when taken as a whole) than the terms contained in this Agreement (except for covenants and other provisions applicable only to the periods after the Latest Maturity Date or added for the benefit of all Secured Parties) and (y) the documentation governing any Incremental Term Loans may include (I) any Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or (II) any Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant so long as the Administrative Agent shall have been given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement is amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant, as applicable, for the benefit of each Facility.
(d) The Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase shall be treated the same as the Class of Revolving Commitments being increased (including with respect to maturity date thereof) and shall be considered to be part of the Class of Revolving Facility being increased (it being understood that, if required to consummate an Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase, the interest rate margins, rate floors and undrawn commitment fees on the Class of Revolving Commitments being
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increased may be increased and additional upfront or similar fees may be payable to the lenders participating in the Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase (without any requirement to pay such fees to any existing Revolving Lenders)).
(e) The Incremental Revolving Commitments
(A) shall rank equal in right of payment and security with the Revolving Loans, shall be secured only by all or a portion of the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations and shall only be guaranteed by the Loan Parties,
(B) shall not mature earlier than the Revolving Maturity Date and shall require no scheduled amortization or mandatory commitment reduction prior to the Revolving Maturity Date,
(C) shall have interest rates (including through fixed interest rates), interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, undrawn commitment fees, funding discounts, AHYDO Catch-Up Payments, original issue discounts, maturity, prepayment terms and premiums and commitment reduction and termination terms as determined by the Borrower and the lenders of such commitments;
(D) shall contain borrowing, repayment and termination of Commitment procedures as determined by the Borrower and the lenders of such commitments,
(E) may include provisions relating swingline loans and/or letters of credit, as applicable, issued thereunder, which issuances shall be on terms substantially similar (except for the overall size of such subfacilities, the fees payable in connection therewith and the identity of the swingline lender and letter of credit issuer, as applicable, which shall be determined by the Borrower, the lenders of such commitments and the applicable letter of credit issuers and swingline lenders and borrowing, repayment and termination of commitment procedures with respect thereto, in each case which shall be specified in the applicable Incremental Amendment) to the terms relating to the Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit with respect to the applicable Class of Revolving Commitments or otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and
(F) may otherwise have terms and conditions different from those of the Initial Revolving Facility; provided that
(x) except with respect to matters contemplated by clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E) above, any differences shall not be materially restrictive on the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (when taken as a whole) than the terms contained in this Agreement (except for covenants and other provisions applicable only to the periods after the Latest Maturity Date or added for the benefit of all Secured Parties), and
(y) the documentation governing any Incremental Revolving Commitments may include any Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant so long as the Administrative Agent shall have been given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement is amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant for the benefit of each Facility (provided, further, however, that, if the applicable
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Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant is a “springing” financial maintenance covenant for the benefit of such Revolving Facility or covenant only applicable to, or for the benefit of, a revolving credit facility, the Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant or Tighter Financial Maintenance Covenant shall be automatically included in this Agreement only for the benefit of each Revolving Facility hereunder (and not for the benefit of any term loan facility hereunder)).
(f) Each notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.20 shall be given in writing and shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Term Loans, Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases or Incremental Revolving Commitments. Incremental Term Loans may be made, and Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases and Incremental Revolving Commitments may be provided, subject to the prior written consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), by any existing Lender (it being understood that no existing Lender with an Initial Term Loan Commitment will have an obligation to make a portion of any Incremental Term Loan, no existing Lender with a Revolving Commitment will have any obligation to provide a portion of any Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase and no existing Lender with a Revolving Commitment will have an obligation to provide a portion of any Incremental Revolving Commitment) or by any other bank, financial institution, other institutional lender or other investor (any such other bank, financial institution or other investor being called an “Additional Lender”); provided that the Administrative Agent shall have consented (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to such Lender’s or Additional Lender’s making such Incremental Term Loans or providing such Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases or such Incremental Revolving Commitments if such consent would be required under Section 9.04(b) for an assignment of Loans or Commitments, as applicable, to such Lender or Additional Lender; provided, further, that, solely with respect to any Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases or Incremental Revolving Commitments, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank shall have consented (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to such Lender’s or Additional Lender’s providing such Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases or Incremental Revolving Commitments if such consent would be required under Section 9.04(b) for an assignment of Loans or Commitments, as applicable, to such Lender or Additional Lender.
(g) Commitments in respect of Incremental Term Loans, Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases and Incremental Revolving Commitments shall become Commitments (or in the case of an Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase to be provided by an existing Lender with a Revolving Commitment, an increase in such Lender’s applicable Revolving Commitment) under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by the Borrower, each Lender agreeing to provide such Commitment, if any, each Additional Lender, if any, and the Administrative Agent. The Incremental Amendment may, subject to Section 2.20(c), without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section (including (i) in connection with an Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase, to reallocate Revolving Exposure on a pro rata basis among the relevant Revolving Lenders, (ii) to make amendments that are not adverse to the interests of any Lender that are made to effectuate changes necessary (including the increase the Effective Yield of the applicable Class of Term Loans) to ensure that any applicable Class of Incremental Term Loans are “fungible” with such existing Class of Term Loans for United States federal income tax purposes, which shall include any amendments that do not reduce the ratable amortizations received by each Lender hereunder, (iii) to add or extend “soft call” or add or extend any other “call protection”, in either case for the benefit of any existing Class of Term Loans or Revolving Loans and/or (iv) add or modify any provisions pursuant to Section 2.20(c)(F) and Section 2.20(e)(F)). The effectiveness of any Incremental Amendment (an “Incremental Facility Closing Date”) and the occurrence of any Credit
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Extension pursuant to such Incremental Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the parties thereto shall agree. The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Incremental Term Loans, Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases and Incremental Revolving Commitments for any purpose not prohibited by this Agreement; provided, however, that the proceeds of any Incremental Term Loans Incurred, and any Incremental Revolving Commitments provided, in either case as described in the proviso to Section 2.20(b), shall be used in accordance with the terms thereof.
(h) No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Incremental Term Loans, Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases or Incremental Revolving Commitments unless it so agrees and the Borrower shall not be obligated to offer any existing Lender the opportunity to provide any Incremental Term Loans, Incremental Revolving Commitment Increases or Incremental Revolving Commitments.
(i) Upon each increase in the Revolving Commitments of any Class pursuant to this Section, each Lender with a Revolving Commitment of such Class immediately prior to such increase will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each Lender providing a portion of the Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase (each, an “Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase Lender”) in respect of such increase, and each such Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans such that, after giving pro forma effect to each such deemed assignment and assumption of participations, the percentage of the aggregate outstanding (A) participations hereunder in Letters of Credit and (B) participations hereunder in Swingline Loans held by each Lender with a Revolving Commitment of such Class (including each such Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase Lender) will equal the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Commitments of such Class of all Lenders represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitment of such Class. If, on the date of such increase, there are any Revolving Loans of such Class outstanding, such Revolving Loans shall on or prior to the effectiveness of such Incremental Revolving Commitment Increase be prepaid from the proceeds of additional Revolving Loans made hereunder (reflecting such increase in Revolving Commitments of such Class), which prepayment shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the Revolving Loans of such Class being prepaid and any costs incurred by any Lender in accordance with Section 2.16. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.
(j) This Section 2.20 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.18 or Section 9.02 to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, any provisions of this Section 2.20 may be amended with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such amendment shall require any Lender to provide any Incremental Commitment without such Lender’s consent.
SECTION 2.21. Maturity Extension.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time by the Borrower to any or all Lenders of a Class of Term Loans or a Class of Revolving Commitments or a Class of Incremental Revolving Commitments (provided that the Borrower shall promptly provide notice of such offer to the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any offer not made to all Lenders of a Class, the Administrative Agent may inform each Lender of such applicable Class of such offer and, to the extent so informed, the Lenders of such Class shall be able to accept or reject such offer on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Term Loans or Commitments of such Class) and on the same terms of as the Lender offered such Extension Offer), the Borrower is hereby permitted to
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consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (each, an “Extension”), so long as the following terms are satisfied: the Revolving Commitment or Incremental Revolving Commitment of any Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Commitment extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Commitment”, any such loans thereunder, “Extended Revolving Loans”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Class of Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with substantially the same terms as the original Class of Commitments being extended (and related outstandings); provided that
(w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the original Class of Commitments from which such Extended Revolving Commitments were extended,
(x) (1) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and prepayment terms and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Commitments may be different than of the original Class of Commitments from which such Extended Revolving Commitments were extended and/or (2) additional fees and/or premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (1) and
(y) (1) the undrawn revolving credit commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Commitments may be different than those of the original Class of Commitments from which such Extended Revolving Commitments were extended and (2) the Extension Offer may provide for other covenants and terms that apply to any period after the Latest Maturity Date; provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.21, Section 2.11(g) or otherwise,
(I) the borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of the Loans under any Extended Revolving Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Loans of the of the original Class of Commitments from which such Extended Revolving Commitments were extended (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Offer and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the of the original Class of Commitments from which such Extended Revolving Commitments were extended),
(II) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Commitments and Extended Revolving Loans shall be governed by the assignment and participation provisions set forth in Section 9.04 and
(III) subject to the applicable limitations set forth in Section 2.08(b) and Section 2.11(g)(ii), permanent repayments of Loans (and corresponding permanent reduction in the related Extended Revolving Commitments) shall be permitted as may be agreed between the Borrower and the Lenders thereof and (B) the Term Loans of any Term Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Term Loans (an “Extending Term Lender”) extended pursuant to any
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Extension (“Extended Term Loans” and any such commitment to provide such Extended Term Loans, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) shall have substantially the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to such Extension Offer;
provided that
(w) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of all or a portion of any principal amount of such Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of the original Class of Term Loans from which such Extended Term Loans were extended (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.10 or in the Extension Offer or the Incremental Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the original Class of Term Loans from which such Extended Term Loans were extended),
(x) (A) the interest rates (including through fixed interest rates), interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and prepayment terms and premiums with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be different than those for the original Class of Term Loans from which such Extended Term Loans were extended and/or (B) additional fees and/or premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Offer,
(y) subject to the provisions set forth in Section 2.11, the Extended Term Loans may have optional prepayment terms (including call protection and prepayment terms and premiums) and mandatory prepayment terms as may be agreed between the Borrower and the Lenders thereof and
(z) the Extension Offer may provide for other covenants and terms that apply to any period after the Latest Maturity Date.
If the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) or Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as the case may be, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans or Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term Loans or Revolving Loans, as the case may be, of such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as the case may be, shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as the case may be, have accepted such Extension Offer, with any allocated amounts in excess of any applicable Lender’s actual holdings of record to be reallocated pro rata across the remaining Lenders of the applicable Class of Term Loans or Revolving Loans who have accepted such Extension Offer. All documentation in respect of such Extension shall be consistent with the foregoing and any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Borrower. For the avoidance of doubt, no Lender shall be required to participate in any Extension.
(b) With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrower pursuant to this Section, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 2.11 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any
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minimum increment; provided that the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”), which condition may be waived by the Borrower, to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in the Borrower’s sole discretion) of Term Loans or Revolving Commitments (as applicable) of any or all applicable Classes be tendered. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.21 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Commitments on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Offer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit any such Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.21.
(c) No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent shall be required to effectuate any Extension, other than (A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Commitments (or any portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of the Revolving Commitments, the consent of the Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender to the extent that such Issuing Bank or Swingline Lenders is materially adversely affected or is being asked to extend its role in connection with Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans beyond the then-applicable Revolving Maturity Date. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loans, Extended Revolving Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Loan Document Obligations that are secured by Liens on the Collateral that are equal in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Secured Obligations. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may, without the consent of any Lender, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.21 and any Extension (including any amendments necessary to treat the Loans and Commitments subject thereto as Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loans and/or Extended Revolving Commitments and as a separate Class hereunder of Loans and Commitments, as the case may be). In addition, if so provided in such amendment and with the consent of each Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender, as applicable, participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans expiring on or after the Revolving Maturity Date with respect to such Class in respect of the Revolving Loans and Revolving Commitments of such applicable Class shall be re-allocated from Lenders holding such applicable Revolving Commitments to Lenders holding Extended Revolving Commitments in accordance with the terms of such amendment; provided that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the relevant Lenders holding such applicable Revolving Commitments, be deemed to be participation interests in respect of such applicable Revolving Commitments and the terms of such participation interests (including, without limitation, the commission applicable thereto) shall be adjusted accordingly.
(d) In connection with any Extension, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including, without limitation, regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.21.
(e) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines in its sole discretion that the allocation of Extended Term Loans or the Extended Revolving Commitments, in each case to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Offer, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (each, a “Corrective
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Extension Agreement”) within 15 days following the effective date of such applicable Extension, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Agreement shall (i) provide for the extension of Term Loans under the original Class of Term Loans, or Revolving Commitments, Incremental Term Loan Commitment or Incremental Revolving Commitments (and related exposure), as the case may be, in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Commitments (and related revolving credit exposure) of the applicable Extension series into which such other Term Loans or commitments were initially extended, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension, in the absence of such error, (ii) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree, and (iii) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) as the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall reasonably determine are necessary to give effect to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.21(e).
(f) This Section 2.21 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.18 or Section 9.02 to the contrary.
SECTION 2.22. Defaulting Lenders.
(a) Adjustments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by Requirements of Law:
(i) Waivers and Amendments. Such Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in Section 9.02.
(ii) Reallocation of Payments. Any amount paid by the Borrower or otherwise received by the Administrative Agent for the account of a Defaulting Lender under this Agreement (whether on account of principal, interest, fees, indemnity payments or other amounts) will not be paid or distributed to such Defaulting Lender, but will instead be, applied by the Administrative Agent, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to the making of payments from time to time in the following order of priority: first to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, second to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Issuing Banks or the Swingline Lender (pro rata as to the respective amounts owing to each of them) under this Agreement, third to the payment of post-default interest and then-current interest due and payable to the Lenders hereunder other than Defaulting Lenders, ratably among them in accordance with the amounts of such interest then due and payable to them, fourth to the payment of fees then due and payable to the Non-Defaulting Lenders hereunder, ratably among them in accordance with the amounts of such fees then due and payable to them, fifth to pay principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due and payable to the Non-Defaulting Lenders hereunder ratably in accordance with the amounts thereof then due and payable to them, sixth to the ratable payment of other amounts then due and payable to the Non-Defaulting Lenders and seventh after the termination of the Commitments and payment in full of all obligations of the Borrower hereunder, to pay amounts owing under this Agreement to such Defaulting Lender or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct; provided that, if such payment is the payment of the principal amount of any Loan or the payment of any amount constituting LC Disbursements, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the relevant Loans of, and unreimbursed LC Disbursements owed to, the relevant non-Defaulting Lenders or Issuing Banks prior to being
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applied in the manner set forth in this Section 2.22(a)(ii). Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 2.05(j) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii) Certain Fees. That Defaulting Lender (x) shall not be entitled to receive or accrue any commitment fee pursuant to Section 2.12(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender) and (y) shall not be entitled to receive or accrue any Letter of Credit fees as provided in Section 2.12(b) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).
(iv) Reallocation of Applicable Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure. If a Lender becomes, and during the period it remains, a Defaulting Lender, the following provisions shall apply with respect to any outstanding LC Exposure and any outstanding Swingline Exposure of such Defaulting Lender:
(A) the LC Exposure and the Swingline Exposure of such Defaulting Lender will, subject to the limitation in the proviso below, automatically be reallocated (effective on the day such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender) among the Non-Defaulting Lenders pro rata in accordance with their respective Commitments; provided that (a) the sum of each Non-Defaulting Lender’s total Revolving Exposure, total Swingline Exposure and total LC Exposure may not in any event exceed the Revolving Commitment of such Non-Defaulting Lender as in effect at the time of such reallocation and (b) neither such reallocation nor any payment by a Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant thereto will constitute a waiver or release of any claim the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender may have against such Defaulting Lender or cause such Defaulting Lender to be a Non-Defaulting Lender; and
(B) to the extent that any portion (the “unreallocated portion”) of the Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure and Swingline Exposure cannot be so reallocated, whether by reason of the proviso in clause (A) above or otherwise, the Borrower will, not later than two Business Days after demand by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of any Issuing Bank and/or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be), (a) Cash Collateralize the obligations of the Borrower to the applicable Issuing Banks and/or the Swingline Lender in respect of such LC Exposure or Swingline Exposure, as the case may be, in an amount at least equal to the aggregate amount of the unreallocated portion of such LC Exposure or Swingline Exposure, or (b) in the case of such Swingline Exposure, prepay (subject to Section 2.22(a)(ii) above) in full the unreallocated portion thereof or (c) make other arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and to the applicable Issuing Banks and the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, in their sole discretion to protect them against the risk of non-payment by such Defaulting Lender.
(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (provided that, solely with respect to a Defaulting Lender that is a Revolving Lender, the Swingline Lender and each Issuing Bank must also so agree in writing in their sole discretion), the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and
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subject to any conditions set forth therein (which shall include arrangements with respect to the return to the Borrower of any Cash Collateral), such Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (without giving effect to