SECOND AMENDMENT TO SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT dated effective as of June 28, 2024 among CIVEO CORPORATION, CIVEO PTY LIMITED and CIVEO MANAGEMENT LLC, as Borrowers and ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, as Canadian Administrative Agent SECOND AMENDMENT TO...
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SECOND AMENDMENT
TO
dated effective as of
June 28, 2024
among
and
CIVEO MANAGEMENT LLC,
as Borrowers
as Borrowers
and
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA,
as Canadian Administrative Agent
as Canadian Administrative Agent
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SECOND AMENDMENT TO
SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT
SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT
THIS SECOND AMENDMENT TO SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT (this “Second Amendment”), dated effective as of June 28, 2024, is among CIVEO CORPORATION, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia (the “Parent Borrower”), CIVEO MANAGEMENT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “U.S. Borrower”), CIVEO PTY LIMITED ACN 003 657 510, an Australian proprietary limited company (the “Australian Borrower” and, together with the Parent Borrower and the U.S. Borrower, the “Borrowers”), and ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, as administrative agent for the Canadian Lenders (the “Canadian Administrative Agent”).
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A. The Borrowers, the Agents and the Lenders are parties to that certain Syndicated Facility Agreement, dated as of September 8, 2021, (as amended by that certain First Amendment to Syndicated Facility Agreement dated as of March 31, 2023, that certain Limited Waiver to Syndicated Facility Agreement dated as of August 4, 2023 and as otherwise amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Credit Agreement” and, as amended by this Second Amendment and as may be further amended, amended and restated supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Amended Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the Lenders have made certain loans to and other extensions of credit on behalf of the Borrowers.
B. The Borrowers and the Canadian Administrative Agent have agreed to amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement in order to implement Canadian Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Canadian Benchmark Replacement as more particularly set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants herein contained, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Defined Terms. Each capitalized term used herein but not otherwise defined herein has the meaning given such term in the Amended Credit Agreement. Unless otherwise indicated, all article and section references in this First Amendment refer to articles and sections of the Amended Credit Agreement.
SECTION 2. Amendments to Credit Agreement. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, effective as of the Second Amendment Effective Date (as defined below):
(a) the Credit Agreement (excluding the Schedules and Exhibits thereto) is hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text) as set forth in the document attached as Exhibit A hereto;
(b) Exhibit B-2 to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety in the form of Exhibit B-2 hereto;
(c) Exhibit B-5 to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety in the form of Exhibit B-5 hereto; and
(d) Exhibit B-6 to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety in the form of Exhibit B-6 hereto.
SECTION 3. Conditions Precedent. This Second Amendment shall not be deemed to be effective until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.08 of the Credit Agreement) (the “Second Amendment Effective Date”):
(a) The Canadian Administrative Agent shall have received from the Borrowers, counterparts (in such number as may be requested by the Canadian Administrative Agent) of this Second Amendment signed on behalf of such Persons.
SECTION 4. Miscellaneous:
(a) Loan Document. This Second Amendment is a “Loan Document” as defined and described in the Credit Agreement and all of the terms and provisions of the Amended Credit Agreement relating to Loan Documents shall apply hereto.
(b) Counterparts. This Second Amendment may be executed by one or more of the parties hereto in any number of separate counterparts, and all of such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of this Second Amendment by facsimile or electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. The words “execution,” “execute”, “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Second Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Agents, or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
(c) NO ORAL AGREEMENT. THIS SECOND AMENDMENT, THE AMENDED CREDIT AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS EXECUTED IN CONNECTION XXXXXXXX AND XXXXXXXXX REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
(d) GOVERNING LAW. THIS SECOND AMENDMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 5. No Fiduciary Relationship. The Borrowers acknowledge that neither the Canadian Administrative Agent or its respective Affiliates is acting as a fiduciary for or advisor to the Loan Parties.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Second Amendment to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
BORROWERS:
CIVEO CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title:
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title:
CIVEO MANAGEMENT LLC
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title:
CIVEO PTY LIMITED
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title:
CIVEO PTY LIMITED
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Signature of Director
Signature of Director
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Name of Director
Name of Director
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Signature of Director
Signature of Director
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Name of Director
Name of Director
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Company Secretary
Company Secretary
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Company Secretary
Company Secretary
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA,
as Canadian Administrative Agent
as Canadian Administrative Agent
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxx
Name: Xxxxx Xxx
Title: Manager, Agency Services
Name: Xxxxx Xxx
Title: Manager, Agency Services
Exhibit A
Amendments to Credit Agreement
(See attached) SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT
dated as of September 8, 2021
among
CIVEO CORPORATION,
CIVEO PTY LIMITED
and
CIVEO MANAGEMENT LLC,
as Borrowers
CIVEO MANAGEMENT LLC,
as Borrowers
THE LENDERS NAMED HEREIN,
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA,
as Administrative Agent, U.S. Collateral Agent,
Canadian Administrative Agent, Canadian Collateral Agent
and an Issuing Bank,
as Administrative Agent, U.S. Collateral Agent,
Canadian Administrative Agent, Canadian Collateral Agent
and an Issuing Bank,
and
RBC EUROPE LIMITED,
as Australian Administrative Agent, Australian Collateral Agent
and an Issuing Bank
as Australian Administrative Agent, Australian Collateral Agent
and an Issuing Bank
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS,1
as Joint Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner
and
as Joint Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner
and
HSBC BANK CANADA AND BANK OF MONTREAL,
AS JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS AND SYNDICATION AGENTS
AS JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS AND SYNDICATION AGENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Article I Definitions 1
SECTION 1.01 Defined Terms 1
SECTION 1.02 Terms Generally 5354
SECTION 1.03 Several Obligations; Power of Attorney 5455
SECTION 1.04 Classification of Loans and Borrowings 5455
SECTION 1.05 Additional Alternative Currencies 5455
1 RBC Capital Markets is the global brand name of the corporate and investment banking business of Royal Bank of Canada and its affiliates.
SECTION 1.06 Cashless Rolls 5556
SECTION 1.07 Interest Rates; Benchmark Notification 5556
Article II The Credits 5657
SECTION 2.01 Commitments 5657
SECTION 2.02 Loans 5658
SECTION 2.03 Borrowing Procedure 6061
SECTION 2.04 Evidence of Debt; Repayment of Loans 6163
SECTION 2.05 Fees 6364
SECTION 2.06 Interest on Loans 6566
SECTION 2.07 Default Interest 6768
SECTION 2.08 Alternate Rate of Interest 6768
SECTION 2.09 Termination and Reduction of Commitments 6869
SECTION 2.10 Conversion and Continuation of Borrowings 6970
SECTION 2.11 Optional Prepayment 7172
SECTION 2.12 Mandatory Prepayments 7273
SECTION 2.13 Increased Costs; Capital Requirements 7375
SECTION 2.14 Change in Legality 7576
SECTION 2.15 Breakage Costs 7577
SECTION 2.16 Pro Rata Treatment 7677
SECTION 2.17 Sharing of Setoffs 7677
SECTION 2.18 Payments 7981
SECTION 2.19 Taxes 8081
SECTION 2.20 Assignment of Commitments Under Certain Circumstances; Duty to Mitigate 8586
SECTION 2.21 Letters of Credit 8687
SECTION 2.22 Bankers’ Acceptances 93[Reserved] 95
SECTION 2.23 Swing Line Loans 9695
SECTION 2.24 Defaulting Lenders 10099
SECTION 2.25 Incremental Revolving Credit Increase 103102
SECTION 2.26 Benchmark Replacement 106105
SECTION 2.27 Canadian Benchmark Replacement 108106
Article III Representations and Warranties 113110
SECTION 3.01 Organization; Powers 113110
SECTION 3.02 Authorization 113110
SECTION 3.03 Enforceability 113110
SECTION 3.04 Governmental Approvals 114111
SECTION 3.05 Financial Statements 114111
SECTION 3.06 No Material Adverse Change 114111
SECTION 3.07 Title to Properties; Possession Under Leases and Licenses 114111
SECTION 3.08 Subsidiaries 115112
SECTION 3.09 Litigation; Compliance with Laws 115112
SECTION 3.10 Agreements 115112
SECTION 3.11 Federal Reserve Regulations 115112
SECTION 3.12 Investment Company Act 116113
SECTION 3.13 Use of Proceeds 116113
SECTION 3.14 Tax 116113
SECTION 3.15 No Material Misstatements 116113
SECTION 3.16 Employee Benefit Plans 116113
SECTION 3.17 Environmental Matters 118115
SECTION 3.18 Insurance 118115
SECTION 3.19 Security Documents 118115
SECTION 3.20 Intellectual Property 119116
SECTION 3.21 Labor Matters 119116
SECTION 3.22 Solvency 119116
SECTION 3.23 Anti-Corruption Laws 119116
SECTION 3.24 Anti-Money Laundering Laws 119116
SECTION 3.25 Foreign Assets Control Regulations, etc. 119116
Article IV Conditions to Closing and Funding 120117
SECTION 4.01 Conditions to All Credit Events 120117
SECTION 4.02 Conditions to Closing 121118
Article V Affirmative Covenants 124121
SECTION 5.01 Existence; Businesses and Properties 124121
SECTION 5.02 Insurance 125122
SECTION 5.03 Obligations and Taxes 126123
SECTION 5.04 Financial Statements, Reports, etc. 126123
SECTION 5.05 Litigation and Other Notices 128125
SECTION 5.06 Information Regarding Collateral 129126
SECTION 5.07 Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and Inspections 129126
SECTION 5.08 Use of Proceeds 129126
SECTION 5.09 Further Assurances 129126
SECTION 5.10 [Reserved] 131128
Article VI Negative Covenants 131128
SECTION 6.01 Indebtedness 132128
SECTION 6.02 Liens 132129
SECTION 6.03 Sale and Lease-Back Transactions 134131
SECTION 6.04 Investments, Loans and Advances 134131
SECTION 6.05 Mergers, Consolidations, Sales of Assets and Acquisitions 137134
SECTION 6.06 Restricted Payments; Restrictive Agreements 138135
SECTION 6.07 Transactions with Affiliates 139136
SECTION 6.08 Business of Borrowers and Subsidiaries 139136
SECTION 6.09 Other Indebtedness and Agreements 139136
SECTION 6.10 Interest Coverage Ratio 139136
SECTION 6.11 Leverage Ratios 139136
SECTION 6.12 Hedging Agreements 140137
SECTION 6.13 Pension Plans 140137
SECTION 6.14 Amendment of the Organizational Documents 141138
SECTION 6.15 Sanction Laws and Regulations 141138
SECTION 6.16 Anti-Corruption Laws 141138
SECTION 6.17 Cross-Guarantee 141138
Article VII Events of Default 141138
SECTION 7.01 Events of Default 141138
SECTION 7.02 Optional Acceleration of Maturity 143140
SECTION 7.03 Automatic Acceleration of Maturity 144141
SECTION 7.04 Non-exclusivity of Remedies 144141
SECTION 7.05 Application of Proceeds 144141
Article VIII The Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agents, the Issuing Banks and the Swing Line Lenders 146143
SECTION 8.01 Appointment and Authority 146143
SECTION 8.02 Rights as a Lender 146143
SECTION 8.03 Exculpatory Provisions 146143
SECTION 8.04 Reliance by the Agents, the Issuing Banks and the Swing Line Lenders 147144
SECTION 8.05 Delegation of Duties 148145
SECTION 8.06 Resignation of an Agent or a Swing Line Lender 148145
SECTION 8.07 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders; Certain Acknowledgments 150147
SECTION 8.08 Indemnification 150147
SECTION 8.09 Collateral and Guaranty Matters 151148
SECTION 8.10 No Other Duties, etc. 153150
SECTION 8.11 Agents May File Proofs of Claim 153150
SECTION 8.12 Certain ERISA Matters 154151
SECTION 8.13 Erroneous Payments 155152
Article IX Miscellaneous 158155
SECTION 9.01 Notices 158155
SECTION 9.02 Survival of Agreement 160157
SECTION 9.03 Binding Effect 160157
SECTION 9.04 Successors and Assigns 160157
SECTION 9.05 Expenses; Indemnity 166163
SECTION 9.06 Right of Setoff 168165
SECTION 9.07 Applicable Law 169166
SECTION 9.08 Waivers; Amendment 169166
SECTION 9.09 Interest Rate Limitation 173170
SECTION 9.10 Entire Agreement 173170
SECTION 9.11 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL 173170
SECTION 9.12 Severability 174171
SECTION 9.13 Counterparts 174171
SECTION 9.14 Headings 174171
SECTION 9.15 Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process 175172
SECTION 9.16 Confidentiality 175172
SECTION 9.17 Judgment Currency 176173
SECTION 9.18 Exculpation Provisions 177174
SECTION 9.19 Payments Set Aside 177174
SECTION 9.20 Termination 177174
SECTION 9.21 Patriot Act Notice 178175
SECTION 9.22 Public Offer 178175
SECTION 9.23 Keepwell 179176
SECTION 9.24 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions 179176
SECTION 9.25 Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs 180177
SECTION 9.26 Recognition of Hong Kong Stay Power 181178
Schedule 1.01(a) Rolled Letters of Credit
Schedule 1.01(b) U.S. Subsidiary Guarantors
Schedule 1.01(c) Canadian Subsidiary Guarantors
Schedule 1.01(d) Australian Subsidiary Guarantors
Schedule 2.01 Lenders and Commitments
Schedule 2.04 Amortization
Schedule 2.21 L/C Issuance Limits
Schedule 3.08 Subsidiaries and Special Purpose Business Entities
Schedule 3.09 Litigation
Schedule 3.16(a) Unfunded Plans
Schedule 3.16(b) Canadian Benefit Plans
Schedule 3.17 Environmental Matters
Schedule 6.01 Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 6.02 Existing Liens
Schedule 6.04 Existing Investments
Exhibit A Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit B-1 Form of U.S. Borrowing Request
Exhibit B-2 Form of Canadian Borrowing Request
Exhibit B-3 Form of Australian Borrowing Request
Exhibit B-4 Form of Swing Line Borrowing Request
Exhibit B-5 Form of Prepayment Notice
Exhibit B-6 Form of Conversion/Continuation Notice
Exhibit C-1 Form of Australian Guarantee Agreement
Exhibit C-2 Form of Canadian Guarantee Agreement
Exhibit C-3 Form of U.S. Guarantee Agreement
Exhibit D-1 Form of Canadian Pledge Agreement
Exhibit D-2 Form of U.S. Pledge Agreement
Exhibit E-1 Form of Australian Security Deed
Exhibit E-2 Form of Canadian Security Agreement
Exhibit E-3 Form of U.S. Security Agreement
Exhibit F Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit G Form of Discount Note[Reserved]
Exhibit H-1 – H-4 Forms of Exemption Certificate
THIS SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT dated as of September 8, 2021 (as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), is among CIVEO CORPORATION, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia (the “Parent Borrower”), CIVEO MANAGEMENT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “U.S. Borrower”), CIVEO PTY LIMITED ACN 003 657 510, an Australian proprietary limited company (the “Australian Borrower” and, together with the Parent Borrower and the U.S. Borrower, the “Borrowers”), the Lenders (as defined in Article I), ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (“RBC”), as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for the U.S. Lenders, as U.S. collateral agent (in such capacity, the “U.S. Collateral Agent”) for the Lenders, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Canadian Administrative Agent”) for the Canadian Lenders (as defined in Article I) and as Canadian collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Canadian Collateral Agent”) for the Lenders, and RBC EUROPE LIMITED (“RBC Europe”), as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Australian Administrative Agent”) for the Australian Lenders (as defined in Article I) and as Australian collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Australian Collateral Agent”) for the Lenders.
WHEREAS, the Parent Borrower, certain of its Subsidiaries, the lenders party thereto, and the Administrative Agents are party to that certain Amended and Restated Syndicated Facility Agreement, dated as of April 2, 2018 (such Syndicated Facility Agreement as amended prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, the Existing Credit Agreement is being refinanced pursuant to this Agreement.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall 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.
“Acceptance Fee” shall mean a fee payable in Canadian dollars by the Parent Borrower to the Canadian Administrative Agent for the account of a Canadian Lender with respect to the acceptance of a B/A or the making of a B/A Equivalent Loan on the date of such acceptance or loan, calculated on the face amount of the B/A or the B/A Equivalent Loan at the rate per annum applicable on such date as set forth in the row labeled “SOFR/BBSY Rate/B/A Spread” in the definition of the term “Applicable Percentage” on the basis of the number of days in the applicable Contract Period (including the date of acceptance and excluding the date of maturity) and a year of 365 days (it being agreed that the rate per annum applicable to any B/A Equivalent Loan is equivalent to the rate per annum otherwise applicable to the Bankers’ Acceptance which has been replaced by the making of such B/A Equivalent Loan pursuant to Section 2.22).
•“Additional Permitted Amount” has the meaning set forth in the definition of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.
•“Adjusted Term SOFRCORRA” means, for purposes of any calculation, the rate per annum equal to (a) Term SOFRCORRA for such calculation plus (b) the Term SOFRCORRA Adjustment; provided that if Adjusted Term XXXXX as so determined shall ever be less than the Floor, then Adjusted Term XXXXX shall be deemed to be the Floor.
•“Adjusted Term SOFR” means, for purposes of any calculation, the rate per annum equal to (a) Term SOFR for such calculation plus (b) the Term SOFR Adjustment; provided that if Adjusted Term SOFR as so determined shall ever be less than the Floor, then Adjusted Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the Floor.
•“Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Administrative Agents” shall mean the Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent and the Australian Administrative Agent.
•“Administrative Questionnaire” shall mean an administrative questionnaire in a form supplied from time to time by the Applicable Administrative Agent.
•“Affected Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
•“Affiliate” shall mean, when used with respect to a specified person, another person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the person specified; provided, however, that for purposes of Section 6.07, the term “Affiliate” shall also include any person that directly or indirectly owns 5% or more of any class of Equity Interests of the person specified or that is an officer or director of the person specified.
•“Agent Parties” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.01(d).
•“Agents” shall mean, collectively, the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agents.
•“Aggregate L/C Exposure” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the U.S. L/C Exposure, the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the Canadian L/C Exposure and the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the Australian L/C Exposure at such time.
•“Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Alternate Base Rate” shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (i) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (ii) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1.00% and (iii) Adjusted Term SOFR for a one-month tenor in effect for such day plus 1.00%; provided that to the extent such highest rate as calculated above shall, at any time, be less than the Floor, such rate shall be deemed to be Floor for all purposes herein. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR shall be effective on the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR, respectively.
•“Alternative Currency” shall mean the Euro, Pounds Sterling, Japanese Yen, Singapore Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar, Mexican Peso, Indian Rupee, Kuwaiti Dinar and each other currency (other than U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars or Australian dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.05.
•“Anti-Corruption Laws” shall mean all statutes, enactments, by-laws, rules, regulations, notifications, circulars, case-law, orders, ordinances, guidelines, policies, directions and judgments of any Governmental Authority, in relation to anti-corruption issued, administered or enforceable against any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the FCPA and the UKBA.
•“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” shall mean all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements and the money laundering and terrorist financing statutes and laws and the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, which in each case are issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, or to which any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries is subject, including, without limitation, the Patriot Act and the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970.
•“Applicable Administrative Agent” shall mean (a) the Administrative Agent, with respect to any U.S. Loan or U.S. Letter of Credit, (b) the Canadian Administrative Agent, with respect to any Canadian Loan or Canadian Letter of Credit and (c) the Australian Administrative Agent, with respect to any Australian Revolving Credit Loan or Australian Letter of Credit.
“Applicable Borrower” shall mean (a) the Parent Borrower, with respect to the Canadian Term Loan Facility or the Canadian Revolving Credit Facility, (b) the U.S. Borrower, with respect to the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility, and (c) the Australian Borrower, with respect to the Australian Revolving Credit Facility.
•“Applicable Collateral Agent” shall mean (a) the U.S. Collateral Agent, with respect to the U.S. Security Documents and the U.S. Collateral, (b) the Canadian Collateral Agent, with respect to the Canadian Security Documents and the Canadian Collateral or (c) the Australian Collateral Agent, with respect to the Australian Security Documents and the Australian Collateral.
•“Applicable Issuing Bank” shall mean (a) RBC or any other Issuing Bank that has issued, or has a commitment to issue, U.S. Letters of Credit, (b) RBC or any other Issuing Bank that has issued, or has a commitment to issue, Canadian Letters of Credit, or (c) RBC Europe, or any other Issuing Bank that has issued, or has a commitment to issue, Australian Letters of Credit.
•“Applicable Lender” shall mean (a) when used with respect to the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility, the Canadian Term Loan Facility, the Canadian Revolving Credit Facility or the Australian Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment or holds a Loan with respect to such Facility, (b) with respect to any Letter of Credit, (i) the Issuing Banks and (ii) if any L/C Disbursements have been made by an Issuing Bank and not reimbursed or refinanced by Section 2.02(g), the Canadian Revolving Lenders, the U.S. Revolving Lenders or the Australian Lenders, as the case may be, and (c) with respect to the U.S. Swing Line Sublimit or the Canadian Swing Line Sublimit, the Applicable Swing Line Lender.
•“Applicable Percentage” shall mean, for any day, with respect to any SOFR Loan, ABR Loan, B/ATerm XXXXX Loan, Canadian Prime Rate Loan, U.S. Base Rate Loan, BBSY Rate Loan or the Commitment Fee, the applicable percentage set forth below under the applicable caption, based upon the Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the relevant date of determination:
Total Net Leverage Ratio | SOFR/ BBSY Rate/B/ATerm XXXXX Spread | ABR, Canadian Prime Rate and U.S. Base Rate Spread | Commitment Fee Percentage | ||||||||
Category 1 Less than 1.50 to 1.00 | 3.00% | 2.00% | 0.675% | ||||||||
Category 2 Greater than or equal to 1.50 to 1.00 but less than 2.00 to 1.00 | 3.25% | 2.25% | 0.731% | ||||||||
Category 3 Greater than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00 but less than 2.50 to 1.00 | 3.50% | 2.50% | 0.788% | ||||||||
Category 4 Greater than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00 but less than 3.00 to 1.00 | 3.75% | 2.75% | 0.844% | ||||||||
Category 5 Greater than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 but less than 3.50 to 1.00 | 4.00% | 3.00% | 0.900% | ||||||||
•Each change in the Applicable Percentage resulting from a change in the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be effective with respect to all Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding on and after the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the financial statements required by Section 5.04(a) or (b) and the Compliance Certificate required by Section 5.04(c), respectively, indicating such change until the date immediately preceding the next date of delivery of such financial statements indicating another such change; provided, however, that at any time during which the Parent Borrower has failed to deliver when due the financial statements required by Section 5.04(a) or (b) and the Compliance Certificate required by Section 5.04(c), respectively, the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 5 for purposes of determining the Applicable Percentage. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as of the Closing Date, the Applicable Percentage shall be based on Category 3 until adjusted in accordance with this paragraph.
• “Applicable Pro Rata Percentage” shall mean the Canadian Applicable Pro Rata Percentage, the Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage or the U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, as the context may require.
•“Applicable Required Lenders” shall mean (a) the Required U.S. Lenders with respect to the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility, (b) the Required Canadian Revolving Lenders with respect to the Canadian Revolving Credit Facility, (c) the Required Canadian Term Lenders with respect to the Canadian Term Loan Facility, or (d) the Required Australian Lenders with respect to the Australian Revolving Credit Facility.
•“Applicable Swing Line Lender” shall mean (a) with respect to the U.S. Swing Line Sublimit, (i) the U.S. Swing Line Lender and (ii) if any U.S. Swing Line Loans are outstanding and have not been refinanced by a U.S. Revolving Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.23(c)(ii), the U.S. Revolving Lenders and (b) with respect to the Canadian Swing Line Sublimit, the Canadian Swing Line Lender and (ii) if any Canadian Swing Line Loans are outstanding and have not been refinanced by a Canadian Revolving Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.23(c)(ii), the Canadian Revolving Lenders.
•“Approved Fund” shall mean any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
•“Asset Sale” shall mean the sale, transfer or other disposition (by way of merger, casualty, condemnation or otherwise) of any or all of the property of the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to any person other than the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than (a) Equity Interests in the Parent Borrower or directors’ qualifying shares in any Subsidiary, (b) inventory, damaged, obsolete or worn out assets, scrap and Permitted Investments, in each case disposed of in the ordinary course of business, (c) dispositions between or among Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties or (d) Specified Dispositions); provided that any asset sale or series of related asset sales described above having a value not in excess of U.S.$1,000,000 shall be deemed not to be an “Asset Sale” for purposes of this Agreement.
•“Assignee Group” shall mean two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
•“Assignment and Acceptance” shall mean an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04) and accepted by the Applicable Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit A or such other form as shall be approved by the Applicable Administrative Agent.
•“Associate” shall mean an “associate” as defined in section 128F(9) of the Australian Tax Act.
•“Attorneys” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.03(b).
•“Australian Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
• “Australian Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Australian Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” or “Secured Property” as defined in any Australian Security Document.
•“Australian Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Australian Commitment Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(a).
•“Australian Corporations Act” shall mean the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
•“Australian Dollar Equivalent” shall mean, on any date of determination, with respect to any amount in U.S. dollars, the equivalent in Australian dollars of such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent using the Exchange Rate then in effect.
•“Australian dollars”, “AUD” and “AUD$” shall mean the lawful money of the Commonwealth of Australia.
•“Australian GST” shall have the meaning given in A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).
•“Australian GST Liability” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(j).
•“Australian Guarantee Agreement” shall mean a Deed of Guarantee and Indemnity, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1, in favor of the Australian Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“Australian L/C Exposure” shall mean at any time the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Australian Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate principal amount of all L/C Disbursements in respect of Australian Letters of Credit that have not yet been reimbursed at such time. The Australian L/C Exposure of any Australian Lender at any time shall mean its Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate Australian L/C Exposure at such time.
•“Australian L/C Participation Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).
•“Australian Lenders” shall mean Lenders having Australian Revolving Commitments, outstanding Australian Revolving Credit Loans or participations in Australian Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.21(d).
•“Australian Loan Parties” shall mean the Australian Borrower and the Australian Subsidiary Guarantors.
•“Australian Revolving Borrowing” shall mean a group of Australian Revolving Credit Loans of a single Type made, converted or continued by the Australian Lenders on a single date and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
•“Australian Revolving Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Australian Lender, the commitment of such Australian Lender to (a) make Australian Revolving Credit Loans hereunder and (b) purchase participations in the Australian L/C Exposure, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Xxxxxx’s name on Schedule
2.01 under the caption “Australian Revolving Commitment”, or in the Assignment and Acceptance or Lender Joinder Agreement pursuant to which such Australian Lender assumed its Australian Revolving Commitment, as applicable, as the same may be (i) increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.25, (ii) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09 and (iii) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Australian Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The aggregate amount of the Australian Revolving Commitments as of the Closing Date is U.S.$35,000,000.
•“Australian Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Australian Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Australian Revolving Credit Loans of such Lender denominated in U.S. dollars, plus the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Australian Revolving Credit Loans of such Australian Lender denominated in Australian dollars, plus the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount at such time of such Australian Lender’s Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the Australian L/C Exposure.
•“Australian Revolving Credit Facility” shall mean at any time the aggregate amount of the Australian Revolving Commitments of the Australian Lenders at such time.
•“Australian Revolving Credit Loans” shall mean (a) the Australian dollar-denominated Revolving Credit Loans made by the Australian Lenders to the Australian Borrower hereunder and (b) the U.S. dollar-denominated Revolving Credit Loans made by the Australian Lenders to the Australian Borrower. Each Australian Revolving Credit Loan denominated in Australian dollars shall be a BBSY Rate Loan. Each Australian Revolving Credit Loan denominated in U.S. dollars and made to the Australian Borrower shall be a SOFR Loan.
•“Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage” of any Australian Lender, subject to any adjustment as provided in Section 2.24(c) or 2.25(a), shall mean the percentage of the aggregate Australian Revolving Commitments represented by such Australian Lender’s Australian Revolving Commitment; provided that if the Australian Revolving Commitments have terminated, the Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentages of the Australian Lenders shall be determined based upon the Australian Revolving Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments.
•“Australian Security Deed” shall mean any Australian General Security Deed governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1, among the Australian Borrower and the Australian Subsidiary Guarantors, as grantors, and the Australian Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“Australian Security Documents” shall mean the Australian Security Deed, the Australian Security Trust Deed and each other Security Document to which the Australian Borrower, or any Australian Subsidiary Guarantor is a party and that purports to xxxxx x Xxxx in the assets of any such person in favor of the Australian Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“Australian Security Trust Deed” shall mean the security trust deed granted by the Australian Collateral Agent, as security trustee.
•“Australian Subsidiaries” shall mean the Subsidiaries of the Parent Borrower (other than the Australian Borrower) organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia or any state, territory or other political subdivision thereof other than any U.S. Owned Subsidiary.
•“Australian Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean each Australian Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.01(d), and each other Australian Subsidiary that is or becomes a party to an Australian Guarantee Agreement.
•“Australian Tax Act” shall mean the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) (Australia) or the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth) (Australia) as applicable.
•“Australian Withholding Tax” shall mean any Australian Tax required to be withheld or deducted from any interest or other payment under Division 11A of Part III of the Tax Act or Subdivision 12-F of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Commonwealth of Australia).
•“AutoBorrow Agreement” shall mean any agreement providing for automatic borrowing services between a Loan Party and a Swing Line Lender.
•“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (x) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period pursuant to this Agreement or (y) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, in each case, as of such date, and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to clause (d) of Section 2.26.
“B/A Discount Rate” shall mean:
(a) with respect to an issue of Bankers’ Acceptances having the same Contract Period accepted by a Lender that is a Canadian chartered bank listed on Schedule I of the Bank Act (Canada) (other than Canadian Western Bank), the CDOR Rate; and
(b) with respect to an issue of Bankers’ Acceptances having the same Contract Period accepted by Canadian Western Bank or a Lender that is not a bank under Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada), the CDOR Rate plus 0.10%;
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the B/A Discount Rate for purposes of this Agreement shall at no time be less than 0%.
“B/A Equivalent Loan” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.22(h).
“B/A Loan” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of one or more Bankers’ Acceptances or, as applicable, B/A Equivalent Loans. For greater certainty, all provisions of this Agreement that are applicable to Bankers’ Acceptances are also applicable, mutatis mutandis, to B/A Equivalent Loans.
•“Bail-In Action” shall mean 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” shall mean:
•(a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule; and
•(b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their respective Affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bankers’ Acceptance” and “B/A” shall mean a non-interest bearing draft denominated in Canadian dollars, drawn by the Parent Borrower, and accepted by a Canadian Lender in accordance with this Agreement, and may include a depository note within the meaning of the Depository Bills and Notes Act (Canada) and a bill of exchange within the meaning of the Bills of Exchange Act (Canada).
•“Banking Services” shall mean each and any of the following bank services provided to the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary by any Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender: (a) commercial credit cards, (b) stored value cards and (c) treasury management services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, overdrafts and interstate depository network services).
•“Banking Services Obligations” shall mean any and all obligations of the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor) in connection with Banking Services. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, “Banking Services Obligations” shall not include the Excluded Swap Obligations
•“BBSY Rate” shall mean, for the relevant Interest Period: (a) the rate per annum which is equal to the average bid rate displayed at or about 10:30 a.m. (Sydney time) on the date that is two Business Days prior to the first day of that period on the Bloomberg BBSY page for a term equivalent to that period; or (b) if a rate for a term cannot be determined in accordance with clause (a) above because a rate is not displayed for a term equivalent to that period or if the basis
on which that rate is displayed is changed and in the opinion of the Australian Administrative Agent ceases to reflect the Australian Lenders’ cost of funding to the same extent as of the date of this Agreement, the BBSY Rate for that period will be the rate determined by the Australian Administrative Agent at or about 10:30 a.m. (Sydney time) on the day of calculation (which day shall be two Business Days prior to the first day of that period) to be the average of the buying rates quoted to the Australian Administrative Agent by three Reference Banks selected by the Australian Administrative Agent (after consultation with the Australian Borrower) at or about that time on that date for bills of exchange that are accepted by an Australian bank and that have a term equivalent to the relevant period.
“Benchmark” means, initially, Adjusted Term SOFR; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to Adjusted Term SOFR or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (a) of Section 2.26.
“Benchmark Replacement” means with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event, for any Available Tenor, the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time in the United States and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then- current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body and/or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time.
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non-representative; provided, that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (3) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.
For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to such then-current Benchmark:
(1) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(2) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Term SOFR Administrator, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), in each case, which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(3) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer, or as of a specified future date will no longer be, representative.
For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Start Date” means, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).
“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 2.26 and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 2.26.
•“Benefit Plan” shall mean any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code to which Section 4975 of the Code applies, and (c) any person whose assets include (for purposes of the Plan Asset Regulations or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
•“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party shall mean an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.
•“Bilateral Agreement” shall mean that AUD$1,000,000 Guarantee Line provided by the Bilateral Lender to the Australian Borrower pursuant to the Facility Letter, dated as of August 20, 2020 (the “Facility Letter”) by and among the Australian Borrower, the Bilateral Lender and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ABN 65 117 925 970, as amended or supplemented from time to time.
•“Bilateral Obligations” shall mean all the liabilities of the Australian Borrower to the Bilateral Lender under or by reason of the Bilateral Agreement, and includes any liabilities or obligations which are liquidated or unliquidated, are present, prospective or contingent, are in existence before or come into existence on or after the date of this Agreement or relate to the payment of money or the performance or omission of any act; provided that, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness included for purposes of determining Australian Bank Guarantee Obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall not exceed AUD$1,000,000.
•“Bilateral Lender” shall mean HSBC Bank Australia Limited ABN 48 006 434 162 in its capacity as lender under the Bilateral Agreement or any other Lender that succeeds HSBC Bank Australia Limited ABN 48 006 434 162 as a party to the Bilateral Agreement.
•“Board” shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.
•“Borrower Materials” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.04.
•“Borrowers” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Borrowing” shall mean a Canadian Revolving Borrowing, a Canadian Term Borrowing, an Australian Revolving Borrowing, a U.S. Revolving Borrowing or a Swing Line Borrowing.
•“Borrowing Request” shall mean a request by a Borrower in accordance with the terms of Section 2.03 and substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1, B-2, B-3 or B-4, as applicable, or such other form as shall be reasonably approved by the Applicable Administrative Agent.
•“Breakage Event” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.15.
•“Business Day” shall mean (a) when used in connection with a Loan, Letter of Credit or payment denominated in U.S. dollars, any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a legal holiday on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law to be closed for business in New York, New York; provided, that, when used in connection with a SOFR Loan, or any other calculation or determination involving SOFR, the term “Business Day” means any day that is only a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, (b) when used in connection with the Canadian Term Loan, a Canadian Revolving Credit Loan, a Canadian Letter of Credit or a payment under the Canadian Term Loan Facility or the Canadian Revolving Credit Facility, any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or anya day on which banks are open for over-the-counter business in Toronto, Ontario, and Calgary, Alberta, and Montreal, Quebec are authorized or required by law to closeexcludes Saturday, Sunday and any other day which is a statutory holiday in Toronto, Ontario or Calgary, Alberta, provided that, when used in connection with SOFR Loans or any other calculation or determination involving SOFR, the term “Business Day” means any day that is only a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, (c) when used in connection with an Australian Revolving Credit Loan, Australian Letter of Credit or payment denominated in Australian dollars or U.S. dollars under the Australian Revolving Credit Facility, any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any day on which banks in Houston, New York City, Singapore, London, Hong Kong or Sydney, Australia are authorized or required by law to close and (d) when used in connection with a Letter of Credit or payment denominated in an Alternative Currency, any day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such Alternative Currency and on which the relevant office of the Applicable Issuing Bank is not authorized or required by law to close.
• “Canadian Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Canadian Applicable Pro Rata Percentage” shall mean with respect to any Canadian Revolving Lender or Canadian Term Lender, the Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage or the Canadian Term Loan Pro Rata Percentage, respectively.
•“Canadian Benefit Plans” shall mean all employee benefit plans of any nature or kind whatsoever that are not Canadian Pension Plans or Defined Benefit Plans and are maintained or contributed to by the Parent Borrower or any of the Canadian Subsidiaries, in each case covering employees in Canada.
• “Canadian Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” as defined in any Canadian Security Document.
•“Canadian Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Canadian Commitment Fees” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(a)(ii).
•“Canadian Dollar Equivalent” shall mean, on any date of determination, with respect to any amount in U.S. dollars, the equivalent in Canadian dollars of such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent using the Exchange Rate, then in effect.
•“Canadian dollars” and “C$” shall mean lawful currency of Canada.
•“Canadian Facility” shall mean either the Canadian Term Loan Facility or the Canadian Revolving Credit Facility.
•“Canadian Guarantee Agreement” shall mean the Canadian Guarantee Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2, by the Parent Borrower and the Canadian Subsidiary Guarantors in favor of the Canadian Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“Canadian L/C Exposure” shall mean at any time the sum of (a) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Canadian Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all L/C Disbursements in respect of Canadian Letters of Credit that have not yet been reimbursed at such time. The Canadian L/C Exposure of any Canadian Revolving Lender at any time shall mean its Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate Canadian L/C Exposure at such time.
•“Canadian L/C Participation Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).
•“Canadian Lenders” shall mean Canadian Revolving Lenders and Canadian Term Lenders, as applicable.
•“Canadian Loan” shall mean a Canadian Revolving Credit Loan or a Canadian Term Loan.
•“Canadian Loan Parties” shall mean the Parent Borrower and the Canadian Subsidiary Guarantors.
• “Canadian Pension Plans” shall mean each plan that is considered to be a pension plan for the purposes of any applicable pension benefits standards statute and/or regulation in Canada established, maintained or contributed to by the Parent Borrower or any of the Canadian Subsidiaries for its employees or former employees, but excluding the Defined Benefit Plans.
•“Canadian Pledge Agreement” shall mean the Canadian Pledge Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1, among the Parent Borrower and each Canadian Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower party thereto, as pledgors, and the Canadian Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“Canadian Prime Rate” shall mean, with respect to a Canadian Prime Rate Loan, on any day, the annual rate of interest equal to the greater of: (ai) the annual rate of interest announced from time to time by the Canadian Administrative Agent as being its primereference rate then in effect at its principal office in Toronto, Ontario on such day for determining interest rates on Canadian Dollar dollar-denominated commercial loans made by it in Canada; and (b) the annual rate of interest equal to the sum of (i) the CDOR Rate in effect on such day and (ii) 1%Adjusted Term XXXXX for an interest period of one month in effect from time to time plus 100 basis points per annum; provided that if the rate determined above shall everin no event shall the Canadian Prime Rate be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement. When used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, “The Canadian Prime Rate” refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. Any change in the Canadian Prime Rate determined by the Canadian Administrative Agent shall be effective on the date the change becomes effective generally.
•“Canadian Revolving Borrowing” shall mean a group of Canadian Revolving Credit Loans of a single Type made, converted or continued by the Canadian Revolving Lenders on a single date and, in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect and, in the case of a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing, as to which a single ContractInterest Period is in effect.
• “Canadian Revolving Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Canadian Revolving Lender, the commitment of such Canadian Revolving Lender to (a) make Canadian Revolving Credit Loans hereunder, (b) purchase participations in the Canadian L/C Exposure and (c) purchase participations in Canadian Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Xxxxxx’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Canadian Revolving Commitment”, or in the Assignment and Acceptance or Lender Joinder Agreement pursuant to which such Canadian Revolving Lender assumed its Canadian Revolving Commitment, as applicable, as the same may be (i) increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.25, (ii) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09 and (iii) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Canadian Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The aggregate amount of the Canadian Revolving Commitments as of the Closing Date is U.S.$155,000,000.
• “Canadian Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Canadian Revolving Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Canadian Revolving Credit Loans of such Lender denominated in U.S. dollars, plus the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Canadian Revolving Credit Loans of such Canadian Revolving Lender denominated in Canadian dollars, plus the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount at such time of such Canadian Revolving Lender’s Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the Canadian L/C Exposure plus such Canadian Revolving Lender’s Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the outstanding amount of all Canadian Swing Line Loans.
•“Canadian Revolving Credit Facility” shall mean at any time the aggregate amount of the Canadian Revolving Commitments of the Canadian Revolving Lenders at such time.
•“Canadian Revolving Credit Loans” shall mean (a) the Canadian dollar-denominated Revolving Credit Loans (including the aggregate face amount of outstanding B/As) made by the Canadian Revolving Lenders to the Parent Borrower hereunder and (b) the U.S. dollar-denominated Revolving Credit Loans made by the Canadian Revolving Lenders to the Parent Borrower. Each Canadian Revolving Credit Loan denominated in Canadian dollars shall be a Canadian Prime Rate Loan or a B/ATerm XXXXX Loan. Each Canadian Revolving Credit Loan denominated in U.S. dollars and made to the Parent Borrower shall be a SOFR Loan or a U.S. Base Rate Loan.
•“Canadian Revolving Lenders” shall mean Lenders having Canadian Revolving Commitments, outstanding Canadian Revolving Credit Loans, or participations in Canadian Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.21(d) or in Canadian Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.23.
• “Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage” of any Canadian Revolving Lender, subject to any adjustment as provided in Section 2.24(c) or 2.25(a), shall mean the percentage of the aggregate Canadian Revolving Commitments represented by such Canadian Revolving Lender’s Canadian Revolving Commitment; provided that if the Canadian Revolving Commitments have terminated, the Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentages of the Canadian Revolving Lenders shall be determined based upon the Canadian Revolving Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments
•“Canadian Security Agreement” shall mean the Canadian Security Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-2, among each Canadian Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower party thereto, as grantors, and the Canadian Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“Canadian Security Documents” shall mean the Canadian Security Agreement, the Canadian Pledge Agreement, and each other Security Document to which the Parent Borrower, any Canadian Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower is a party and that purports to xxxxx x Xxxx in the assets of any such person in favor of the Canadian Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“Canadian Subsidiaries” shall mean the Subsidiaries organized under the laws of Canada or any province, territory or other political subdivision thereof, other than any U.S. Owned Subsidiary.
•“Canadian Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean each Canadian Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.01(c), and each other Canadian Subsidiary that is or becomes a party to the Canadian Guarantee Agreement.
•“Canadian Swing Line Borrowing” shall mean a borrowing of a Canadian Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.23(a)(ii) or, if an AutoBorrow Agreement is in effect, any transfer of funds pursuant to such AutoBorrow Agreement.
•“Canadian Swing Line Lender” shall mean RBC in its capacity as provider of Canadian Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.
•“Canadian Swing Line Loan” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.23(a)(ii).
•“Canadian Swing Line Sublimit” shall mean U.S.$25,000,000. The Canadian Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Canadian Revolving Commitments.
•“Canadian Term Borrowing” shall mean a group of Canadian Term Loans of a single Type made, converted or continued by the Canadian Term Lenders on a single date and, in the case of a B/A LoanTerm XXXXX Borrowing, as to which a single ContractInterest Period is in effect.
•“Canadian Term Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Canadian Term Lender, the commitment of such Canadian Term Lender to make a single Canadian Term Loan to the Parent Borrower on the Closing Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the Canadian dollar amount set forth opposite such Xxxxxx’s name on Schedule 2.01. The aggregate amount of the Canadian Term Commitments as of the Closing Date is C$100,000,000.
•“Canadian Term Lender” shall mean any Lender that has a Canadian Term Commitment or holds a Canadian Term Loan.
•“Canadian Term Loan” shall mean the Canadian dollar-denominated term loans made by the Canadian Term Lenders to the Parent Borrower.
•“Canadian Term Loan Facility” shall mean the aggregate principal amount of the Canadian Term Loans of all Canadian Term Lenders outstanding at such time.
•“Canadian Term Loan Pro Rata Percentage” with respect to any Canadian Term Lender, the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Canadian Term Loans represented by such Canadian Term Lender’s Canadian Term Loans at such time.
•“Capital Lease Obligations” of any person shall mean the obligations of such person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right
to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
•“Cash Collateralize” shall mean to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Applicable Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as collateral for the U.S. L/C Exposure, the Canadian L/C Exposure or the Australian L/C Exposure, as applicable, cash or deposit account balances pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Applicable Borrower, the Applicable Collateral Agent and the Applicable Issuing Banks (which documentation is hereby consented to by the Lenders). Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings.
“CDOR Rate” shall mean, for each day in any period, the annual rate of interest that is the rate based on an average rate applicable to Canadian dollar bankers’ acceptances for a term equal to the term of the relevant Contract Period (or for a term of one month for purposes of determining the Canadian Prime Rate) appearing on the “Refinitiv Screen Canadian Dollar Offered Rate (CDOR) Page” (or any display substituted therefor) of Reuters Monitor Money Rates Services (or any successor thereto or Affiliate thereof) at approximately 10:00 a.m. (Standard Time), on such date, or if such date is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day; provided that, if the rate determined above shall ever be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
“CDS” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.22(c).
•“Change in Control” shall mean (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the date hereof) of Equity Interests representing more than 35% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Parent Borrower; (b) the failure by the Parent Borrower to own, directly or indirectly, beneficially and of record, 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the U.S. Borrower; or (c) the failure by the Parent Borrower to own, directly or indirectly, beneficially and of record, 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Australian Borrower.
•“Change in Law” shall mean (a) the adoption of any law, rule, regulation or treaty after the Closing Date, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the Closing Date or (c) compliance by any Lender or an Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.13, by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the Closing Date; provided however, for purposes of this Agreement and notwithstanding anything to the contrary, (i) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) 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 Canadian Revolving Credit Loans, Canadian Term Loans, Australian Revolving Credit Loans or U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, and (b) any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Canadian Revolving Commitment, Canadian Term Commitment, Australian Revolving Commitment or a U.S. Revolving Commitment.
•“Closing Date” shall mean the date upon which all of the conditions set forth in Sections 4.01 and 4.02 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 9.08(b).
•“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
•“Collateral” shall mean, collectively, all of the U.S. Collateral, the Canadian Collateral and the Australian Collateral.
•“Collateral Agents” shall mean, collectively, the U.S. Collateral Agent, the Canadian Collateral Agent and the Australian Collateral Agent.
•“Commitment” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, such Xxxxxx’s U.S. Revolving Commitment, Canadian Revolving Commitment, Canadian Term Commitment, Australian Revolving Commitment or any Incremental Revolving Commitment, and “Commitments” shall mean the U.S. Revolving Commitments, the Canadian Revolving Commitments, the Canadian Term Commitments, the Australian Revolving Commitments and any Incremental Revolving Commitments.
•“Commitment Fees” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(a)(iii).
•“Commodity Exchange Act” shall mean the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. Section 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
•“Compliance Certificate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.04(c).
•“Conforming Changes” shall mean, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Alternate Base Rate,” the definition of “U.S. Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest,
timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 2.26 and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
•“Connection Income Taxes” shall mean Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
•“Consolidated EBITDA” shall mean, for any period, EBITDA of the Parent Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such period, all determined on a consolidated basis.
•“Consolidated Interest Expense” shall mean, for any person for any period, the sum of (a) the interest expense (including imputed interest expense in respect of Capital Lease Obligations but excluding the amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs) of such person for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, plus (b) any interest accrued during such period in respect of Indebtedness of such person that is required to be capitalized rather than included in consolidated interest expense for such period in accordance with GAAP. For purposes of the foregoing, interest expense shall be determined after giving effect to any net payments made or received by such person with respect to interest rate Hedging Agreements.
•“Consolidated Net Income” shall mean, for any person for any period, the net income or loss of such person for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income of any subsidiary of such person to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to such subsidiary, (b) the income of any person in which any other person (other than such person or a wholly owned subsidiary thereof or any director holding qualifying shares in accordance with applicable law) has a joint interest, except to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually paid to such person or a wholly owned subsidiary thereof by such person during such period, and (c) any gains or losses attributable to sales of assets out of the ordinary course of business. For the avoidance of doubt, Consolidated Net Income shall include all amounts recognized as income during such period from the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program (but shall deduct, if applicable, any such amounts that were required to be repaid during such period as a result of program non-compliance).
•“Consolidated Net Worth” shall mean, at any time, the net worth or total shareholders’ equity of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Contract Period” shall mean the term of a B/A Loan selected by the Parent Borrower in accordance with Section 2.22, commencing on the date of such B/A Loan and expiring on a Business Day which shall be either 1, 2 or 3 months thereafter, subject to market availability (or, subject to the agreement of the Applicable Lenders, a longer or shorter period), provided that (a) subject to clause (b) below, each such period shall be subject to such extensions or reductions as may be agreed by the Applicable Lenders to ensure that each Contract Period shall expire on a Business Day, and (b) no Contract Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.
•“Control” shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, and the terms “Controlling” and “Controlled” shall have meanings correlative thereto.
“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
•“XXXXX” means the Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average administered and published by the Bank of Canada (or any successor administrator).
“Covered Entity” shall mean any of the following:
(a) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(b) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(c) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Covered Party” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.25.
•“Credit Event” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.
•“Customary Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean an intercreditor agreement, reasonably acceptable to the Loan Party incurring Indebtedness under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which a Qualified Offering is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, the Agents and the Required Lenders, to be entered into by and among such Loan Party, the other Loan Parties party thereto, the Agents and the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent and under such indenture or agreement pursuant to which such
Qualified Offering is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.
•“Decision Period” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.17(d).
•“Default” shall mean any event or condition which upon notice, lapse of time or both would constitute an Event of Default.
•“Defaulting Lender” shall mean, subject to Section 2.24(d), any Lender that:
(a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two (2) Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies an Administrative Agent and the Parent Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Xxxxxx’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to an Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, and any Swing Line Lender of any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans) within two (2) Business Days of the date when due;
(b) has notified any Borrower, an Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank or Swing Line Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Xxxxxx’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Xxxxxx’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied);
(c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after request by an Administrative Agent or any Borrower, to confirm in writing to such Administrative Agent and such Borrower that it will comply with its funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by such Administrative Agent and such Borrower); or
(d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Insolvency Law, or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity;
provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the
enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by an Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.24(b)) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to each Borrower, each Issuing Bank, each Swing Line Lender and each Lender.
“Defined Benefit Plan” shall mean each of the pension plans identified as such in Schedule 3.16(b).
•“Designated Person” shall mean a person or entity (a) listed in the annex to, or otherwise subject to the provisions of, any Executive Order (as defined in the definition of “Sanctions Laws and Regulations” below); (b) named as a “Specially Designated National and Blocked Person” (“SDN”) on the most current list published by OFAC at its official website or any replacement website or other replacement official publication of such list (“SDN List”); (c) in which an entity on the SDN List has, to the knowledge of Parent Borrower or any of its subsidiaries, (i) 50% or greater ownership interest or (ii) control of operations and day-to-day activities; or (d) listed in any sanctions-related list of designated persons maintained by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state or that is otherwise the subject of Sanctions Laws and Regulations.
“Discount Note” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.22(h).
“Discount Proceeds” shall mean, in respect of any Bankers’ Acceptance required to be purchased by a Lender hereunder, an amount (rounded to the nearest whole cent with one-half of one cent being rounded up) determined as of the applicable date of Borrowing that is equal to the Face Amount multiplied by the Price, where “Face Amount” is the face amount of such Bankers’ Acceptance and “Price” is equal to:
1
(1 + (Rate x Term)) x 365
where the “Rate” is the applicable Discount Rate expressed as a decimal on the day of purchase; the “Term” is the term of such Bankers' Acceptance expressed as a number of days; and the Price as so determined is rounded up or down to the fifth decimal place with .000005 being rounded up.
“Discount Rate” shall mean, with respect to the issuance of a Bankers’ Acceptance, the rate of interest per annum, calculated on the basis of a year of 365 days, (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of 1/100th of one percent) which is equal to the discount exacted by a purchaser taking initial delivery of such Bankers’ Acceptance, calculated as a rate per annum and as if the issuer thereof received the discount proceeds in respect of such Bankers’ Acceptance on its date of issuance and had repaid the respective face amount of such Bankers’ Acceptance on the maturity date thereof.
•“Documents” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.03(b).
•“dollars”, “U.S. dollars”, “U.S.$” or “$” shall mean lawful money of the United States of America.
•“Domestic Subsidiaries” shall mean all Subsidiaries (other than the U.S. Borrower) incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
•“EBITDA” shall mean, for any person for any period, Consolidated Net Income of such person for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period, (iv) any noncash charges or extraordinary losses for such period, (v) [reserved], (vi) transaction costs associated with any Permitted Acquisitions in an aggregate amount not to exceed U.S.$10,000,000 during the term of this Agreement and (vii) the amount of cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies directly attributable and of continuing effect and projected by the Parent Borrower in good faith to be realized within 12 months after consummation of a Permitted Acquisition (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period for which EBITDA is being determined and as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies were realized during the entirety of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that (A) such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies (1) are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable and (2) have been approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion and (B) the aggregate amount of such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies included pursuant to this clause (a)(vii), shall not exceed 10% of EBITDA (after giving effect to this clause (a)(vii)), and minus (b) without duplication (i) all cash payments made during such period on account of reserves, restructuring charges and other noncash charges added to Consolidated Net Income pursuant to clause (a)(iv) above in a previous period and (ii) to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net Income, any extraordinary gains and all noncash items of income for such period, all determined for such person on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. For the avoidance of doubt, without duplication of any amounts included in Consolidated Net Income, EBITDA shall include all amounts recognized as income during such period from the Canada Wage Subsidy program (but shall deduct, if applicable, any such amounts that were required to be repaid during such period as a result of program non-compliance).
•“EEA Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent;
•“EEA Member Country” shall mean any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
•“EEA Resolution Authority” shall mean 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.
•“Eligible Assignee” shall mean (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund, and (d) any other person (other than a natural person).
•“Environmental Laws” shall mean all former, current and future federal, state, provincial, local and foreign laws (including common law), treaties, regulations, rules, ordinances, codes, decrees, judgments, directives, orders (including consent orders), and agreements in each case, relating to protection of the environment, natural resources, human health and safety or the presence, Release of, or exposure to, Hazardous Materials, or the generation, manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, transport, recycling or handling of, or the arrangement for such activities with respect to, Hazardous Materials.
•“Environmental Liability” shall mean all liabilities, obligations, damages, losses, claims, actions, suits, judgments, orders, fines, penalties, fees, expenses and costs (including administrative oversight costs, natural resource damages and remediation costs), whether contingent or otherwise, arising out of or relating to (a) compliance or noncompliance with any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release 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.
•“Equity Interests” shall mean shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity interests in any person, or any obligations convertible into or exchangeable for, or giving any person a right, option or warrant to acquire such equity interests or such convertible or exchangeable obligations.
•“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended from time to time.
•“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with a Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code, or solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
•“ERISA Event” shall mean (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) the failure of any Plan to satisfy the Pension Funding Rules; (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) the
incurrence by a Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan or the withdrawal or partial withdrawal of a Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) the receipt by a Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to the intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the receipt by a Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from a Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA; or (g) the occurrence of a “prohibited transaction” with respect to which a Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries is a “disqualified person” (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code) or with respect to which a Borrower or any such Subsidiary could otherwise be liable.
“Erroneous Payment” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 8.13(a).
•“Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 8.13(d).
•“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” shall mean the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
•“Event of Default” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.
•“Excess Cash” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash on hand at the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries other than (a) any cash allocated for, reserved or otherwise set aside to pay vendor payments, payroll, payroll taxes, other taxes, and employee wage and benefit payment obligations of the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries then due and owing and for which the Parent Borrower or such Subsidiary has issued checks or has initiated wires or ACH transfers or will issue checks or initiate wires or ACH transfers within five Business Days in order to make such payments, (b) to the extent the payment of such amounts are not prohibited by this Agreement, other amounts in respect of which the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has issued checks or has initiated wires or ACH transfers to Persons that are not Affiliates of a Credit Party but that have not yet been subtracted from the balance in the relevant account of the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary, (c) any cash of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries constituting pledges and/or deposits securing any binding and enforceable purchase and sale agreement with any Persons who are not Affiliates of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in each case to the extent permitted by this Agreement and (d) cash of a Borrower or any Subsidiary to be used by a Borrower or any Subsidiary within five Business Days to pay the purchase price for any acquisition of any assets or property by such Loan Party pursuant to an executed and binding agreement between such Loan Party and a third-party seller that is not an Affiliate of such Borrower or Subsidiary, in each case to the extent permitted by this Agreement.
•“Exchange Rate” shall mean, on any day, (a) with respect to the Canadian Revolving Credit Facilities only, for purposes of determining the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of
Canadian dollars and the Canadian Dollar Equivalent, the rate of exchange for Canadian interbank transactions at which Canadian dollars may be exchanged into U.S. dollars or at which U.S. dollars may be exchanged into Canadian dollars, respectively, established by the Bank of Canada and quoted at approximately the end of business (Standard Time) for the day in question or, if such determination is required to made prior to such time, as quoted at approximately the end of business (Standard Time) on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of determination, (b) with respect to the Australian Revolving Credit Facility only, for purposes of determining the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of Australian dollars and the Australian Dollar Equivalent, the Australian Administrative Agent’s spot rate of exchange at which Australian dollars may be exchanged into U.S. dollars or at which U.S. dollars may be exchanged into Australian dollars, respectively, as at 12:00 p.m. (London time) on such day, and (c) (i) for purposes of determining the U.S. Dollar Equivalent, the rate at which Canadian dollars, Australian dollars or the applicable Alternative Currency may be exchanged into U.S. dollars, (ii) for purposes of determining the Canadian Dollar Equivalent, the rate at which U.S. dollars may be exchanged into Canadian dollars as set forth at approximately 12:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on such day on the applicable Bloomberg Currency Page and (iii) for purposes of determining the Australian Dollar Equivalent, the Australian Administrative Agent’s spot rate of exchange at which U.S. dollars may be exchanged into Australian dollars as at 12:00 p.m. (London time) on such day. In the event that the rate at which U.S. dollars may be exchanged into Canadian dollars does not appear on such Bloomberg Currency Page, such Exchange Rate shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Parent Borrower, or, in the absence of such agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of Canadian dollars or U.S. dollars, as applicable, are then being conducted, at or about 12:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on such day for the purchase of U.S. dollars or Canadian dollars or Alternative Currencies, as the case may be, for delivery two Business Days later; provided that if at the time of any such determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the Administrative Agent may use any method it deems commercially reasonable and appropriate to determine such rate, and such determination shall be presumed correct absent manifest error.
•“Excluded Collateral” shall mean (a) any lease, license, contract, property rights or agreement to which any Guarantor is a party or any of its rights or interests thereunder if and for so long as the grant of such security interest shall constitute or result in (i) the abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability of any right, title or interest of any Guarantor therein or (ii) a breach or termination pursuant to the terms of, or a default under, any such lease, license, contract property rights or agreement (other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Sections 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC (or any successor provision or provisions) of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable law (including any Insolvency Law) or principles of equity), provided that the Collateral shall include and such security interest shall attach immediately at such time as the condition causing such abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability shall be remedied and to the extent severable, shall attach immediately to any portion of such lease, license, contract, property rights or agreement that does not result in any of the consequences specified in (i) or (ii) above; (b)
those assets of a Guarantor with respect to which, in the sole discretion of (i) the U.S. Collateral Agent with respect to U.S. Collateral, (ii) the Canadian Collateral Agent with respect to Canadian Collateral or (iii) the Australian Collateral Agent with respect to Australian Collateral, the burdens, costs or consequences of obtaining a Lien on such assets are excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, adverse tax consequences to the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries); (c) with respect to any U.S. Collateral, any “intent to use” Trademark (as defined in the U.S. Security Agreement) applications prior to the filing and acceptance of a “Statement of Use” or “Amendment to Allege Use” with respect thereto, to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any, in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of such “intent-to-use” Trademark application under applicable federal law, (d) any Equipment that is covered by a certificate of title under a statute of any jurisdiction under the law of which an indication of a security interest on such certificate is required as a condition of perfection of a security interest in such Equipment, (e) “consumer goods” as that term is defined in the PPSA (Alberta) (f) any real property (including all buildings, fixtures or other improvements located thereon) now, hereafter or heretofore owned, leased, operated or used by a Borrower of any of the Subsidiaries or (g) any asset over which the granting of a security interest in such asset would be prohibited by contract (including Permitted Liens, leases and licenses), applicable law or regulation (in each case, except to the extent such prohibition is unenforceable after giving effect to applicable provisions of the UCC, other than proceeds thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC notwithstanding such prohibitions) or to the extent that such security interest would require obtaining the consent of any governmental or regulatory authority provided that the Collateral shall include and such security interest shall attach immediately at such time as such prohibition no longer exists or such consent is no longer required; provided, however, the foregoing clauses (a) - (g) shall not exclude from the Collateral or the security interest granted under the Security Documents any right to receive Proceeds from a disposition, conveyance, transfer, exchange, lease or similar transaction in respect of the foregoing or any other Proceeds, products, accessions, substitutions or replacements of the foregoing unless they independently are covered by such clauses (a) - (g). Capitalized terms used but not defined in this paragraph shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the UCC.
•“Excluded Subsidiary” shall mean each of (i) Ft. XxXxxxxx Lodge Services GP Ltd. and (ii) any Subsidiary having no material assets other than Equity Interests of a Special Purpose Business Entity.
•“Excluded Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Loan Party, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Loan Party of, or the grant by such Loan Party of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Loan Party’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guarantee of such Loan Party or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a
master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.
•“Excluded Taxes” shall mean any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof), or if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Recipient is treated as resident for tax purposes, or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, any withholding tax imposed by the jurisdiction of the Applicable Borrower with respect to such Lender on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by a Borrower under Section 2.20(a)) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.19, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.19(g) or 2.19(h), (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA; (e) in respect of any Australian Revolving Borrowing, Taxes that are a result of any representation or warranty given by the Lead Arranger or a Lender under Section 9.22 being untrue or that are a result of the Lead Arranger or a Lender breaching an undertaking contained in Section 9.22, (f) in respect of any Australian Revolving Borrowing, any Australian Withholding Taxes which arise in respect of interest paid or payable to a Lender that is an Offshore Associate of the Australian Borrower, or as a result of there being less than two Lenders under this Agreement, (g) in respect of any Australian Revolving Borrowing, Taxes which arise from the failure of (1) a Lender whose lending office is located in Australia, or (2) a party that is making or proposes to make, a supply under a Loan Document to a Borrower in the course or furtherance of an enterprise carried on in Australia by that party, to provide such Borrower with its Australian tax file number or Australian business number or exemption details such Borrower may reasonably require to establish that the relevant Tax is not payable, and (h) in respect of any Australian Revolving Borrowing, Taxes which arise in respect of any withholding or deduction on account of such Borrower receiving a direction under section 255 of the Australian Tax Act or section 260-5 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Commonwealth of Australia) or any similar law.
•“Facility” shall mean the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility, the Canadian Term Loan Facility, the Canadian Revolving Credit Facility or the Australian Revolving Credit Facility, in each case as the context may require.
•“Facility Letter” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of Bilateral Agreement.
•“FATCA” shall mean Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any intergovernmental agreements (or related legislation or official administrative rules or practices) implementing the foregoing.
•“FCPA” shall mean the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.
•“Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall mean, 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 rate (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) for such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.
•“Fee Letter” shall mean the letter agreement dated as of the Closing Date between the Parent Borrower and RBC.
•“Fees” shall mean, collectively, the Commitment Fees, the L/C Participation Fees, the Issuing Bank Fees and all fees set forth in the Fee Letter.
•“Financial Covenants” shall mean the financial covenants set forth in Sections 6.10 and 6.11.
•“Financial Officer” of any person shall mean the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of such person.
•“Floor” means a rate of interest equal to 0.00%.
•“Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.16(c).
•“Foreign Lender” shall mean, with respect to a Borrower, any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which such Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction, Canada and each province and territory thereof shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction and Australia and each state and territory thereof shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
•“Foreign Plan” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.16(c).
•“Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary that is not (a) a Domestic Subsidiary or (b) a U.S. Borrower.
• “Fronting Exposure” shall mean, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, with respect to an Issuing Bank, (a) such Defaulting Lender’s U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage or Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, as applicable (determined, for the avoidance of doubt, without giving effect to any adjustment provided for in Section 2.24(c) or 2.25(a)) of the outstanding U.S. L/C Exposure, Canadian L/C Exposure or Australian L/C Exposure, as applicable, less (b) any portion of the amount calculated under clause (a) above the risk participation with respect to which has been reallocated to other Applicable Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.
•“FSHCO” shall mean any Domestic Subsidiary that is a disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes substantially all of the assets of which consist of, directly or indirectly, Equity Interests in or Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries that are U.S. Owned Subsidiaries.
•“Fund” shall mean any person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
• “GAAP” shall mean United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis.
•“Governmental Authority” shall mean the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state, provincial or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
•“Granting Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(g).
•“GST Act” shall mean A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).
•“GST Law” shall have the meaning it has in the GST Act.
•“Guarantee” of or by any person shall mean (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such person 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 such person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment of such Indebtedness, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness of the payment of such Indebtedness or, (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, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien. The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning; provided, however, that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.
•“Guarantee Agreements” shall mean, collectively, the U.S. Guarantee Agreement, the Australian Guarantee Agreement and the Canadian Guarantee Agreement.
•“Guarantors” shall mean, collectively, the Borrowers and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
•“Hazardous Materials” shall mean (a) any petroleum products or byproducts and all other hydrocarbons, coal ash, radon gas, asbestos, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorofluorocarbons and all other ozone-depleting substances and (b) any chemical, material, substance or waste that is prohibited, limited or regulated by or pursuant to any Environmental Law.
•“Hedging Agreement” shall mean any interest rate protection agreement, foreign currency exchange agreement, commodity price protection agreement or other interest or currency exchange rate or commodity price hedging arrangement.
•“Illegality Notice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.14.
•“Increased Amount Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25.
•“Incremental Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25.
•“Incremental Revolving Commitment” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25.
•“Incremental Revolving Credit Increase” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25.
•“Indebtedness” of any person shall mean, 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 upon which interest charges are customarily paid (excluding trade accounts payable and accrued obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business), (d) all obligations of such person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property or assets purchased by such person, (e) all obligations of such person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or
services (excluding trade accounts payable and accrued obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business), (f) 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 obligations secured thereby have been assumed (provided that, for purposes hereof, the amount thereof shall be limited to the lesser of (i) the amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of such property), (g) all Guarantees by such person of Indebtedness of others, (h) all Capital Lease Obligations of such person, (i) all obligations of such person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and (j) all obligations of such person in respect of bankers’ acceptances. The Indebtedness of any person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership in which such person is a general partner, except to the extent that, by its terms, such Indebtedness is nonrecourse to such person.
•“Indemnified Liabilities” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.05(b).
•“Indemnified Taxes” shall mean (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of a Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.
•“Indemnitee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.05(b).
•“Insolvency Law” shall mean, to the extent applicable, (a) Title 11 of the United States Code, (b) the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), (c) the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), (d) Chapter 5 of the Australian Corporations Act; (e) any similar federal, provincial, state, local or foreign bankruptcy or insolvency law applicable to the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (f) any other law relating to insolvency, sequestration, administration, liquidation, winding up or bankruptcy (including any law relating to the avoidance of conveyances in fraud of creditors or of preferences and any law under which a liquidator or trustee may set aside or avoid transactions), in each case as now constituted or hereafter amended or enacted.
•“Interest Coverage Ratio” for any period shall mean the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for such period to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for the Parent Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such period. Solely for purposes of this definition, if, at any time the Interest Coverage Ratio is being determined, the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have completed a Permitted Acquisition or Asset Sale the consideration of which is greater than $25,000,000 since the beginning of the relevant four fiscal quarter period, the Interest Coverage Ratio shall be determined on a pro forma basis (using the criteria therefor described in Section 6.04(i)) as if such Permitted Acquisition or Asset Sale and any related incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, had occurred at the beginning of such period.
•“Interest Payment Date” shall mean (a) with respect to any ABR Loan, Canadian Prime Rate Loan, U.S. Base Rate Loan or Swing Line Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, and the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date on which the applicable Commitment shall expire or be terminated as provided herein, and (b) with respect to any SOFR Loan, Term XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan, the last day of the Interest
Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date on which the applicable Commitment shall expire or be terminated as provided herein, and in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, Term XXXXX Borrowing or BBSY Rate Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day that would have been an Interest Payment Date had successive Interest Periods of three months’ duration been applicable to such Borrowing.
•“Interest Period” shall mean, (i) with respect to any SOFR Loan or BBSY Rate Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day (or, if there is no numerically corresponding day, on the last day) in the calendar month that is 1, 3 or 6 months thereafter (or a shorter period, in each case if requested by the Applicable Borrower and consented to by all Applicable Lenders (including consent by verbal or electronic communication (e-mail)), provided that any Lender that has not responded to such request within three Business Days shall be deemed to have consented), as a Borrower may elect and (ii) with respect to each Term XXXXX Loan, the initial period (subject to availability) of one (1) month, three (3) months or such other period as the Canadian Administrative Agent and the Canadian Lenders permit commencing on and including the date specified in the Borrowing Request or Conversion/Continuation Notice is made, as the case may be, applicable to such Term XXXXX Loan and ending on the last day of such initial period, and thereafter, each successive period (subject to availability) of approximately one (1) month or three (3) months or such other permitted period as selected by the Applicable Borrower and notified to the Canadian Administrative Agent in writing commencing on and including the last day of the prior Interest Period; provided, however, that 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. Interest shall accrue from and including the first day of an Interest Period to but excluding the last day of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing. No Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date and no tenor that has been removed from this definition pursuant to Section 2.26 shall be available for specification in a Borrowing Request or interest election.
•“Interpolated Term SOFR” means, for purposes of any calculation of Term SOFR for a SOFR Loan, the rate which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:
•(a) (i) for any Interest Period for a duration longer than one-month (other than three-months, sixth-months or twelve-months), the most recent applicable Term SOFR (determined pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof) for the longest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan and (ii) for any Interest Period of for a duration of less than one-month, SOFR as of such date of determination; and
•(b) the most recent applicable Term SOFR (determined pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof) for the shortest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which is greater than the Interest Period of that Loan.
•“Investment” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.04.
•“IRS” shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Service.
•“Issuing Bank” shall mean, as the context may require, (a) RBC, with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it, (b) RBC Europe, with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it, (c) The Toronto Dominion Bank, with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it, (d) with respect to each Rolled Letter of Credit, the Lender that issued such Rolled Letter of Credit and (e) any other Lender that may become an Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.21(j) or (l) with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Lender, or (f) collectively, all the foregoing. Any 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.
•“Issuing Bank Fees” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).
•“ITA” shall mean the Income Tax Act (Canada), as amended, and any successor thereto, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
•“Judgment Currency” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17.
•“Judgment Currency Conversion Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17.
•“L/C Cash Collateral Account” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(k).
•“L/C Commitment” shall mean the commitment of each Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.21.
•“L/C Disbursement” shall mean a payment or disbursement made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
•“L/C Exposure” shall mean Australian L/C Exposure, Canadian L/C Exposure or U.S. L/C Exposure, as applicable.
•“L/C Issuance Limit” shall mean, with respect to each Applicable Issuing Bank, the amount set forth on Schedule 2.21 opposite such Applicable Issuing Bank’s name, or in the case of any Lender that becomes an Applicable Issuing Bank after the Closing Date the amount set forth in the agreement executed by such Xxxxxx as contemplated by Section 2.21(l).
•“L/C Participation Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).
•“Lead Arranger” shall, collectively, mean RBC Capital Markets, HSBC Bank Canada and Bank of Montreal.
•“Lender Joinder Agreement” shall mean a joinder agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Applicable Administrative Agent delivered in connection with Section 2.25.
•“Lenders” shall mean (a) the persons listed on Schedule 2.01 (other than any such person that has ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance or pursuant to Section 2.24), (b) any person that has become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance or a Lender Joinder Agreement and (c) the Swing Line Lenders.
•“Letter of Credit” shall mean any standby or commercial letter of credit issued (or, in the case of a Rolled Letter of Credit, deemed issued) pursuant to Section 2.21. A Letter of Credit shall be a “U.S. Letter of Credit” if issued under the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility, a “Canadian Letter of Credit” if issued under the Canadian Revolving Credit Facility and an “Australian Letter of Credit” issued under the Australian Revolving Credit Facility; provided that no commercial letter of credit shall be issued under the Australian Revolving Credit Facility.
•“Letter of Credit Application” shall mean an application and agreement for the issuance, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by an Issuing Bank.
•“Letter of Credit Documents” shall mean, with respect to any Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit, the related Letter of Credit Application and any agreements, documents, and instruments entered into in connection with or relating to such Letter of Credit.
•“Lien” shall mean, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, encumbrance, charge, hypothec 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 any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) any security interest (as that term is defined in either the PPSA (Alberta) or the PPSA (Australia)) but excluding any transfer of an “account” or “chattel paper”, any “commercial consignment” or any “PPS lease” which, in any case, does not secure the payment of money or performance of obligations. The words in quotes have the same meaning in this definition as the PPSA (Australia).
•“Loan Documents” shall mean, collectively, this Agreement, any Notes, if any, issued pursuant to Section 2.04(h), any Discount Notes, if any, issued pursuant to Section 2.22(h), the Guarantee Agreements, the Security Documents, the Letter of Credit Documents, the Fee Letter, a Customary Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, if any, and each other certificate, agreement, instrument or other document executed and delivered, in each case, by or on behalf of any Loan Party pursuant to the foregoing; provided, however, that for purposes of Section 9.08,
“Loan Documents” shall mean this Agreement, the Guarantee Agreements, the Security Documents and a Customary Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, if any.
•“Loan Parties” shall mean the Borrowers and the Guarantors.
•“Loans” shall mean, collectively, the U.S. Loans, the Canadian Revolving Credit Loans, the Canadian Term Loans, the Australian Revolving Credit Loans and the Swing Line Loans.
•“Margin Stock” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U.
•“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean (a) a materially adverse effect on the business, assets, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) material impairment of the ability of any Borrower or any other Loan Party to perform any of its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is or will be a party or (c) material impairment of the rights of or benefits available to the Lenders and the Agents under any Loan Document.
•“Material Indebtedness” shall mean Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Hedging Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrowers and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding U.S.$25,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of a Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Hedging Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that such Borrower or Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Hedging Agreement were terminated at such time.
•“Material Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) of the Parent Borrower that, as of the most recent date for which financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 5.04(a) or (b) are available, has either (a) net tangible assets (excluding assets that are eliminated in the calculation of consolidated net tangible assets of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries) that constitute more than 5% of the consolidated net tangible assets of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries or (b) EBITDA greater than 5% of the total EBITDA of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries on consolidated basis; provided that if (i) the combined net tangible assets of the Subsidiaries that are not considered to be Material Subsidiaries (referred to herein as the “Immaterial Subsidiaries”) exceeds 15% of consolidated net tangible assets of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries, or (ii) the combined EBITDA of the Immaterial Subsidiaries exceeds 15% of the total EBITDA of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries on consolidated basis, then one or more of such Immaterial Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be Material Subsidiaries in descending order based on the respective percentage of consolidated net tangible assets or percentage of the total EBITDA of the Parent Borrower and its subsidiaries on consolidated basis until such excess shall have been eliminated. Each Material Subsidiary listed on Schedules 1.01(b), 1.01(c) and 1.01(d) is a Guarantor as of the Closing Date.
•“Maturity Date” shall mean September 8, 2025.
•“Maximum Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.09.
•“Moody’s” shall mean Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto which is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.
•“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
• “Net Cash Proceeds” shall mean, as applicable, (a) with respect to any Asset Sale, the cash (which term, for purposes of this definition, shall include any Permitted Investments, deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received) proceeds received by the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries therefrom, less the sum of (i) all income taxes and other taxes payable (or reasonably estimated to be payable) to a Governmental Authority as a result of such transaction, (ii) all reasonable and customary out-of-pocket fees (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and advisory fees, and sales commissions) and expenses incurred in connection with such transaction or event, (iii) the principal amount of, premium or penalty, if any, and interest on any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the asset (or a portion thereof) disposed of, which Indebtedness is required to be repaid in connection with such transaction or event (other than pursuant to Section 2.12), (iv) any amounts paid in respect of Hedging Agreement terminated as a result of the payment of Indebtedness under clause (iii), (v) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures or to holders of royalty or similar interests as a result of such Asset Sale and (vi) the amount of any reserves established by the Parent Borrower or any of its subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP or other applicable accounting principles, to fund purchase price adjustments, indemnification and similar contingent liabilities reasonably estimated to be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to the occurrence of such event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer); provided that to the extent any such Net Cash Proceeds received by any Foreign Subsidiary may not be distributed as a cash dividend or a similar cash distribution to a Loan Party without the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries incurring adverse tax consequences, as reasonably determined by the Parent Borrower, such proceeds shall, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of the receipt thereof, not constitute “Net Cash Proceeds” and (b) with respect to any issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness, the cash proceeds thereof, net of all customary fees, commissions, costs and other expenses incurred in connection therewith and, in respect of any Indebtedness that is incurred to refinance or replace any existing Indebtedness, the amount thereof that is used to effect such refinancing or replacement.
•“Non-Consenting Lender” shall mean any Lender that does not approve any proposed consent, waiver, amendment, modification or termination with respect to any provision hereof or any other Loan Document that (i) requires the approval of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 9.08 and (ii) has been approved by the Applicable Required Lenders.
•“Non-Defaulting Lender” shall mean, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
• “Note” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.04(h).
•“Obligations” shall mean (a) the due and punctual payment by each of the Loan Parties of (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, 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 Loan Parties under this Agreement or any other Loan Document in respect of any Letter of Credit, when and as due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of disbursements, interest thereon and obligations to provide cash collateral and (iii) 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 bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Loan Parties to the Secured Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (b) the due and punctual performance of all covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of the Loan Parties under or pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (c) the due and punctual payment and performance of all obligations of the Loan Parties, monetary or otherwise, under each Hedging Agreement entered into with a counterparty that was a Lender (or an affiliate of a Lender) at the time such Hedging Agreement was entered into, (d) the due and punctual performance of all Banking Services Obligations provided to the Borrowers or any Subsidiary by any Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender and (e) the due and punctual payment and performance of all Bilateral Obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, “Obligations” shall not include the Excluded Swap Obligations.
•“OFAC” shall mean the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
•“Offshore Associate” shall mean an Associate:
(a) which is a non-resident of Australia and does not become a Lender or receive a payment in carrying on a business in Australia at or through a permanent establishment of the Associate in Australia; or
(b) which is a resident of Australia and which becomes a Lender or receives a payment in carrying on a business in a country outside Australia at or through a permanent establishment of the Associate in that country,
and, in either case, which does not become a Lender and receive payment in the capacity of a clearing house, custodian, funds manager or responsible entity of a registered scheme (with each such term having the meaning given for the purposes of section 128F of the Australian Tax Act).
•“Original Indebtedness” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.
•“Other Connection Taxes” shall mean, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
•“Other Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.20).
“Outstanding BAs Collateral” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.22(k).
•“Parent Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
• “Participant” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(d).
•“Participant Register” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(d).
•“Patriot Act” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.21.
“Payment Notice” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 8.13(a).
•“Payment Recipient” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 8.13(a).
•“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA.
• “Pension Funding Rules” shall mean the rules of the Code and ERISA regarding minimum required contributions (including any installment payment thereof) to Plans and set forth in Section 412, 430, 431, 432 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302, 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.
•“Periodic Term XXXXX Determination Day” shall have the meaning assigned to it under the definition of “Term XXXXX”.
•“Permitted Acquisition” shall mean any acquisition meeting all the criteria of either Section 6.04(i) or Section 6.04(m).
•“Permitted Investments” shall mean:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or any other country that is a signatory to the Convention on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (or by any agency, state, province or territory thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of such country or applicable state, province or territory), in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof;
(b) investments in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit rating obtainable from S&P, Moody’s, Canadian Bond Rating Service or Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited;
(c) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time deposits maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market and other deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any Lender or any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom or Australia or any state, province of territory thereof, that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than U.S.$500,000,000 (or, in the case of any bank that is a Lender, U.S.$200,000,000);
(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria of clause (c) above; and
(e) other short-term investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries in accordance with normal investment practices for cash management in investments of a type analogous to the foregoing.
•“Permitted Liens” shall mean Liens permitted by Section 6.02.
•“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” shall mean with respect to any Indebtedness of any Person (the “Original Indebtedness”), any modification, refinancing, refunding, replacement, renewal or extension of such Original Indebtedness, in whole or in part; provided, that (i) no Person that is not an obligor or guarantor with respect to the Original Indebtedness shall be an obligor or guarantor with respect to such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, (ii) the final maturity and Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be no shorter than the Original Indebtedness as a result of such modification, refinancing, refunding, replacement, renewal or extension, (iii) the mandatory prepayment and redemption terms, covenants and events of default of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are either (x) not materially more favorable (taken as a whole, as conclusively determined by the Borrower in good faith) to the lenders providing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness than those terms (taken as a whole) applicable to the Original Indebtedness (except to the extent such terms apply solely to any period after the Maturity Date or applied for the benefit of the Loans then outstanding) or (y) reflect market terms and conditions at the time of incurrence or issuance, as conclusively determined by the Borrower in good faith, (iv) (x) in the case of any Original Indebtedness consisting of a revolving credit
facility, the principal amount does not exceed the committed amount in respect of the Original Indebtedness or (y) in each other case, the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Original Indebtedness, except in each case by an amount (such amount, the “Additional Permitted Amount”) equal to unpaid accrued interest, fees, and premium (including make-whole premiums, prepayment premiums and amounts required to be paid in connection with defeasance and satisfaction and discharge) thereon at such time plus reasonable fees and expenses incurred in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, replacement, renewal or extension (including upfront fees and original issue discount), (v) for the avoidance of doubt, the Original Indebtedness is paid down (or, with respect to revolving credit facilities, commitments in respect thereof are reduced (together with, if applicable, payments of principal)) on a dollar-for-dollar basis by such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness (other than by the Additional Permitted Amount), (vi) if the Original Indebtedness shall have been subordinated to the Obligations, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall also be subordinated to the Obligations on terms not less favorable in any material respect (taken as a whole) to the Lenders, (vii) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset other than the assets that secured such Original Indebtedness (or would have been required to secure such Original Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof) or, in the event Liens securing such Original Indebtedness shall have been contractually subordinated to any Lien securing the Obligations, by any Lien that shall not have been contractually subordinated to at least the same extent, (viii) at the time thereof, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ix) if the Original Indebtedness is subject to a Customary Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities, shall become a party to such Customary Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or other Customary Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
•“person” shall mean any natural person, corporation, business trust, joint venture, association, company, limited liability company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
•“Plan” shall mean 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, and in respect of which a U.S. 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.
•“Plan Asset Regulations” shall mean 29 CFR § 2510.3-101 et seq., as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA, as amended from time to time.
•“Platform” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.04.
•“Pledge Agreements” shall mean, collectively, the U.S. Pledge Agreement and the Canadian Pledge Agreement.
•“Potential Defaulting Lender” shall mean, at any time, a Lender that has, or whose parent company has, a non-investment grade rating from Moody’s or S&P or another nationally recognized rating agency. Any determination that a Lender is a Potential Defaulting Lender will be made by an Administrative Agent in its sole discretion acting in good faith.
•“PPS Law” shall mean (a) the PPSA (Australia) and any regulation made at any time under the PPSA (Australia), including the PPS Regulations (each as amended from time to time) and (b) any amendment made at any time to any other legislation as a consequence of a law or regulation referred to in paragraph (a).
•“PPS Register” shall mean the Personal Property Securities Register established pursuant to the PPSA (Australia).
•“PPS Regulations” shall mean the Personal Property Securities Regulations 2010 (Cth).
•“PPSA (Alberta)” shall mean the Personal Property Security Act, RSA 2000, c. P-7 (Alberta).
•“PPSA (Australia)” shall mean the Australian Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth).
•“Prime Rate” shall mean, at any time, the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Person acting as the Administrative Agent as its prime rate in effect at its principal office. The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. The Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank or Lender may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate. Any change in the Prime Rate shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.
•“Proceeding” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.05(b).
•“PTE” shall mean a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
•“Public Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.04.
•“QFC” shall have the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).
•“QFC Credit Support” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.25.
•“Qualified ECP Guarantor” shall mean, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Loan Party that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Guarantee or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other person as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify
as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
•“Qualified Offering” shall mean Indebtedness issued by the Parent Borrower and guarantees thereof by any other Loan Party; provided that, as of the date of issuance, (i) such Indebtedness (a) is unsecured or (b) is secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is junior in priority to the Lien securing the Obligations hereunder and is subject to a Customary Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and is not secured by any property or assets other than the Collateral, (ii) the Parent Borrower would be in compliance with the Financial Covenants as of the most recently completed period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to such transaction for which the financial statements required by Section 5.04(a) or 5.04(b) have been delivered or for which comparable financial statements have been filed with the SEC, after giving pro forma effect (using the criteria therefor described in Section 6.04(i)) to any incurrence or contemporaneous discharge of Indebtedness and all related transactions, as if such incurrence, discharge or other transaction had occurred as of the first day of such period, (iii) such Indebtedness matures no earlier than 180 days after the Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (iv) such Indebtedness does not require any scheduled amortization, mandatory prepayments, redemptions, sinking fund payments or purchase offers prior to the final maturity date thereof (other than pursuant to customary asset sale and change of control offers) provided that so long as (A) no Canadian Term Loans are outstanding and (B) after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness (and any Borrowings on the date such Indebtedness is incurred), there must be at least U.S.$40,000,000 of the Revolving Commitments unused and available, of which at least U.S.$30,000,000 must be comprised of Canadian Revolving Commitments and U.S. Revolving Commitments unused and available, in the aggregate, such Qualified Offering may require (1) scheduled amortization not to exceed 1% of the principal amount of such Indebtedness annually and (2) excess cash flow mandatory prepayments, (v) such Indebtedness is not guaranteed by any person other than the Guarantors, (vi) the terms and conditions (other than pricing, rate floors, discounts, fees, premiums and optional prepayment or redemption provisions) of such Indebtedness are in the good faith determination of the Parent Borrower, not materially less favorable (when taken as a whole) to the Parent Borrower than the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents (when taken as a whole), and (vii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of incurrence or would result therefrom.
•“RBC” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“RBC Europe” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“Recipient” shall mean (a) any Agent, (b) any Lender (c) any Issuing Bank, and (d) any Swing Line Lender, as applicable.
•“Recipient Party” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(j).
•“Reference Banks” shall mean Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ACN 005 357 522), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ACN 123 123 124), Westpac
Banking Corporation (ACN 007 457 141) and National Australia Bank Limited (ACN 004 044 937), or such other banks as may be selected by the Australian Administrative Agent in consultation with the Australian Borrower.
•“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.
•“Register” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(c).
•“Regulation T” shall mean Regulation T of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
•“Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
•“Regulation X” shall mean Regulation X of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
•“Related Parties” shall mean, with respect to any specified person, such person’s Affiliates and the respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such person and such person’s Affiliates.
•“Release” shall mean any release, spill, emission, leaking, dumping, injection, pouring, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, leaching or migration into or through the environment or within or upon any building, structure, facility or fixture.
•“Required Australian Lenders” shall mean, at any time, Australian Lenders having Australian Revolving Credit Loans, a share of the Australian L/C Exposure and unused Australian Revolving Commitments representing at least a majority of the sum of all Australian Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, the Australian L/C Exposure and unused Australian Revolving Commitments at such time; provided that the Australian Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, share of Australian L/C Exposure and unused Australian Revolving Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Australian Lenders at any time. For purposes of determining the Required Australian Lenders at any time, the amount of any Australian Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Australian dollars and the Australian L/C Exposure shall be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof at such time, as determined by the Administrative Agent using the then-applicable Exchange Rate.
•“Required Canadian Lenders” shall mean, at any time, Canadian Lenders having Canadian Loans, a share of the Canadian L/C Exposure and unused Canadian Revolving Commitments representing at least a majority of the sum of all Canadian Loans outstanding, the Canadian L/C Exposure and unused Canadian Revolving Commitments at such time; provided that the Canadian Loans outstanding, the share of Canadian L/C Exposure and unused Canadian
Revolving Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Canadian Lenders at any time.
•“Required Canadian Term Lenders” shall mean, at any time, Canadian Term Lenders having Canadian Term Loans representing at least a majority of the sum of all Canadian Term Loans outstanding at such time; provided that the Canadian Term Loans outstanding of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Canadian Term Lenders at any time.
•“Required Canadian Revolving Lenders” shall mean, at any time, Canadian Revolving Lenders having Canadian Revolving Credit Loans, a share of the Canadian L/C Exposure and unused Canadian Revolving Commitments representing at least a majority of the sum of all Canadian Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, the Canadian L/C Exposure and unused Canadian Revolving Commitments at such time; provided that the Canadian Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, share of Canadian L/C Exposure and unused Canadian Revolving Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Canadian Revolving Lenders at any time. For purposes of determining the Required Canadian Revolving Lenders at any time, the amount of any Canadian Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Canadian dollars and the Canadian L/C Exposure shall be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof at such time, as determined by the Administrative Agent using the then-applicable Exchange Rate.
• “Required Lenders” shall mean, at any time, Lenders having Loans, a share of the Aggregate L/C Exposure and unused Revolving Commitments representing at least a majority of the sum of all Loans outstanding, the Aggregate L/C Exposure and unused Revolving Commitments at such time; provided that the Loans outstanding, share of Aggregate L/C Exposure and unused Revolving Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time. For purposes of determining the Required Lenders at any time, (i) the amount of any Canadian Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Canadian dollars and Canadian L/C Exposure shall be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof at such time, as determined by the Administrative Agent using the then-applicable Exchange Rate and (ii) the amount of any Australian Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Australian dollars and Australian L/C Exposure shall be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof at such time, as determined by the Administrative Agent using the then-applicable Exchange Rate.
•“Required Revolving Lenders” shall mean the Required Australian Lenders, the Required Canadian Revolving Lenders or the Required U.S. Lenders, as applicable.
• “Required U.S. Lenders” shall mean, at any time, U.S. Revolving Lenders having U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, a share of the U.S. L/C Exposure and unused U.S. Revolving Commitments representing at least a majority of the sum of all U.S. Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, the U.S. L/C Exposure and unused U.S. Revolving Commitments at such time; provided that the U.S. Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, share of U.S. L/C Exposure and unused U.S. Revolving Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required U.S. Lenders at any time.
•“Resolution Authority” shall mean, with respect to an EEA Financial Institution, an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
•“Responsible Officer” of any person shall mean any executive officer or Financial Officer of such person and any other officer or similar official thereof responsible for the administration of the obligations of such person in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
•“Restricted Indebtedness” shall mean Subordinated Indebtedness of the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary, the payment, prepayment, repurchase or defeasance of which is restricted under Section 6.09(b).
•“Restricted Payment” shall mean any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Equity Interests in the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests in the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary.
•“Revolving Commitments” shall mean the Canadian Revolving Commitments, the U.S. Revolving Commitments and the Australian Revolving Commitments.
•“Revolving Credit Loans” shall mean U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, Canadian Revolving Credit Loans or Australian Revolving Credit Loans, as the context may require.
•“Revolving Lenders” shall mean U.S. Revolving Lenders, Canadian Revolving Lenders or Australian Lenders, as the context may require.
•“Rolled Letter of Credit” shall mean each Letter of Credit previously issued for the account of a Borrower that (a) is outstanding on the Closing Date and (b) is listed on Schedule 1.01(a).
•“Sanctions Laws and Regulations” shall mean (a) any economic, trade or financial sanctions, prohibitions or requirements imposed, administered or enforced by any executive order of the President of the United States (an “Executive Order”) or by any economic sanctions program administered by OFAC or the U.S. Department of State; and (b) any sanctions measures or programs administered, enforced or imposed by the United Nations Security Council, European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore or Australia.
•“SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission, and any successor entity.
•“Secured Parties” shall mean (a) the Lenders, (b) the Administrative Agents, (c) the Collateral Agents, (d) the Issuing Banks, (e) each counterparty to a Hedging Agreement
entered into with a Loan Party if such counterparty was a Lender (or an Affiliate of a Lender) at the time the Hedging Agreement was entered into, (f) any Lender (or any Affiliate of a Lender) providing Banking Services to any Loan Party, (g) the Bilateral Lender, (h) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Grantor under any Loan Document and (i) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.
•“Security Agreements” shall mean, collectively, the U.S. Security Agreement, the Canadian Security Agreement and the Australian Security Deed.
•“Security Documents” shall mean the Security Agreements, the Pledge Agreements, and each of the security agreements, and other instruments and documents executed and delivered pursuant to any of the foregoing or pursuant to Section 5.09.
•“Senior Secured Net Debt” at any time shall mean (a) the Indebtedness of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries (excluding Indebtedness of the type described in clause (i) of the definition of such term, except to the extent of any unreimbursed drawings thereunder) that is secured by a first priority Lien on any property or assets of the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary, minus (b) the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such time, provided, that if there are (1) any Loans then outstanding or (2) any drawn and unreimbursed Letters of Credit with a face amount of not less than U.S.$1,000,000 individually, and U.S.$3,000,000 in the aggregate for all such Letters of Credit, that have not been reimbursed in accordance with Section 2.21(e), the amount of this clause (b) shall not exceed $30,000,000.
•“Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio” shall mean, on any date, the ratio of Senior Secured Net Debt on such date to Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended on or prior to such date for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.04(a) or (b) or for which comparable financial statements have been filed with the SEC. Solely for purposes of this definition, if, at any time the Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio is being determined, the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have completed a Permitted Acquisition or Asset Sale the consideration of which is greater than U.S.$25,000,000 since the beginning of the relevant four fiscal quarter period, the Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio shall be determined on a pro forma basis (using the criteria therefor described in Section 6.04(i)) as if such Permitted Acquisition or Asset Sale, and any related incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, had occurred at the beginning of such period.
•“SOFR” means a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.
•“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
•“SOFR Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on Adjusted Term SOFR, other than pursuant to (a) clause (iii) of the definition of “Alternate Base Rate” or (b) clause (iii) of the definition of “U.S. Base Rate”.
•“Solvent” shall mean, with respect to any person, (a) the fair value of the assets of such person exceeds its debts and liabilities, contingent or otherwise; (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of such person are greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability associated with its debts and other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured; (c) such person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured; and (d) such person does not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct its business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted following the Closing Date.
•“S&P” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., or any successor thereof which is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.
•“SPC” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(g).
•“Special Purpose Business Entity” shall mean each entity listed on Schedule 3.08 as being a Special Purpose Business Entity and any other entity formed by the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or in which the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries acquires an Equity Interest, in each case so long as (i) such entity is, or proposes to engage in, a joint venture with persons that are, or are owned or controlled by, aboriginal peoples in Alaska, Australia or Canada, (ii) any loans or advances to, or investments in such Special Purpose Business Entity is permitted by Section 6.04, and (iii) the Parent Borrower delivers a certificate of a Responsible Officer to the Administrative Agents designating such Special Purpose Business Entity as such and certifying compliance with the foregoing requirements of this definition.
•“Specified Dispositions” shall mean those sales or other dispositions identified in writing to the Administrative Agent by the Parent Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date.
•“Standard Time” shall mean eastern standard time or eastern daylight savings time, as applicable on the relevant date.
•“Subordinated Indebtedness” shall mean (a) Indebtedness incurred under Section 6.01(e) and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof and (b) Indebtedness of a Loan Party that is subordinated to the prior payment in full of the Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
•“subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any person (herein referred to as the “parent”), any corporation, partnership, association or other business entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power are, at the time any determination is being made, owned, controlled or held by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.
•“Subsidiary” shall mean any subsidiary of a Borrower, other than a Special Purpose Business Entity.
•“Subsidiary Guarantors” shall mean, collectively, the U.S. Subsidiary Guarantors, the Canadian Subsidiary Guarantors, and the Australian Subsidiary Guarantors.
•“Supplier” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(j).
•“Supported QFC” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.25.
•“Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Loan Party, 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.
•“Swing Line Borrowing” shall mean a U.S. Swing Line Borrowing or a Canadian Swing Line Borrowing, as the context may require.
•“Swing Line Lender” shall mean the U.S. Swing Line Lender or the Canadian Swing Line Lender, as the context may require.
•“Swing Line Loan” shall mean a U.S. Swing Line Loan or a Canadian Swing Line Loan, as the context may require.
•“Swing Line Payment Date” shall mean (a) if an AutoBorrow Agreement is in effect, the earliest to occur of (i) the date required by such AutoBorrow Agreement, (ii) demand is made by the Applicable Swing Line Lender and (iii) the Maturity Date, or (b) if an AutoBorrow Agreement is not in effect, the earlier to occur of (i) five (5) Business Days after the date of the applicable Swing Line Borrowing if no Default or Event of Default exists, and otherwise upon demand by the Applicable Swing Line Lender and (ii) the Maturity Date.
•“Swing Line Sublimit” shall mean the U.S. Swing Line Sublimit or the Canadian Swing Line Sublimit, as the context may require.
•“Synthetic Purchase Agreement” shall mean any swap, derivative or other agreement or combination of agreements pursuant to which the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary is or may become obligated to make (a) any payment in connection with a purchase by any third party from a person other than the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary of any Equity Interest or Restricted Indebtedness or (b) any payment (other than on account of a permitted purchase by it of any Equity Interest or Restricted Indebtedness) the amount of which is determined by reference to the price or value at any time of any Equity Interest or Restricted Indebtedness; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only to current or former directors, officers or employees of the Parent Borrower or the Subsidiaries (or to their heirs or estates) shall be deemed to be a Synthetic Purchase Agreement.
•“Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, assessments, charges, liabilities or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
•“Term XXXXX” means, for any calculation with respect to a Term XXXXX Loan, the Term XXXXX Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the
day (such day, the “Periodic Term XXXXX Determination Day”) that is two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term XXXXX Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 1:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on any Periodic Term XXXXX Determination Day the Term XXXXX Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term XXXXX Administrator and a Canadian Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term XXXXX Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term XXXXX will be the Term XXXXX Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term XXXXX Administrator on the first preceding Business Day for which such Term XXXXX Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term XXXXX Administrator so long as such first preceding Business Day is not more than three (3) Business Days prior to such Periodic Term XXXXX Determination Day; provided, however, if the Term XXXXX Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term XXXXX Administrator more than three (3) Business Days prior to such Periodic Term XXXXX Determination Day, then Xxxx XXXXX will be the interest rate (expressed as a rate per annum on the basis of a year of 365 days) for a comparable tenor quoted by the Canadian Administrative Agent as of such Periodic Term XXXXX Determination Day.
•“Term XXXXX Adjustment” means, with respect to Term XXXXX, for an Interest Period of a duration of (a) one-month, a percentage equal to 0.29547% per annum (29.547 basis points), and (b) three-months, a percentage equal to 0.32138% per annum (32.138 basis points).
•“Term XXXXX Administrator” means CanDeal Benchmark Administration Services Inc., TSX Inc., or any successor administrator.
•“Term XXXXX Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Term XXXXX Loans.
•“Term XXXXX Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on Adjusted Term XXXXX other than pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition of “Canadian Prime Rate”.
•“Term XXXXX Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on XXXXX.
•“Term SOFR” means (a) for any Interest Period for a duration of one-month, three-months, or six-months (in each case, subject to the availability thereof) for a SOFR Loan, the greater of (i) the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the day (the “Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator and (ii) the Floor; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Term SOFR
Determination Day; or (b) for an Interest Period of any duration other than those specified in clause (a) of this definition of “Term SOFR”, for a SOFR Loan, Interpolated Term SOFR.
•“Term SOFR Adjustment” means, with respect to Term SOFR, 0.10% (10 basis points).
•“Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Agent in its reasonable discretion).
•“Term SOFR Determination Day” has the meaning assigned to it under the definition of Term SOFR.
•“Term SOFR Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.
•“Term SOFR Transition Event” means the determination by the Administrative Agent that (a) Term SOFR has been recommended for use by the Relevant Governmental Body, and is determinable for each Available Tenor and (b) the administration of Term SOFR is administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent.
•“Total Australian Revolving Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Australian Revolving Commitments, as in effect at such time.
•“Total Canadian Revolving Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Canadian Revolving Commitments, as in effect at such time.
•“Total Net Debt” at any time shall mean (a) the Indebtedness of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such time (excluding Indebtedness of the type described in clause (i) of the definition of such term, except to the extent of any unreimbursed drawings thereunder), minus (b) the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such time, provided, that if there are (1) any Loans then outstanding or (2) any drawn and unreimbursed Letters of Credit with a face amount of not less than U.S.$1,000,000 individually, and U.S.$3,000,000 in the aggregate for all such Letters of Credit, that have not been reimbursed in accordance with Section 2.21(e), the amount of this clause (b) shall not exceed $30,000,000.
•“Total Net Leverage Ratio” shall mean, on any date, the ratio of Total Net Debt on such date to Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended on or prior to such date for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.04(a) or (b) or for which comparable financial statements have been filed with the SEC. Solely for purposes of this definition, if, at any time the Total Net Leverage Ratio is being determined, the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have completed a Permitted Acquisition or Asset Sale the consideration of which is greater than U.S.$25,000,000 since the beginning of the relevant four fiscal quarter period, the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be determined on a pro forma basis (using the criteria therefor described in Section 6.04(i)) as if
such Permitted Acquisition or Asset Sale, and any related incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, had occurred at the beginning of such period.
•“Total U.S. Revolving Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the aggregate amount of the U.S. Revolving Commitments, as in effect at such time.
•“Transactions” shall mean, collectively, (a) the entering by the Loan Parties into Loan Documents to which they are to be a party and (b) the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the consummation of the foregoing.
•“Type”, when used in respect of any Loan or Borrowing, shall refer to the Rate by reference to which interest on such Loan or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing is determined. For purposes hereof, the term “Rate” shall include Adjusted Term SOFR, the Alternate Base Rate, the Canadian Prime Rate, the U.S. Base Rate, the BBSY Rate and the B/A Discount Rate, Adjusted Term XXXXX and any Benchmark that may become applicable to Bankers’ Acceptances and B/A Equivalent Loansfrom time to time.
•“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may, from time to time, be in effect in the State of New York; provided, however, in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the attachment, perfection or priority of the security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such attachment, perfection or priority and for purposes of definitions related to such provisions.
•“UKBA” shall mean the U.K. Bribery Act 2010.
•“UK Financial Institution” shall mean any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain Affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
•“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
•“Unrestricted Cash” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the aggregate amount of all cash and Permitted Investments on the consolidated balance sheet of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are not “restricted” for purposes of GAAP; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash shall not (i) include any cash or Permitted Investments that are subject to a Lien (other than any Lien in favor of any Collateral Agent and Permitted Liens (excluding those Permitted Liens arising under Sections 6.02(e), 6.02(f) and 6.02(i)) or (ii) include any cash or Permitted Investments that are restricted by contract, law or
material adverse tax consequences from being applied to repay any Obligations as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
•“U.S. Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (i) the rate of interest per annum which is determined by the Canadian Administrative Agent from time to time as the reference rate of interest for loans in U.S. Dollars to its Canadian borrowers; (ii) the rate of interest per annum equal to the sum of the Federal Funds Effective Rate on such day plus ½ of 1.00%; and (iii) Adjusted Term SOFR for a one-month tenor in effect for such day plus 1.00%, adjusted automatically with each change in such rates all without the necessity of any notice to the Borrower or any other Person; provided that if such rates are equal or if such Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR is unavailable for any reason on any date of determination, then the “U.S. Base Rate” shall be the rate specified in paragraph (i) above; provided further that to the extent such highest rate as calculated above shall, at any time, be less than the Floor, such rate shall be deemed to be the Floor for all purposes herein.
•“U.S. Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“U.S. Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” as defined in any U.S. Security Document.
•“U.S. Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
•“U.S. Commitment Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(a)(i).
•“U.S. Dollar Equivalent” shall mean, on any date of determination, with respect to any amount in Canadian dollars, Australian dollars or an Alternative Currency, the equivalent in U.S. dollars of such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent using the Exchange Rate then in effect.
•“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (i) a Saturday, (ii) a Sunday or (iii) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.
•“U.S. Guarantee Agreement” shall mean the U.S. Guarantee Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-3, among the U.S. Borrower, the U.S. Subsidiary Guarantors and the U.S. Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“U.S. L/C Exposure” shall mean at any time the sum of (a) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding U.S. Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all L/C Disbursements in respect of U.S. Letters of Credit that have not yet been reimbursed at such
time. The U.S. L/C Exposure of any U.S. Revolving Lender at any time shall mean its U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate U.S. L/C Exposure at such time.
•“U.S. L/C Participation Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).
•“U.S. Lenders” shall mean the Lenders having U.S. Revolving Commitments or outstanding U.S. Loans.
•“U.S. Loan” shall mean a U.S. Revolving Credit Loan. Each U.S. Loan shall be an ABR Loan or a SOFR Loan.
•“U.S. Owned Subsidiary” shall mean a Foreign Subsidiary of (i) the U.S. Borrower or (ii) a Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower that is a U.S. Person. None of the Material Subsidiaries on the Closing Date and their successors shall be considered a U.S. Owned Subsidiary.
•“U.S. Person” shall mean any person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
•“U.S. Pledge Agreement” shall mean the U.S. Pledge Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2, among the U.S. Borrower, the Subsidiaries party thereto and the U.S. Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“U.S. Revolving Borrowing” shall mean group of U.S. Revolving Credit Loans of a single Type made, converted or continued by the U.S. Revolving Lenders on a single date and, in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
•“U.S. Revolving Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each U.S. Revolving Lender, the commitment of such U.S. Revolving Lender to (a) make U.S. Revolving Credit Loans hereunder, (b) purchase participations in the U.S. L/C Exposure and (c) purchase participations in U.S. Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “U.S. Revolving Commitment”, or in the Assignment and Acceptance or Lender Joinder Agreement pursuant to which such U.S. Revolving Lender assumed its U.S. Revolving Commitment, as applicable, as the same may be (i) increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.25, (ii) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09 and (iii) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such U.S. Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The aggregate amount of the U.S. Revolving Commitments as of the Closing Date is U.S.$10,000,000.
•“U.S. Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any U.S. Revolving Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding U.S. Revolving Credit Loans of such U.S. Revolving Lender, plus the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount at such time of such U.S. Revolving Lender’s U.S. Revolving Pro Rata
Percentage of the U.S. L/C Exposure plus such U.S. Revolving Lender’s U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the outstanding amount all U.S. Swing Line Loans.
•“U.S. Revolving Credit Facility” shall mean at any time the aggregate amount of the U.S. Revolving Commitments of the U.S. Revolving Lenders at such time.
•“U.S. Revolving Credit Loan” shall mean the U.S. dollar-denominated Revolving Credit Loans made by the U.S. Revolving Lenders to the U.S. Borrower.
•“U.S. Revolving Lenders” shall mean Lenders having U.S. Revolving Commitments, outstanding U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, participations in U.S. Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.21(d) or in outstanding U.S. Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.23.
•“U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage” of any U.S. Revolving Lender, subject to any adjustment as provided in Section 2.24(c) or 2.25(a), the percentage of the aggregate U.S. Revolving Commitments represented by such U.S. Revolving Lender’s U.S. Revolving Commitment; provided that if the U.S. Revolving Commitments have terminated, the U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentages of the U.S. Revolving Lenders shall be determined based upon the U.S. Revolving Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments.
•“U.S. Security Agreement” shall mean the U.S. Security Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-3, among the U.S. Borrower, the Subsidiaries party thereto and the U.S. Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“U.S. Security Documents” shall mean the U.S. Security Agreement, the U.S. Pledge Agreement and each other Security Document to which the U.S. Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary is a party and that purports to xxxxx x Xxxx in the assets of any such person in favor of the U.S. Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
•“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.25.
•“U.S. Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean each Domestic Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower listed on Schedule 1.01(b), and each other Domestic Subsidiary that is or becomes a party to the U.S. Guarantee Agreement.
•“U.S. Swing Line Borrowing” shall mean a borrowing of a U.S. Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.23(a)(i) or, if an AutoBorrow Agreement is in effect, any transfer of funds pursuant to such AutoBorrow Agreement.
•“U.S. Swing Line Lender” shall mean RBC in its capacity as provider of U.S. Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.
•“U.S. Swing Line Loan” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.23(a)(i).
•“U.S. Swing Line Sublimit” shall mean U.S.$10,000,000. The U.S. Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the U.S. Revolving Commitments.
•“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(g)(ii)(B)(3).
•“wholly owned Subsidiary” of any person shall mean (a) any subsidiary of such person of which securities (except for directors’ qualifying shares) or other ownership interests representing 100% of the equity or 100% of the ordinary voting power are, at the time any determination is being made, 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 or (b) any subsidiary that is organized in a foreign jurisdiction and is required by the applicable laws and regulations of such foreign jurisdiction to be partially owned by the government of such foreign jurisdiction or individual or corporate citizens of such foreign jurisdiction, provided that such person, directly or indirectly, owns the remaining Equity Interests in such subsidiary and, by contract or otherwise, controls the management and business of such subsidiary and derives economic benefits of ownership of such subsidiary to substantially the same extent as if such subsidiary were a wholly owned subsidiary.
•“Withdrawal Liability” shall mean 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.
•“Withholding Agent” shall mean any Loan Party and the Administrative Agent.
•“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” shall mean
•(a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule; and
•(b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable UK Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
SECTION 1.02 Terms Generally. The definitions in Section 1.01 shall apply equally to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as
the word “shall”; and the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed as having 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. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any person shall be construed to include such person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be deemed references to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, any references to a term defined in the PPSA (Alberta) or the PPSA (Australia) herein shall, unless otherwise specified, have the same meaning given to that term in the PPSA (Alberta) or PPSA (Australia) (as applicable) and (e) any reference to any law or regulation herein shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that if the Parent Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrowers wish to amend any covenant in Article VI or any related definition to eliminate the effect of any change in GAAP occurring after the Closing Date on the operation of such covenant (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Parent Borrower that the Required Lenders wish to amend Article VI or any related definition for such purpose), then the Borrowers’ compliance with such covenant shall be determined on the basis of GAAP in effect immediately before the relevant change in GAAP became effective, until either such notice is withdrawn or such covenant is amended in a manner satisfactory to the Parent Borrower and the Required Lenders. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, for purposes of calculations made pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, GAAP will be deemed to treat leases that would have been classified as operating leases in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect on December 31, 2013 in a manner consistent with the treatment of such leases under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect on December 31, 2013, notwithstanding any modifications or interpretive changes thereto that may occur thereafter. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized and acquired on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
SECTION 1.03 Several Obligations; Power of Attorney. Each of the U.S. Borrower and the Australian Borrower hereby appoints the Parent Borrower and each of its officers to be its attorneys in fact (its “Attorneys”) and in its name and on its behalf and as its act and deed or otherwise to sign all documents and carry out all such acts as are necessary or appropriate in connection with executing any Borrowing Request, any Loan Documents or any
other instruments, certificates or documents delivered thereunder or in connection therewith (collectively, the “Documents”). This Power of Attorney shall be valid for the duration of the term of this Agreement. The U.S. Borrower and the Australian Borrower hereby ratifies any and all acts which any of its Attorneys shall do in order to execute on its behalf, or in connection with, the Documents mentioned herein.
SECTION 1.04 Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “U.S. Revolving Credit Loan”) or by Type (e.g., a “SOFR Loan”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “SOFR U.S. Revolving Credit Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “U.S. Revolving Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “SOFR Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “SOFR U.S. Revolving Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.05 Additional Alternative Currencies. The Borrowers may from time to time request that Letters of Credit be issued in a currency other than those specifically listed in the definition of “Alternative Currency;” provided that such requested currency is a lawful currency that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into U.S. dollars. Such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the Applicable Issuing Bank. Any such request shall be made to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (Standard Time), ten Business Days prior to the date of the requested Letter of Credit (or such other time or date as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and the Applicable Issuing Bank, in its or their sole discretion). The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Applicable Issuing Bank thereof. The Applicable Issuing Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 12:00 p.m. (Standard Time), five Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole discretion, to the issuance of Letters of Credit, as the case may be, in such requested currency. Any failure by the Applicable 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 issue the requested Letters of Credit in such requested currency at that time. If the Administrative Agent and the Applicable Issuing Bank consent to the issuance of Letters of Credit in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Borrowers and such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for purposes of any Letter of Credit issuances. If the Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an additional currency under this Section 1.05, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Borrowers.
SECTION 1.06 Cashless Rolls. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, any Lender may exchange, continue or roll over all or a portion of its Canadian Term Loans (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) in connection with this Agreement, pursuant to a cashless settlement mechanism approved by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Lender.
SECTION 1.07 Interest Rates; Benchmark Notification.
. (a) The interest rate on a Loan denominated in U.S. dollars or Canadian dollars may be derived from an interest rate benchmark that may be discontinued or is, or may in the future become, the subject of regulatory reform.
(b) Upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, Section 2.26 provides a mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, (a) the continuation of, the administration of, submission of, calculation of, performance of or any other matter related to any interest rate used in this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Alternate Base Rate, the U.S. Base Rate, SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR) or any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof (including any Benchmark Replacement), including without limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same value or economic equivalence of as the existing interest rate (or any component thereof) being replaced or have the same volume or liquidity as did any existing interest rate (or any component thereof) prior to its discontinuance or unavailability. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates and/or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of any interest rate (or component thereof) used in this Agreement or any alternative, successor or alternative rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) and/or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrowers. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain any interest rate used in this Agreement, any component thereof, or rates referred to in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrowers, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
(c) Upon the occurrence of a Canadian Benchmark Transition Event, Section 2.27 provides a mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest. The Canadian Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to (a) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or any other matter related to the Canadian Prime Rate, Term XXXXX, Daily Compounded XXXXX, Adjusted Term XXXXX or Adjusted Daily Compounded XXXXX or any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or any alternative, successor or replacement rate thereto (including any Canadian Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Canadian Benchmark Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Canadian Prime Rate, Term XXXXX, Daily Compounded XXXXX, Adjusted Term XXXXX, Adjusted Daily Compounded XXXXX or any other Canadian Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Canadian Conforming Changes. The Canadian Administrative Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Canadian Prime Rate, Term XXXXX, Daily Compounded XXXXX, Adjusted Term XXXXX, Adjusted Daily Compounded XXXXX, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Canadian Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrowers. The
Canadian Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Canadian Prime Rate, Term XXXXX, Adjusted Term XXXXX, Adjusted Daily Compounded XXXXX or any other Canadian Benchmark, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrowers, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01 Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions and relying upon the representations and warranties herein set forth:
(a) each U.S. Revolving Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make U.S. Revolving Credit Loans in U.S. dollars to the U.S. Borrower, at any time and from time to time on or after the Closing Date, and until the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the U.S. Revolving Commitment of such Lender in accordance with the terms hereof, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in such Xxxxxx’s U.S. Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Lender’s U.S. Revolving Commitment;
(b) each Canadian Revolving Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Canadian Revolving Credit Loans in Canadian dollars and/or U.S. dollars to the Parent Borrower at any time and from time to time on or after the Closing Date, and until the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the Canadian Revolving Commitment of such Lender in accordance with the terms hereof, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in such Xxxxxx’s Canadian Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Xxxxxx’s Canadian Revolving Commitment;
(c) each Canadian Term Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Canadian Term Loan in Canadian dollars to the Parent Borrower on the Closing Date, in a principal amount not to exceed such Xxxxxx’s Canadian Term Commitment;
(d) each Australian Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Australian Revolving Credit Loans in Australian dollars and/or U.S. dollars to the Australian Borrower at any time and from time to time on or after the Closing Date, and until the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the Australian Revolving Commitment of such Lender in accordance with the terms hereof, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in such Xxxxxx’s Australian Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Xxxxxx’s Australian Revolving Commitment;
(e) the U.S. Swing Line Lender agrees to make Swing Line Loans in U.S. dollars to the U.S. Borrower in accordance with Section 2.23;
(f) the Canadian Swing Line Lender agrees to make Swing Line Loans in Canadian dollars or U.S. dollars to the Parent Borrower in accordance with Section 2.23; and
(g) within the limits set forth in the preceding sentence and subject to the terms, conditions and limitations set forth herein, the Borrowers may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Credit Loans.
SECTION 2.02 Loans. (a) Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans made by the Applicable Lenders ratably in accordance with their Applicable Pro Rata Percentages of the applicable Facility; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender to make any Loan shall not in itself relieve any other Lender of its obligation to lend hereunder (it being understood, however, that no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make any Loan required to be made by such other Lender). Except for Loans deemed made pursuant to Section 2.02(g), the Loans comprising any Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (i) in the case of ABR Loans or U.S. Base Rate Loans, an integral multiple of U.S.$100,000 and in a minimum amount of U.S.$1,000,000, (ii) in case of SOFR Loans, an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000,000 and in a minimum amount of U.S.$3,000,000, (iii) in the case of Canadian dollar-denominated Term XXXXX Loans, an integral multiple of C$100,000 and in a minimum amount of C$1,000,000, (iv) in the case of Canadian dollar-denominated Loans (other than Term XXXXX Loans), an integral multiple of C$100,000 and in a minimum amount of C$1,000,000, (v) in the case of Australian dollar-denominated Loans, an integral multiple of AUD$100,000 and in a minimum amount of AUD$1,000,000 or (vvi) equal to the remaining available balance of the applicable Commitment.
(b) Subject to Sections 2.08 and 2.14, (i) each Borrowing (other than a Swing Line Borrowing) denominated in U.S. dollars shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans (if made to the U.S. Borrower), U.S. Base Rate Loans (if made to the Parent Borrower) or SOFR Loans as the Applicable Borrower may request pursuant to Section 2.03, (ii) each Borrowing (other than a Swing Line Borrowing) denominated in Canadian dollars shall be comprised entirely of B/ATerm XXXXX Loans or Canadian Prime Rate Loans as the Parent Borrower may request pursuant to Section 2.03 and (iii) each Borrowing denominated in Australian dollars shall be comprised entirely of BBSY Rate Loans. Each Lender may at its option make any SOFR Loan, Canadian Revolving Credit Loan or Australian Revolving Credit Loan denominated in U.S. dollars by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of any Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or cause any Borrower to incur any cost under Section 2.19 that would not have been incurred but for the exercise of such option. Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided, however, that the Borrowers shall not be entitled to request any Borrowing that, if made, would result in more than ten SOFR Borrowings outstanding hereunder at any time, more than ten B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowings outstanding hereunder at any time, or more than ten BBSY Rate Borrowings outstanding hereunder at any time. For purposes of the foregoing, SOFR Borrowings or, BBSY Rate Borrowings or Term XXXXX Borrowings having different Interest Periods and B/A Borrowings having different Contract Periods, regardless of whether they commence on the same date, shall be considered separate Borrowings.
(c) Except with respect to Loans made pursuant to Section 2.02(g), each U.S. Lender making Loans denominated in U.S. dollars to the U.S. Borrower shall make each such Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account as the Administrative Agent may designate not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, or 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly credit the amounts so received to an account designated by the U.S. Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request. Except with respect to Loans made pursuant to Section 2.02(g), each Canadian Lender making Loans to the Parent Borrower shall make each Canadian Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account in Toronto, Ontario as the Canadian Administrative Agent may designate not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) in the case of a SOFR Borrowing or a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing, or 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) in the case of a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing or U.S. Base Rate Borrowing, and the Canadian Administrative Agent shall promptly credit the amounts so received to an account designated by the Parent Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request. Except with respect to Loans made pursuant to Section 2.02(g), each Australian Lender making Loans to the Australian Borrower shall make each Australian Revolving Credit Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account as the Australian Administrative Agent may designate not later than 3:00 p.m. (Sydney time), and the Australian Administrative Agent shall promptly credit the amounts so received to an account designated by the Australian Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request.
(d) Unless the Applicable Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the time of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Applicable Administrative Agent such Lender’s Applicable Pro Rata Percentage of such Borrowing, the Applicable Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the Applicable Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with paragraph (c) above and the Applicable Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Applicable Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If the Applicable Administrative Agent shall have so made funds available then, to the extent that such Lender shall not have made such portion available to the Applicable Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Applicable Borrower severally agree to repay to the Applicable Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the Applicable Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the Applicable Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of a Borrower, a rate per annum equal to the interest rate applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.06(a), 2.06(c) or 2.06(f), as the case may be, and (ii) in the case of such Lender, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Applicable Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error). If such Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Applicable Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Applicable Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Applicable Borrower the amount of such interest paid by such Borrower for such period. If such Lender shall repay to the Applicable Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount
shall constitute such Xxxxxx’s Loan as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing does not constitute a waiver by any Borrower of any claim for damages permitted hereunder and attributable to such Xxxxxx. Any payment by a Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim any Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Applicable Administrative Agent.
(e) Unless the Applicable Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Applicable Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Applicable Administrative Agent for the account of the Applicable Lenders, the Applicable Issuing Bank or the Applicable Swing Line Lender hereunder that the Applicable Borrower will not make such payment, the Applicable Administrative Agent may assume that the Applicable Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Applicable Lenders, the Applicable Issuing Bank or the Applicable Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Applicable Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Applicable Lenders, the Applicable Issuing Bank or the Applicable Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Applicable Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Applicable Lender, such Applicable Issuing Bank or the Applicable Swing Line Lender, 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 Applicable Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Applicable Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrowers shall not be entitled to request any Borrowing if the Interest Period or Contract Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.
(g) If an Issuing Bank shall not have received from the U.S. Borrower, the Parent Borrower or the Australian Borrower, as the case may be, the payment required to be made by Section 2.21(e) within the time specified in such Section, such Issuing Bank will promptly notify the Applicable Administrative Agent of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such L/C Disbursement and the Applicable Administrative Agent will promptly notify each U.S. Revolving Lender, Canadian Revolving Lender or Australian Lender, as applicable, of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such L/C Disbursement and its U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage or Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, as applicable, thereof. Each such Revolving Lender shall pay by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Applicable Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on such date (or, if such Revolving Lender shall have received such notice later than 12:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on any day, not later than 11:00 a.m. (Standard Time) on the immediately following Business Day), an amount equal to such Lender’s U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage or Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, as applicable, of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such L/C Disbursement (it being understood that such amount shall be deemed to constitute an ABR Loan, a Canadian Prime Rate Loan or a BBSY Rate Loan, as applicable, of such Lender and such payment shall be deemed to have reduced the U.S. L/C Exposure, the Canadian L/C Exposure or the Australian L/C Exposure, as
applicable), and the Applicable Administrative Agent will promptly pay to such Issuing Bank amounts so received by it from such Lenders. The Applicable Administrative Agent will promptly pay to such Issuing Bank any amounts received by it from a Borrower pursuant to Section 2.21(e) prior to the time that any Lender makes any payment pursuant to this paragraph (g); any such amounts received by the Applicable Administrative Agent thereafter will be promptly remitted by the Applicable Administrative Agent to the Lenders that shall have made such payments and to such Issuing Bank, as their interests may appear. If any Lender shall not have made its U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage or Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage, as applicable, of such L/C Disbursement available to the Applicable Administrative Agent as provided above, such Lender and the Borrower for whose (or for whose Subsidiary’s) account such L/C Disbursement was made severally agree to pay interest on such amount, for each day from and including the date such amount is required to be paid in accordance with this paragraph to but excluding the date such amount is paid, to the Applicable Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at (i) in the case of such Borrower, a rate per annum equal to the interest rate applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.06(a), 2.06(c) or 2.06(f), as the case may be, and (ii) in the case of such Lender, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Applicable Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error); provided, however, that the foregoing does not constitute a waiver by any Borrower of any claim for damages permitted hereunder and attributable to such Lender. In addition, if there is a change in the rate of exchange prevailing between the Alternative Currency of such L/C Disbursement and the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof as determined by the Applicable Administrative Agent on the date of the L/C Disbursement and the date of actual payment of the amount due (whether by a U.S. Revolving Lender, a Canadian Revolving Lender, an Australian Lender or the Borrower for whose (or for whose Subsidiary’s) account such L/C Disbursement was made), the Borrower for whose (or for whose Subsidiary’s) account such L/C Disbursement was made covenants and agrees to pay, or cause to be paid, such additional amounts, if any, as may be necessary to ensure that the amount paid in U.S. dollars, when converted at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such L/C Disbursement which could have been purchased with the amount of the Alternative Currency of such L/C Disbursement at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of the L/C Disbursement. For purposes of determining the U.S. Dollar Equivalent or rate of exchange for this Section, such amounts shall include any premium and costs payable in connection with the purchase of the Alternative Currency.
SECTION 2.03 Borrowing Procedure. (a) In order to request a Borrowing (other than a deemed Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(g) or a Swing Line Borrowing as to which this Section 2.03(a) shall not apply), the applicable U.S. Borrower (or the Parent Borrower on its behalf) shall hand deliver, fax or send by electronic communication (e-mail) (or by telephone notice promptly confirmed by a written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)) to the Administrative Agent a duly completed Borrowing Request (x) in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) three Business Days before a proposed Borrowing, and (y) in the case of an ABR Borrowing not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) one Business Day before a proposed Borrowing. Each such Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable, shall be signed by or on behalf of a Responsible Officer of such U.S. Borrower (or
the Parent Borrower on its behalf) and shall specify the following information: (i) [reserved], (ii) whether such Borrowing is to be a SOFR Borrowing or an ABR Borrowing; (iii) the date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day); (iv) the number and location of the account to which funds are to be disbursed (which shall be an account that complies with the requirements of Section 2.02(c)); (v) the amount of such Borrowing; and (vi) if such Borrowing is to be a SOFR Borrowing, the Interest Period with respect thereto; provided, however, that, notwithstanding any contrary specification in any Borrowing Request, each requested Borrowing shall comply with the requirements set forth in Section 2.02. If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period with respect to any SOFR Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then the Parent Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. The Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the Applicable Lenders of any notice given pursuant to this Section 2.03(a) (and the contents thereof), and of each Lender’s portion of the requested Borrowing.
(b) In order to request a Borrowing (other than a deemed Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(g) or a Swing Line Borrowing as to which Section 2.03(b) shall not apply), the Parent Borrower shall hand deliver, fax or send by electronic communication (e-mail) (or by telephone notice promptly confirmed by a written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)) to the Canadian Administrative Agent a duly completed Borrowing Request (x) in the case of a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing or a SOFR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) three Business Days before the proposed Borrowing and (y) in the case of a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing or U.S. Base Rate Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) one Business Day before the proposed Borrowing. Each such Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable, shall be signed by or on behalf of a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower and shall specify the following information: (i) in the case of a Canadian Revolving Borrowing, whether the Borrowing then being requested is to be denominated in Canadian dollars or U.S. dollars; (ii) whether such Borrowing is to be a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing, a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing, a U.S. Base Rate Borrowing or a SOFR Borrowing; (iii) the date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day); (iv) the number and location of the account to which funds are to be disbursed (which shall be an account that complies with the requirements of Section 2.02(c)); (v) the amount of such Borrowing; and (vi) if such Borrowing is to be a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing or a SOFR Borrowing, the Contract Period or Interest Period, respectively, therefor; provided, however, that, notwithstanding any contrary specification in any Borrowing Request, each requested Borrowing shall comply with the requirements set forth in Section 2.02. If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then the requested Borrowing shall be a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing (if denominated in Canadian dollars) or a U.S. Base Rate Borrowing (if denominated in U.S. dollars). If no Contract Period or Interest Period with respect to a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing or SOFR Borrowing has been specified in any such notice, then the Parent Borrower shall be deemed to have selected a Contract Period oran Interest Period of one month’s duration. The Canadian Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the Applicable Lenders of any notice given pursuant to this Section 2.03(b) (and the contents thereof), and of each Lender’s portion of the requested Borrowing.
(c) In order to request a Borrowing (other than a deemed Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(g), as to which this Section 2.03(c) shall not apply), the Australian Borrower (or the Parent Borrower on its behalf) shall hand deliver, fax or send by electronic communication (e-mail) (or by telephone notice promptly confirmed by a written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)) to the Australian Administrative Agent a duly completed Borrowing Request not later than 3:00 p.m. (Sydney time) three Business Days before the proposed Borrowing. Each such Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable, shall be signed by or on behalf of a Responsible Officer of the Australian Borrower (or the Parent Borrower on its behalf) and shall specify the following information: (i) whether the Borrowing then being requested is to be a BBSY Rate Borrowing denominated in Australian dollars or a SOFR Borrowing denominated in U.S. dollars; (ii) the date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day); (iii) the number and location of the account to which funds are to be disbursed (which shall be an account that complies with the requirements of Section 2.02(c)); (iv) the amount of such Borrowing; and (v) the Interest Period therefor; provided, however, that, notwithstanding any contrary specification in any Borrowing Request, each requested Borrowing shall comply with the requirements set forth in Section 2.02. If no Interest Period has been specified in any such notice, then the Australian Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. The Australian Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the Applicable Lenders of any notice given pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) (and the contents thereof), and of each Lender’s portion of the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04 Evidence of Debt; Repayment of Loans.
(a) The U.S. Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each U.S. Revolving Lender holding U.S. Revolving Credit Loans the then unpaid principal amount of each such Revolving Credit Loan of such Lender on the Maturity Date. The Parent Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Canadian Administrative Agent for the account of each Canadian Revolving Lender holding Canadian Revolving Credit Loans made to such Parent Borrower, the then unpaid principal amount of each such Revolving Credit Loan of such Canadian Lender on the Maturity Date. The Australian Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Australian Administrative Agent for the account of each Australian Lender holding Australian Revolving Credit Loans made to the Australian Borrower, the then unpaid principal amount of each such Revolving Credit Loan of such Australian Lender on the Maturity Date.
(b) The Parent Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay in Canadian Dollars to the Canadian Administrative Agent for the account of each Canadian Term Lender holding Canadian Term Loans the principal amounts set forth in Schedule 2.04 on each corresponding date set forth on such schedule; provided that the Canadian Administrative Agent shall promptly update Schedule 2.04 upon any repayment or prepayment of Canadian Term Loans, which updated schedule shall become effective upon delivery to the Parent Borrower.
(c) The U.S. Borrower shall repay each U.S. Swing Line Loan on the Swing Line Payment Date. The Parent Borrower shall repay each Canadian Swing Line Loan on the Swing Line Payment Date.
(d) Except for any B/A Loan (the compensation for which is set forth in Section 2.22), eEach Loan shall bear interest from and including the date made on the outstanding principal balance thereof as set forth in Section 2.06.
(e) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid such Lender from time to time under this Agreement, and the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans.
(f) The Administrative Agents shall maintain accounts in which they will record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class, Type and currency thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Applicable Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Applicable Administrative Agent hereunder from any Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor and each Lender’s share thereof.
(g) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraphs (e) and (f) above shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agents to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligations of the Borrowers to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(h) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it hereunder be evidenced by a promissory note (a “Note”). In such event, the Applicable Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender a Note or Notes payable to such Lender and its registered assigns and in a form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Applicable Administrative Agent and the Applicable Borrower. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in the event any Lender shall request and receive such a Note, the interests represented by such Note shall at all times (including after any assignment of all or part of such interests pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more Notes payable to the payee named therein or its registered assigns.
SECTION 2.05 Fees. (a) (i) The U.S. Borrower agrees to pay to each U.S. Revolving Lender, through the Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December in each year, a commitment fee (the “U.S. Commitment Fee”) equal to the Applicable Percentage on the daily unused amount of the U.S. Revolving Commitments of such U.S. Revolving Lender to make U.S. Revolving Credit Loans to the U.S. Borrower during the preceding quarter. The U.S. Commitment Fee shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days.
(ii) The Parent Borrower agrees to pay to each Canadian Revolving Lender, through the Canadian Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December in each year, a commitment fee (the “Canadian Commitment Fee”) equal to the Applicable Percentage on the daily unused amount of the Canadian Revolving Commitments of such Canadian Revolving Lender to make Canadian Revolving Credit Loans to the Parent Borrower during the preceding quarter.
The Canadian Commitment Fees shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be.
(iii) The Australian Borrower agrees to pay to each Australian Lender, through the Australian Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December in each year, a commitment fee (the “Australian Commitment Fee”; together with the U.S. Commitment Fee and the Canadian Commitment Fees, the “Commitment Fees”) equal to the Applicable Percentage on the daily unused amount of the Australian Revolving Commitments of such Australian Lender to make Australian Revolving Credit Loans to the Australian Borrower during the preceding quarter. The Australian Commitment Fee shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be.
(iv) The Commitment Fees due to each Revolving Lender shall commence to accrue on the Closing Date and shall, in each case, cease to accrue on the date on which the applicable Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lender shall expire or be terminated as provided herein. For the avoidance of doubt, (A) U.S. Swing Line Loans are not deducted from the U.S. Revolving Commitments when calculating the U.S. Commitment Fee under this Section 2.05(a) and (B) Canadian Swing Line Loans are not deducted from the Canadian Revolving Commitments when calculating the Canadian Commitment Fees under this Section 2.05(a).
(b) Each Borrower agrees to pay to the Applicable Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger, for its own account, the administration and arrangement fees separately agreed to from time to time by such Borrower and such Administrative Agent or the Lead Arranger, including, without limitation, the fees set forth in the Fee Letter.
(c) The U.S. Xxxxxxxx agrees to pay to each U.S. Revolving Lender, through the Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the date on which the U.S. Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lender shall be terminated as provided herein, a fee (the “U.S. L/C Participation Fee”) calculated on such Lender’s U.S. Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the daily aggregate U.S. L/C Exposure (in each case excluding the portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed L/C Disbursements in respect of Letters of Credit) during the preceding quarter (or shorter period commencing with the Closing Date or ending with the Maturity Date or the date on which all Letters of Credit have been canceled or have expired and the Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders shall have been terminated) at a rate equal to the Applicable Percentage from time to time used to determine the interest rate on Borrowings comprised of SOFR Loans pursuant to Section 2.06. The Parent Borrower agrees to pay to each Canadian Revolving Lender, through the Canadian Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the date on which the Canadian Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lender shall be terminated as provided herein, a fee (the “Canadian L/C Participation Fee”) calculated on such Xxxxxx’s Canadian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the daily aggregate Canadian L/C Exposure (in each
case excluding the portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed L/C Disbursements in respect of Letters of Credit) during the preceding quarter (or shorter period commencing with the Closing Date or ending with the Maturity Date or the date on which all Letters of Credit have been canceled or have expired and the Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders shall have been terminated) at a rate equal to the Applicable Percentage from time to time used to determine the interest rate on Borrowings comprised of SOFR Loans pursuant to Section 2.06. The Australian Borrower agrees to pay to each Australian Lender, through the Australian Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the date on which the Australian Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lender shall be terminated as provided herein, a fee (the “Australian L/C Participation Fee”; together with the U.S. L/C Participation Fee and the Canadian L/C Participation Fees, the “L/C Participation Fees”) calculated on such Lender’s Australian Revolving Pro Rata Percentage of the daily aggregate Australian L/C Exposure (in each case excluding the portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed L/C Disbursements in respect of Letters of Credit) during the preceding quarter (or shorter period commencing with the Closing Date or ending with the Maturity Date or the date on which all Letters of Credit have been canceled or have expired and the Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders shall have been terminated) at a rate equal to the Applicable Percentage from time to time used to determine the interest rate on Borrowings comprised of BBSY Rate Loans pursuant to Section 2.06. Each Borrower agrees to pay to the Applicable Issuing Bank with respect to each Letter of Credit issued at the request of such Borrower, (A) a fronting fee for each Letter of Credit equal to the greater of (1) 0.125% of the initial stated amount of such Letter of Credit and (2) $600 (or, with respect to any subsequent increase to the stated amount of any such Letter of Credit, such increase in the stated amount) thereof, such fee to be payable on the date of such issuance, increase or extension and (B) issuance, payment, amendment and transfer fees specified from time to time by such Issuing Bank (collectively, the “Issuing Bank Fees”). All U.S. L/C Participation Fees and, unless otherwise agreed by the Applicable Issuing Bank, Issuing Bank Fees, shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days. All Canadian L/C Participation Fees shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be. All Australian L/C Participation Fees shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be.
(d) All Fees shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available U.S. dollars (except with respect to (i) L/C Participation Fees and Issuing Bank Fees in respect of Letters of Credit denominated in Canadian dollars, each of which shall be payable in immediately available Canadian dollars and (ii) L/C Participation Fees and Issuing Bank Fees in respect of Letters of Credit denominated in Australian dollars, each of which shall be payable in immediately available Australian dollars), to the Applicable Administrative Agent for distribution, if and as appropriate, among the Revolving Lenders, except that the Issuing Bank Fees shall be paid directly to the Applicable Issuing Bank. Once paid, absent manifest error, none of the Fees shall be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.06 Interest on Loans. (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, the Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, when the Alternate Base Rate is determined by reference to the Prime Rate and over a year of 360 days at all other times and calculated from and including the date of such Borrowing to but excluding the date of repayment thereof) at a rate per annum equal to the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of ABR Loans in effect from time to time.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, the Loans comprising each SOFR Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days) at a rate per annum equal to Adjusted Term SOFR for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of SOFR Loans in effect from time to time.
(c) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, the Loans comprising each Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and calculated from and including the date of such Borrowing to but excluding the date of repayment thereof) at a rate per annum equal to the Canadian Prime Rate plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of the Canadian Prime Rate Loans in effect from time to time.
(d) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, the Loans comprising each B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing shall be subject to an Acceptance Fee, payable by the Parent Borrower on the date of acceptance of the relevant B/A and calculated as set forth in the definition of the term “Acceptance Fee” in Section 1.01.bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be) at a rate per annum equal to Adjusted Term XXXXX for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of Term XXXXX Loans in effect from time to time.
(e) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, the Loans comprising each U.S. Base Rate Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and calculated from and including the date of such Borrowing to but excluding the date of repayment thereof) at a rate per annum equal to the U.S. Base Rate plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of U.S. Base Rate Loans in effect from time to time.
(f) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, the Loans comprising each BBSY Rate Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and calculated from and including the date of such Borrowing to but excluding the date of repayment thereof) at a rate per annum equal to the BBSY Rate plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of BBSY Rate Loans in effect from time to time.
(g) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, each U.S. Swing Line Loan shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, when the Alternate Base Rate is determined by reference to the Prime Rate and over a year of 360 days at all other times and calculated from and including the date of such Borrowing to but excluding the date of repayment thereof) at a rate per annum equal
to the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of ABR Loans in effect from time to time.
(h) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.09, each Canadian Swing Line Loan shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, when the Alternate Base Rate is determined by reference to the Prime Rate and over a year of 360 days at all other times and calculated from and including the date of such Borrowing to but excluding the date of repayment thereof) at a rate per annum equal to (i) if such Canadian Swing Line Loan is denominated in Canadian dollars, the Canadian Prime Rate plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of the Canadian Prime Rate Loans in effect from time to time and (ii) if such Canadian Swing Line Loan is denominated in U.S. dollars, the U.S. Base Rate plus the Applicable Percentage in respect of U.S. Base Rate Loans in effect from time to time.
(i) Interest on each Loan shall be payable to the Applicable Administrative Agent on the Interest Payment Dates applicable to such Loan except as otherwise provided in this Agreement. The applicable Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR, BBSY Rate, Adjusted Term XXXXX, Canadian Prime Rate, and U.S. Base Rate, B/A Discount Rate, and Acceptance Fee shall be determined by the Applicable Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(j) For the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada) and disclosure thereunder, whenever any interest or fee to be paid hereunder or in connection herewith is to be calculated on the basis of any period of time that is less than a calendar year, the yearly rate of interest to which the rate used in such calculation is equivalent is the rate so used multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which the same is to be ascertained and divided by 360, 365 or 366, as applicable. The rates of interest under this Agreement are nominal rates, and not effective rates or yields. The principle of deemed reinvestment of interest does not apply to any interest calculation under this Agreement. Each Borrower confirms that it fully understands and is able to calculate the rate of interest applicable to the Facilities based on the methodology for calculating per annum rates provided for in this Agreement. Each Agent agrees that, if requested in writing by any Borrower, it will calculate the nominal and effective per annum rate of interest on any Loan outstanding at the time of such request and provide such information to such Borrower within a reasonable time following such request; provided that any error in any such calculation, or any failure to provide such information on request, shall not relieve any Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, nor result in any liability to any Agent or any Lender. Each Borrower hereby irrevocably agrees not to plead or assert, whether by way of defense or otherwise, in any proceeding relating to the Loan Documents, that the interest payable under this Agreement and the calculation thereof has not been adequately disclosed to any Borrower, whether pursuant to section 4 of the Interest Act (Canada) or any other applicable law or legal principle.
(k) In connection with the use or administration of SOFR or Term SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any
amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use or administration of SOFR or Term SOFR, as applicable.
SECTION 2.07 Default Interest. If a Borrower shall default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Loan or any other amount becoming due hereunder, by acceleration or otherwise, or under any other Loan Document, such Borrower shall on demand from time to time pay interest, to the extent permitted by law, on such defaulted amount to but excluding the date of actual payment (after as well as before judgment) (a) in the case of overdue principal, at the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan pursuant to Section 2.06 plus 2.00% per annum (subject to Section 9.09) and (b) in all other cases, at a rate per annum (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed (i) over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, when determined by reference to the Prime Rate or the Canadian Prime Rate, (ii) over a year of 365 days when determined by reference to the BBSY Rate, and (iii) over a year of 360 days at all other times) equal to the rate that would be applicable to an ABR Loan (or a Canadian Prime Rate Loan, in the case of the Parent Borrower, or a BBSY Rate Loan, in the case of the Australian Borrower) plus 2.00% (subject to Section 9.09).
SECTION 2.08 Alternate Rate of Interest. (a) In the event, and on each occasion, that (i) on the day two Business Days prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a SOFR Borrowing the Applicable Administrative Agent is unable to determine Adjusted Term SOFR for SOFR Loans comprising any requested Borrowing, or (ii) if the Applicable Required Lenders shall, by 11:00 a.m. (Standard Time) at least one (1) Business Day before the date of any requested Borrowing, notify the Applicable Administrative Agent that Adjusted Term SOFR for SOFR Loans comprising such Borrowing will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to any Lender of making or maintaining its SOFR Loan, during such Interest Period, then the Applicable Administrative Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, give written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail) (or telephone notice promptly confirmed by a written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)) notice of such determination to each Applicable Borrower and each Applicable Lender. In the event of any such determination, until the Applicable Administrative Agent shall have advised the Applicable Borrowers and the Applicable Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, any request by such Borrower for a SOFR Borrowing (other than a SOFR Borrowing under the Australian Revolving Credit Facility) pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.10 shall be deemed to be a request for an ABR Borrowing (or, in the case of a request by the Parent Borrower, a U.S. Base Rate Borrowing). Each determination by the Applicable Administrative Agent hereunder shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Applicable Administrative Agent (i) determines that the circumstances described in clause (a)(i) of this Section 2.08 have arisen and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary, (ii) determines that the circumstances described in clause (a)(i) of this Section 2.08 have not arisen but the supervisor for the administrator of Term SOFR or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Applicable Administrative
Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which Term SOFR shall no longer be used for determining interest rates for loans, (iii) is advised by the Applicable Required Lenders of their determination in accordance with clause (a)(ii) of this Section 2.08, or (iv) new syndicated loans have started to adopt a new benchmark interest rate, then the Applicable Administrative Agent and the Applicable Borrower shall endeavor to establish an alternate rate of interest to Term SOFR that gives due consideration to the then prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest for syndicated loans in the United States at such time, and shall enter into an amendment to this Agreement to reflect such alternate rate of interest and such other related changes to this Agreement as may be applicable, provided that to the extent that the Applicable Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market convention is not administratively feasible or that no market convention for the administration of such alternate rate of interest exists, the Applicable Administrative Agent shall administer such alternate rate of interest in a manner acceptable by the Applicable Administrative Agent and the Borrower. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 9.08, such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement so long as the Applicable Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date notice of such alternate rate of interest is provided to the Applicable Lenders, a written notice from the Applicable Required Lenders stating that such Applicable Required Lenders object to such amendment. If a notice of an alternate rate of interest has been given and no such alternate rate of interest has been determined, and (x) the circumstances under clause (i) or (iii) above exist or (y) the specific date referred to in clause (ii) has occurred (as applicable), Alternate Base Rate shall apply without regard to clause (c) of the definition thereof. Provided that, if such alternate rate of interest shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
(c) Subject to Section 2.27, if, on or prior to the first day of any Interest Period for any Term XXXXX Loan (i) the Applicable Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that “Adjusted Term XXXXX” cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof, for reasons other than a Canadian Benchmark Transition Event or (ii) the Applicable Required Lenders determine that for any reason in connection with any request for a Term XXXXX Loan, or a conversion thereto or a continuation thereof that Term XXXXX for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Term XXXXX Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making and maintaining such Loan, and the Applicable Required Lenders have provided notice of such determination to the Applicable Administrative Agent, the Applicable Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Applicable Borrower and each Applicable Lender.
(d) Upon delivery of such notice by the Applicable Administrative Agent to the Applicable Borrower under Section 2.08(c), any obligation of the Applicable Lenders to make Term XXXXX Loans and any right of the Applicable Borrower to continue Term XXXXX Loans or to convert Canadian Prime Rate Loans to Term XXXXX Loans shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected Term XXXXX Loans or affected Interest Periods) until the Applicable Administrative Agent (with respect to Section 2.08(c)(ii), at the instruction of the Applicable Required Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice by the Applicable Administrative Agent to the Applicable Borrower, the Applicable Borrower may revoke any
pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Term XXXXX Loans (to the extent of the affected Term XXXXX Loans or affected Interest Periods), and failing such revocation, the Applicable Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Canadian Prime Rate Loans, in the amount specified therein. Upon any such conversion, the Applicable Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.15.
SECTION 2.09 Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) The Revolving Commitments and the L/C Commitments shall automatically terminate on the Maturity Date.
(b) The Canadian Term Commitments shall automatically terminate on the Closing Date immediately following the making of the Canadian Term Loan on such date.
(c) Upon at least three Business Days’ prior irrevocable written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail) (or by telephone notice promptly confirmed by a written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)) notice to the Applicable Administrative Agent, the U.S. Borrower, the Parent Borrower or the Australian Borrower, as the case may be, may at any time in whole permanently terminate, or from time to time in part permanently reduce, any Class of Commitments; provided, however, that each partial reduction of any Class of Commitments shall be in an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000,000.
(d) Each voluntary reduction in any Class of Commitments hereunder shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments of such Class. The Applicable Borrower shall pay to the Applicable Administrative Agent for the account of the Applicable Lenders, on the date of each termination or reduction, the Commitment Fees on the amount of the Commitments so terminated or reduced accrued to but excluding the date of such termination or reduction.
SECTION 2.10 Conversion and Continuation of Borrowings. The Borrowers shall have the right at any time upon prior irrevocable notice to the Applicable Administrative Agent (a) not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) one Business Day before the proposed conversion, to convert any SOFR Borrowing under a Class of U.S. Revolving Commitments into an ABR Borrowing under the same Class of U.S. Revolving Commitments, (b) not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) one Business Day before the proposed conversion, to convert any B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing under one Canadian Facility into a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing under the same Canadian Facility, (c) not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) three Business Days prior to conversion or continuation, to convert any ABR Borrowing under a Class of U.S. Revolving Commitments or U.S. Base Rate Borrowing under a Class of Canadian Revolving Commitments into a SOFR Borrowing under the same Class of Commitments or to continue any SOFR Borrowing under a Class of U.S. Revolving Commitments or Canadian Revolving Commitments as a SOFR Borrowing under the same Class of Commitments for an additional Interest Period, (d) not later than 3:00 p.m. (Sydney time) three Business Days prior to continuation, to continue any SOFR Borrowing under the Australian Revolving Commitments as a SOFR Borrowing under the Australian Revolving Commitments for an additional Interest Period, (e) not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) three Business Days prior to conversion, to convert the Interest Period with respect to any SOFR Borrowing under a Class of U.S. Revolving
Commitments or Canadian Revolving Commitments to another permissible Interest Period, (f) not later than 3:00 p.m. (Sydney time) three Business Days prior to conversion, to convert the Interest Period with respect to any BBSY Rate Borrowing under the Australian Revolving Commitments to another permissible Interest Period and (g) not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) three Business Days prior to conversion or continuation, to convert any Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing under a Canadian Facility to a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing under the same Canadian Facility or to continue any B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing under a Canadian Facility as a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing under the same Canadian Facility for an additional Contract Period; provided, that with respect to this clause (g), such notice may be given one Business Day prior to conversion with respect to any Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing under a Canadian Facility outstanding as of the Closing Date to a B/A Borrowing under the same Canadian FacilityInterest Period, subject in each case to the following:
(i) each conversion or continuation shall be made pro rata among the Applicable Lenders in accordance with the respective principal amounts of the Loans comprising the converted or continued Borrowing;
(ii) if less than all the outstanding principal amount of any Borrowing shall be converted or continued, then each resulting Borrowing shall satisfy the limitations specified in Sections 2.02(a) and 2.02(b) and, if applicable, Section 2.22, regarding the principal amount and maximum number of Borrowings of the relevant Type;
(iii) each conversion shall be effected by each Applicable Lender and the Applicable Administrative Agent by recording for the account of such Lender the new Type and/or Interest Period or Contract Period for such Borrowing resulting from such conversion; accrued interest on any SOFR Loan, Term XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan (or, in each case, any portion thereof) being converted shall be paid by the Applicable Borrower at the time of conversion;
(iv) if any SOFR Borrowing, BBSY Rate Borrowing or B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing is converted at a time other than the end of the Interest Period or Contract Period applicable thereto, the Applicable Borrower shall pay, upon demand, any amounts due to the Applicable Lenders pursuant to Section 2.15;
(v) any portion of a Borrowing maturing or required to be repaid in less than one month may not be converted into or continued as a SOFR Borrowing, a BBSY Rate Borrowing or a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing;
(vi) any portion of a SOFR Borrowing (other than a SOFR Borrowing under the Australian Revolving Credit Facility) or a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing that cannot be converted into or continued as a SOFR Borrowing or a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing, respectively, by reason of the immediately preceding clause shall be automatically converted at the end of the Interest Period or Contract Period in effect for such Borrowing into an ABR Borrowing, a U.S. Base Rate Borrowing or a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing, as the case may be;
(vii) upon notice to each Applicable Borrower from the Applicable Administrative Agent given at the request of the Applicable Required Lenders after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default, no outstanding Loan owing to such Lenders may be converted into, or continued as, a SOFR Loan, a BBSY Rate Loan or a B/ATerm XXXXX Loan, as applicable; and
(viii) notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Swing Line Loan may not be converted to a SOFR Loan.
Each notice pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be irrevocable, shall be hand delivered, faxed or sent by electronic communication (e-mail) (or by telephone notice promptly confirmed by a written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)), shall refer to this Agreement, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B-6 and specify (i) the identity and amount of the Borrowing that the Applicable Borrower requests be converted or continued, (ii) whether such Borrowing is to be converted to or continued as a SOFR Borrowing, an ABR Borrowing, a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing, a U.S. Base Rate Borrowing, a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing or a BBSY Rate Borrowing, (iii) if such notice requests a conversion, the date of such conversion (which shall be a Business Day) and (iv) if such Borrowing is to be converted to or continued as a SOFR Borrowing, a BBSY Rate Borrowing or a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing, the Interest Period or Contract Period with respect thereto. If no Interest Period or Contract Period is specified in any such notice with respect to any conversion to or continuation as a SOFR Borrowing, a BBSY Rate Borrowing or a B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing, the Applicable Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period or Contract Period of one month’s or 30 days’, as the case may be, duration. The Applicable Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the Applicable Lenders of any notice given pursuant to this Section 2.10 and of each Lender’s portion of any converted or continued Borrowing. If a Borrower shall not have given notice in accordance with this Section 2.10 to continue any SOFR Borrowing (other than a SOFR Borrowing under the Australian Revolving Credit Facility) or B/ATerm XXXXX Borrowing into a subsequent Interest Period or Contract Period (and shall not otherwise have given notice in accordance with this Section 2.10 to convert such Borrowing), such Borrowing shall, at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto (unless repaid pursuant to the terms hereof), automatically be converted into an ABR Borrowing, a U.S. Base Rate Borrowing or a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing, as applicable.
SECTION 2.11 Optional Prepayment. (a) Each Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing (other than Bankers’ Acceptances or B/A Equivalent Loans, which may, however, be defeased as provided below),, in whole or in part, upon written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail) (or by telephone notice promptly confirmed by written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)), substantially in the form of Exhibit B-5, delivered to the Applicable Administrative Agent by (i) 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) at least three Business Days prior to the date designated for such prepayment, in the case of any prepayment of a SOFR Borrowing, Term XXXXX Borrowing or a BBSY Rate Borrowing, (ii) 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on the date designated for such prepayment in the case of any prepayment of an ABR Borrowing under the U.S. Revolving Commitments, or (iii) 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) one Business Day prior to the date designated for such prepayment, in the case
of a U.S. Base Rate Borrowing or a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing under the Canadian Revolving Commitments or Canadian Term Loans; provided, however, that each partial prepayment shall be in an amount that is a minimum amount of U.S.$500,000 or an integral multiple of U.S.$100,000 in excess thereof (or C$500,000 and C$100,000, respectively, in the case of Borrowings denominated in Canadian dollars or AUD$500,000 and AUD$100,000, respectively, in the case of Borrowings denominated in Australian dollars); and provided further that the Applicable Borrower may defease any BBSY Rate Loan, B/A or B/A Equivalent Loan by depositing with the Applicable Administrative Agent an amount that, together with interest accruing on such amount to the end of the ContractInterest Period for such BBSY Rate Loan, B/A or B/A Equivalent Loan, is sufficient to pay such maturing BBSY Rate Loans, Bankers’ Acceptances or B/A Equivalent Loans when due. Such deposited cash collateral shall be assigned to the Applicable Administrative Agent as security for the obligations of the Parent Borrower in relation to such BBSY Rate Loan, B/As or B/A Equivalent Loans and the Lien of the Applicable Administrative Agent thereby created therein shall rank in priority to all other Liens and adverse claims against deposited cash collateral. The Applicable Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the Applicable Lenders of any notice given pursuant to this Section 2.11 and of each Lender’s portion of such prepayment.
(b) The U.S. Borrower may, upon notice to the U.S. Swing Line Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay U.S. Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the U.S. Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on the date of the prepayment, and (B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000.
(c) The Parent Borrower may, upon notice to the Canadian Swing Line Lender (with a copy to the Canadian Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Canadian Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Canadian Swing Line Lender and the Canadian Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on the date of the prepayment, and (B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000.
(d) Each notice of prepayment shall specify (i) the amount to be prepaid, (ii) the prepayment date and (iii) the Class and Type of Loans to be repaid and shall commit the Applicable Borrower to prepay such obligations by the amount specified therein on the date specified therein. All prepayments pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall be subject to Section 2.15, but shall otherwise be without premium or penalty. Each prepayment of outstanding Canadian Term Loans, pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall be applied to the principal repayment installments thereof in direct order of maturity.
SECTION 2.12 Mandatory Prepayments. (a) In the event of any termination of all the U.S. Revolving Commitments, Canadian Revolving Commitments or Australian Revolving Commitments, each Applicable Borrower shall, on the date of such termination, repay or prepay all its outstanding U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, Canadian Revolving Credit Loans or Australian Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, and replace all outstanding U.S. Letters of Credit,
Canadian Letters of Credit or Australian Letters of Credit, as applicable, and/or deposit an amount equal to the sum of the U.S. L/C Exposure, the Canadian L/C Exposure or the Australian L/C Exposure, as applicable, in cash in a cash collateral account established with the Applicable Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties. In the event of any partial reduction of the U.S. Revolving Commitments, the Canadian Revolving Commitments or the Australian Revolving Commitments, then (i) at or prior to the effective date of such reduction, the Applicable Administrative Agent shall notify each of the Applicable Borrowers and Applicable Lenders of the aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Exposure, the aggregate Canadian Revolving Credit Exposure or the aggregate Australian Revolving Credit Exposure, as the case may be, after giving effect thereto, and (ii) if the aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Exposure, the aggregate Canadian Revolving Credit Exposure or the Australian Revolving Credit Exposure, as the case may be, would exceed the Total U.S. Revolving Commitment, Total Canadian Revolving Commitment or Total Australian Revolving Commitment, respectively, after giving effect to such reduction, then the U.S. Borrower, the Parent Borrower, or the Australian Borrower, as the case may be, shall, on the date of such reduction, repay or prepay Borrowings of Revolving Credit Loans (or defease BBSY Rate Borrowings or B/A Borrowings as described in Section 2.11(a)) and/or replace or cash collateralize outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess. If on any date, the aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Exposure exceeds the Total U.S. Revolving Commitment, then within two Business Days following such date, the U.S. Borrower shall repay or prepay U.S. Revolving Borrowings and/or replace or cash collateralize outstanding U.S. Letters of Credit in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess. If on any date, the aggregate Canadian Revolving Credit Exposure exceeds the Total Canadian Revolving Commitment, then within two Business Days following such date, the Parent Borrower shall repay or prepay Canadian Revolving Borrowings (or defease B/A Borrowings as described in Section 2.11(a)) and/or replace or cash collateralize outstanding Canadian Letters of Credit in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess. If on any date, the aggregate Australian Revolving Credit Exposure exceeds the Total Australian Revolving Commitment, then within two Business Days following such date, the Australian Borrower shall repay or prepay Australian Revolving Borrowings (or defease BBSY Rate Borrowings as described in Section 2.11(a)) and/or replace or cash collateralize outstanding Australian Letters of Credit in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess.
(b) If on any date the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall receive Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale and the aggregate amount of all such Net Cash Proceeds received since the later of the Closing Date and the date on which the last prepayment under this Section 2.12(b) was made exceeds C$5,000,000, the Canadian Term Loans shall be prepaid on or before the date which is not more than five (5) Business Days following the date of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds by an amount equal to 100% of the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that no prepayment shall be required under this Section 2.12(b) to the extent that, if no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, the Parent Borrower delivers a certificate to the Administrative Agent prior to the date of any such required prepayment stating that the Parent Borrower or such Subsidiary intends to reinvest such Net Cash Proceeds in assets used or useful in the business of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries within twelve months after receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds by the Parent Borrower or such Subsidiary; provided, further, however, that any Net Cash Proceeds not so reinvested within such twelve month period shall be
immediately applied to the prepayment of the Canadian Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.12(b).
(c) If on any date the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall receive Net Cash Proceeds from the issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than any cash proceeds from the issuance of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 (other than Section 6.01(e) excluding any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of previously incurred Indebtedness pursuant to Section 6.01(e)), the Canadian Term Loans shall be prepaid, substantially simultaneously with (and in any event not later than the third Business Day next following) the date of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds by an amount equal to 100% of the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds.
(d) If, (i) at any time there are any Canadian Revolving Credit Loans or U.S. Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding, Excess Cash on deposit in Canada and the United States exceeds $15,000,000 for a period of more than five consecutive Business Days, the Borrowers shall make mandatory prepayments of Canadian Revolving Credit Loans and U.S. Revolving Credit Loans (or, in respect of Bankers’ Acceptances, defease such Bankers’ Acceptances in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.11(a)) in an amount equal to the lesser of (A) an amount sufficient to reduce the aggregate amount of Excess Cash on deposit in Canada and the United States after such prepayment to below $15,000,000 or (B) an amount sufficient to repay all Canadian Revolving Credit Loans and U.S. Revolving Credit Loans outstanding hereunder, in each case, such prepayment shall be made within five Business Days or (ii) at any time there are Australian Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding, Excess Cash on deposit in Australia exceeds AUS$15,000,000 for a period of more than five consecutive Business Days, the Australian Borrower shall make mandatory prepayments of Australian Revolving Credit Loans (or, in respect of BBSY Rate Loans, defease such BBSY Rate Loans in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.11(a)) in an amount equal to the lesser of (A) an amount sufficient to reduce the aggregate amount of Excess Cash on deposit in Australia after such prepayment to below $15,000,000 or (B) an amount sufficient to repay all Australian Revolving Credit Loans outstanding hereunder, in each case, such prepayment shall be made within five Business Days.
SECTION 2.13 Increased Costs; Capital Requirements. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any Change in Law shall (i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of or credit extended or participated in by any Lender or Issuing Bank (except any such reserve requirement which is reflected in Adjusted Term SOFR, the B/A Discount RateAdjusted Term XXXXX or the BBSY Rate), (ii) subject any Lender or any Issuing Bank to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (h) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or (iii) impose on any Lender or Issuing Bank, any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or SOFR Loans, B/ATerm XXXXX Loans or BBSY Rate 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 or Issuing Bank of making or maintaining any SOFR Loan, B/ATerm XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or increase the cost to any Lender or Issuing Bank of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or purchasing or maintaining a participation therein or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), in each case, by an amount deemed by such Lender or Issuing Bank (acting reasonably) to be material, then, the Applicable Borrower will pay to such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, upon demand in accordance with paragraph (c) below such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender or Issuing Bank (acting reasonably) shall have determined that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or Issuing Bank or any lending office of such Lender or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such 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, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans held by, such Lender pursuant hereto, or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank pursuant hereto, 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 and liquidity) by an amount deemed by such Lender or Issuing Bank (acting reasonably) to be material, then from time to time in accordance with paragraph (c) below the Applicable Borrower shall 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 suffered.
(c) A certificate of a Lender or Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank or its holding company, as applicable, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) above shall be delivered to the Applicable Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Applicable Borrower shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank the amount shown as due on any such certificate delivered by it within 10 days after its receipt of the same.
(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or Issuing Bank to demand compensation for any increased costs or reduction in amounts received or receivable or reduction in return on capital shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrowers shall not be under any obligation to compensate any Lender or Issuing Bank under paragraph (a) or (b) above with respect to increased costs or reductions with respect to any period prior to the date that is 120 days prior to such request if such Lender or Issuing Bank knew or could reasonably have been expected to know of the circumstances giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of the fact that such circumstances would result in a claim for increased compensation by reason of such increased costs or reductions; provided further that the foregoing limitation shall not apply to any
increased costs or reductions arising out of the retroactive application of any Change in Law within such 120 day period. The protection of this Section shall be available to each Lender and Issuing Bank regardless of any possible contention of the invalidity or inapplicability of the Change in Law that shall have occurred or been imposed.
SECTION 2.14 Change in Legality. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any Change in Law shall make it unlawful, or any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to SOFR or, Term SOFR or Adjusted Term XXXXX, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon SOFR or, Term SOFR or Adjusted Term XXXXX, then, upon notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrowers (through the Administrative Agent) (such notice, an “Illegality Notice”), (a) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue SOFR Loans or Term XXXXX Loans, as applicable, or to convert ABR Loans or U.S. Base Rate Loans to SOFR Loans or to convert Canadian Prime Rate Loans to Term XXXXX Loans shall be suspended, and (b) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining ABR Loans or U.S. Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Term SOFR component of Alternate Base Rate or U.S. Base Rate, the interest rate on which ABR Loans or U.S. Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Term SOFR component of Alternate Base Rate or U.S. Base Rate, and (c) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Canadian Prime Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Term XXXXX component of Canadian Prime Rate, the interest rate on which Canadian Prime Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Applicable Administrative Agent without reference to the Term XXXXX component of Canadian Prime Rate, in each case, until such Xxxxxx notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of an Illegality Notice, the Borrowers shall prepay or, if applicable, convert (i) all SOFR Loans to ABR Loans or U.S. Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which ABR Loans or U.S. Base Rate Loans shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Term SOFR component of Alternate Base Rate or U.S. Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if all affected Lenders may lawfully continue to maintain such SOFR Loan to such day, or immediately, if all affected Lenders may not lawfully continue to maintain such SOFR Loan and all Term XXXXX Loans of such Lender to Canadian Prime Rate Loans, either on the last day of the Interest Period , if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Term XXXXX Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Term XXXXX Loans, in each case, until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by each affected Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or, Term SOFR, Term XXXXX or Adjusted Term XXXXX, as appliable. Upon any such prepayment or conversion following receipt of an Illegality Notice, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.13 and Section 2.15.
SECTION 2.15 Breakage Costs. The Borrowers hereby severally indemnify each Lender against any loss or expense that such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of
(a) any event, other than a default by such Lender in the performance of its obligations hereunder, which results in (i) such Lender receiving or being deemed to receive any amount on account of the principal of any SOFR Loan, Term XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan prior to the end of the Interest Period in effect therefor, including, without limitation, as a result of any prepayment, the acceleration of the maturity of the Obligations or for any other reason, (ii) the conversion of any SOFR Loan to an ABR Loan or U.S. Base Rate Loans, the conversion of any Term XXXXX Loan to a Canadian Prime Rate Loan or the conversion of the Interest Period with respect to any SOFR Loan, Term XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan, in each case other than on the last day of the Interest Period in effect therefor, (iii) any SOFR Loan, B/ATerm XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan to be made by such Lender (including any SOFR Loan, B/ATerm XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan to be made pursuant to a conversion or continuation under Section 2.10 or 2.22, as applicable) not being made after notice of such Loan shall have been given by a Borrower hereunder or (iv) other than with respect to any Defaulting Lender, any assignment of a SOFR Loan, Term XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan is made other than on the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan as a result of a request by the Applicable Borrower pursuant to Section 2.20 (any of the events referred to in this clause (a) being called a “Breakage Event”) or (b) any default in the making of any payment or prepayment required to be made hereunder. In the case of any Breakage Event, such loss shall include an amount equal to the excess, as reasonably determined by such Lender, of (i) its cost of obtaining funds for the SOFR Loan, B/ATerm XXXXX Loan or BBSY Rate Loan that is the subject of such Breakage Event for the period from the date of such Breakage Event to the last day of the Interest Period or Contract Period in effect (or that would have been in effect) for such Loan over (ii) the amount of interest likely to be realized by such Xxxxxx in redeploying the funds released or not utilized by reason of such Breakage Event for such period. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts which such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall be delivered to the Applicable Borrower and the Applicable Administrative Agent and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Applicable Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate delivered by it within 10 days after its receipt of the same.
SECTION 2.16 Pro Rata Treatment. Except as required under Section 2.14, each Borrowing, each payment or prepayment of principal of any Borrowing, each payment of interest on any Class of Loans, each payment of the Commitment Fees with respect to any Class of Loans, each reduction of the Commitments and each conversion of any Borrowing to or continuation of any Borrowing as a Borrowing of any Type shall be allocated pro rata among the Applicable Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Pro Rata Percentages.
SECTION 2.17 Sharing of Setoffs. (a) Each Canadian Lender agrees that if it shall, through the exercise of a right of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim against a Borrower or any other Loan Party, or pursuant to a secured claim or other security or interest arising from, or in lieu of, such secured claim, received by such Canadian Lender under any applicable Insolvency Law or otherwise, or by any other means, obtain payment (voluntary or involuntary) in respect of any Canadian Loan as a result of which the unpaid portion of its Canadian Loans shall be proportionately less than the unpaid portion of the Canadian Loans of any other Canadian Lender of the same Class, it shall (i) notify the Applicable Administrative Agent of such fact and (ii) be deemed simultaneously to have purchased from such other Canadian Lender
at face value, and shall promptly pay to such other Canadian Lender the purchase price for, a participation in the Canadian Loans of the same Class of such other Canadian Lender and, if applicable, subparticipations in Canadian L/C Exposure and Canadian Swing Line Loans of such other Canadian Lender, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the aggregate unpaid amount of the Canadian Loans and participations in Canadian L/C Exposure and Canadian Swing Line Loans held by each Canadian Lender shall be in the same proportion to the aggregate unpaid amount of all Canadian Loans, Canadian L/C Exposure and Canadian Swing Line Loans then outstanding of the same Class as the amount of its Canadian Loans, Canadian L/C Exposure and Canadian Swing Line Loans prior to such exercise of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event was to the amount of all Canadian Loans, Canadian L/C Exposure and Canadian Swing Line Loans outstanding prior to such exercise of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event; provided, however, that if any such purchase, purchases, subparticipations or adjustments shall be made pursuant to this Section 2.17(a) and the payment giving rise thereto shall thereafter be recovered, such purchase, purchases, subparticipations or adjustments shall be rescinded to the extent of such recovery and the purchase price or prices or adjustment restored without interest.
(b) Each U.S. Lender agrees that if it shall, through the exercise of a right of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim against a Borrower or any other Loan Party, or pursuant to a secured claim or other security or interest arising from, or in lieu of, such secured claim, received by such U.S. Lender under any applicable Insolvency Law or otherwise, or by any other means, obtain payment (voluntary or involuntary) in respect of any U.S. Loan as a result of which the unpaid portion of its U.S. Loans shall be proportionately less than the unpaid portion of the U.S. Loans of any other U.S. Lender of the same Class, it shall (i) notify the Applicable Administrative Agent of such fact and (ii) be deemed simultaneously to have purchased from such other U.S. Lender at face value, and shall promptly pay to such other U.S. Lender the purchase price for, a participation in the U.S. Loans of the same Class of such other U.S. Lenders and, if applicable, subparticipations in the U.S. L/C Exposure and U.S. Swing Line Loans of such other U.S. Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the aggregate unpaid amount of the U.S. Loans and participations in U.S. Loans, U.S. L/C Exposure and U.S. Swing Line Loans held by each U.S. Lender shall be in the same proportion to the aggregate unpaid amount of all U.S. Loans, U.S. L/C Exposure and U.S. Swing Line Loans then outstanding of the same Class as the amount of its U.S. Loans, U.S. L/C Exposure and U.S. Swing Line Loans prior to such exercise of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event was to the amount of all U.S. Loans, U.S. L/C Exposure and U.S. Swing Line Loans outstanding prior to such exercise of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event; provided, however, that if any such purchase, purchases, subparticipations or adjustments shall be made pursuant to this Section 2.17(b) and the payment giving rise thereto shall thereafter be recovered, such purchase, purchases, subparticipations or adjustments shall be rescinded to the extent of such recovery and the purchase price or prices or adjustment restored without interest.
(c) Each Australian Lender agrees that if it shall, through the exercise of a right of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim against a Borrower or any other Loan Party, or pursuant to a secured claim or other security or interest arising from, or in lieu of, such secured claim, received by such Australian Lender under any applicable Insolvency Law or otherwise, or
by any other means, obtain payment (voluntary or involuntary) in respect of any Australian Revolving Credit Loan as a result of which the unpaid portion of its Australian Revolving Credit Loans shall be proportionately less than the unpaid portion of the Australian Revolving Credit Loans of any other Australian Lender of the same Class, it shall (i) notify the Applicable Administrative Agent of such fact and (ii) be deemed simultaneously to have purchased from such other Australian Lender at face value, and shall promptly pay to such other Australian Lender the purchase price for, a participation in the Australian Revolving Credit Loans of the same Class of such other Australian Lender and, if applicable, subparticipations in Australian L/C Exposure of such other Australian Lender, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the aggregate unpaid amount of the Australian Revolving Credit Loans and participations in Australian Revolving Credit Loans and Australian L/C Exposure held by each Australian Lender shall be in the same proportion to the aggregate unpaid amount of all Australian Revolving Credit Loans, Australian L/C Exposure then outstanding of the same Class as the amount of its Australian Revolving Credit Loans, Australian L/C Exposure prior to such exercise of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event was to the amount of all Australian Revolving Credit Loans and Australian L/C Exposure outstanding prior to such exercise of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event; provided, however, that if any such purchase, purchases, subparticipations or adjustments shall be made pursuant to this Section 2.17(c) and the payment giving rise thereto shall thereafter be recovered, such purchase, purchases, subparticipations or adjustments shall be rescinded to the extent of such recovery and the purchase price or prices or adjustment restored without interest.
(d) Whenever the Bilateral Lender (in such capacity as the lender under the Bilateral Agreement and not in its capacity as a Lender under this Agreement) receives or recovers any money in respect of any sum due from an Australian Loan Party and applies such amounts against the Bilateral Obligations (including recoveries by way of set off) (“Turnover Money”) and:
(i) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Agreement and the Australian Collateral Agent has enforced its rights and remedies under the Australian Security Documents as contemplated by Sections 7.02 or 7.03; or
(ii) if paragraph (i) above does not apply, but an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Agreement,
then:
(iii) in the case of paragraph (i) above:
(A) the Bilateral Lender will promptly notify the Australian Collateral Agent and pay an amount equal to the Turnover Money to the Australian Collateral Agent (unless the Australian Collateral Agent directs otherwise on the instructions of the Applicable Required Lenders); and
(B) the Australian Collateral Agent will deal with the Turnover Money as if it were a payment by the Australian Loan Parties under this Agreement; and
(iv) in the case of paragraph (ii) above:
(A) the Bilateral Lender will promptly notify the Australian Administrative Agent and pay an amount equal to the Turnover Money to the Australian Administrative Agent (unless the Australian Administrative Agent directs otherwise on the instructions of the Applicable Required Lenders); and
(B) the Australian Administrative Agent will hold the Turnover Money paid to it under paragraph (A) for a period of no greater than 15 Business Days (“Decision Period”) to be applied by the Australian Administrative Agent as follows:
(1) if prior to the end of the Decision Period, an Event of Default occurs or has occurred and is continuing under this Agreement and the Australian Collateral Agent enforces its rights and remedies under the Australian Security Documents as contemplated by Section 7.02 or 7.03, the Australian Administrative Agent will immediately pay an amount equal to the Turnover Money to the Australian Collateral Agent on such enforcement and the Australian Collateral Agent shall deal with the Turnover Money as if it were a payment by the Australian Loan Parties under this Agreement; or
(2) in all other circumstances, it will return an amount equal to the Turnover Moneys to the Bilateral Lender for the Bilateral Lender to apply to the Bilateral Obligations.
The parties agree that the Turnover Money recovered by the Bilateral Lender that is ultimately distributed by the Australian Collateral Agent to the relevant Secured Parties will be taken to have been a payment for the account of the Australian Collateral Agent and not to the Bilateral Lender for its own account (and the liability of an Australian Loan Party to the Bilateral Lender will only be reduced to the extent the Turnover Money is returned the Bilateral Lender as contemplated by Section 2.17(d)(iv)(B)(2)). Without limiting this paragraph, the relevant Australian Loan Party shall indemnify the Bilateral Lender against a recovery by the Bilateral Lender of the Turnover Money to the extent that (despite this paragraph), the relevant Australian Loan Party’s liability has been discharged by the recovery or payment. For the avoidance of doubt, the Bilateral Lender’s obligations under this clause Section 2.17(d) to pay any Turnover Moneys to the Australian Administrative Agent or Australian Collateral Agent (as the case may be), is only enlivened when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
(e) The provisions of Section 2.17(a), (b), (c) and (d) shall not be construed to apply to (i) any payment made by a Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (ii) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in L/C Exposure or Swing Line Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to a Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of Section 2.17(a), (b) and (c) shall apply).
(f) Each Loan Party expressly consents to the arrangements set forth in Section 2.17(a), (b), (c) and (d) above and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender holding a participation in a Loan or L/C Exposure pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against each Loan Party any and all rights of banker’s lien, setoff or counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of each Loan Party in the amount of such participation.
SECTION 2.18 Payments. (a) The Borrowers shall make each payment (including principal of or interest on any Borrowing or any L/C Disbursement or any Fees or other amounts) hereunder and under any other Loan Document not later than 4:00 p.m. (Standard Time) on the date when due in immediately available U.S. dollars (or Canadian dollars, in the case of payments relating to Commitments, Loans and Letters of Credit denominated in Canadian dollars, or Australian dollars, in the case of payments relating to Commitments, Loans and Letters of Credit denominated in Australian dollars), without setoff, defense or counterclaim. Each such payment (other than Issuing Bank Fees, which shall be paid directly to the Applicable Issuing Bank) shall be made to the office of the Applicable Administrative Agent designated by such Applicable Administrative Agent. The Applicable Administrative Agent shall promptly thereafter cause to be distributed like funds relating to the payment of principal, interest or fees ratably (other than amounts payable solely to the Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent, the Australian Administrative Agent, a specific Issuing Bank, or a specific Lender pursuant to Section 2.05, 2.08, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.19, or 9.05, but after taking into account payments effected pursuant to Section 9.05(a)) in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Pro Rata Percentage thereof, to the Lenders for the account of their respective applicable lending offices, and like funds relating to the payment of any other amount payable to any Lender or Issuing Bank to such Lender or Issuing Bank for the account of its applicable lending office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(b) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, whenever any payment (including principal of or interest on any Borrowing or any Fees or other amounts) hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall become due, or otherwise would occur, on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment may be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of interest or Fees, if applicable.
SECTION 2.19 Taxes.
(a) For purposes of this Section 2.19, the term “Lender” includes any Issuing Bank and the term “applicable law” includes FATCA.
(b) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in
accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Applicable Borrower or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, shall be increased as necessary so that, after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section), the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
(c) In addition, the Loan Parties shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law or, at the option of the Applicable Administrative Agent, timely reimburse it for the payment of any Other Taxes.
(d) The Borrowers shall severally indemnify each Recipient, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Applicable Borrower by a Lender or an Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Applicable Administrative Agent), or by the Applicable Administrative Agent on its behalf or on behalf of a Lender or Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e) Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Applicable Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Applicable Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (ii) any taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 9.04 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Applicable Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Applicable Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Applicable Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Applicable Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Applicable Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).
(f) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by a Borrower or any other Loan Party to a Governmental Authority, the applicable Loan Party shall deliver to the Applicable 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 Applicable Administrative Agent.
(g) (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Documents shall deliver to the Applicable Borrower (with a copy to the Applicable Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if requested by the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent as will enable the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Sections 2.19(g)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that the Applicable Borrower with respect to such Lender is a U.S. Person:
(A) any Lender with respect to such Borrower that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to such Borrower and the Applicable Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of such Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;
(B) any Foreign Lender with respect to such Borrower shall deliver to such Borrower and the Applicable Administrative Agent, in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient, (on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement and from time to time thereafter upon the request of such Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent), but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so, whichever of the following is applicable:
(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, duly completed copies of an applicable IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, an applicable
IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty,
(2) duly completed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI,
(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of the applicable Exhibit I-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Applicable Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) duly completed copies of an applicable IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, or
(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, duly completed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, an applicable IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I-2 or Exhibit I-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided, that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C) any Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to such Borrower and the Applicable Administrative Agent (in such copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of such Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent), duly completed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) If a payment made to an Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. Federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank fails 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 Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank shall deliver to the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable
Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Applicable Borrower or the Applicable Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under FATCA, to determine that such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank has complied with its obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from any such payments. Solely for purposes of this paragraph (i), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
(E) Solely for purposes of determining withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA, the Borrowers and the Administrative Agents shall treat (and the Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agents to treat) the Loans as not qualifying as a “grandfathered obligation” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-2(b)(2)(i).
Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Parent Borrower and the Applicable Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(h) RBC, as Administrative Agent, shall deliver, on or before the date it becomes a party to this Agreement, to the U.S. Borrower a duly completed copy of IRS Form W-8IMY certifying that it is a “U.S. branch” of a foreign bank and that it agrees to be treated as a U.S. Person with respect to any payments made to it by the U.S. Borrower under any Loan Document. RBC, as Administrative Agent agrees that if such IRS Form W-8IMY previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form if it is legally able to do so or promptly notify the Parent Borrower in writing of its legal inability to do so (including as a result of a change in RBC’s operations). If the Administrative Agent (i) fails to deliver the form required by this Section 2.19(h) or is legally unable to update such form as required by this Section 2.19(h) and (ii) fails to appoint as a sub-agent pursuant to Section 8.05 any Affiliate of the Administrative Agent that is a U.S. Person or that can deliver the form required by this Section 2.19(h), then the Parent Borrower shall have the right to require the appointment of an agent that is a U.S. Person solely for the purposes of receiving U.S. tax forms and administering any required withholding for U.S. Taxes under this Section 2.19; provided that such appointment shall not otherwise affect the rights and obligations of the Administrative Agent set forth in this Agreement.
(i) If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 2.19 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.19), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity
payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, agrees to repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (i), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (i) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to any Borrower or any other person.
(j) (i) Unless expressly stated otherwise in the relevant Loan Document, the consideration payable for any supply made by or through a Lender or Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Loan Document does not include Australian GST.
(ii) If Australian GST is payable in respect of any supply made by or through a Lender or Issuing Bank (a “Supplier”) under or in connection with any Loan Document (“Australian GST Liability”) then:
(A) where consideration is provided by a party (“Recipient Party”) in relation to that supply, the Recipient Party will pay an additional amount to the Supplier equal to the full amount of the Australian GST Liability; and
(B) except where the foregoing clause (A) applies, the Australian Borrower will indemnify and keep the Supplier indemnified for the full amount of the Australian GST Liability.
However, (l) the relevant Recipient Party or the Australian Borrower, as applicable, need not pay the additional amount on account of the Australian GST Liability to a Supplier until that Supplier gives the Recipient Party or the Australian Borrower, as applicable, a tax invoice complying with the relevant law relating to any payment made to that Supplier in accordance with this Section 2.20(j)(ii) and (2) if an adjustment event arises in respect of any supply made by or through a Lender or Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Loan Document and (if required by law) the Lender or Issuing Bank gives the Recipient Party or the Australian Borrower, as applicable, a valid adjustment note, the additional amount must be adjusted to reflect the adjustment event and the Recipient Party or the Supplier (as the case may be) must make any payments necessary to reflect the adjustment; and (3) this Section 2.20(j)(ii) does not apply
to the extent that the Australian GST Liability on a supply made by or through a Lender or Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Loan Document is payable by the Recipient Party or the Australian Borrower, as appropriate, under Division 83 or 84 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth) and the Lender or Issuing Bank has no liability at all in relation to that payment.
(iii) Any payment or reimbursement required to be made to a Lender or Issuing Bank under any Loan Document that is calculated by reference to a cost or other amount paid or incurred will be limited to the total cost or other amount less the amount of any input tax credit or other credit to which the relevant Lender or Issuing Bank (or the representative member for a Australian GST group of which the relevant Lender or Issuing Bank is a member) is entitled for the acquisition to which the cost or other amount relates.
(iv) Words used in this Section 2.19(j) which are not defined in this agreement but which have a defined meaning in the GST Law have the same meaning as in the GST Law unless the contrary intention appears.
SECTION 2.20 Assignment of Commitments Under Certain Circumstances; Duty to Mitigate. (a) In the event (i) any Lender or Issuing Bank delivers a certificate requesting compensation pursuant to Section 2.13, (ii) any Lender or Issuing Bank delivers a notice described in Section 2.14, (iii) a Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or Issuing Bank or any Governmental Authority on account of any Lender or Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.19, (iv) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or a Potential Defaulting Lender or (v) any Lender is a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Applicable Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort (including with respect to the processing and recordation fee referred to in Section 9.04(b)), upon notice to such Lender or Issuing Bank and the Applicable Administrative Agent, require such Lender or Issuing Bank to transfer and assign, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such assigned obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (A) such assignment shall not conflict with any law, rule or regulation or order of any court or other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction, (B) the Applicable Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Applicable Administrative Agent, the Applicable Issuing Banks and the Applicable Swing Line Lender, if any, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, (C) the affected Lender or Issuing Bank shall have received in immediately available funds an amount equal to the sum of the principal of and interest accrued to the date of such payment on the outstanding Loans and participations in L/C Disbursements of such Lender or Issuing Bank, respectively, plus all Fees and other amounts accrued for the account of such Lender or Issuing Bank hereunder (including any amounts under Section 2.13 and Section 2.15) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and Fees) or the Applicable Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (D) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.13 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.19, such assignment is expected to result in
a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter and (E) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Non-Consenting Lender, the applicable assignee shall have consented to the applicable amendment, waiver or consent. A Lender or Issuing Bank shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender, Issuing Bank or otherwise, the circumstances entitling such Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
(b) If (i) any Lender or Issuing Bank shall request compensation under Section 2.13, (ii) any Lender or Issuing Bank delivers a notice described in Section 2.14 or (iii) a Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank or any Governmental Authority on account of any Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank, pursuant to Section 2.19, then such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (A) would eliminate or reduce its claims for compensation under Section 2.13 or enable it to withdraw its notice pursuant to Section 2.14 or would reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.19, as the case may be, in the future and (B) would not subject such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank to incur an unreimbursed loss or unreimbursed cost or expense or otherwise take any action inconsistent with its internal policies or legal or regulatory restrictions. Each Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender or Issuing Bank in connection with any such designation or assignment.
SECTION 2.21 Letters of Credit.
(a) General. Each Borrower may request the issuance of a Letter of Credit denominated in U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies for its own account or for the account of any of its Subsidiaries (in which case such Borrower and such Subsidiary shall be co-applicants with respect to such Letter of Credit), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time while the Revolving Commitments remain in effect, but no later than five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date. This Section shall not be construed to impose an obligation upon any Issuing Bank to issue any Letter of Credit that is inconsistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. In order to request the issuance of a Letter of Credit denominated in U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars or an Alternative Currency (or to amend, renew or extend an existing Letter of Credit issued in U.S. dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars or an Alternative Currency), the Applicable Borrower shall hand deliver, fax or send by electronic communication (e-mail) (or by telephone notice promptly confirmed by a written, fax or electronic communication (e-mail)) to the Applicable Issuing Bank and the Applicable Administrative Agent (reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal