Dated 7 February 2022 Amendment and Restatement Agreement in respect of the Intercreditor Agreement originally dated 1 December 2016 (as amended and restated from time to time) between Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch 2016 Credit Facility Agent...
Exhibit 2.26
Execution Version
Dated 7 February 2022
Amendment and Restatement Agreement
in respect of the Intercreditor Agreement originally dated 1 December 2016
(as amended and restated from time to time)
between
Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch
2016 Credit Facility Agent
Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch
2016 Credit Facility Lender
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited
Common Security Agent
DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited
Intercreditor Agent
Studio City Investments Limited
as Parent
and
Studio City Company Limited
as the Borrower
White & Case
9th Floor Central Tower
28 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
Table of Contents
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1. |
Interpretation | 2 | ||||
2. |
Amendment to the Intercreditor Agreement | 3 | ||||
3. |
Representations | 3 | ||||
4. |
Continuity and further assurance | 5 | ||||
5. |
Costs and expenses | 5 | ||||
6. |
Enforcement | 5 | ||||
7. |
Miscellaneous | 6 | ||||
8. |
Counterparts | 6 | ||||
9. |
Governing law | 6 | ||||
Schedule 1 Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement |
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Schedule 2 Conditions Precedent |
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(i)
This Amendment and Restatement Agreement is dated 7 February 2022 (this" Agreement”) and made
Between:
(1) | Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch, incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the People’s Republic of China as agent under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (the “2016 Credit Facility Agent”); |
(2) | Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch, incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the People’s Republic of China as a 2016 Credit Facility Lender (the “2016 Credit Facility Lender”); |
(3) | Studio City Investments Limited, a BVI business company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (registered number 1673083), whose registered office is at Ocorian Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, Jayla Place, Wickhams Cay I, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (the “Parent”); |
(4) | Studio City Company Limited a BVI business company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (registered number 1673603), whose registered office is at Ocorian Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, Jayla Place, Wickhams Cay I, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (the “Borrower”); |
(5) | The Companies named on the signature pages as Intra-Group Lenders (the “Intra-Group Lenders”); |
(6) | The Subsidiaries of the Parent named on the signature pages as Debtors (together with the Parent and the Borrower, the “Debtors”); |
(7) | Studio City Finance Limited, a BVI business company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (registered number 1673307), whose registered office is at Ocorian Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, Jayla Place, Wickhams Cay I, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (the “Original Bondco”); |
(8) | DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited as coordinating intercreditor agent for the Secured Parties (the “Intercreditor Agent”); |
(9) | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited, incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Macau SAR as security trustee for the Secured Parties (the “Common Security Agent”); and |
(10) | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited, incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Macau SAR in its capacity as agent for the Common Security Agent under the Power of Attorney (the “POA Agent”). |
Whereas:
(1) | Pursuant to an intercreditor agreement dated on 1 December 2016 (30 November 2016, New York time) entered into between, among others, the Borrower, the Parent and the Common Security Agent (as amended and restated pursuant to this Agreement) (the “Intercreditor Agreement”), the parties have agreed that, among other things, certain liabilities and obligations (including in respect of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and other Debt Documents) constitute Secured Obligations. |
(2) | It has been agreed that, among other things, the Intercreditor Agreement be amended and restated as contemplated by this Agreement and each Party consents to the making of those amendments, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. |
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(3) | The Parties wish to enter into this Agreement to record their agreements in relation to the above. |
It is agreed as follows:
1. | Interpretation |
1.1 | Definitions |
In this Agreement:
“Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement” means the Intercreditor Agreement, as amended and restated pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (as on the Effective Date, in the form set out in Schedule 1 (Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement)).
“Effective Date” means the later of:
(a) | the date of this Agreement; and |
(b) | the date on which the Intercreditor Agent confirms in writing to the Borrower that it has received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) and that each is in form and substance satisfactory to it, |
and “Effective Time” means the later of (x) the first time at which this Agreement is executed in full by the Parties and dated and (y) the time the confirmation referred to in paragraph (b) above is given.
“Material Adverse Effect” means any event or circumstance which (after taking into account all relevant circumstances) has a material adverse effect on:
(a) | the business, operations, property or financial condition of the Original Bondco and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole); or |
(b) | its ability to perform any of its payment obligations under the Debt Documents; or |
(c) | subject to the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements, the validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness or ranking of any Transaction Security granted or purporting to be granted pursuant to any of, the Debt Documents or the rights or remedies of any Primary Creditor under any of the Debt Documents. |
“Perfection Requirements” means the making or the procuring of the appropriate registrations, filing, endorsements, notarisation, stamping and notifications of the Transaction Security Documents or the Transaction Security created thereunder.
“SCHK2” means Studio City (HK) Two Limited (新濠影匯(香港)第二有限公司), a limited liability company incorporated in Hong Kong with its registered office at 00/X, Xxx Xxxxxxxx, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx and registration number 2720234.
1.2 | Construction |
(a) | The principles of construction and rules of interpretation set out in the Intercreditor Agreement (including but not limited to clause 1.2 (Construction) of the Intercreditor Agreement) shall have effect as if set out in this Agreement. |
(b) | Unless a contrary indication appears, a term defined in or by reference in the Intercreditor Agreement has the same meaning in this Agreement. Words and expressions defined in this Agreement by reference to the Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement shall (at all times prior to the Effective Date) have the meaning attributed to them in the form of the Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement set out in Schedule 1 (Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement). |
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(c) | In this Agreement any reference to a “Clause”, a “Schedule” or a “Party” is, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a Clause, a Schedule or a Party to this Agreement. |
1.3 | Designation |
The Parent and the Intercreditor Agent designate this Agreement as a Debt Document by execution of this Agreement for the purposes of the definition of “Debt Document” in the Intercreditor Agreement.
2. | Amendment to the Intercreditor Agreement |
2.1 | Amendment to the Intercreditor Agreement |
(a) | Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, each Party consents to the amendments to the Intercreditor Agreement as contemplated by this Agreement. |
(b) | Each Party agrees, in accordance with clause 31 (Consents, amendments and override) of the Intercreditor Agreement, that with immediate and automatic effect on and from the Effective Date, the Intercreditor Agreement shall be amended and restated so that it shall be read and construed for all purposes as set out in Schedule 1 (Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement) and all references in the Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement to “this Agreement” shall include this Agreement. |
3. | Representations |
3.1 | Representations |
Each Intra-Group Lender, each Debtor and the Original Bondco makes the representations and warranties set out in this Clause 3.1 to each Primary Creditor (by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing) on the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date.
(a) | Status |
(i) | It is a limited liability corporation or company duly incorporated or organised, as the case may be, and validly existing under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organisation, as the case may be. |
(ii) | It is acting as principal for its own account and not as agent or trustee in any capacity on behalf of any person in relation to this Agreement. |
(b) | Binding obligations |
Subject to the Legal Reservations, the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this Agreement are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations.
(c) | Non-conflict with other obligations |
The entry into and performance by it of, and the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement do not and will not conflict with:
(i) | any law or regulation applicable to it; |
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(ii) | its constitutional documents; or |
(iii) | any agreement or instrument binding upon it or any of its assets or constitute a default or termination event (however described) under any such agreement or instrument, except where a Material Adverse Effect does not or would not be reasonably expected to occur. |
(d) | Power and authority |
It has the power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorise its entry into, performance and delivery of, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein.
(e) | Validity and admissibility in evidence |
All Authorisations required:
(i) | to enable it lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations under this Agreement; and |
(ii) | to make this Agreement admissible in evidence in its Relevant Jurisdictions, |
have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect.
(f) | Governing law and enforcement |
Subject to the Legal Reservations:
(i) | the choice of English law as the governing law of this Agreement will be recognised and enforced in its Relevant Jurisdiction; and |
(ii) | any judgment obtained in relation to this Agreement in England will be recognised and enforced in its Relevant Jurisdictions. |
(g) | No filing or stamp taxes |
Subject to the Legal Reservations, under the laws of its Relevant Jurisdictions it is not necessary that this Agreement be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in that jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration, notarial or similar Taxes or fees be paid on or in relation to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated herein (save for any stamp, registration, notarial or similar Tax which is referred to in any legal opinion of legal counsel in the Macau SAR delivered to the Intercreditor Agent under this Agreement, which will be made or paid promptly after the date of this Agreement).
(h) | Deduction of Tax |
It is not required under the laws of its Relevant Jurisdiction or at its address specified in this Agreement or any other Finance Document to make any deduction for or on account of Tax from any payment it may make under this Agreement.
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4. | Continuity and further assurance |
4.1 | Continuing obligations |
Each Intra-Group Lender, each Debtor and the Original Bondco agrees and acknowledges that the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Debt Documents shall, save as amended by this Agreement, continue in full force and effect and extend to the liabilities and obligations of each Intra-Group Lender, each Debtor and the Original Bondco under the Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement and the other Debt Documents (as amended from time to time), including as varied, amended, supplemented or extended by this Agreement and apply equally to the obligations of each Intra-Group Lender, each Debtor and the Original Bondco under Clause 5 (Costs and expenses) as if set out in full in this Agreement. In particular, nothing in this Agreement shall affect the rights of the Primary Creditors in respect of the occurrence of any Default which is continuing or which arises on or after the date of this Agreement (other than any Default which has occurred or may occur as a result of the entry into of this Agreement or the entry into, and performance of, the transactions contemplated by any of the foregoing).
4.2 | Further assurance |
Each Intra-Group Lender, each Debtor and the Original Bondco shall, upon the written request of the Intercreditor Agent and at its own expense, do all such acts and things reasonably necessary to give effect to the amendments effected or to be effected pursuant to this Agreement.
5. | Costs and expenses |
(a) | Notwithstanding clause 26 (Costs and expenses) of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Parent shall pay (or shall procure that another member of the Group will pay) to the Primary Creditors within five (5) Business Days of demand the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) (together with any applicable Indirect Tax) including without limitation the fees and expenses of a Primary Creditor’s legal advisers reasonably incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution and performance of this Agreement (and the documents listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent)) and the transactions contemplated in this Agreement. |
(b) | The Parent shall pay and, within five (5) Business Days of demand, indemnify the Primary Creditors against any cost, loss or liability the Primary Creditors incur in relation to all stamp duty, registration and other similar Taxes payable in respect of this Agreement and the documents listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent). |
6. | Enforcement |
6.1 | Jurisdiction of English courts |
(a) | The courts of England have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement) (a “Dispute”). |
(b) | The Parties agree that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and accordingly no Party will argue to the contrary. |
(c) | This Clause 6.1 is for the benefit of the Secured Parties only. As a result, no Secured Party shall be prevented from taking proceedings relating to a Dispute in any other courts with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, the Secured Parties may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions. |
6.2 | Service of process |
(a) | Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law: |
(i) | each Debtor, each Intra-Group Lender and the Original Bondco: |
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(A) | irrevocably appoints Law Debenture Corporate Service Limited as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with this Agreement; and |
(B) | agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the relevant Debtor, Intra-Group Lender or Original Bondco of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned. |
(b) | If any person appointed as an agent for service of process is unable for any reason to act as agent for service of process, the Parent (in the case of an agent for service of process for a Debtor), the Intra-Group Lender or the Original Bondco must immediately (and in any event within three (3) days of such event taking place) appoint another agent on terms acceptable to each Creditor Representative and each Hedge Counterparty. Failing this, the relevant Creditor Representative or Hedge Counterparty (as the case may be) may appoint another agent for this purpose. |
6.3 | Waiver of Jury Trial |
EACH OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT AGREES TO WAIVE IRREVOCABLY ITS RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED IN THIS AGREEMENT. This waiver is intended to apply to all Disputes. Each Party acknowledges that (a) this waiver is a material inducement to enter into this Agreement, (b) it has already relied on this waiver in entering into this Agreement and (c) it will continue to rely on this waiver in future dealings. Each Party represents that it has reviewed this waiver with its legal advisers and that it knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury trial fights after consultation with its legal advisers. In the event of litigation, this Agreement may be filed as a written consent to a trial by the court.
7. | Miscellaneous |
7.1 | Incorporation of terms |
The provisions of clauses 1.5 (Third party rights), 29 (Notices), 30 (Preservation) and 34 (Contractual recognition of bail-in) of the Intercreditor Agreement and, at and from the Effective Date, the corresponding clauses in the Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement shall be deemed incorporated into this Agreement as if set out in full herein and as if references in those clauses to “this Agreement” and “a Debt Document” are references to this Agreement and cross references to specified clauses thereof are references to the equivalent clauses set out or incorporated herein.
8. | Counterparts |
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Agreement.
9. | Governing law |
This Agreement and any non- contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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Schedule 1
Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement
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Execution Version
Dated 1 December 2016 |
(November 30, 2016 New York time) |
as amended and restated pursuant to |
an amendment and restatement deed dated 7 February 2022 |
Intercreditor Agreement
between
(among others)
Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch
2016 Credit Facility Agent
Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch
2016 Credit Facility Lender
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited
Common Security Agent
DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited
Intercreditor Agent
Studio City Investments Limited
as Parent
and
Studio City Company Limited
as the Company
White & Case
9th Floor Central Tower
28 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
Table of Contents
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1. |
Definitions and interpretation | 2 | ||||
2. |
Ranking and priority | 43 | ||||
3. |
Credit Facility Creditors and Credit Facility Liabilities | 44 | ||||
4. |
Pari Passu Debt Creditors and Pari Passu Debt Liabilities | 50 | ||||
5. |
Hedge Counterparties and Hedging Liabilities | 53 | ||||
6. |
Option to purchase and Hedge Transfer | 62 | ||||
7. |
Existing Subordination Deed | 67 | ||||
8. |
Intra-Group Lenders and Intra-Group Liabilities | 67 | ||||
9. |
[Reserved] | 69 | ||||
10. |
Subordinated Liabilities | 70 | ||||
11. |
Bondco Liabilities | 72 | ||||
12. |
Effect of Insolvency Event | 73 | ||||
13. |
Turnover of receipts | 75 | ||||
14. |
Redistribution | 77 | ||||
15. |
Enforcement of Transaction Security | 78 | ||||
16. |
Non-Distressed Disposals | 85 | ||||
17. |
Distressed Disposals | 87 | ||||
18. |
Further assurance – disposals and releases | 92 | ||||
19. |
Application of proceeds | 93 | ||||
20. |
Equalisation | 99 | ||||
21. |
The Common Security Agent | 102 | ||||
22. |
The POA Agent | 115 | ||||
23. |
The Intercreditor Agent | 117 | ||||
24. |
Pari Passu Note Trustee Protections | 127 | ||||
25. |
Changes to the Parties | 130 | ||||
26. |
Costs and expenses | 138 | ||||
27. |
Other indemnities | 139 | ||||
28. |
Information | 141 | ||||
29. |
Notices | 142 | ||||
30. |
Preservation | 144 | ||||
31. |
Consents, amendments and override | 146 | ||||
32. |
Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement | 152 | ||||
33. |
Acknowledgments | 154 | ||||
34. |
Contractual recognition of bail-in | 154 | ||||
35. |
Counterparts | 155 |
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36. |
Governing law | 155 | ||||
37. |
Enforcement | 155 | ||||
Schedule 1 Form of Debtor Accession Deed |
157 | |||||
Schedule 2 Form of Creditor/Creditor Representative Accession Undertaking |
161 | |||||
Schedule 3 Form of Debtor Resignation Request |
163 | |||||
Schedule 4 Transaction Security Documents |
164 | |||||
Schedule 5 Continuing Documents |
171 | |||||
Part 1 Definitions and clauses |
171 | |||||
Part 2 Reserved meanings |
178 | |||||
Schedule 6 Agreed Security Principles |
183 | |||||
Schedule 7 Enforcement Principles |
186 | |||||
Schedule 8 Form of Super Senior Hedging Certificate |
188 | |||||
Schedule 9 Hedge Counterparties’ guarantee and indemnity |
190 |
(ii)
This Agreement is originally dated 1 December 2016 (November 30, 2016, New York time), was amended and restated pursuant to an amendment and restatement deed dated 7th February 2022 and is made
Between:
(1) | Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch as agent under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (the “2016 Credit Facility Agent”); |
(2) | Bank of China Limited, Macau Branch as a 2016 Credit Facility Lender; |
(3) | Studio City Investments Limited, a BVI business company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (registered number 1673083), whose registered office is at Ocorian Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, Jayla Place, Wickhams Cay I, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (the “Parent”); |
(4) | Studio City Company Limited a BVI business company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (registered number 1673603), whose registered office is at Ocorian Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, Jayla Place, Wickhams Cay I, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (the “Borrower”); |
(5) | The Companies named on the conformed signing pages as Intra-Group Lenders; |
(6) | The Subsidiaries of the Parent named on the conformed signing pages as Debtors (together with the Parent and the Company, the “Original Debtors”); |
(7) | Studio City (HK) Two Limited (新濠影匯(香港)第二有限公司) as a Debtor; |
(8) | Studio City Finance Limited, a BVI business company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (registered number 1673307), whose registered office is at Ocorian Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, Jayla Place, Wickhams Cay I, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (the “Original Bondco”); |
(9) | The Companies named on the conformed signing pages as the parties to the Existing Subordination Deed (the “Existing Subordination Parties”) for the purposes of Clause 7 (Existing Subordination Deed) only and not in respect of any other provision of this Agreement; |
(10) | DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited as coordinating intercreditor agent for the Secured Parties (the “Intercreditor Agent”); |
(11) | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited as security trustee for the Secured Parties (the “Common Security Agent”); and |
(12) | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited in its capacity as agent for the Common Security Agent under the Power of Attorney (the “POA Agent”). |
It is agreed as follows:
Section 1
Interpretation
1. | Definitions and interpretation |
1.1 | Definitions |
In this Agreement:
“1992 ISDA Master Agreement” means the Master Agreement (Multicurrency – Cross Border) as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
“2002 ISDA Master Agreement” means the 2002 Master Agreement as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
“2016 Amendment and Restatement Agreement” means the amendment and restatement agreement in relation to the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement made between the Parent, the Company, the 2016 Credit Facility Agent, the 2016 Credit Facility Lender and others dated 23 November 2016.
“2016 Credit Facility” means each “Facility” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“2016 Credit Facility Acceleration Event” means an “Acceleration Event” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (other than the right to declare any amount payable on demand) or any acceleration provisions being automatically invoked under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“2016 Credit Facility Agreement” means the facilities agreement originally dated 28 January 2013 between (among others) the Borrower as borrower and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited as security agent (as amended and amended and restated from time to time), as amended and restated on 1 December 2016 pursuant to the 2016 Amendment and Restatement Agreement and on 15 March 2021 pursuant to an amendment and restatement agreement dated 15 March 2021.
“2016 Credit Facility Ancillary Facility” means any ancillary facility made available from time to time in accordance with the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“2016 Credit Facility Ancillary Lender” means each 2016 Credit Facility Lender (or Affiliate of a 2016 Credit Facility Lender) which makes available a 2016 Credit Facility Ancillary Facility.
“2016 Credit Facility Borrower” means each “Borrower” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“2016 Credit Facility Cash Cover” means “cash cover” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“2016 Credit Facility Commitment” means “Commitment” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“2016 Credit Facility Creditors” means the 2016 Credit Facility Agent, each 2016 Credit Facility Arranger and each 2016 Credit Facility Lender.
“2016 Credit Facility Documents” means the “Finance Documents” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
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“2016 Credit Facility Guarantor” means each “Guarantor” under, and as defined, in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and each other person who guarantees all or any of the 2016 Credit Facility Liabilities from time to time.
“2016 Credit Facility Issuing Bank ” means any “Issuing Bank” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement from time to time.
“2016 Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date” means the first date on which all 2016 Credit Facility Liabilities (other than in respect of the principal amount of the Rolled Loan) have been fully and finally discharged to the satisfaction of the relevant Creditor Representative(s), whether or not as the result of an enforcement, and the 2016 Credit Facility Lenders are under no further obligation to provide financial accommodation to any of the Debtors under the 2016 Credit Facility Documents.
“2016 Credit Facility Lenders” means each Lender (as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement), 2016 Credit Facility Issuing Bank and 2016 Credit Facility Ancillary Lender.
“2016 Credit Facility Liabilities” means the Liabilities owed by any Debtor to the 2016 Credit Facility Creditors under or in connection with the 2016 Credit Facility Documents.
“2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Agreement ” means the amendment and restatement agreement in relation to this Agreement dated 7 February 2022 between, among others, the Parent, the Borrower, the Original Bondco, the Intercreditor Agent, the Common Security Agent and the POA Agent.
“2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Effective Date” means the “Effective Date” as defined in the 2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
“Acceleration Event” means a Credit Facility Acceleration Event or a Pari Passu Debt Acceleration Event.
“Additional Credit Facility” means any credit facility (other than any 2016 Credit Facility) made available to the Borrower or (to the extent not prohibited under the terms and conditions of the Credit Facility Documents and Pari Passu Debt Documents) to any other member of the Restricted Group, in each case where:
(a) | the agent of the lenders in respect of the credit facility has become a Party as a Creditor Representative; |
(b) | each arranger of the credit facility has become a Party as a Credit Facility Arranger; and |
(c) | each lender in respect of the credit facility has become a Party as an Additional Credit Facility Lender, |
in respect of that credit facility pursuant to Clause 25.11 (Accession of Credit Facility Creditors under New Credit Facilities).
“Additional Credit Facility Acceleration Event” means an “Acceleration Event” under and as defined in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement (other than the right to declare any amount payable on demand) or any acceleration provisions being automatically invoked under such Additional Credit Facility Agreement.
“Additional Credit Facility Agreement” means a credit facility agreement setting out the terms of any Additional Credit Facility and which creates or evidences any Additional Credit Facility Liabilities.
“Additional Credit Facility Ancillary Facility” means any ancillary facility made available from time to time in accordance with an Additional Credit Facility Agreement.
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“Additional Credit Facility Ancillary Lender” means each Additional Credit Facility Lender (or Affiliate of an Additional Credit Facility Lender) which makes available an Additional Credit Facility Ancillary Facility.
“Additional Credit Facility Borrower” means each “Borrower” under and as defined in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement.
“Additional Credit Facility Cash Cover” means “cash cover” under and as defined in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement.
“Additional Credit Facility Commitment” means “Commitment” under and as defined in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement.
“Additional Credit Facility Creditors” means each Additional Credit Facility Agent, each Additional Credit Facility Arranger and each Additional Credit Facility Lender.
“Additional Credit Facility Documents” means the “Finance Documents” under and as defined in any Additional Credit Facility Agreement.
“Additional Credit Facility Guarantor” means each “Guarantor” under, and as defined, in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement and each other person who guarantees all or any of the Additional Credit Facility Liabilities from time to time.
“Additional Credit Facility Issuing Bank” means any “Issuing Bank” under and as defined in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement from time to time.
“Additional Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date” means the first date on which all Additional Credit Facility Liabilities have been fully and finally discharged to the satisfaction of the relevant Creditor Representative(s), whether or not as the result of an enforcement, and the Additional Credit Facility Lenders are under no further obligation to provide financial accommodation to any of the Debtors under the Additional Credit Facility Documents.
“Additional Credit Facility Lenders” means each Lender (as defined in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement), Additional Credit Facility Issuing Bank and Additional Credit Facility Ancillary Lender.
“Additional Credit Facility Liabilities” means the Liabilities owed by any Debtor to the Additional Credit Facility Creditors under or in connection with the Additional Credit Facility Documents.
“Additional High Yield Note Refinancing” means a refinancing of any amount outstanding under or in connection with any Additional High Yield Notes (or any refinancing of any such refinancing), in each case from the proceeds of an issue by a Bondco of high yield notes or other financial indebtedness (each, “Additional High Yield Note Refinancing Indebtedness”).
“Additional High Yield Notes” means (i) any additional High Yield Notes issued in accordance with the terms of the High Yield Note Indenture, as part of the same series as the High Yield Notes issued on 26 November 2012 and (ii) other than in connection with a High Yield Note Refinancing or an Additional High Yield Note Refinancing, any other additional senior unsecured notes issued by any Bondco and which ranks pari passu with or junior to the High Yield Notes.
“Affiliate” means, in relation to any person (i) for the purposes of the definition of “Sponsor Affiliate”, any other person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such person and (ii) in any other case, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company. For purposes of this definition, “control” means, in relation to a person, the power, directly or indirectly, to (a) vote 20 per cent. or more of the shares or other securities having ordinary voting power for the election of the board of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person or (b) direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person, whether by contract or otherwise.
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“Agreed Security Principles” means the principles set out in Schedule 6 (Agreed Security Principles).
“Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amount ” means, with respect to a Super Senior Hedge Counterparty, the portion of the Super Senior Hedging Amount allocated to that Super Senior Hedge Counterparty less any portion released by that Super Senior Hedge Counterparty, in each case under Clause 5.14 (Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities).
“Amended Land Concession” has the meaning given to that term in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“Ancillary Document” means each document relating to or evidencing the terms of an Ancillary Facility.
“Ancillary Facility” means any ancillary facility made available from time to time in accordance with a Credit Facility Agreement.
“Ancillary Lender” means each Credit Facility Lender (or Affiliate of a Credit Facility Lender) which makes available an Ancillary Facility.
“Arranger” means each Credit Facility Arranger and each Pari Passu Arranger, in each case, which is a Party becomes a Party as an Arranger pursuant to Clause 25.11 (Accession of Credit Facility Creditors under New Credit Facilities) or Clause 25.12 (Accession of Pari Passu Creditors under New Pari Passu Debt Notes or Pari Passu Facilities), as the case may be.
“Authorisation” means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation or registration.
“Automatic Early Termination” means the termination or close-out of any hedging transaction prior to the maturity of that hedging transaction which is brought about automatically by the terms of the relevant Hedging Agreement and without any party to the relevant Hedging Agreement taking any action to terminate that hedging transaction.
“Available Commitment”:
(a) | in relation to a Credit Facility Lender, has the meaning given to the term “Available Commitment” in the relevant Credit Facility Agreement; |
(b) | in relation to a Pari Passu Lender, has the meaning given to the term “Available Commitment” in the relevant Pari Passu Facility Agreement. |
“Bondco” means (i) the Original Bondco or (ii) any other entity which is not a member of the Group and which issues Additional High Yield Notes or otherwise incurs financial indebtedness in respect of any Additional High Yield Note Refinancing or any High Yield Note Refinancing (in each case, the proceeds of which are on-lent to the Parent pursuant to a Bondco Loan).
“Bondco Liabilities” means all present and future liabilities and obligations at any time of the Parent to any Bondco under or in connection with any Bondco Loan Agreement.
“Bondco Loan” means each loan from a Bondco to the Parent pursuant to a Bondco Loan Agreement (but excluding any Subordinated Liabilities).
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“Bondco Loan Agreement ” means (i) the loan agreement or note dated or issued (as the case may be) on 26 November 2012 and made between the Original Bondco and the Parent, whereby the proceeds of the issuance of the High Yield Notes issued on or about that date were on-lent pursuant to a Bondco Loan to the Parent and (ii) any other loan agreement, instrument or arrangement (documented or undocumented) made in connection with any Additional High Yield Notes, any Additional High Yield Note Refinancing or any High Yield Note Refinancing between a Bondco and the Parent and pursuant to which the proceeds of such issuance are on-lent by such Bondco to the Parent, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Borrowing Liabilities” means, in relation to a member of the Group, the liabilities and obligations (not being Guarantee Liabilities) it may have as a principal debtor to a Creditor (other than to an Arranger or a Creditor Representative) or a Debtor in respect of Liabilities arising under the Debt Documents (whether incurred solely or jointly and including, without limitation, liabilities and obligations as a borrower under the Credit Facility Documents and liabilities and obligations as a borrower or issuer under the Pari Passu Debt Documents).
“Business Day” means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in the Macau SAR, the Hong Kong SAR, London and New York.
“Capped Hedge Purchase Amount” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 6.2 (Hedge Transfer: Pari Passu Debt Creditors).
“Capped Purchase Amount” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 6.1 (Option to purchase: Pari Passu Debt Creditors).
“Charged Property” means all of the assets which from time to time are, or are expressed to be, the subject of the Transaction Security.
“Close-Out Netting” means:
(a) | in respect of a Hedging Agreement or a Hedging Ancillary Document based on a 1992 ISDA Master Agreement, any step involved in determining the amount payable in respect of an Early Termination Date (as defined in the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement) under section 6(e) (Payments on Early Termination) of the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement before the application of any subsequent Set-off (as defined in the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement); |
(b) | in respect of a Hedging Agreement or a Hedging Ancillary Document based on a 2002 ISDA Master Agreement, any step involved in determining an Early Termination Amount (as defined in the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement) under section 6(e) (Payments on Early Termination) of the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement; and |
(c) | in respect of a Hedging Agreement or a Hedging Ancillary Document not based on an ISDA Master Agreement, any step involved on a termination of the hedging transactions under that Hedging Agreement pursuant to any provision of that Hedging Agreement which has a similar effect to either provision referenced in paragraph (a) and paragraph (b) above. |
“Commitment” means a Credit Facility Commitment or a Pari Passu Facility Commitment.
“Commodity Exchange Act” shall mean the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. §1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Common Assurance” means any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss in respect of any of the Liabilities, the benefit of which (however conferred) is, to the extent legally possible and subject to any Agreed Security Principles, given to all the Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities.
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“Common Currency” means Dollars.
“Common Currency Amount” means, in relation to an amount, that amount converted (to the extent not already denominated in the Common Currency) into the Common Currency at the Common Security Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the Business Day prior to the relevant calculation.
“Common Security Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange” means, in respect of the conversion of one currency (the “First Currency”) into another currency (the “Second Currency”) the Common Security Agent’s spot rate of exchange for the purchase of the Second Currency with the First Currency in the Hong Kong or Macau foreign exchange market at or about 11:00 a.m. (Hong Kong time) on a particular day, which shall be notified by the Common Security Agent in accordance with paragraph (e) of Clause 21.4 (Duties of the Common Security Agent).
“Common Security Documents” means the Security Documents, excluding any Transaction Security Document relating to any Credit-Specific Transaction Security.
“Common Transaction Security” means any Transaction Security which to the extent legally possible and subject to any Agreed Security Principles:
(a) | is created in favour of the Common Security Agent as trustee for the other Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities; or |
(b) | in the case of any jurisdiction in which effective Security cannot be granted in favour of the Common Security Agent as trustee for the Secured Parties is created in favour of: |
(i) | all the Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities; or |
(ii) | the Common Security Agent under a parallel debt structure for the benefit of all the Secured Parties, |
and which (subject to the terms of this Agreement) ranks in the order of priority contemplated in Clause 2.2 (Transaction Security), in each case excluding (for the avoidance of doubt) the Credit-Specific Transaction Security.
“Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice” has the meaning given to such term in paragraph (a) of Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce).
“Competitive Sales Process” means:
(a) | any auction or other competitive sales process; and |
(b) | any enforcement of the Transaction Security carried out by way of auction or other competitive sales process pursuant to requirements of applicable law. |
“Consent” means any consent, approval, release or waiver or agreement to any amendment.
“Continuing Documents” means (i) the Continuing Macau Documents, the Continuing English Share Charges, the Continuing English Powers of Attorneys, the Continuing English Debentures and the Continuing Hong Kong Accounts Charges and (ii) the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement.
“Continuing English Debentures” means (i) the Continuing English Debenture (General) and (ii) the Continuing English Debenture (SCH5).
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“Continuing English Debenture (General)” means the English-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a debenture that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (other than the Continuing English Debenture (SCH5)).
“Continuing English Debenture (SCH5)” means the English-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a debenture that was entered into by SCH5 prior to the date of this Agreement.
“Continuing English Powers of Attorney ” means each English-law security power of attorney that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement.
“Continuing English Share Charge” means each English-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a share charge that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement.
“Continuing Hong Kong Accounts Charge” means each Hong Kong-law Transaction Security Document in the form of an account charge that was entered into prior to the date of the 2016 Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
“Continuing Macau Accounts Pledge” means each Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of an account pledge that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (other than any Continuing Macau Onshore Accounts Pledges) (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Continuing Macau Assignments” means each Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of an assignment that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Continuing Macau Documents” means (i) the Continuing Macau Floating Charges, (ii) the Continuing Macau Accounts Pledges, (iii) the Continuing Macau Share Pledges, (iv) the Continuing Macau Mortgage, (v) the Continuing Macau Onshore Accounts Pledges, (vi) the Continuing Macau Assignments, (vii) the Continuing Macau Powers of Attorney, (viii) the Continuing Macau Livrança and (ix) the Continuing Macau Livrança Covering Letter.
“Continuing Macau Floating Charges” means each Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a floating charge that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Continuing Macau Livrança” means the Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a promissory note (“Livrança”) that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Continuing Macau Livrança Covering Letter” means the Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a covering letter to the Livrança that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
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“Continuing Macau Mortgage” means the Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a Mortgage that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Continuing Macau Onshore Accounts Pledges” means each Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of an account pledge in respect of onshore accounts that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Continuing Macau Powers of Attorney” means each Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a power of attorney that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Continuing Macau Share Pledges ” means each Macau-law Transaction Security Document in the form of a share pledge that was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (together with each related confirmation or amendment entered into on or about the date of this Agreement and each further related confirmation or amendment entered into from time to time and designated as such by the Common Security Agent and Company or the relevant Debtor).
“Credit Facility” means, subject to Clause 25.11 (Accession of Credit Facility Creditors under New Credit Facilities), any “Facility” under and as defined in a Credit Facility Agreement.
“Credit Facility Acceleration Event” means:
(a) | a 2016 Credit Facility Acceleration Event; or |
(b) | an Additional Credit Facility Acceleration Event. |
“Credit Facility Agent” means each of:
(a) | the 2016 Credit Facility Agent; and |
(b) | an Additional Credit Facility Agent (if any). |
“Credit Facility Agreement” means each of:
(a) | the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement; and |
(b) | an Additional Credit Facility Agreement (if any). |
“Credit Facility Arranger” means any arranger of any Credit Facility who becomes a Party in such capacity pursuant to Clause 25.11 (Accession of Credit Facility Creditors under New Credit Facilities).
“Credit Facility Borrower” means a “Borrower” under and as defined in the relevant Credit Facility Agreement.
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“Credit Facility Cash Cover” means:
(a) | any 2016 Credit Facility Cash Cover; and |
(b) | any Additional Credit Facility Cash Cover. |
“Credit Facility Cash Cover Document” means, in relation to any Credit Facility Cash Cover, any Credit Facility Document that creates or evidences, or is expressed to create or evidence, the Security required to be provided over that Credit Facility Cash Cover by the relevant Credit Facility Agreement.
“Credit Facility Commitment” means:
(a) | any 2016 Credit Facility Commitment; and |
(b) | any Additional Credit Facility Commitment. |
“Credit Facility Creditors” means:
(a) | the 2016 Credit Facility Creditors; and |
(b) | the Additional Credit Facility Creditors (if any). |
“Credit Facility Documents” means:
(a) | the 2016 Credit Facility Documents; and |
(b) | the Additional Credit Facility Documents (if any). |
“Credit Facility Lender Cash Collateral” means any cash collateral provided by a Credit Facility Lender to an Issuing Bank pursuant to any term of the relevant Credit Facility Agreement from time to time.
“Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date” means the later to occur of:
(a) | the 2016 Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date; and |
(b) | if any Additional Credit Facility Commitments have been established or Additional Credit Facility Liabilities have been incurred, the corresponding Additional Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date. |
“Credit Facility Lender Liabilities Transfer” means a transfer of the Credit Facility Liabilities described in Clause 6.1 (Option to purchase: Pari Passu Debt Creditors).
“Credit Facility Lenders” means:
(a) | each 2016 Credit Facility Lender; and |
(b) | each Additional Credit Facility Lender (if any). |
“Credit Facility Liabilities” means the Liabilities owed by any Debtor to any Credit Facility Creditor under or in connection with any Credit Facility Document.
“Credit Related Close-Out” means any Permitted Hedge Close-Out which is not a Non-Credit Related Close-Out.
“Credit-Specific Transaction Security” means:
(a) | the Transaction Security over any Pari Passu Notes Interest Accrual Account; |
(b) | the Transaction Security over any Pari Passu Facility Debt Service Reserve Account; and |
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(c) | the Transaction Security over the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account. |
“Creditor/Creditor Representative Accession Undertaking” means:
(a) | an undertaking substantially in the form set out in Schedule 2 (Form of Creditor/Creditor Representative Accession Undertaking); or |
(b) | a Transfer Certificate or an Assignment Agreement (each as defined in the relevant Credit Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Facility Agreement), provided that it contains an accession to this Agreement which is substantially in the form set out in Schedule 2 (Form of Creditor/Creditor Representative Accession Undertaking); or |
(c) | an Increase Confirmation (as defined in the relevant Credit Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Facility Agreement), provided that it contains an accession to this Agreement which is substantially in the form set out in Schedule 2 (Form of Creditor/Creditor Representative Accession Undertaking), |
as the context may require, or
(d) | in the case of an acceding Debtor which is expressed to accede as an Intra Group Lender in the relevant Debtor Accession Deed, that Debtor Accession Deed. |
“Creditor Representative” means:
(a) | in relation to the 2016 Credit Facility Lenders, the 2016 Credit Facility Agent; |
(b) | in relation to any Additional Credit Facility Lenders, the Additional Credit Facility Agent which has acceded to this Agreement as the Creditor Representative of those Additional Credit Facility Lenders; and |
(c) | in relation to any other Pari Passu Noteholders or Pari Passu Lenders, the person which has acceded to this Agreement as the Creditor Representative of those Pari Passu Noteholders or Pari Passu Lenders pursuant to Clause 25.12 (Accession of Pari Passu Debt Creditors under New Pari Passu Notes or Pari Passu Facilities). |
“Creditor Representative Amounts” means fees, costs and expenses of a Creditor Representative payable to a Creditor Representative for its own account pursuant to the relevant Debt Documents or any engagement letter between a Creditor Representative and a Debtor (including any amount payable to a Creditor Representative by way of indemnity, remuneration or reimbursement for expenses incurred), and the costs incurred by a Creditor Representative in connection with any actual or attempted Enforcement Action which is permitted by this Agreement which are recoverable pursuant to the terms of the Debt Documents.
“Creditors” means the Primary Creditors, the Intra-Group Lenders, the Subordinated Creditors and each Bondco.
“Debt Disposal” means any disposal of any Liabilities or Debtors’ Intra-Group Receivables pursuant to paragraphs (d) or (e) of Clause 17.1 (Facilitation of Distressed Disposals).
“Debt Document” means each of this Agreement, the Hedging Agreements, the Credit Facility Documents, the Pari Passu Debt Documents, the Security Documents, any agreement evidencing the terms of the Intra- Group Liabilities or the Subordinated Liabilities and any other document designated as such by the Intercreditor Agent and the Parent.
“Debtor” means each Original Debtor and any person which becomes a Party as a Debtor in accordance with the terms of Clause 25 (Changes to the Parties).
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“Debtor Accession Deed” means:
(a) | a deed substantially in the form set out in Schedule 1 (Form of Debtor Accession Deed); or |
(b) | (only in the case of a member of the Group which is acceding as a borrower, issuer or guarantor under the relevant Credit Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Debt Document) an accession document in the form required by the relevant Credit Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Debt Document (provided that it contains an accession to this Agreement which is substantially in the form set out in Schedule 1 (Form of Debtor Accession Deed)). |
“Debtor Resignation Request” means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 3 (Form of Debtor Resignation Request).
“Debtors’ Intra-Group Receivables” means, in relation to a member of the Group, any liabilities and obligations owed to any Debtor (whether actual or contingent and whether incurred solely or jointly) by that member of the Group.
“Default” means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance which would (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any determination in accordance with the Debt Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) be an Event of Default.
“Defaulting Lender” means:
(a) | a Credit Facility Lender which is a “Defaulting Lender” under, and as defined in, the relevant Credit Facility Agreement; and |
(b) | at any time, a Pari Passu Lender which is a “defaulting lender” under and as defined in the relevant Pari Passu Facility Agreement. |
“Delegate” means any delegate, agent, attorney or co-trustee appointed by the Common Security Agent.
“Distress Event” means any of:
(a) | an Acceleration Event; or |
(b) | the enforcement of any Transaction Security. |
“Distressed Disposal” means a disposal of any Charged Property which is:
(a) | being effected at the request of the Instructing Group in circumstances where the Transaction Security has become enforceable; |
(b) | being effected by enforcement of the Transaction Security; or |
(c) | being effected, after the occurrence of a Distress Event, by a Debtor or a Security Provider to a person or persons which is, or are, not a member, or members, of the Group. |
“Dollar”, “USD” and “US$” denote the lawful currency of the United States of America.
“Enforcement” means the enforcement or disposal of any Transaction Security, the requesting of a Distressed Disposal and/or the release or disposal of claims and/or Transaction Security on a Distressed Disposal under Clause 17 (Distressed Disposals), the giving of instructions as to actions with respect to the Transaction Security and/or the Charged Property following an Insolvency Event under Clause 12.7 (Instructions) and the taking of any other actions consequential on (or necessary to effect) any of those actions (but excluding the delivery of a Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice).
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“Enforcement Action” means:
(a) | in relation to any Liabilities: |
(i) | the acceleration of any Liabilities or the making of any declaration that any Liabilities are prematurely due and payable (other than as a result of it becoming unlawful for a Primary Creditor to perform its obligations under, or of any voluntary or mandatory prepayment arising under, the Debt Documents); |
(ii) | the making of any declaration that any Liabilities are payable on demand; |
(iii) | the making of a demand in relation to a Liability that is payable on demand (other than a demand made by an Intra-Group Lender in relation to any Intra-Group Liabilities which are on-demand Liabilities to the extent (A) that the demand is made in the ordinary course of dealings between the relevant Debtor and Intra-Group Lender and (B) that any resulting Payment would be a Permitted Intra-Group Payment); |
(iv) | the making of any demand against any member of the Group in relation to any Guarantee Liabilities of that member of the Group; |
(v) | the exercise of any right to require any member of the Group to acquire any Liability (including exercising any put or call option against any member of the Group for the redemption or purchase of any Liability other than in connection with an asset sale offer or a change of control offer (each however defined) as set out in any Credit Facility Agreement or any Pari Passu Debt Document) and excluding any such right which arises as a result of any provision set out in any Pari Passu Facility Agreement in respect of a Pari Passu Facility regulating the making of voluntary debt purchase transactions in relation to that Pari Passu Facility by a member of the Group or any open market purchases of, or any voluntary tender offer or exchange offer for, Pari Passu Notes at a time at which no Default is continuing; |
(vi) | the exercise of any right of set-off, account combination or payment netting against any member of the Group in respect of any Liabilities other than the exercise of any such right: |
(A) | as Close-Out Netting by a Hedge Counterparty or by a Hedging Ancillary Lender; |
(B) | as Payment Netting by a Hedge Counterparty or by a Hedging Ancillary Lender; |
(C) | as Inter-Hedging Agreement Netting by a Hedge Counterparty; |
(D) | as Inter-Hedging Ancillary Document Netting by a Hedging Ancillary Lender; or |
(E) | which is otherwise expressly permitted under the Credit Facility Documents and the Pari Passu Debt Documents to the extent that the exercise of that right gives effect to a Permitted Payment; and |
(vii) | the suing for, commencing or joining of any legal or arbitration proceedings against any member of the Group to recover any Liabilities; |
(b) | the premature termination or close-out of any hedging transaction under any Hedging Agreement (other than pursuant to a Permitted Automatic Early Termination); |
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(c) | the taking of any steps to enforce or require the enforcement of any Transaction Security (including the crystallisation of any floating charge forming part of the Transaction Security) as a result of an Acceleration Event which was continuing at the time the request for enforcement was made; |
(d) | the entering into of any composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with any member of the Group which owes any Liabilities, or has given any Security, guarantee or indemnity or other assurance against loss in respect of the Liabilities (other than any action permitted under Clause 25 (Changes to the Parties), any such right which arises as a result of any provision set out in any Pari Passu Facility Agreement in respect of a Pari Passu Facility regulating the making of voluntary debt purchase transactions in relation to that Pari Passu Facility by a member of the Group or any open market purchases of, or voluntary tender offer or exchange offer for, Pari Passu Notes at a time at which no Default is continuing); or |
(e) | the petitioning, applying or voting for, or the taking of any steps (including the appointment of any liquidator, receiver, administrator or similar officer) in relation to, the winding up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation of any member of the Group which owes any Liabilities, or has given any Security, guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss in respect of any of the Liabilities, or any of such member of the Group’s assets or any suspension of payments or moratorium of any indebtedness of any such member of the Group, or any analogous procedure or step in any jurisdiction, |
except that each of the following shall not constitute Enforcement Action:
(i) | the taking of any action falling within paragraphs (a)(ii), (iii), (iv) and (vii) or (e) above which is necessary (but only to the extent necessary) to preserve the validity, existence or priority of claims in respect of Liabilities, including the registration of such claims before any court or governmental authority and the bringing, supporting or joining of proceedings to prevent any loss of the right to bring, support or join proceedings by reason of applicable limitation periods; |
(ii) | a Primary Creditor bringing legal proceedings against any person solely for the purpose of: |
(A) | obtaining injunctive relief (or any analogous remedy outside England and Wales) to restrain any actual or putative breach of any Debt Document to which it is party; |
(B) | obtaining specific performance (other than specific performance of an obligation to make a payment) with no claim for damages; or |
(C) | requesting judicial interpretation of any provision of any Debt Document to which it is party with no claim for damages; |
(iii) | bringing legal proceedings against any person in connection with any fraud, securities violation or securities or listing regulations; |
(iv) | allegations of material misstatements or omissions made in connection with the offering materials relating to any Pari Passu Notes or in reports furnished to the Pari Passu Noteholders or any exchange on which the Pari Passu Notes are listed by a member of the Group pursuant to the information and reporting requirements under the Pari Passu Debt Documents; |
(v) | to the extent entitled by law, the taking of action against any creditor (or any agent, trustee or receiver acting on behalf of such creditor) to challenge the basis on which any sale or disposal is to take place pursuant to powers granted to such persons under any security documentation; and |
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(vi) | unless an Acceleration Event is continuing, the making by a Subordinated Creditor, a Bondco or an Intra-Group Lender of a demand in relation to the Subordinated Liabilities, the Bondco Liabilities or the Intra-Group Liabilities to the extent that: |
(A) | any resulting Payment would constitute a Permitted Payment; or |
(B) | that Subordinated Liability, Bondco Liability or Intra-Group Liability of a member of the Group is being released or discharged in consideration for the issue of shares in that member of the Group, provided that in the event that the shares of such member of the Group are subject to Transaction Security prior to such issue, then the percentage of shares in such Subsidiary subject to Transaction Security is not diluted. |
“Enforcement Instructions” means instructions as to Enforcement (including the manner and timing of Enforcement) given by the relevant Instructing Group to the Intercreditor Agent, provided that instructions not to undertake Enforcement or an absence of instructions as to Enforcement shall not constitute “Enforcement Instructions”.
“Enforcement Notice” means a notice of enforcement action delivered by the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent to any Debtor or any Security Provider after receipt by the Intercreditor Agent of an instruction any Instructing Group stating that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and directing the Intercreditor Agent and/or the Common Security Agent to take such enforcement action, and which has not been withdrawn.
“Enforcement Objective” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 7 (Enforcement Principles).
“Enforcement Principles” means the principles set out in Schedule 7 (Enforcement Principles).
“Enforcement Proceeds ” means any amount paid to or otherwise realised by a Secured Party under or in connection with any Enforcement (or any transaction in lieu thereof) and, following the occurrence of a Distress Event, any other proceeds of, or arising from, any of the Charged Property.
“Equivalent Provision” means:
(a) | with respect to an Additional Credit Facility Agreement or a Pari Passu Facility Agreement, in relation to a provision or term of a Credit Facility Agreement, any equivalent provision or term in that Additional Credit Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Facility Agreement (as applicable) which is similar in meaning and effect; and |
(b) | with respect to a Pari Passu Note Indenture, in relation to a provision or term of the Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture, any equivalent provision or term in the Pari Passu Note Indenture which is similar in meaning and effect. |
“Event of Default” means any event or circumstance specified as such in a Credit Facility Agreement, a Pari Passu Note Indenture or a Pari Passu Facility Agreement.
“Exchange Rate Hedge Excess” means the amount by which the Total Exchange Rate Hedging exceeds the Other Currency Term Outstandings.
“Exchange Rate Hedging” means, in relation to a Hedge Counterparty, the aggregate of the notional amounts denominated in a Hedged Currency hedged by the relevant Debtors under each Hedging Agreement which is an exchange rate hedge transaction and to which that Hedge Counterparty is party.
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“Exchange Rate Hedging Proportion” means, in relation to a Hedge Counterparty and that Hedge Counterparty’s Exchange Rate Hedging, the proportion (expressed as a percentage) borne by that Hedge Counterparty’s Exchange Rate Hedging to the Total Exchange Rate Hedging.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any member of the Group which is a guarantor of any of the Secured Obligations, (i) any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of such member of the Group of, or the grant by such member of the Group 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 member of the Group’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 member of the Group or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or (ii) any other Swap Obligation designated as an “Excluded Swap Obligation” of such member of the Group as specified in any agreement between such member of the Group and Hedge Counterparties applicable to such Swap Obligations. 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.
“Exposure” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 20.1 (Equalisation Definitions).
“Fairness Opinion” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 7 (Enforcement Principles).
“Fee Letter” means any letter or letters entered into by reference to this Agreement between a member of the Group and any one or more of the Secured Parties setting out any of the fees payable in relation to any of the Secured Obligations and/or this Agreement, including those fees referred to in Clauses 21.29 (Common Security Agent’s fee), 22.2 (POA Agent’s fee) and 23.23 (Intercreditor Agent’s fee).
“Final Discharge Date” means the later to occur of the Super Senior Discharge Date, the Pari Passu Discharge Date and the Rolled Loan Discharge Date.
“Financial Adviser” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 7 (Enforcement Principles).
“Floating Rate Term Outstandings” means, at any time, the aggregate of the amounts of principal (not including any capitalised or deferred interest) then outstanding under the Pari Passu Debt Documents that does not have a fixed rate of interest and which principal amount outstanding has a maturity of more than 12 months.
“Golden Share” means any share in a company or corporation, the memorandum and/or articles of association in respect of which company or corporation designate as such or give the holder of such share any special pre-emptive rights relative to other shareholders.
“Governmental Authority” means, as to any person, the government of the Macau SAR, any other national, state, provincial or local government (whether domestic or foreign), any political subdivision thereof or any other governmental, quasi-governmental, judicial, public or statutory instrumentality, authority, body, agency, bureau or entity, any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, in each case having jurisdiction over such person, or any arbitrator with authority to bind such person at law.
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“Group” means the Parent and each of its Subsidiaries for the time being.
“Guarantee Liabilities” means, in relation to a member of the Group, the liabilities and obligations under the Debt Documents (present or future, actual or contingent and whether incurred solely or jointly) it may have to a Creditor (other than to an Arranger or a Creditor Representative) or Debtor as or as a result of its being a guarantor or surety (including, without limitation, liabilities and obligations arising by way of guarantee, indemnity, contribution or subrogation and in particular any guarantee or indemnity arising under or in respect of the Credit Facility Documents or the Pari Passu Debt Documents).
“Hedge Counterparty” means any entity which becomes a Party as a Hedge Counterparty pursuant to Clause 25.14 (Creditor/Creditor Representative Accession Undertaking).
“Hedge Counterparty Obligations” means the liabilities and obligations owed by any Hedge Counterparty to the Debtors under or in connection with the Hedging Agreements.
“Hedge Transfer” means a transfer to some or all of the Pari Passu Noteholders and the Pari Passu Lenders (or to their nominee or nominees) of (subject to paragraph (c) of Clause 6.2 (Hedge Transfer: Pari Passu Debt Creditors)), each Hedging Agreement together with:
(a) | all the rights in respect of the Hedging Liabilities owed by the Debtors to each Hedge Counterparty; and |
(b) | all the Hedge Counterparty Obligations owed by each Hedge Counterparty to the Debtors, |
in accordance with Clause 25.7 (Change of Hedge Counterparty).
“Hedged Currency” means the currency in which any Other Currency Term Outstandings are denominated and which is hedged in respect of exchange rate risk under a Hedging Agreement.
“Hedging Agreement” means any master agreement, confirmation, schedule or other agreement entered into or to be entered into by the Company and a Hedge Counterparty for the purpose of hedging interest rate or exchange rate risk relating to a Debt Document that the Parent confirms in writing to the Primary Creditors at the time at which it is entered into is permitted under the terms of the Credit Facility Documents and the Pari Passu Debt Documents (in their form as at the date of execution of the relevant Hedging Agreement) to share in the Transaction Security.
“Hedging Ancillary Document” means an Ancillary Document which relates to or evidences the terms of a Hedging Ancillary Facility.
“Hedging Ancillary Facility” means an Ancillary Facility which is made available by way of a hedging facility.
“Hedging Ancillary Lender” means an Ancillary Lender to the extent that that Ancillary Lender makes available a Hedging Ancillary Facility.
“Hedging Force Majeure” means:
(a) | in relation to a Hedging Agreement which is based on the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement: |
(i) | an Illegality or Tax Event or Tax Event Upon Merger (each as defined in the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(ii) | an event similar in meaning and effect to a “Force Majeure Event” (as referred to in paragraph (b) below); |
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(b) | in relation to a Hedging Agreement which is based on the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement, an Illegality or Tax Event, Tax Event Upon Merger or a Force Majeure Event (each as defined in the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(c) | in relation to a Hedging Agreement which is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement, any event similar in meaning and effect to an event described in paragraphs (a) or (b) above. |
“Hedging Liabilities” means the Liabilities owed by any Debtor to the Hedge Counterparties under or in connection with the Hedging Agreements.
“Hedging Purchase Amount” means, in respect of a hedging transaction under a Hedging Agreement, the amount that would be payable to (expressed as a positive number) or by (expressed as a negative number) the relevant Hedge Counterparty on the relevant date if:
(a) | in the case of a Hedging Agreement which is based on an ISDA Master Agreement: |
(i) | that date was an Early Termination Date (as defined in the relevant ISDA Master Agreement); and |
(ii) | the relevant Debtor was the Defaulting Party (under and as defined in the relevant ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(b) | in the case of a Hedging Agreement which is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement: |
(i) | that date was the date on which an event similar in meaning and effect (under that Hedging Agreement) to an Early Termination Date (as defined in any ISDA Master Agreement) occurred under that Hedging Agreement; and |
(ii) | the relevant Debtor was in a position which is similar in meaning and effect to that of a Defaulting Party (under and as defined in the same ISDA Master Agreement), |
in each case as certified by the relevant Hedge Counterparty and as calculated in accordance with the relevant Hedging Agreement.
“High Yield Note Document” means each High Yield Note Indenture, each Bondco Loan Agreement and each other document or instrument which relates to any High Yield Notes or, as the case may be, High Yield Note Refinancing Indebtedness.
“High Yield Note Guarantees” means the guarantees provided by any Debtor:
(a) | to the High Yield Note Trustee in respect of the High Yield Notes issued prior to the original date of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement; or |
(b) | in respect of any Additional High Yield Note, Additional High Yield Note Refinancing Indebtedness or High Yield Note Refinancing Indebtedness. |
“High Yield Note Indenture” means the indenture dated 26 November 2012 made between (among others) the Original Bondco and the High Yield Note Trustee or any equivalent High Yield Note Document in respect of any High Yield Note Refinancing Indebtedness issued by way of debt securities (in each case, as amended or supplemented from time to time).
“High Yield Note Refinancing” means a refinancing of any amount outstanding under or in connection with the High Yield Notes issued prior to the date of this Agreement (or any refinancing of any such refinancing), in each case from the proceeds of an issue by a Bondco of high yield notes or other financial indebtedness (each, “High Yield Note Refinancing Indebtedness”).
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“High Yield Note Trustee” means DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited (or its permitted successor or assign) as trustee for the High Yield Noteholders on the terms set out in the High Yield Note Indenture or its equivalent under any other High Yield Note Document.
“High Yield Noteholders” means the holders of the High Yield Notes or High Yield Note Refinancing Indebtedness from time to time issued by way of debt securities.
“High Yield Notes” means the US$825,000,000 8.500% senior notes due 2020 issued by the Original Bondco and subject to the terms of the High Yield Note Indenture or any financial indebtedness incurred by way of High Yield Note Refinancing.
“Holding Company” means, in relation to a person, any other person in respect of which it is a Subsidiary.
“Hong Kong dollar”, “HKD” and “HK$” denote the lawful currency of the Hong Kong SAR.
“Hong Kong SAR” means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.
“Indirect Tax” means and goods and services tax, consumption tax, value added tax or any other tax of a similar nature.
“Insolvency Event” means, in relation to any member of the Group:
(a) | any resolution is passed or order made for the winding up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation of that member of the Group, a moratorium is declared in relation to any indebtedness of that member of the Group or an administrator is appointed to that member of the Group; |
(b) | any composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement is made with any of its creditors; |
(c) | the appointment of any liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager or other similar officer in respect of that member of the Group or any of its assets; or |
(d) | any analogous procedure or step is taken in any jurisdiction, |
provided that paragraphs (a) to (d) above shall not apply to:
(i) | any winding-up petition which is frivolous or vexatious and is discharged, stayed or dismissed within 60 days of commencement or, if earlier, the date on which it is advertised; or |
(ii) | any voluntary action, proceedings, step or procedure which relates to or constitutes any action, proceedings, step or procedure taken in connection with a transaction regulated but not prohibited by section 13 (Merger, consolidation, or sale of assets) of schedule 10 (Covenants) pursuant to clause 23.1 (Notes covenants) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, section 5.01 (Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets) of the Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture or under an Equivalent Provision of any Additional Credit Facility Agreement or other Pari Passu Debt Document. |
“Instructing Group” means:
(a) | subject to paragraph (b) below, the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Majority Pari Passu Creditors; and |
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(b) (i) | in relation to instructions as to Enforcement of the Common Transaction Security, the group of Primary Creditors entitled to give instructions as to Enforcement of the Common Transaction Security in accordance with which the Common Security Agent is obliged to act under Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce); |
(ii) | in relation to instructions as to Enforcement of any Credit-Specific Transaction Security (other than the Transaction Security over the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account), the group of Primary Creditors entitled to give instructions as to Enforcement of that Credit-Specific Transaction Security in accordance with which the Common Security Agent is obliged to act under Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce); and |
(iii) | in relation to instructions as to Enforcement of the Transaction Security over the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account, the Rolled Loan Facility Lender. |
“Intercreditor Amendment” means any amendment or waiver which is subject to Clause 31 (Consents, amendments and override).
“Interest Rate Hedge Excess” means the amount by which the Total Interest Rate Hedging exceeds the Floating Rate Term Outstandings.
“Interest Rate Hedging ” means, in relation to a Hedge Counterparty, the aggregate of the notional amounts hedged by the relevant Debtors under each Hedging Agreement which is an interest rate hedge transaction and to which that Hedge Counterparty is party.
“Interest Rate Hedging Proportion” means, in relation to a Hedge Counterparty and that Hedge Counterparty’s Interest Rate Hedging, the proportion (expressed as a percentage) borne by that Hedge Counterparty’s Interest Rate Hedging to the Total Interest Rate Hedging.
“Inter-Hedging Agreement Netting” means the exercise of any right of set-off, account combination, close-out netting or payment netting (whether arising out of a cross agreement netting agreement or otherwise) by a Hedge Counterparty against liabilities owed to a Debtor by that Hedge Counterparty under a Hedging Agreement in respect of Hedging Liabilities owed to that Hedge Counterparty by that Debtor under another Hedging Agreement.
“Inter-Hedging Ancillary Document Netting” means the exercise of any right of set-off, account combination, close-out netting or payment netting (whether arising out of a cross agreement netting agreement or otherwise) by a Hedging Ancillary Lender against liabilities owed to a Debtor by that Hedging Ancillary Lender under a Hedging Ancillary Document in respect of Credit Facility Liabilities owed to that Hedging Ancillary Lender by that Debtor under another Hedging Ancillary Document.
“Intra-Group Lenders” means each member of the Group (including the Parent) which has made a loan available to, granted credit to or made any other financial arrangement having similar effect with another member of the Group (but excluding any accrued business expenses or trade payables that would not constitute Intra-Group Liabilities if such member of the Group were an Intra-Group Lender) and which is named on the signing pages as an Intra-Group Lender or which becomes a Party as an Intra- Group Lender in accordance with the terms of Clause 25 (Changes to the Parties) and which in each case has not ceased to be an Intra-Group Lender in accordance with this Agreement.
“Intra-Group Liabilities” means the Liabilities owed by any member of the Group to any of the Intra-Group Lenders (but excluding any Liabilities owed by a member of the Group to any of the Intra-Group Lenders in respect of accrued business expenses and trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of trading, provided that in the case of any amount (i) such amount does not exceed USD1,000,000 and (ii) such amount does not fall due for payment more than 180 days after the date of the relevant supply to which it relates or is not outstanding for more than 180 days).
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“ISDA Master Agreement” means a 1992 ISDA Master Agreement or a 2002 ISDA Master Agreement.
“Issuing Bank” means:
(a) | any 2016 Credit Facility Issuing Bank; and |
(b) | any Additional Credit Facility Issuing Bank. |
“Legal Opinion” means any legal opinion delivered to a Credit Facility Agent or a Creditor Representative under or in connection with:
(a) | the conditions precedent referred to in clause 5.1 (Amendments to the Facilities Agreement) of the 2016 Amendment and Restatement Agreement or clause 27 (Changes to the Obligors) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement; or |
(b) | under an Equivalent Provision or in accordance with the requirements of any Additional Credit Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Debt Document. |
“Legal Reservations” means:
(a) | the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of a court and the limitation of enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, reorganisation and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors; |
(b) | the time barring of claims under statutes of limitation; |
(c) | similar principles, rights and defences under the laws of any Relevant Jurisdiction; and |
(d) | any other matters which are set out as qualifications or reservations as to matters of law of general application in the Legal Opinions. |
“Letter of Credit” means any “Letter of Credit” under and as defined in a Credit Facility Agreement from time to time.
“Liabilities” means all present and future liabilities and obligations at any time of any member of the Group to any Creditor under or in connection with the Debt Documents (or, in the case of the Subordinated Liabilities or Intra-Group Liabilities, whether documented or not including, without limitation, under or in connection with the relevant Debt Documents), both actual and contingent and whether incurred solely or jointly or as principal or surety or in any other capacity together with any of the following matters relating to or arising in respect of those liabilities and obligations:
(a) | any refinancing, novation, deferral or extension; |
(b) | any claim for breach of representation, warranty or undertaking or on an event of default or under any indemnity given under or in connection with any document or agreement evidencing or constituting any other liability or obligation falling within this definition; |
(c) | any claim for damages or restitution; and |
(d) | any claim as a result of any recovery by any Debtor of a Payment on the grounds of preference or otherwise, |
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and any amounts which would be included in any of the above but for any discharge, non-provability, unenforceability or non-allowance of those amounts in any insolvency or other proceedings.
“Liabilities Acquisition” means, in relation to a person and to any Liabilities, a transaction where that person:
(a) | purchases by way of assignment or transfer; |
(b) | enters into any sub-participation in respect of; or |
(c) | enters into any other agreement or arrangement having an economic effect substantially similar to a sub-participation in respect of, |
the rights in respect of those Liabilities.
“Liabilities Sale” means a Debt Disposal pursuant to paragraph (e) of Clause 17.1 (Facilitation of Distressed Disposals).
“Livrança” means the promissory note dated 26 November 2013 issued by the Borrower, endorsed by each of the Guarantors and payable to the Common Security Agent.
“Livrança Covering Letter” means the letter from the Borrower and each of the Guarantors to the Common Security Agent dated 26 November 2013 in relation to the Livrança.
“Macau SAR” means the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.
“Majority Pari Passu Creditors” means, at any time, those Pari Passu Lenders, Pari Passu Noteholders and Pari Passu Hedge Counterparties whose Pari Passu Credit Participations at that time aggregate more than 50 per cent. of the total Pari Passu Credit Participations at that time, provided that, in respect of the Pari Passu Credit Participations relating to a particular Pari Passu Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Note Indenture, if the consent of the proportion of such Pari Passu Debt Creditors required under and in accordance with the Pari Passu Debt Documents relating to that Pari Passu Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Note Indenture in respect of the relevant decision or request for consent is obtained in relation to a particular decision or request for consent (and if the relevant Pari Passu Debt Documents do not specify a voting threshold for a particular matter, the threshold will be a simple majority of the outstanding principal amount under those Pari Passu Debt Documents (excluding any Pari Passu Liabilities owned by a member of the Group or a Sponsor Affiliate)), all of the Pari Passu Lenders or Pari Passu Noteholders (as applicable) in respect of that Pari Passu Facility Agreement or Pari Passu Note Indenture (as applicable) shall be deemed to have given their consent to that decision or request for consent.
“Majority Super Senior Creditors” means, at any time, those Super Senior Creditors whose Super Senior Credit Participations at that time aggregate more than 50 per cent. of the total Super Senior Credit Participations at that time.
“MCO Cotai” means MCO Cotai Investments Limited (formerly known as MCE Cotai Investments Limited), an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands (with registered number 254216) whose registered address is at Intertrust Corporate Services (Cayman) Limited, Xxx Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX0-0000, Cayman Islands.
“Melco Resorts” means Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited (formerly known as Melco Crown Entertainment Limited), an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands (with registered number 143119) with registered address: Intertrust Corporate Services (Cayman) Limited, Xxx Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XXX-0000, Cayman Islands.
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“Melco Resorts Macau” means Melco Resorts (Macau) Limited (formerly known as Melco Crown (Macau) Limited and previously as Melco Crown Gaming (Macau) Limited, Melco PBL Gaming (Macau) Limited and PBL Entertainment (Macau) Limited), a company incorporated under the laws of the Macau SAR, registered with the Macau Commercial Registry under number 24325 SO, with registered office at Xxxxxxx xx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, xx. 000, 00/Xxxxx “A”, Macau.
“Mortgage” means the mortgage executed by way of a deed dated 26 November 2013 of the interest of Propco under the Amended Land Concession prior but applying to the latter’s amendment dated 23 September 2015.
“New Cotai, LLC” a limited liability company formed in Delaware, United States of America (with registered number 4114248), c/o Willow Tree Consulting Group, LLC, of 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx of America.
“New Sponsor” means any person to whom Silverpoint or Oaktree assigns or transfers all or part of its indirect beneficial interest in the shares or other equity interests of SCIH in accordance with the Shareholders’ Agreement.
“Non-Credit Related Close-Out” means a Permitted Hedge Close-Out described in any of paragraphs (a)(i), (a)(ii), (a)(iii) or (a)(iv) of Clause 5.9 (Permitted Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties).
“Non-Distressed Disposal” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 16 (Non-Distressed Disposals).
“Oaktree” means Oaktree Capital Management LLC and any successor to the investment management business thereof.
“Other Currency Term Outstandings” means, at any time, the aggregate of the amounts of principal (not including any capitalised or deferred interest) then outstanding under the Pari Passu Debt Documents that is not denominated in Hong Kong dollars or Dollars and which principal amount outstanding has a maturity of more than 12 months.
“Other Liabilities” means, in relation to a member of the Group, any trading and other liabilities and obligations (not being Borrowing Liabilities or Guarantee Liabilities) it may have to a Bondco, Subordinated Creditor, Intra-Group Lender or Debtor.
“Pari Passu Arranger” means any arranger of a credit facility which creates or evidences any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities which becomes a Party in such capacity pursuant to Clause 25.12 (Accession of Pari Passu Debt Creditors under New Pari Passu Notes or Pari Passu Facilities).
“Pari Passu Credit Participation” means:
(a) | in relation to a Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty, its aggregate Pari Passu Hedge Credit Participation; |
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(b) | in relation to a Pari Passu Lender, its aggregate Pari Passu Facility Commitments and (without double counting) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities in respect of which it is the creditor, if any; and |
(c) | in relation to a Pari Passu Noteholder, the aggregate of the outstanding principal amount of any Pari Passu Notes held by it (as determined in accordance with the terms of the relevant Pari Passu Note Indenture). |
“Pari Passu Creditors” means the Pari Passu Debt Creditors and the Pari Passu Hedge Counterparties.
“Pari Passu Debt Acceleration Event” means:
(a) | the Creditor Representative of any Pari Passu Noteholder(s) (or the requisite Pari Passu Noteholders under any Pari Passu Note Indenture) exercising any of its or their rights or any acceleration provisions being automatically invoked in each case under any acceleration provisions of the relevant Pari Passu Note Indenture (including any Equivalent Provision corresponding to section 6.02 of the Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture); or |
(b) | the Creditor Representative of any Pari Passu Lender(s) (or, if applicable, any of the Pari Passu Lenders) exercising any of its (or their) rights or any acceleration provisions being automatically invoked in each case under any acceleration provisions of the relevant Pari Passu Facility Agreement, |
other than the right to declare any amount payable on demand.
“Pari Passu Debt Creditors” means each Creditor Representative in relation to any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities, each Pari Passu Arranger, each Pari Passu Noteholder and each Pari Passu Lender.
“Pari Passu Debt Discharge Date” means the 2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, provided that in the event any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities arise or any Pari Passu Facility Commitments are established from time to time on or after the 2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, the Pari Passu Debt Discharge Date shall (in each case and on and from that time (only) and without prejudice to any actions or conduct of the Parties taken or observed prior to that time) be deemed not to have occurred and shall mean the first date on which all Pari Passu Debt Liabilities have subsequent to such time been fully and finally discharged to the satisfaction of the Creditor Representative(s) in relation to any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable Pari Passu Debt Document, whether or not as the result of an enforcement, and the Pari Passu Debt Creditors are under no further obligation to provide financial accommodation to any of the Debtors under the Pari Passu Debt Documents, provided further that the principle established by the foregoing shall apply on a continuous basis notwithstanding any intervening occurrence(s) of the Pari Passu Debt Discharge Date.
“Pari Passu Debt Document ” means each document or instrument entered into between any member of the Group and a Pari Passu Debt Creditor setting out the terms of any credit facility, notes, indenture or debt security which creates or evidences any liabilities (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any Credit Facility Liabilities) intended to rank pari passu with the Secured Obligations and share in the Common Transaction Security in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including (i) the Common Security Documents, (ii) in the case of any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities issued by way of debt securities, any indentures, notes, guarantees and Transaction Security Documents relating to any Pari Passu Notes Interest Accrual Account, in each case applicable to such Pari Passu Debt Liabilities and (iii) in the case of any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities incurred pursuant to any facility or loan arrangements, such documents corresponding to the documents constituting the Credit Facility Documents applicable to such Pari Passu Debt Liabilities).
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“Pari Passu Debt Liabilities” means the Liabilities owed by the Debtors to the Pari Passu Debt Creditors under or in connection with the Pari Passu Debt Documents (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any Credit Facility Liabilities).
“Pari Passu Discharge Date” means the 2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, provided that in the event any Pari Passu Liabilities arise or any Pari Passu Facility Commitments are established from time to time on or after the 2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, the Pari Passu Discharge Date shall (in each case and on and from that time (only) and without prejudice to any actions or conduct of the Parties taken or observed prior to that time) be deemed not to have occurred and shall mean the first date on which all Pari Passu Liabilities have subsequent to such time been fully and finally discharged to the satisfaction of the relevant Creditor Representative(s) (in the case of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities) and each Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty (in the case of its Pari Passu Hedging Liabilities), whether or not as the result of an enforcement, and the Pari Passu Creditors are under no further obligation to provide financial accommodation to any of the Debtors under the Debt Documents, provided further that the principle established by the foregoing shall apply on a continuous basis notwithstanding any intervening occurrence(s) of the Pari Passu Discharge Date.
“Pari Passu Facility” means any credit facility made available to a Pari Passu Note Issuer or (to the extent not prohibited under the terms and conditions of the Pari Passu Debt Documents) to any other member of the Restricted Group, in each case where:
(a) | the agent of the lenders in respect of the credit facility has become a Party as a Creditor Representative; |
(b) | each arranger of the credit facility has become a party as a Pari Passu Arranger; and |
(c) | each lender in respect of the credit facility has become a Party as a Pari Passu Lender, |
in respect of that credit facility pursuant to Clause 25.12 (Accession of Pari Passu Debt Creditors under New Pari Passu Notes or Pari Passu Facilities).
“Pari Passu Facility Agreement” means a facility agreement setting out the terms of any Pari Passu Facility and which creates or evidences any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities.
“Pari Passu Facility Commitment” means any “Commitment” under and as defined in a Pari Passu Facility Agreement.
“Pari Passu Facility Debt Service Reserve Account” means, in relation to any Pari Passu Facility, any account in the name of Company established in connection with the Pari Passu Debt Documents relating to such Pari Passu Facility that may only be credited from time to time with such amounts as may be necessary for such account to operate as an interest accrual account or debt service reserve account in respect of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities relating to such Pari Passu Facility and which account has been designated as such by the Parent and the relevant Creditor Representative and such designation has been acknowledged by the Intercreditor Agent.
“Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty” means each Hedge Counterparty to the extent it is owed Pari Passu Hedging Liabilities.
“Pari Passu Hedge Credit Participation” means, in relation to a Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty, the aggregate of:
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(a) | in respect of any hedging transaction of that Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty under any Hedging Agreement to the extent it constitutes a Pari Passu Hedging Liability that has, as of the date the calculation is made, been terminated or closed out in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the amount, if any, payable to it under any Hedging Agreement in respect of that termination or close-out as of the date of termination or close-out (and before taking into account any interest accrued on that amount since the date of termination or close-out) to the extent that amount is unpaid (that amount to be certified by the relevant Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty and as calculated in accordance with the relevant Hedging Agreement) and to the extent it is a Pari Passu Hedging Liability; and |
(b) | after the Pari Passu Debt Discharge Date only, in respect of any hedging transaction of that Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty under any Hedging Agreement to the extent it constitutes a Pari Passu Hedging Liability that has, as of the date the calculation is made, not been terminated or closed out: |
(i) | if the relevant Hedging Agreement is based on an ISDA Master Agreement the amount, if any, which would be payable to it under that Hedging Agreement in respect of that hedging transaction, if the date on which the calculation is made was deemed to be an Early Termination Date (as defined in the relevant ISDA Master Agreement) for which the relevant Debtor is the Defaulting Party (as defined in the relevant ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(ii) | if the relevant Hedging Agreement is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement, the amount, if any, which would be payable to it under that Hedging Agreement in respect of that hedging transaction, if the date on which the calculation is made was deemed to be the date on which an event similar in meaning and effect (under that Hedging Agreement) to an Early Termination Date (as defined in any ISDA Master Agreement) occurred under that Hedging Agreement for which the relevant Debtor is in a position similar in meaning and effect (under that Hedging Agreement) to that of a Defaulting Party (under and as defined in the same ISDA Master Agreement), |
that amount, in each case, to be certified by the relevant Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty and as calculated in accordance with the relevant Hedging Agreement.
“Pari Passu Hedging Liabilities” means the Hedging Liabilities to the extent they are not Super Senior Hedging Liabilities.
“Pari Passu Lender” means each “Lender” under and as defined in the relevant Pari Passu Facility Agreement that has become a Party as a Pari Passu Lender in respect of that Pari Passu Facility Agreement pursuant to Clause 25.12 (Accession of Pari Passu Debt Creditors under New Pari Passu Notes or Pari Passu Facilities).
“Pari Passu Liabilities” means the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities and the Pari Passu Hedging Liabilities.
“Pari Passu Note Indenture” means any note indenture setting out the terms of any debt security which creates or evidences any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities.
“Pari Passu Note Issuer” means the Company or the Parent.
“Pari Passu Note Trustee” means each note trustee in respect of any Pari Passu Notes that has acceded to this Agreement as a Creditor Representative for the relevant Pari Passu Noteholders pursuant to Clause 25.12 (Accession of Pari Passu Debt Creditors under New Pari Passu Notes or Pari Passu Facilities).
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“Pari Passu Noteholder” means each holder from time to time of any Pari Passu Notes in respect of which a person has acceded to this Agreement as Pari Passu Note Trustee.
“Pari Passu Notes” means any senior secured notes issued or to be issued from time to time by a Pari Passu Note Issuer under a Pari Passu Note Indenture.
“Pari Passu Notes Interest Accrual Account” means, in relation to any Pari Passu Notes, any account in the name of Company established in connection with the Pari Passu Debt Documents relating to such Pari Passu Notes that may only be credited from time to time with such amounts as may be necessary for such account to operate as an interest accrual account in respect of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities relating to such Pari Passu Notes and which account has been designated as such by the Parent and the relevant Creditor Representative and such designation has been acknowledged by the Intercreditor Agent.
“Party” means a party to this Agreement.
“Payment” means, in respect of any Liabilities (or any other liabilities or obligations), a payment, prepayment, repayment, redemption, defeasance or discharge of those Liabilities (or other liabilities or obligations).
“Payment Netting” means:
(a) | in respect of a Hedging Agreement or a Hedging Ancillary Document based on an ISDA Master Agreement, netting under section 2(c) of the relevant ISDA Master Agreement; and |
(b) | in respect of a Hedging Agreement or a Hedging Ancillary Document not based on an ISDA Master Agreement, netting pursuant to any provision of that Hedging Agreement or a Hedging Ancillary Document which has a similar effect to the provision referenced in paragraph (a) above. |
“Permitted Automatic Early Termination” means an Automatic Early Termination of a hedging transaction under a Hedging Agreement, the provision of which is permitted under Clause 5.12 (Terms of Hedging Agreements).
“Permitted Bondco Payment” means the Payments permitted by Clause 11.3 (Permitted Payments: Bondco Liabilities).
“Permitted Credit Facility Payments” means the Payments permitted by Clause 3.1 (Payment of Credit Facility Liabilities).
“Permitted Hedge Close-Out” means, in relation to a hedging transaction under a Hedging Agreement, a termination or close-out of that hedging transaction which is permitted pursuant to Clause 5.9 (Permitted Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties).
“Permitted Hedge Payments” means the Payments permitted by Clause 5.3 (Permitted Payments: Hedging Liabilities).
“Permitted Intra-Group Payments” means the Payments permitted by Clause 8.2 (Permitted Payments: Intra-Group Liabilities).
“Permitted Pari Passu Debt Payments” means the Payments permitted by Clause 4.1 (Payment of Pari Passu Debt Liabilities).
“Permitted Payment” means a Permitted Hedge Payment, a Permitted Intra-Group Payment, a Permitted Pari Passu Debt Payment, a Permitted Credit Facility Payment, a Permitted Bondco Payment or a Permitted Subordinated Creditor Payment.
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“Permitted Subordinated Creditor Payments” means the Payments permitted by Clause 10.2 (Permitted Payments: Subordinated Liabilities).
“Power of Attorney” means the power of attorney granted by Propco on 26 November 2013 in favour of the POA Agent supplementing the Mortgage and any replacement power of attorney entered into by any successor POA Agent.
“Primary Creditors” means the Super Senior Creditors and the Pari Passu Creditors.
“Propco” means Studio City Developments Limited (formerly known as MSC Desenvolvimentos, Limitada and previously as East Asia - Televisão por Satélite Limitada), a company incorporated under the laws of the Macau SAR, registered with the Macau Commercial Registry under number 14311 SO, with registered office at Xxxxxxx xx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, xx. 000, 00/Xxxxx “X”, Xxxxx.
“Property” of a member of the Group or of a Debtor or a Security Provider means:
(a) | any asset of that member of the Group or of that Debtor or that Security Provider; |
(b) | any Subsidiary of that member of the Group or of that Debtor; and |
(c) | any asset of any such Subsidiary. |
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, any entity that has total assets exceeding US$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.
“Receiver” means a receiver or receiver and manager or administrative receiver of the whole or any part of the Charged Property.
“Recoveries” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 19.1 (Order of application).
“Reimbursement Agreement” means the reimbursement agreement dated 15 June 2012 and entered into between SCE and Melco Resorts Macau (as may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, replaced (whether upon or after termination or otherwise or whether with the original or other relevant parties) or renewed, in whole or in part, from time to time, including pursuant to the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement).
“Relevant Ancillary Lender” means, in respect of any Credit Facility Cash Cover, the Ancillary Lender (if any) for which that Credit Facility Cash Cover is provided.
“Relevant Issuing Bank” means, in respect of any Credit Facility Cash Cover, the Issuing Bank (if any) for which that Credit Facility Cash Cover is provided.
“Relevant Jurisdiction” means, in relation to a Debtor:
(a) | its jurisdiction of incorporation; |
(b) | any jurisdiction where any asset subject to or intended to be subject to the Transaction Security to be created by it is situated; |
(c) | any jurisdiction where it conducts its business; and |
(d) | the jurisdiction whose laws govern the perfection of any of the Transaction Security Documents entered into by it. |
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“Relevant Liabilities” means:
(a) | in the case of a Creditor: |
(i) | the Liabilities owed to Creditors ranking (in accordance with the terms of this Agreement) pari passu with or in priority to that Creditor (as the case may be); and |
(ii) | all present and future liabilities and obligations, actual and contingent, of the Debtors to the Common Security Agent and/or the Intercreditor Agent; and |
(b) | in the case of a Debtor, the Liabilities owed to the Creditors together with all present and future liabilities and obligations, actual and contingent, of the Debtors to the Common Security Agent and/or the Intercreditor Agent. |
“Required Pari Passu Creditors” means, subject to paragraph (e) of Clause 1.2 (Construction):
(a) | each Creditor Representative acting on behalf of any Pari Passu Lenders or Pari Passu Noteholders; and |
(b) | at any time, those Pari Passu Hedge Counterparties whose Pari Passu Hedge Credit Participations at that time aggregate more than 50 per cent. of the total Pari Passu Hedge Credit Participations at that time. |
“Restricted Group” means the Parent and each Restricted Subsidiary.
“Restricted Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Parent other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Rolled Loan” has the meaning given to the term “Facility A Loan” in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“Rolled Loan Cash Collateral” has the meaning given to the term “Facility A Cash Collateral” in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account” has the meaning given to the term “Facility A Cash Collateral Account” in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement.
“Rolled Loan Discharge Date” means the first date on which all Liabilities in respect of the Rolled Loan have been fully and finally discharged to the satisfaction of the 2016 Credit Facility Agent, whether or not as the result of an enforcement.
“Rolled Loan Facility Lender” means the “Lender” under and as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement of the Rolled Loan from time to time.
“Rolled Loan Release Date” means the first date on which:
(a) | all of the Secured Obligations other than in respect of the Rolled Loan have been fully and finally discharged to the satisfaction of the relevant Creditor Representative(s), whether or not as the result of an enforcement, and the Secured Parties are under no further obligation to provide financial accommodation to any of the Debtors under the Debt Documents; |
(b) | all of the Recoveries that have been received or recovered have been applied in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds) and the Intercreditor Agent (acting reasonably) does not anticipate any further Recoveries (other than in respect of the Transaction Security over the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account) being received or recovered; |
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(c) | all of the Transaction Security established pursuant to the Continuing Macau Documents have been released in accordance with the terms of the Debt Documents or enforced in full or the consent of the Secured Parties required under the terms of the Debt Documents to consent to the release of the Transaction Security established pursuant to the Continuing Macau Documents has been obtained for the Rolled Loan Release Date to otherwise have occurred; |
(d) | the circumstances described in paragraph (c)(ii) or paragraph (c)(iii) of Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce) have occurred; or |
(e) | the Company is required to repay the Rolled Loan in accordance with clause 8.1 (Illegality) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement. |
“SCE” means Studio City Entertainment Limited (formerly known as MSC Diversões, Limitada and previously as New Cotai Entertainment (Macau) Limited), a company incorporated under the laws of the Macau SAR, registered with the Macau Commercial Registry number 27610 SO, with registered office at Xxxxxxx xx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, xx. 000, 00/Xxxxx “A”, Macau.
“SCH5” means Studio City Holdings Five Limited, a BVI business company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (registered number 1789892), whose registered office is at Jayla Place, Wickhams Cay I, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
“SCIH” means Studio City International Holdings Limited, an exempted company registered by way of continuation with limited liability under the laws of Cayman Islands (company number 343696), whose registered office is at Walkers Corporate Limited, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx XX0-0000, Cayman Islands.
“Secured Obligations” means all the Liabilities and all other present and future liabilities and obligations at any time due, owing or incurred by any member of the Group and by each Debtor to any Secured Party under (or in connection with) the Debt Documents, both actual and contingent and whether incurred solely or jointly and as principal or surety or in any other capacity.
“Secured Obligations Documents” means this Agreement, each Fee Letter, each Credit Facility Document, each Pari Passu Debt Document and each Hedging Agreement.
“Secured Parties” means the Common Security Agent, any Receiver or Delegate, the Intercreditor Agent and each of the Primary Creditors from time to time but, in the case of each Primary Creditor, only if it (or, in the case of a Pari Passu Noteholder, its Creditor Representative) is a Party or has acceded to this Agreement in the appropriate capacity pursuant to Clause 25.14 (Creditor/Creditor Representative Accession Undertaking).
“Security” means a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien or other security interest securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.
“Security Documents” means:
(a) | each of the Transaction Security Documents; |
(b) | any other document entered into at any time by any of the Debtors or any Security Provider creating any guarantee, indemnity, Security or other assurance against financial loss in favour of any of the Secured Parties as security for any of the Secured Obligations; and |
(c) | any Security granted under any covenant for further assurance in any of the documents referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above. |
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“Security Property” means:
(a) | the Transaction Security expressed to be granted in favour of the Common Security Agent as trustee for all or any of the Secured Parties and all proceeds of that Transaction Security; |
(b) | all obligations expressed to be undertaken by a Debtor or Security Provider to pay amounts in respect of the Liabilities to the Common Security Agent as trustee for all or any of the Secured Parties and secured by the Transaction Security together with all representations and warranties expressed to be given by a Debtor or a Security Provider in favour of the Common Security Agent as trustee for all or any of the Secured Parties; |
(c) | the Common Security Agent’s interest in any trust fund created pursuant to Clause 13 (Turnover of receipts); and |
(d) | any other amounts or property, whether rights, entitlements, choses in action or otherwise, actual or contingent, which the Common Security Agent is required by the terms of the Debt Documents to hold as trustee on trust for all or any of the Secured Parties. |
“Security Provider” means, at any time while any of its assets are subject to the Transaction Security:
(a) | each of SCH5 and Melco Resorts Macau Limited; and |
(b) | any other person that is not a member of the Group that creates or grants any Security in favour of any of the Secured Parties as security for any of the Secured Obligations over any of its assets, |
which in each case has not ceased to be a Security Provider in accordance with this Agreement.
“Senior Secured 2021 Note Guarantees” means the “Note Guarantees” as defined in the Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture.
“Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture” means the indenture dated November 30, 2016 governing certain senior secured notes that were due 2021 and made between, among others, the Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as trustee, paying agent, registrar and transfer agent the Company as issuer and the Parent and certain Subsidiaries of the Company as guarantors and acceded to by the Intercreditor Agent and the Common Security Agent on or about the date of this Agreement.
“Senior Secured 2021 Notes” means the senior secured notes that were issued by the Company pursuant to the Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture.
“Services and Right to Use Agreement” means the services and right to use agreement dated 11 May 2007 and originally made between SCE, New Cotai Entertainment, LLC and Melco Resorts Macau (as may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, replaced (whether upon or after termination or otherwise or whether with the original or other relevant parties) or renewed, in whole or in part, from time to time, including pursuant to a supplemental agreement dated 15 June 2012 made between SCE, Melco Resorts Macau and New Cotai Entertainment, LLC).
“Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement ” means the direct agreement dated 26 November 2013 and entered into between, among others, SCE, Melco Resorts Macau and the Common Security Agent in relation to the Services and Right to Use Agreement and the Reimbursement Agreement (as may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, replaced (whether upon or after termination or otherwise or whether with the original or other relevant parties) or renewed, in whole or in part, from time to time).
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“Silverpoint” means Silver Point Capital, L.P. and any successor to the investment management business thereof.
“Shareholders’ Agreement” means the shareholders’ agreement dated 27 July 2011 and made between MCO Cotai, New Cotai, LLC and others (as amended from time to time).
“Sponsor Affiliate” means:
(a) | in the case of Melco Resorts, Melco Resorts and its Subsidiaries (other than any member of the Group); |
(b) | in the case of Silverpoint, Silverpoint, each of its Affiliates (other than any member of the Group), any trust of which Silverpoint or any of such Affiliates is a trustee, any partnership of which Silverpoint or any of such Affiliates is a partner and any trust, fund or other entity which is managed by, or is under the control of, Silverpoint or any of such Affiliates, provided that any such trust, fund or other entity which has been established for at least 6 months solely for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans or debt securities and which is managed or controlled independently from all other trusts, funds or other entities managed or controlled by Silverpoint or any of such Affiliates which have been established for the primary or main purpose of investing in the share capital of companies shall not constitute a Sponsor Affiliate; |
(c) | in the case of Oaktree, Oaktree, each of its Affiliates (other than any member of the Group), any trust of which Oaktree or any of such Affiliates is a trustee, any partnership of which Oaktree or any of its Affiliates is a partner and any trust, fund or other entity which is managed by, or is under the control of, Oaktree or any of such Affiliates, provided that any such trust, fund or other entity which has been established for at least 6 months solely for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans or debt securities and which is managed or controlled independently from all other trusts, funds or other entities managed or controlled by Oaktree or any of such Affiliates which have been established for the primary or main purpose of investing in the share capital of companies shall not constitute a Sponsor Affiliate; and |
(d) | in the case of a New Sponsor, the New Sponsor, each of its Affiliates (other than any member of the Group), any trust of which the New Sponsor or any of such Affiliates is a trustee, any partnership of which the New Sponsor or any of its Affiliates is a partner and any trust, fund or other entity which is managed by, or is under the control of, the New Sponsor or any of such Affiliates, provided that any such trust, fund or other entity which has been established for at least 6 months solely for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans or debt securities and which is managed or controlled independently from all other trusts, funds or other entities managed or controlled by the New Sponsor or any of such Affiliates which have been established for the primary or main purpose of investing in the share capital of companies shall not constitute a Sponsor Affiliate. |
“Subordinated Creditors” means any direct or indirect shareholder (or affiliate who is not a member of the Group) of the Parent (and their respective transferees and successors) which has made a loan or financial accommodation to the Parent or any other member of the Group, which is a Party or has acceded to this Agreement in the appropriate capacity pursuant to Clause 25.3 (Accession and change of Subordinated Creditor) and which in each case has not ceased to be a Subordinated Creditor in accordance with this Agreement.
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“Subordinated Liabilities” means the Liabilities (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding the Bondco Liabilities) owed to the Subordinated Creditors by the Parent or any other member of the Group under each document or instrument setting out the terms of any credit facility, loan, notes, indenture or debt security or, as the case may be, any undocumented arrangement (whether by way of book entry or otherwise) establishing the same.
“Subsidiary” means, in relation to any company or corporation, a company or corporation:
(a) | which is controlled, directly or indirectly, by the first mentioned company or corporation; |
(b) | more than half the issued share capital of which (or, in the case of any company or corporation in which SCH5 owns a Golden Share, more than half the issued share capital of which, excluding for these purposes that Golden Share from such issued share capital) is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly by the first mentioned company or corporation; or |
(c) | which is a Subsidiary of another Subsidiary of the first mentioned company or corporation, |
and for this purpose, a company or corporation shall be treated as being controlled by another if that other company or corporation is able to direct its affairs and/or to control the composition of its board of directors or equivalent body.
“Super Senior Credit Participation” means, in relation to a Credit Facility Lender or a Super Senior Hedge Counterparty, the aggregate of:
(a) | its aggregate Credit Facility Commitments, if any; |
(b) | in respect of any hedging transaction of that Super Senior Hedge Counterparty under any Hedging Agreement that has, as of the date the calculation is made, been terminated or closed out in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the amount, if any, payable to it under any Hedging Agreement in respect of that termination or close-out as of the date of termination or close-out (and before taking into account any interest accrued on that amount since the date of termination or close-out) to the extent that amount is unpaid (that amount to be certified by the relevant Super Senior Hedge Counterparty and as calculated in accordance with the relevant Hedging Agreement) and to the extent it is a Super Senior Hedging Liability; and |
(c) | after the Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date only, in respect of any hedging transaction of that Super Senior Hedge Counterparty under any Hedging Agreement to the extent it constitutes a Super Senior Hedging Liability that has, as of the date the calculation is made, not been terminated or closed out: |
(i) | if the relevant Hedging Agreement is based on an ISDA Master Agreement the amount, if any, which would be payable to it under that Hedging Agreement in respect of that hedging transaction, if the date on which the calculation is made was deemed to be an Early Termination Date (as defined in the relevant ISDA Master Agreement) for which the relevant Debtor is the Defaulting Party (as defined in the relevant ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(ii) | if the relevant Hedging Agreement is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement, the amount, if any, which would be payable to it under that Hedging Agreement in respect of that hedging transaction, if the date on which the calculation is made was deemed to be the date on which an event similar in meaning and effect (under that Hedging Agreement) to an Early Termination Date (as defined in any ISDA Master Agreement) occurred under that Hedging Agreement for which the relevant Debtor is in a position similar in meaning and effect (under that Hedging Agreement) to that of a Defaulting Party (under and as defined in the same ISDA Master Agreement), |
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that amount, in each case, to be certified by the relevant Super Senior Hedge Counterparty and as calculated in accordance with the relevant Hedging Agreement.
“Super Senior Creditors” means the Credit Facility Creditors and the Super Senior Hedge Counterparties.
“Super Senior Discharge Date” means the first date on which all Super Senior Liabilities (other than in respect of the principal amount of the Rolled Loan) have been fully and finally discharged to the satisfaction of each Credit Facility Agent (in the case of the relevant Credit Facility Liabilities) and each Super Senior Hedge Counterparty (in the case of its Super Senior Hedging Liabilities), whether or not as the result of an enforcement, and the Super Senior Creditors are under no further obligation to provide financial accommodation to any of the Debtors under the Debt Documents.
“Super Senior Hedge Counterparty” means each Hedge Counterparty to the extent it is owed Super Senior Hedging Liabilities.
“Super Senior Hedging Liabilities” means Hedging Liabilities owed to any Hedge Counterparty in a Common Currency Amount not exceeding such Hedge Counterparty’s Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amount.
“Super Senior Hedging Amount” means USD5,000,000.
“Super Senior Hedging Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 8 (Form of Super Senior Hedging Certificate).
“Super Senior Liabilities” means the Credit Facility Liabilities and the Super Senior Hedging Liabilities.
“Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any person, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract, or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1(a)(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Tax” means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).
“Total Exchange Rate Hedging” means, at any time, the aggregate of each Hedge Counterparty’s Exchange Rate Hedging at that time.
“Total Interest Rate Hedging” means, at any time, the aggregate of each Hedge Counterparty’s Interest Rate Hedging at that time.
“Transaction Security” means the Security created or evidenced or expressed to be created or evidenced under or pursuant to the Security Documents.
“Transaction Security Documents” means:
(a) | the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement; |
(b) | each of the documents listed as being a Transaction Security Document in Schedule 4 (Transaction Security Documents); and |
(c) | any other document entered into by any Debtor or Security Provider creating or expressed to create any Security over all or any part of its assets in respect of the obligations of any of the Debtors under any of the Debt Documents, |
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in each case, as amended, supplemented and/or confirmed from time to time.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary ” means a Subsidiary of the Parent which has been designated an “Unrestricted Subsidiary” for the purpose of (and in accordance with) all of the Credit Facility Documents and Pari Passu Debt Documents.
1.2 | Construction |
(a) | Unless a contrary indication appears, a reference in this Agreement to: |
(i) | any “Ancillary Lender”, “Arranger”, “Bondco”, “Borrower”, “Common Security Agent”, “Credit Facility Agent”, “Credit Facility Arranger”, “Credit Facility Borrower”, “Credit Facility Creditor”, “Credit Facility Guarantor”, “Credit Facility Lender”, “Creditor”, “Creditor Representative”, “Debtor”, “Existing Subordination Party”, “Hedge Counterparty”, “Hedging Ancillary Lender”, “High Yield Note Trustee”, “High Yield Noteholder”, “Intercreditor Agent”, “Intra-Group Lender”, “Issuing Bank”, “Pari Passu Arranger”, “Pari Passu Note Trustee”, “Pari Passu Noteholder”, “Pari Passu Creditor”, “Pari Passu Debt Creditor”, “Pari Passu Hedge Counterparty”, “Pari Passu Lender”, “Pari Passu Note Issuer”, “Pari Passu Note Trustee”, “Pari Passu Noteholder”, “Pari Passu Note Issuer”, “Parent”, “Party”, “POA Agent”, “Primary Creditor”, “Rolled Loan Facility Lender”, “Secured Party”, “Security Provider”, “Senior Secured Note Trustee”, “Senior Secured Noteholder”, “Subordinated Creditor”, “Super Senior Creditor” or “Super Senior Hedge Counterparty” shall be construed to be a reference to it in its capacity as such and not in any other capacity; |
(ii) | any “Ancillary Lender”, “Arranger”, “Creditor”, “Creditor Representative”, “Debtor”, “Hedge Counterparty”, “Issuing Bank”, “Party” or “Subordinated Creditor” or the “Common Security Agent”, the “Intercreditor Agent” or the “POA Agent” or any other person shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees to, or of, its rights and/or obligations under the Debt Documents and, in the cases of the Common Security Agent and the Intercreditor Agent, any person for the time being appointed as Common Security Agent, Common Security Agents or Intercreditor Agent (as applicable) in accordance with this Agreement; |
(iii) | “assets” includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description; |
(iv) | a “Debt Document” or any other agreement or instrument is (other than a reference to a “Debt Document” or any other agreement or instrument in “original form”) a reference to that Debt Document, or other agreement or instrument, as amended, novated, supplemented, extended or restated as permitted by this Agreement; |
(v) | “enforcing” (or any derivation) the Transaction Security includes: |
(A) | the appointment of an administrator, receiver, administrative receiver, liquidator, compulsory manager or supervising or overseeing party (or any analogous officer in any jurisdiction) of a Debtor or Security Provider by the Common Security Agent; and |
(B) | the making of a demand under Clause 21.2 (Parallel debt) by the Security Agent; |
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(vi) | a “group of Creditors” includes all the Creditors and a “group of Primary Creditors” includes all the Primary Creditors; |
(vii) | “indebtedness” includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent; |
(viii) | the “original form” of a “Debt Document” or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Debt Document, agreement or instrument as originally entered into (save that the “original form” of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement is a reference to the form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement as amended and restated by the 2016 Amendment and Restatement Agreement); |
(ix) | a “person” includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency of a state or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium, partnership or other entity (whether or not having separate legal personality); |
(x) | “proceeds” of a Distressed Disposal or of a Debt Disposal includes proceeds in cash; |
(xi) | a “regulation” includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or of any regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation; |
(xii) | a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted; and |
(xiii) | a time of day is a reference to Hong Kong time. |
(b) | Section, Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only. |
(c) | A Default (including an Event of Default) is “continuing” if it has not been remedied or waived in accordance with the relevant Debt Document. An Acceleration Event is “continuing” if the notice in relation to such Acceleration Event has not been withdrawn, cancelled or otherwise ceased to have effect. |
(d) | A Pari Passu Lender or Pari Passu Noteholder providing “cash cover” for a Letter of Credit means a Pari Passu Lender or Pari Passu Noteholder paying an amount in the currency of the Letter of Credit to an interest-bearing account in the name of the Pari Passu Lender or Pari Passu Noteholder and the following conditions being met: |
(i) | the account is with the relevant Issuing Bank; |
(ii) | until no amount is or may be outstanding under that Letter of Credit withdrawals from the account may only be made to pay the relevant Issuing Bank amounts due and payable to it under the relevant Credit Facility Documents; and |
(iii) | the Pari Passu Lender or Pari Passu Noteholder has executed a security document over the account, in form and substance satisfactory to the relevant Issuing Bank with which that account is held, creating a first ranking security interest over that account. |
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(e) | References to a Creditor Representative acting on behalf of the Pari Passu Debt Creditors of which it is the Creditor Representative means such Creditor Representative acting on behalf of the Pari Passu Debt Creditors of which it is the Creditor Representative with the consent of the proportion of such Pari Passu Debt Creditors required under and in accordance with the applicable Pari Passu Debt Documents (provided that if the relevant Pari Passu Debt Documents do not specify a voting threshold for a particular matter, the threshold will be a simple majority of the outstanding principal amount under those Pari Passu Debt Documents (excluding any Pari Passu Liabilities owned by a member of the Group or a Sponsor Affiliate)). A Creditor Representative will be entitled to seek instructions from the Pari Passu Debt Creditors of which it is the Creditor Representative to the extent required by the applicable Pari Passu Debt Documents, as the case may be, as to any action to be taken by it under this Agreement. |
(f) | In determining whether any Liabilities have been fully and finally discharged, the relevant Creditor Representative (and, if applicable, the Intercreditor Agent or Common Security Agent) shall disregard contingent liabilities (such as the risk of clawback from a preference claim) except to the extent that it believes (after taking such legal advice as it consider appropriate and acting at the direction of the relevant Creditors) that there is a reasonable likelihood that those contingent liabilities will become actual liabilities or (with respect to the risk of clawback) if customary comfort documents are delivered to the relevant Creditor Representative (and, if applicable, the Intercreditor Agent or Common Security Agent) in form and substance satisfactory to it (acting at the direction of the relevant Creditors). |
(g) (i) | Any matter expressed to require the consent or approval of the 2016 Credit Facility Lenders (or any specified majority thereof) or the 2016 Credit Facility Agent shall only require such consent or approval prior to the 2016 Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date (or, if later, the Rolled Loan Discharge Date) and shall be deemed not to require the consent of any 2016 Credit Facility Lender which has been repaid or prepaid in full in accordance with the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement. |
(ii) | Any matter expressed to require the consent or approval of the Additional Credit Facility Lenders (or any specified majority thereof) or the Additional Credit Facility Agent in respect of an Additional Credit Facility shall only require such consent or approval on or after such time as that Additional Credit Facility has been made available and prior to the date that would be the Additional Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date if such term were defined only by reference to the Additional Credit Facility Liabilities and Additional Credit Facility Documents relating to that Additional Credit Facility and shall be deemed not to require the consent of any Additional Credit Facility Lender in respect of that Additional Credit Facility which has been repaid, prepaid or replaced in full in accordance with the relevant Additional Credit Facility Agreement. |
(h) | Any matter expressed to require the consent or approval of any Pari Passu Lenders (or any specified majority thereof) or of the Creditor Representative for any Pari Passu Lenders (acting on the instructions of such Pari Passu Lenders) in respect of a Pari Passu Facility shall only require such consent or approval on or after such time as that Pari Passu Facility has been made available and prior to the date that would be the Pari Passu Debt Discharge Date if such term were defined only by reference to the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities and Pari Passu Debt Documents relating to that Pari Passu Facility and shall be deemed not to require the consent of any Pari Passu Lender in respect of that Pari Passu Facility which has been repaid, prepaid or replaced in full in accordance with the relevant Pari Passu Debt Documents. |
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(i) | Any matter expressed to require the consent or approval of any Pari Passu Noteholder (or any specified majority thereof) or of the Creditor Representative for any Pari Passu Noteholders (acting on the instructions of such Pari Passu Noteholders) in respect of any Pari Passu Notes shall only require such consent or approval on or after such time as such Pari Passu Notes have been issued and prior to the date that would be the Pari Passu Debt Discharge Date if such term were defined only by reference to the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities and Pari Passu Debt Documents relating to those Pari Passu Notes and shall be deemed not to require the consent of any Pari Passu Noteholder in respect of those Pari Passu Notes which have been redeemed, defeased or otherwise discharged in full in accordance with the relevant Pari Passu Debt Documents. |
(j) | Any consent to be given under this Agreement shall mean such consent is to be given in writing, which for the purposes of this Agreement will be deemed to include any instructions, waivers or consents provided through any applicable clearance system in accordance with the terms of the relevant Debt Document. |
(k) | References to any matter being “permitted” under one or more Debt Documents shall include references to such matters not being prohibited or have otherwise been approved under such Debt Documents. |
(l) | Secured Parties may only benefit from Recoveries to the extent that the Liabilities of such Secured Parties have the benefit of the guarantees or security under which such Recoveries are received and provided that, in all cases, the rights of such Secured Parties shall in any event be subject to the priorities set out in Clause 19 (Application of proceeds). This shall not prevent a Secured Party benefiting from such Recoveries where it was not possible as a result of the Agreed Security Principles for the Secured Party to obtain the relevant guarantees or security or affect, in any way, the operation of any other document that is not a Debt Document. |
(m) | In respect of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement: |
(i) | Pursuant to the 2016 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, the definitions of certain words and expressions set out in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, the principles of construction and interpretation in clause 1.2 (Construction) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and certain clauses and provisions of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement were amended, restated and/or modified (in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and/or by entry into and restatement in this Agreement), notwithstanding that such words and expressions, principles of construction and interpretation and clauses and provisions may have been referred to (and the definitions of such words and expressions and principles of construction and interpretation imported into or stated to apply) in the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement. Notwithstanding such amendments, restatements and modifications, for the purposes of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement (A) such words and expressions shall have the meanings given to them in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (or as subsequently amended from time to time), including to the extent that any such word or expression is defined in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement by way of cross reference to a definition or construction provision in this Agreement, (B) such principles of construction and interpretation shall apply as set out in clause 1.2 (Construction) in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (or as subsequently amended from time to time) and (C) such restated clauses and provisions shall continue to apply wherever (and in whichever Secured Obligations Document(s)) they have been restated. |
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(ii) | Further, the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement continues to apply to the Financial Indebtedness outstanding under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement from time to time and (for the avoidance of doubt) all other Financial Indebtedness that constitutes Secured Obligations (as defined in this Agreement from time to time), notwithstanding that such other Financial Indebtedness may be documented under a Secured Obligations Document other than the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, and such other Financial Indebtedness is, for the purposes of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement (only) and for so long as it is outstanding, deemed to have been incurred and be outstanding under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and that the creditors in respect of such Financial Indebtedness are creditors in respect of that Financial Indebtedness under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement. |
(iii) | Without limitation or prejudice to paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, to reflect the intention of the relevant Parties as set out in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, such Parties agree to the further arrangements set out in Schedule 5 (Continuing Documents). |
(iv) | Without prejudice to paragraph (iii) above, the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement shall be read and construed for all purposes to give effect to paragraphs (i) and (ii) above such that, to the extent any words, expressions or references are not expressly referred to in the further arrangements set out in Schedule 5 (Continuing Documents): |
(A) | all other words, expressions and references that could reasonably be considered to affect the Secured Parties shall be read and construed as the Intercreditor Agent and the Borrower (each acting reasonably and having consulted with each Creditor Representative) consider necessary or desirable to give effect to the above and to the principle that the terms of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement apply to this Agreement, all Secured Obligations, all Secured Parties and all Secured Obligations Documents contemplated under or in this Agreement (including, without limitation, pursuant to Clause 2.6 (Additional and/or refinancing debt)); |
(B) | in the case that the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement refers to a requirement of a provision of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and that requirement has been or is (from time to time) amended, varied or deleted and not restated in another Secured Obligations Document (including, without limitation, (x) the reference in clause 28.1.2 (Override) of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement to paragraph 4.2 (Reimbursement Agreement) of schedule 7 (Accounts) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and (y) the reference in clause 28.1.3 (Override) of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement to paragraph 26 of part I of schedule 9 (Events of Default) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement), that requirement shall be treated as having been satisfied for the purposes of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement; and |
(C) | in the case that the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement refers to a provision of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement that has been or is, from time to time, restated in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement or another Secured Obligations Document (including this Agreement), the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement shall be treated as referring to that restated provision. |
(n) | In respect of each Continuing Document (other than the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement): |
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(i) | Pursuant to the 2016 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, the definitions of certain words and expressions set out in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, the principles of construction and interpretation in clause 1.2 (Construction) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and certain clauses and provisions of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement were amended, restated and/or modified (in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and/or by entry into and restatement in this Agreement), notwithstanding that such words and expressions, principles of construction and interpretation and clauses and provisions may have been referred to (and the definitions of such words and expressions and principles of construction and interpretation imported into or stated to apply) in one or more of the Continuing Documents. Notwithstanding such amendments, restatements and modifications, for the purposes of each Continuing Document (other than the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement) (A) such words and expressions shall have the meanings given to them in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (or as subsequently amended from time to time in accordance with this Agreement), including to the extent that any such word or expression is defined in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement by way of cross reference to a definition or construction provision in this Agreement, (B) such principles of construction and interpretation shall apply as set out in clause 1.2 (Construction) of the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (or as subsequently amended from time to time in accordance with this Agreement) and (C) such restated clauses and provisions shall continue to apply wherever (and in whichever separate Secured Obligations Document(s)) they have been restated. |
(ii) | The Parties that are party to each such Continuing Document hereby acknowledge their agreement that (A) such Continuing Document continues to apply to the Financial Indebtedness outstanding under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement from time to time and (for the avoidance of doubt) all other Financial Indebtedness that constitutes Secured Obligations (as defined in this Agreement from time to time), notwithstanding that such other Financial Indebtedness may be documented under a Secured Obligations Document other than the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and (B) such other Financial Indebtedness shall be, for the purposes of that Continuing Document (only, and without prejudice to the other provisions of this Agreement) and for so long as it is outstanding, treated as having been incurred and outstanding under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and that the creditors in respect of such Financial Indebtedness are creditors in respect of that Financial Indebtedness under the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement. |
(iii) | Without limitation or prejudice to paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, to reflect the intention of the relevant Parties as set out in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, such Parties agree to the further arrangements set out in Schedule 5 (Continuing Documents). |
(o) | References in this Agreement to “the date hereof”, “the date of this Agreement” and any other like expressions shall mean 1 December 2016 (November 30, 2016, New York time). |
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1.3 | The Common Security Agent and Intercreditor Agent |
(a) | Any reference in a Debt Document to the Common Security Agent providing approval or consent or making a request or direction or determination, or to an item or a person being acceptable to, satisfactory to, to the satisfaction or approved by or specified by the Common Security Agent, or requiring certain steps or actions to be taken, or the Common Security Agent exercising its discretion to permit or waive any action, or the Common Security Agent disagreeing with any calculation, are to be construed, unless otherwise specified, as references to the Common Security Agent taking such action or refraining from acting on the instructions of the Intercreditor Agent or, if applicable, the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors, and where the Common Security Agent is referred to in a Debt Document as acting “reasonably” or in a “reasonable” manner or as coming to an opinion or determination that is “reasonable” (or any similar or analogous wording is used), unless it is not required to do so, this shall mean that the Common Security Agent, as applicable, shall, where it has in fact sought such instructions, be acting or coming to an opinion or determination on the instructions of the Intercreditor Agent or, if applicable, the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors acting reasonably and that the Common Security Agent shall be under no obligation to determine the reasonableness of such instructions from the Intercreditor Agent or, if applicable, the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors or whether in giving such instructions the Intercreditor Agent or, if applicable, the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors are acting in a reasonable manner. |
(b) | Any reference in a Debt Document to the Intercreditor Agent providing approval or consent or making a request or direction or determination, or to an item or a person being acceptable to, satisfactory to, to the satisfaction or approved by or specified by the Intercreditor Agent, or requiring certain steps or actions to be taken, or the Intercreditor Agent exercising its discretion to permit or waive any action, or the Intercreditor Agent disagreeing with any calculation, are to be construed, unless otherwise specified, as references to the Intercreditor Agent taking such action or refraining from acting on the instructions of the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors (as applicable), and where the Intercreditor Agent is referred to in a Debt Document as acting “reasonably” or in a “reasonable” manner or as coming to an opinion or determination that is “reasonable” (or any similar or analogous wording is used), unless it is not required to do so, this shall mean that the Intercreditor Agent, as applicable, shall, where it has in fact sought such instructions, be acting or coming to an opinion or determination on the instructions of the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors (as applicable) acting reasonably and that the Intercreditor Agent shall be under no obligation to determine the reasonableness of such instructions from the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors (as applicable) or whether in giving such instructions the Intercreditor Agent or, if applicable, the Instructing Group or any other Creditors or group of Creditors (as applicable) are acting in a reasonable manner. |
1.4 | Mergers |
(a) | Any entity into which the Common Security Agent may be merged or converted or with which the Common Security Agent may be consolidated, or which results from any merger, conversion or consolidation to with the Common Security Agent shall be a party, or any succeeding entity, including Affiliates, to which the Common Security Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer: |
(i) | all or substantially all of its assets; or |
(ii) | all or substantially all of its corporate trust business, |
shall, on the date when the merger, conversion, consolidation or transfer becomes effective and to the extent permitted by any applicable laws become the successor Common Security Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act or formality on the part of the Parties and after the said effective date all references in this Agreement to the Common Security Agent shall be deemed to be references to such successor entity.
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(b) | Any entity into which the Intercreditor Agent may be merged or converted or with which the Intercreditor Agent may be consolidated, or which results from any merger, conversion or consolidation to with the Intercreditor Agent shall be a party, or any succeeding entity, including Affiliates, to which the Intercreditor Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer: |
(i) | all or substantially all of its assets; or |
(ii) | all or substantially all of its corporate trust business, |
shall, on the date when the merger, conversion, consolidation or transfer becomes effective and to the extent permitted by any applicable laws become the successor Intercreditor Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act or formality on the part of the Parties and after the said effective date all references in this Agreement to the Intercreditor Agent shall be deemed to be references to such successor entity.
1.5 | Third party rights |
(a) | Unless expressly provided to the contrary in this Agreement, a person who is not a Party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000 (the “Third Parties Act”) to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement. |
(b) | Notwithstanding any term of this Agreement, the consent of any person who is not a Party is not required to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time. |
(c) | Any Receiver, Delegate, any other person described in paragraph (d) of Clause 7 (Existing Subordination Deed), any other person described in paragraph (b) of Clause 21.11 (Exclusion of liability) or other person described in paragraph (b) of Clause 23.10 (Exclusion of liability) may, subject to this Clause 1.5 and the Third Parties Act, rely on any Clause of this Agreement which expressly confers rights on it. |
(d) | The Third Parties Act shall apply to this Agreement in respect of any Pari Passu Noteholder. For the purposes of paragraph (b) above and this paragraph (d), upon any person becoming a Pari Passu Noteholder, such person shall be deemed to be a Party to this Agreement and shall be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and be deemed to receive the benefits of this Agreement, and be subject to the terms and conditions hereof, as if such person were a Party hereto. |
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Section 2
Ranking and Primary Creditors
2. | Ranking and priority |
2.1 | Primary Creditor Liabilities |
Each of the Parties agrees that the Credit Facility Liabilities, the Hedging Liabilities and the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities owed by the Debtors to the Primary Creditors shall rank in right and priority of payment pari passu and without any preference between them.
2.2 | Transaction Security |
Each of the Parties agrees that the Transaction Security shall rank and secure the Credit Facility Liabilities, the Hedging Liabilities and the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities (subject to the terms of this Agreement) pari passu and without any preference between them (but only to the extent that such Transaction Security is expressed to secure those Liabilities).
2.3 | Subordinated and Intra-Group Liabilities |
(a) | Each of the Parties agrees that the Subordinated Liabilities and the Intra-Group Liabilities are postponed and subordinated to the Liabilities owed by the Debtors to the Primary Creditors. |
(b) | This Agreement does not purport to rank any of the Subordinated Liabilities or the Intra-Group Liabilities as between themselves. |
2.4 | Creditor Representative Amounts |
Subject to Clause 19 (Application of proceeds) where applicable, nothing in this Agreement will prevent payment by the Parent or any Debtor of the Creditor Representative Amounts or the receipt and retention of such Creditor Representative Amounts by the relevant Creditor Representative(s).
2.5 | Anti-layering |
(a) | This Clause 2.5 shall apply from time to time upon the incurrence of any Pari Passu Debt Liabilities. |
(b) | Notwithstanding anything in any Debt Document to the contrary, until the Pari Passu Debt Discharge Date, no Debtor shall, without the approval of the Required Pari Passu Creditors, issue or allow to remain outstanding any Liabilities that: |
(i) | are secured or expressed to be secured by Common Transaction Security on a basis (i) junior to any of the Super Senior Liabilities but (ii) senior to any of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities; |
(ii) | are expressed to rank so that they are subordinated to any of the Super Senior Liabilities but are senior to any of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities; or |
(iii) | are contractually subordinated in right of payment to any of the Super Senior Liabilities and senior in right of payment to the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities, |
in each case, unless such ranking or subordination arises as a matter of law.
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2.6 | Additional and/or refinancing debt |
(a) | The Creditors acknowledge that the Debtors (or any of them) may wish to: |
(i) | incur additional Borrowing Liabilities and/or Guarantee Liabilities in respect of such additional Borrowing Liabilities; or |
(ii) | refinance Borrowing Liabilities and/or Guarantee Liabilities in respect of such additional Borrowing Liabilities, |
which, in any such case, are intended to rank pari passu with or in priority to any existing Liabilities (but not in priority to the Super Senior Liabilities) and/or share pari passu with or in priority to any existing Liabilities (but not in priority to the Super Senior Liabilities) in any existing Common Transaction Security and/or to rank behind any existing Liabilities and/or to share in any existing Common Transaction Security behind such existing Liabilities.
(b) | Subject to Clause 2.5 (Anti-layering), without limiting the generality of any other applicable provision of this Agreement including Clause 25.11 (Accession of Credit Facility Creditors under New Credit Facilities), the Creditors confirm that if and to the extent a financing or refinancing referred to in paragraph (a) above and such ranking and such Security is not prohibited by the terms of the Debt Documents at such time, they will (at the cost of the Debtors) co-operate with the Debtors with a view to enabling such financing or refinancing and such sharing in the Common Transaction Security to take place. In particular, but without limitation, each of the Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorises and directs each of their Creditor Representatives, the Intercreditor Agent and the Common Security Agent (as applicable) to execute any amendment to this Agreement and such other Debt Documents required to reflect such arrangements to the extent such financing, refinancing and/or sharing is not prohibited by such Debt Documents. |
3. | Credit Facility Creditors and Credit Facility Liabilities |
3.1 | Payment of Credit Facility Liabilities |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below and Clause 3.2 (Rolled Loan – restrictions), and without prejudice to any restrictions contained in the Pari Passu Debt Documents (other than this Agreement), the Debtors may make Payments of the Credit Facility Liabilities at any time in accordance with, and subject to the provisions of, the relevant Credit Facility Documents. |
(b) | Subject to paragraph (b) of Clause 12.3 (Set-off) and Clause 19.3 (Treatment of Credit Facility Cash Cover and Credit Facility Lender Cash Collateral), following the occurrence of an Acceleration Event which is continuing no member of the Group may make Payments of (or in satisfaction of) the Credit Facility Liabilities (save in the case of Liabilities constituting Creditor Representative Amounts) except from Enforcement Proceeds distributed in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds), other than any distribution or dividend out of any Debtor’s unsecured assets (pro rata to each unsecured creditor’s claim) made by a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager or other similar officer appointed in respect of any Debtor or any of its assets, (unless, at any time at which the Intercreditor Agent or Common Security Agent is required to act in accordance with Enforcement Instructions issued by the Majority Super Senior Creditors pursuant to Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce), the Majority Super Senior Creditors give notice to the Intercreditor Agent that the restrictions in each of paragraph (b) of Clause 3.1 (Payment of Credit Facility Liabilities), paragraph (b) of Clause 4.1 (Payment of Pari Passu Debt Liabilities) and the proviso to Clause 5.2 (Restriction on Payments: Hedging Liabilities) will cease to apply), provided that in the case where the only Acceleration Event that is continuing is a Credit Facility Acceleration Event, one or more members of the Group may make Payments to effect the Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date (in which case and conditional upon such event occurring, that Credit Facility Acceleration Event shall be deemed to have ceased to occur for the purposes of this paragraph (b), notwithstanding that a principal amount of the Rolled Loan may be outstanding at such time). |
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3.2 | Rolled Loan – restrictions |
(a) | The provisions of this Clause 3.2 shall override anything in this Agreement or the other Debt Documents to the contrary. No amendment or waiver may be made that has the effect of changing or which relates to this Clause 3.2 without the consent of each Pari Passu Note Trustee on behalf of the Pari Passu Noteholders in respect of which it is the Creditor Representative, the Pari Passu Lenders, the Intercreditor Agent, the Additional Credit Facility Lenders and the Rolled Loan Facility Lender. |
(b) | Each Debtor and the Rolled Loan Facility Lender agrees for the benefit of the Secured Parties that, unless and until the Rolled Loan Release Date has occurred: |
(i) | in the case of each Debtor, it shall not (and it shall procure that no member of the Group and none of their other Affiliates will) make Payments (or encourage any other person to make Payments) of (or in satisfaction of) or exercise any set off against the Liabilities in respect of the principal amount of the Rolled Loan (other than Payment of the Rolled Loan at its maturity as set out in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (the “Permitted Rolled Loan Payment”)) and, in the case of the Rolled Loan Facility Lender, it shall not accept any such Payments (or encourage any person to make such Payments or accept such Payments on its behalf) of (or in satisfaction of) or exercise any set off in respect of the Liabilities in respect of the principal amount of the Rolled Loan owed to it (other than the Permitted Rolled Loan Payment), in each case except from Enforcement Proceeds distributed in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds), other than any distribution or dividend out of any Debtor’s unsecured assets (pro rata to each unsecured creditor’s claim) made by a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager or other similar officer appointed in respect of any Debtor or any of its assets; |
(ii) | in the case of the Company, it shall not make or take any steps to make any withdrawal from the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account other than to directly facilitate the making of the Permitted Rolled Loan Payment or to reimburse itself after having made the Permitted Rolled Loan Payment; |
(iii) | in the case of each Debtor, it shall not (and it shall procure that no member of the Group and none of their other Affiliates will) purchase or offer to purchase any interest in the Rolled Loan; |
(iv) | in the case of the Rolled Loan Facility Lender, it shall not knowingly transfer or assign all or any interest in the Rolled Loan to a Sponsor Affiliate; |
(v) | it shall not amend the terms of the 2016 Credit Facility Documents with respect to the Rolled Loan if the amendment would be an amendment to the amount or terms of repayment or prepayment (mandatory or otherwise) of all or part of the Rolled Loan, if the amendment would be an amendment to any date of repayment or prepayment (mandatory or otherwise) of the Rolled Loan so as to provide for the earlier repayment or prepayment of all or part of the Rolled Loan or to establish any right of the Rolled Loan Facility Lender to demand the prepayment of the Rolled Loan in addition to any rights contained in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement (or to waive or amend the conditionality contained in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement with respect to such rights in a manner that would be adverse to the interests of the Additional Credit Facility Lenders and/or the Pari Passu Creditors); and |
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(vi) | in the case of the Rolled Loan Facility Lender, it shall not take any Enforcement Action in respect of the principal amount of the Rolled Loan or any Transaction Security in respect of the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account (i) other than after the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to the Company in which case it reserves its rights to be able to exercise any right it may otherwise have to (x) accelerate the Rolled Loan or declare the Rolled Loan prematurely due and payable or payable on demand or (y) claim and prove in the liquidation of the Company for the principal amount of the Rolled Loan or (ii) in the case of a failure by the Company to make the Permitted Rolled Loan Payment in accordance with the terms of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement and provided that no Common Transaction Initial Enforcement Notice has been delivered pursuant to Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce), unless and until the date falling six (6) months after the date of such failure has occurred. |
(c) | In the case of a Payment made and purported to have effect in breach of the provisions of paragraph (b)(i) above, such purported effect shall be void and deemed not to have occurred and shall instead be deemed an advance by the relevant payer (or, if such payer is not a Party, an advance by the Company) of a loan in an amount equal to the amount of such Payment to the Rolled Loan Facility Lender, such loan being immediately repayable by the Rolled Loan Facility Lender and the Rolled Loan Facility Lender undertakes for the benefit of the other Secured Parties to repay such loan as soon as reasonably practicable. |
(d) | In the case of a purported set off in respect of the Liabilities in respect of the principal amount of the Rolled Loan that would be in breach of paragraph (b)(i) above, such purported set off shall be void and deemed not to have occurred. |
(e) | In the case of a purported transfer or assignment or purchase of any other interest in the Rolled Loan that would be in breach of paragraph (b)(iii) above, such purported transfer or assignment or purchase shall be void and deemed not to have occurred. |
(f) | In the case of a transfer or assignment or purchase of any other interest in the Rolled Loan by a Sponsor Affiliate on or before the Rolled Loan Release Date, to the extent that such Sponsor Affiliate is a Party or becomes a Party, that Sponsor Affiliate agrees to promptly on request by the Intercreditor Agent transfer all of its interests in the Rolled Loan to a person nominated by the Intercreditor Agent (acting on the instructions of any Secured Party that is not a member of the Group or a Sponsor Affiliate (and, in the case of the receipt of instructions from more than one such Secured Party, on the basis of the first instructions received)) for one Hong Kong dollar (HK$1) and on such other terms as the Intercreditor Agent (acting on the instructions of any Secured Party that is not a member of the Group or a Sponsor Affiliate) may stipulate (and, in the case of the receipt of instructions from more than one such Secured Party, on the basis of the first instructions received). |
(g) | The Intercreditor Agent shall not authorise any withdrawal from the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account on or before the Rolled Loan Release Date. |
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(h) | In the case of a failure by the Company to make the Permitted Rolled Loan Payment in accordance with the terms of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, the provisions of Clause 6.1 (Option to purchase: Pari Passu Debt Creditors) shall apply mutatis mutandis as if such failure were a Distress Event, that provision applied only to the Rolled Loan Facility Lender’s rights, benefits and obligations in respect of the Rolled Loan and paragraph (c) of Clause 6.1 (Option to purchase: Pari Passu Debt Creditors) did not apply. |
(i) | No Debtor shall be released from the liability to make any Payment (including of default interest, which shall continue to accrue) under any Debt Document by the operation of this Clause 3.2 even if its obligation to make that Payment is restricted at any time by the terms of this Clause 3.2. |
3.3 | Security: Credit Facility Creditors |
(a) | Other than as set out in this Clause 3.3 or in respect of the Common Transaction Security, no Debtor shall (and each Debtor shall procure that no member of the Group will) grant to any of the Credit Facility Creditors the benefit of any Security in respect of that Credit Facility Creditor’s Secured Obligations or otherwise permit such Security to subsist. |
(b) | Other than as set out in Clause 3.5 (Security: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks) and without prejudice to paragraph (c) below, the Credit Facility Creditors may take, accept or receive the benefit of any Security in respect of the Credit Facility Liabilities from any member of the Group in addition to the Common Transaction Security that (except for any Security permitted under Clause 3.5 (Security: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks)) to the extent legally possible and subject to any Agreed Security Principles is, at the same time, also offered either: |
(i) | to the Common Security Agent as trustee for the other Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities; or |
(ii) | in the case of any jurisdiction in which effective Security cannot be granted in favour of the Common Security Agent as trustee for the Secured Parties: |
(A) | to the other Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities; or |
(B) | to the Common Security Agent under a parallel debt structure for the benefit of the other Secured Parties, |
and ranks in the same order of priority as that contemplated in Clause 2.2 (Transaction Security), provided that all amounts received or recovered by any Secured Party with respect to such Security are immediately payable to the Common Security Agent to be held in accordance with this Agreement and applied in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds).
(c) | The Rolled Loan Facility Lender may take, accept or receive the benefit of Security over the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account. |
3.4 | Guarantees: Credit Facility Creditors |
(a) | Other than as set out in this Clause 3.4, no Debtor shall (and each Debtor shall procure that no member of the Group will) incur or allow to remain outstanding any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss in respect of a Credit Facility Creditor’s Secured Obligations. |
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(b) | Other than as set out in Clause 3.5 (Security: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks), the Credit Facility Creditors may take, accept or receive the benefit of any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss from any member of the Group in respect of the Credit Facility Liabilities: |
(i) (A) | in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement; or |
(B) | in case of Additional Credit Facility Creditors, in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement, to the extent set out in an Equivalent Provision; or |
(ii) | in this Agreement; or |
(iii) | in the original form of Mandate Documents (as defined in the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement) (or any equivalent provision in any mandate documents, commitment and fee letters entered into in connection with any additional Credit Facility made available under any Credit Facility Agreement after the date of this Agreement and which is similar in meaning and effect); or |
(iv) | in the original form of the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral; or |
(v) | in any fee letter in respect of fees payable to any Credit Facility Agent or any Credit Facility Arranger; or |
(vi) | in any Common Assurance; or |
(vii) | otherwise, if (except for any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss permitted under Clause 3.5 (Security: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks)) and to the extent legally possible and subject to any Agreed Security Principles, at the same time it is also offered to the other Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities and ranks in the same order of priority as that contemplated in Clause 2 (Ranking and priority) and all amounts received or recovered by any Secured Party with respect to such guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss on or after an Acceleration Event which is continuing are immediately payable to the Common Security Agent to be held in accordance with this Agreement and applied in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds). |
3.5 | Security: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks |
No Ancillary Lender or Issuing Bank will, unless the prior consent of the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors is obtained, take, accept or receive from any member of the Group the benefit of any Security, guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss in respect of any of the Liabilities owed to it other than:
(a) | the Common Transaction Security; |
(b) | each guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss contained in: |
(i) (A) | the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement; or |
(B) | in case of Additional Credit Facility Creditors, in an Additional Credit Facility Agreement, to the extent set out in an Equivalent Provision; |
(ii) | this Agreement; or |
(iii) | any Common Assurance; |
(c) | indemnities and assurances against loss contained in the Ancillary Documents no greater in extent than any of those referred to in paragraph (b) above; |
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(d) | any Credit Facility Cash Cover permitted under the relevant Credit Facility Documents relating to any Ancillary Facility or for any Letter of Credit issued by an Issuing Bank; |
(e) | the indemnities contained in an ISDA Master Agreement (in the case of a Hedging Ancillary Document which is based on an ISDA Master Agreement) or any indemnities which are similar in meaning and effect to those indemnities (in the case of a Hedging Ancillary Document which is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(f) | any Security, guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss giving effect to, or arising as a result of the effect of, any netting or set-off arrangement relating to the Ancillary Facilities for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances arising under the Ancillary Facilities. |
3.6 | Restriction on Enforcement: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks |
Subject to Clause 3.7 (Permitted Enforcement: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks), so long as any of the Super Senior Liabilities (other than any Liabilities owed to the Ancillary Lenders or Issuing Banks) are or may be outstanding, none of the Ancillary Lenders nor the Issuing Banks shall be entitled to take any Enforcement Action in respect of any of the Liabilities owed to it.
3.7 | Permitted Enforcement: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks |
(a) | Each Ancillary Lender and Issuing Bank may take Enforcement Action which would be available to it but for Clause 3.6 (Restriction on Enforcement: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks) if: |
(i) | at the same time as, or prior to, that action, Enforcement Action has been taken in respect of any of the Credit Facility Liabilities (excluding the Liabilities owing to Ancillary Lenders and the Issuing Banks), in which case the Ancillary Lenders and the Issuing Banks may take the same Enforcement Action as has been taken in respect of those Credit Facility Liabilities; |
(ii) | on or prior to the Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date, that action is contemplated by the relevant Credit Facility Agreement or Clause 3.5 (Security: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks); |
(iii) | after the Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date, that action is contemplated by the relevant Credit Facility Agreement or Clause 3.5 (Security: Ancillary Lenders and Issuing Banks); |
(iv) | that Enforcement Action is taken in respect of Credit Facility Cash Cover which has been provided in accordance with the relevant Credit Facility Agreement; |
(v) | at the same time as or prior to, that action, the consent of the Majority Super Senior Creditors is obtained; or |
(vi) | an Insolvency Event has occurred in relation to any member of the Group, in which case after the occurrence of that Insolvency Event, each Ancillary Lender and each Issuing Bank shall be entitled (if it has not already done so) to exercise any right it may otherwise have in respect of that member of the Group to: |
(A) | accelerate any of that member of the Group’s Credit Facility Liabilities or declare them prematurely due and payable on demand; |
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(B) | make a demand under any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss given by that member of the Group in respect of any Credit Facility Liabilities; |
(C) | exercise any right of set-off or take or receive any Payment in respect of any Credit Facility Liabilities of that member of the Group; or |
(D) | claim and prove in the liquidation of that member of the Group for the Credit Facility Liabilities owing to it. |
3.8 | Amendments and waivers: Credit Facility Agreement |
(a) | The 2016 Credit Facility Lenders agree for the benefit of the other Secured Parties that they shall not, prior to the later of the Additional Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date and the Pari Passu Discharge Date, amend (i) the terms of paragraphs (k) or (l) of clause 1.2 (Construction) of the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, (ii) the definitions of “Secured Obligations”, “Secured Obligations Documents”, “Secured Parties”, “Security Agent”, “Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement”, “Account”, “Completion Support Release Date”, “Continuing Documents”, “Debt Service Accrual Account”, “Debt Service Reserve Account”, “Direct Agreement”, “Equity”, “Excess Cashflow”, “First Utilisation”, “Gaming Area”, “Group Insured”, “Hedging Agreement”, “Hedging Liabilities”, “High Yield Note Disbursement Agreement”, “High Yield Note Interest Reserve Account”, “High Yield Net Proceeds Account”, “Insurance Policy”, “Major Project Documents”, “Permitted Distribution”, “Pledge of Enterprise”, “Repayment Instalment”, “Representative”, “Specific Contracts”, “Subordinated Creditor”, “Subordinated Debt”, “Subordination Deed” and “Term Loan Facility” each as set out in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement or (iii) the proviso to the definition of any of the following defined terms: “Agent”, “Event of Default”, “Facility”, “Finance Document”, “Finance Party” or “Lender” each as set out in the original form of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, in each case unless: |
(i) | the amendment or waiver is of a minor, technical or administrative nature or corrects a manifest error and is not prejudicial to the Additional Credit Facility Lenders or Pari Passu Creditors (taken as a whole); or |
(ii) | the prior consent of the “Majority Lenders” (under and as defined in any Additional Credit Facility Agreement) and the Required Pari Passu Creditors is obtained. |
(b) | The 2016 Credit Facility Lenders further agree for the benefit of the other Secured Parties that they shall not, prior to the later of the Additional Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date and the Pari Passu Discharge Date, otherwise amend clause 1.2 (Construction) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement in a manner that could reasonably be considered to be (i) inconsistent with the arrangements contemplated in paragraphs (m) or (n) of Clause 1.2 (Construction) or Clause 32 (Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement) or (ii) materially prejudicial to the interests of the Secured Parties (taken as a whole) in respect of clauses 11 (Secured Parties’ Enforcement Action) to 19 (Statement of Secured Obligations) (inclusive) of the Services and Right to Use Direct Agreement. |
4. | Pari Passu Debt Creditors and Pari Passu Debt Liabilities |
4.1 | Payment of Pari Passu Debt Liabilities |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, and without prejudice to any restrictions contained in the Credit Facility Documents (other than this Agreement), the Debtors may make Payments of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities at any time in accordance with, and subject to the provisions of, the Pari Passu Debt Documents. |
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(b) | Following the occurrence of an Acceleration Event which is continuing (until the occurrence of the later of the Super Senior Discharge Date and the Rolled Loan Discharge Date), no member of the Group may make Payments of (or in satisfaction of) the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities (save in the case of Liabilities constituting Creditor Representative Amounts) except from Enforcement Proceeds distributed in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds), other than any distribution or dividend out of any Debtor’s unsecured assets (pro rata to each unsecured creditor’s claim) made by a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager or other similar officer appointed in respect of any Debtor or any of its assets, (unless, at any time at which the Common Security Agent is required to act in accordance with Enforcement Instructions issued by the Majority Super Senior Creditors pursuant to Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce), the Majority Super Senior Creditors give notice to the Intercreditor Agent that the restrictions in each of paragraph (b) of Clause 3.1 (Payment of Credit Facility Liabilities), paragraph (b) of Clause 4.1 (Payment of Pari Passu Debt Liabilities) and the proviso to Clause 5.2 (Restriction on Payments: Hedging Liabilities) will cease to apply), provided that any amount standing to the credit of a Pari Passu Facility Debt Service Reserve Account or a Pari Passu Notes Interest Accrual Account as at the date of the Acceleration Event may be applied in payment of interest and other scheduled debt servicing in accordance with the terms of the applicable Pari Passu Debt Document(s). |
4.2 | Security: Pari Passu Debt Creditors |
(a) | Other than as set out in this Clause 4.2 or in respect of the Common Transaction Security, no Debtor shall (and each Debtor shall procure that no member of the Group will) grant to any of the Pari Passu Debt Creditors the benefit of any Security in respect of that Pari Passu Debt Creditor’s Secured Obligations or otherwise permit such Security to subsist. |
(b) | Without prejudice to paragraphs (c) and (d) below, the Pari Passu Debt Creditors may take, accept or receive the benefit of any Security in respect of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities from any member of the Group in addition to the Common Transaction Security that to the extent legally possible and subject to any Agreed Security Principles is, at the same time, also offered either: |
(i) | to the Common Security Agent as trustee for the other Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities; or |
(ii) | in the case of any jurisdiction in which effective Security cannot be granted in favour of the Common Security Agent as trustee for the Secured Parties: |
(A) | to the other Secured Parties in respect of their Liabilities; or |
(B) | to the Common Security Agent under a parallel debt structure for the benefit of the other Secured Parties, |
and (subject to the terms of this Agreement) ranks in the same order of priority as that contemplated in Clause 2.2 (Transaction Security), provided that all amounts received or recovered by any Secured Party with respect to such Security are immediately payable to the Common Security Agent to be held in accordance with this Agreement and applied in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds).
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(c) | The Pari Passu Debt Creditors in respect of a series of Pari Passu Notes may take, accept or receive the benefit of Security over the Pari Passu Notes Interest Accrual Account relating to such series of Pari Passu Notes. |
(d) | The Pari Passu Debt Creditors in respect of a Pari Passu Facility may take, accept or receive the benefit of Security over the Pari Passu Facility Debt Service Reserve Account relating to such Pari Passu Facility. |
4.3 | Guarantees: Pari Passu Debt Creditors |
(a) | Other than as set out in this Clause 4.3, no Debtor shall (and each Debtor shall procure that no member of the Group will) incur or allow to remain outstanding any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss in respect of a Pari Passu Debt Creditor’s Secured Obligations. |
(b) | The Pari Passu Debt Creditors may take, accept or receive the benefit of any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss from any member of the Group in respect of the Pari Passu Debt Liabilities: |
(i) | in any Equivalent Provision in a Pari Passu Note Indenture or Pari Passu Facility Agreement corresponding to the Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture, the Senior Secured 2021 Notes and the Senior Secured 2021 Note Guarantees or the Credit Facility Agreements (as applicable); or |
(ii) | in this Agreement; or |
(iii) | in any Transaction Security Agreement in respect of any Credit-Specific Transaction Security applicable to such Pari Passu Debt Liabilities, to the extent such guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss is substantially equivalent to any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss in any Transaction Security Agreement in respect of any Credit-Specific Transaction Security that was entered into prior to the 2022 ICA Amendment and Restatement Effective Date; or |
(iv) | in any Common Assurance; or |
(v) | otherwise, if and to the extent legally possible and subject to any Agreed Security Principles at the same time it also offered to the other Secured Parties in respect of their respective Liabilities and (subject to the terms of this Agreement) ranks in the same order of priority as that contemplated in Clause 2 (Ranking and priority) and all amounts received or recovered by any Secured Party with respect to such guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss on or after an Acceleration Event which is continuing are immediately payable to the Common Security Agent to be held in accordance with this Agreement and applied in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds). |
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5. | Hedge Counterparties and Hedging Liabilities |
5.1 | Identity of Hedge Counterparties |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, no entity providing hedging arrangements to any Debtor shall be entitled to share in any of the Transaction Security or in the benefit of any guarantee or indemnity in respect of any of the liabilities and obligations arising in relation to those hedging arrangements nor shall those liabilities and obligations be treated as Hedging Liabilities unless that entity is or becomes a Party as a Hedge Counterparty. |
(b) | Paragraph (a) above shall not apply to a Hedging Ancillary Lender. |
5.2 | Restriction on Payments: Hedging Liabilities |
The Debtors shall not, and shall procure that no other member of the Group will, make any Payment of the Hedging Liabilities at any time unless:
(a) | that Payment is permitted under Clause 5.3 (Permitted Payments: Hedging Liabilities); or |
(b) | the taking or receipt of that Payment is permitted under paragraph (b) of Clause 5.9 (Permitted Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties), |
provided that (unless, at any time at which the Common Security Agent is required to act in accordance with Enforcement Instructions issued by the Majority Super Senior Creditors pursuant to Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce), the Majority Super Senior Creditors give notice to the Security Agent that the restrictions in each of paragraph (b) of Clause 3.1 (Payment of Credit Facility Liabilities), paragraph (b) of Clause 4.1 (Payment of Pari Passu Debt Liabilities) and this proviso will cease to apply), following the occurrence of an Acceleration Event which is continuing (until the occurrence of the later of the Super Senior Discharge Date and the Rolled Loan Discharge Date), no member of the Group may make Payments of the Hedging Liabilities except from Enforcement Proceeds distributed in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds), other than any distribution or dividend out of any Debtor’s unsecured assets (pro rata to each unsecured creditor’s claim) made by a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager or other similar officer appointed in respect of any Debtor or any of its assets.
5.3 | Permitted Payments: Hedging Liabilities |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Debtors may make Payments to any Hedge Counterparty in respect of the Hedging Liabilities then due to that Hedge Counterparty under any Hedging Agreement in accordance with the terms of that Hedging Agreement: |
(i) | if the Payment is a scheduled Payment arising under the relevant Hedging Agreement; |
(ii) | to the extent that the relevant Debtor’s obligation to make the Payment arises as a result of the operation of: |
(A) | any of sections 2(d) (Deduction or Withholding for Tax), 2(e) (Default Interest; Other Amounts), 8(a) (Payment in the Contractual Currency), 8(b) (Judgments) and 11 (Expenses) of the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement (if the Hedging Agreement is based on a 1992 ISDA Master Agreement); |
(B) | any of sections 2(d) (Deduction or Withholding for Tax), 8(a) (Payment in the Contractual Currency), 8(b) (Judgments), 9(h)(i) (Prior to Early Termination) and 11 (Expenses) of the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement (if the Hedging Agreement is based on a 2002 ISDA Master Agreement); or |
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(C) | any provision of a Hedging Agreement which is similar in meaning and effect to any provision listed in paragraphs (A) or (B) above (if the Hedging Agreement is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement); |
(iii) | to the extent that the relevant Debtor’s obligation to make the Payment arises from a Non-Credit Related Close-Out; |
(iv) | to the extent that: |
(A) | the relevant Debtor’s obligation to make the Payment arises from: |
(1) | a Credit Related Close-Out in relation to that Hedging Agreement; or |
(2) | a Permitted Automatic Early Termination under that Hedging Agreement which arises as a result of an event relating to a Debtor; and |
(B) | no Event of Default is continuing at the time of that Payment or would result from that Payment; |
(v) | to the extent that no Event of Default is continuing or would result from that Payment and the relevant Debtor’s obligation to make the Payment arises as a result of a close-out or termination arising as a result of: |
(A) | section 5(a)(vii) (Bankruptcy) of the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement (if the relevant Hedging Agreement is based on a 1992 ISDA Master Agreement) and the Event of Default (as defined in the relevant Hedging Agreement) has occurred with respect to the relevant Hedge Counterparty; |
(B) | section 5(a)(vii) (Bankruptcy) of the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement (if the relevant Hedging Agreement is based on a 2002 ISDA Master Agreement) and the Event of Default (as defined in the relevant Hedging Agreement) has occurred with respect to the relevant Hedge Counterparty; |
(C) | any provision of a Hedging Agreement which is similar in meaning and effect to any provision listed in paragraphs (A) or (B) above (if the Hedging Agreement is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement) and the equivalent event of default has occurred with respect to the relevant Hedge Counterparty; or |
(D) | the relevant Debtor terminating or closing-out the relevant Hedging Agreement as a result of a Hedging Force Majeure and the Termination Event (as defined in the relevant Hedging Agreement in the case of a Hedging Agreement based on an ISDA Master Agreement) or the equivalent termination event (in the case of a Hedging Agreement not based on an ISDA Master Agreement) has occurred with respect to the relevant Hedge Counterparty; or |
(vi) | if the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors give prior consent to the Payment being made. |
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(b) | No Payment may be made to a Hedge Counterparty under paragraph (a) above if any scheduled Payment due from that Hedge Counterparty to a Debtor under a Hedging Agreement to which they are both party is due and unpaid unless the prior consent of the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors is obtained. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision shall not affect any Payment which is due from a Hedge Counterparty to a Debtor pursuant to a Hedging Agreement to which that Hedge Counterparty and Debtor are both party and which is being terminated or closed out. |
(c) | Failure by a Debtor to make a Payment to a Hedge Counterparty which results solely from the operation of paragraph (b) above shall, without prejudice to Clause 5.4 (Payment obligations continue), not result in a default (however described) in respect of that Debtor under that Hedging Agreement. |
5.4 | Payment obligations continue |
No Debtor shall be released from the liability to make any Payment (including of default interest, which shall continue to accrue) under any Debt Document by the operation of Clauses 5.2 (Restriction on Payment: Hedging Liabilities) and 5.3 (Permitted Payments: Hedging Liabilities) even if its obligation to make that Payment is restricted at any time by the terms of any of those Clauses.
5.5 | No acquisition of Hedging Liabilities |
The Debtors shall not, and shall procure that no other member of the Group will:
(a) | enter into any Liabilities Acquisition; or |
(b) | beneficially own all or any part of the share capital of a company that is party to a Liabilities Acquisition, |
in respect of any of the Hedging Liabilities, unless the prior consent of the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors is obtained.
5.6 | Amendments and waivers: Hedging Agreements |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Hedge Counterparties may not, at any time, amend or waive any term of the Hedging Agreements. |
(b) | A Hedge Counterparty may amend or waive any term of a Hedging Agreement in accordance with the terms of that Hedging Agreement if the amendment or waiver (i) does not breach another term of this Agreement and (ii) would not result in a breach of any Credit Facility Agreement or any Pari Passu Debt Document. |
5.7 | Security: Hedge Counterparties |
The Hedge Counterparties may not take, accept or receive the benefit of any Security, guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss from any member of the Group in respect of the Hedging Liabilities other than:
(a) | the Common Transaction Security; |
(b) | any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss contained in: |
(i) | the original form of Clause 5.15 (Hedge Counterparties’ guarantee and indemnity) and Schedule 9 (Hedge Counterparties’ guarantee and indemnity); |
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(ii) | this Agreement (other than Clause 5.15 (Hedge Counterparties’ guarantee and indemnity) and Schedule 9 (Hedge Counterparties’ guarantee and indemnity)); |
(iii) | any Common Assurance; or |
(iv) | the relevant Hedging Agreement no greater in extent than any of those referred to in paragraphs (i) to (iii) above; |
(c) | as otherwise contemplated by Clauses 3.3 (Security: Credit Facility Creditors), 3.4 (Guarantees: Credit Facility Creditors), 4.2 (Security: Pari Passu Debt Creditors); and 4.3 (Guarantees: Pari Passu Debt Creditors); and |
(d) | the indemnities contained in the ISDA Master Agreements (in the case of a Hedging Agreement which is based on an ISDA Master Agreement) or any indemnities which are similar in meaning and effect to those indemnities (in the case of a Hedging Agreement which is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement). |
5.8 | Restriction on Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties |
Subject to Clause 5.9 (Permitted Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties) and Clause 5.10 (Required Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties) and without prejudice to each Hedge Counterparty’s rights under Clauses 15.3 (Enforcement Instructions) and 15.5 (Manner of Enforcement), the Hedge Counterparties shall not take any Enforcement Action in respect of any of the Hedging Liabilities or any of the hedging transactions under any of the Hedging Agreements at any time.
5.9 | Permitted Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties |
(a) | To the extent it is able to do so under the relevant Hedging Agreement, a Hedge Counterparty may terminate or close-out in whole or in part any hedging transaction under that Hedging Agreement prior to its stated maturity: |
Non-Credit Related Close-Outs
(i) | if, prior to a Distress Event, the Parent has confirmed in writing to that Hedge Counterparty that that termination or close-out would not result in a breach of any term of a Credit Facility Document or Pari Passu Debt Document; |
(ii) | if a Hedging Force Majeure has occurred in respect of that Hedging Agreement; |
(iii) | to the extent necessary to comply with paragraph (c) of Clause 5.13 (Total Interest Rate Hedging and Total Exchange Rate Hedging); |
(iv) | to ensure that the Common Currency Amount of a Hedge Counterparty’s Hedging Liabilities does not exceed its Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amount; |
Credit Related Close-Outs
(i) | if a Distress Event has occurred; |
(ii) | if an Event of Default has occurred under clause 24.5 (Insolvency) or clause 24.6 (Insolvency proceedings) of the 2016 Credit Facility Agreement, any Equivalent Provision of an Additional Credit Facility Agreement or a Pari Passu Facility Agreement, or any Equivalent Provision of a Pari Passu Note Indenture corresponding to paragraphs (a)(7) and (a)(8) of section 6.01 (Events of Default) of the Senior Secured 2021 Note Indenture in relation to a Debtor which is party to that Hedging Agreement; or |
(iii) | if the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors give prior consent to that termination or close-out being made. |
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(b) | After the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to any member of the Group, each Hedge Counterparty shall be entitled to exercise any right it may otherwise have in respect of that member of the Group to: |
(i) | prematurely close-out or terminate any Hedging Liabilities of that member of the Group; |
(ii) | make a demand under any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss given by that member of the Group in respect of any Hedging Liabilities; |
(iii) | exercise any right of set-off or take or receive any Payment in respect of any Hedging Liabilities of that member of the Group; or |
(iv) | claim and prove in the liquidation of that member of the Group for the Hedging Liabilities owing to it. |
5.10 | Required Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, a Hedge Counterparty shall promptly terminate or close-out in full any hedging transaction under all or any of the Hedging Agreements to which it is party prior to their stated maturity, following: |
(i) | the occurrence of an Acceleration Event which is continuing and delivery to it of a notice from the Intercreditor Agent that that Acceleration Event has occurred and is continuing; and |
(ii) | delivery to it of a subsequent notice from the Intercreditor Agent (acting on the instructions of the Instructing Group) instructing it to do so. |
(b) | Paragraph (a) above shall not apply to the extent that that Acceleration Event occurred as a result of an arrangement made between any Debtor and any Primary Creditor with the purpose of bringing about that Acceleration Event. |
5.11 | Treatment of payments due to Debtors on termination of Hedging Transactions |
(a) | If, on termination of any hedging transaction under any Hedging Agreement occurring after a Distress Event, a settlement amount or other amount (following the application of any Close-Out Netting, Payment Netting or Inter-Hedging Agreement Netting in respect of that Hedging Agreement) falls due from a Hedge Counterparty to the relevant Debtor then that amount shall be paid by that Hedge Counterparty to the Common Security Agent, treated as the proceeds of enforcement of the Transaction Security and applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
(b) | The payment of that amount by the Hedge Counterparty to the Common Security Agent in accordance with paragraph (a) above shall discharge the Hedge Counterparty’s obligation to pay that amount to that Debtor. |
5.12 | Terms of Hedging Agreements |
The Hedge Counterparties (to the extent party to the Hedging Agreement in question) and the Debtors party to the Hedging Agreements shall ensure that, at all times:
(a) | each Hedging Agreement documents only hedging arrangements entered into for the purpose of hedging the types of liabilities described in the definition of “Hedging Agreement ” and that no other hedging arrangements are carried out under or pursuant to a Hedging Agreement; |
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(b) | each Hedging Agreement is based either: |
(i) | on an ISDA Master Agreement; or |
(ii) | on another framework agreement which is similar in effect to an ISDA Master Agreement; |
(c) | in the event of a termination of the hedging transaction entered into under a Hedging Agreement, whether as a result of: |
(i) | a Termination Event or an Event of Default, each as defined in the relevant Hedging Agreement (in the case of a Hedging Agreement which is based on an ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(ii) | an event similar in meaning and effect to either of those described in paragraph (i) above (in the case of a Hedging Agreement which is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement), |
that Hedging Agreement will:
(A) | if it is based on a 1992 ISDA Master Agreement, provide for payments under the “Second Method” and will make no material amendment to section 6(e) (Payments on Early Termination) of the ISDA Master Agreement; |
(B) | if it is based on a 2002 ISDA Master Agreement, make no material amendment to section 6(e) (Payments on Early Termination) of the ISDA Master Agreement; or |
(C) | if it is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement, provide for any other method the effect of which is that the party to which that event is referable will be entitled to receive payment under the relevant termination provisions if the net replacement value of all terminated transactions entered into under that Hedging Agreement is in its favour; |
(d) | each Hedging Agreement will not provide for Automatic Early Termination other than to the extent that: |
(i) | the provision of Automatic Early Termination is consistent with practice in the relevant derivatives market, taking into account the legal status and jurisdiction of incorporation of the parties to that Hedging Agreement; and |
(ii) | that Automatic Early Termination is: |
(A) | as provided for in section 6(a) (Right to Terminate following Event of Default) of the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement (if the Hedging Agreement is based on a 1992 ISDA Master Agreement); |
(B) | as provided for in section 6(a) (Right to Terminate Following Event of Default) of the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement (if the Hedging Agreement is based on a 2002 ISDA Master Agreement); or |
(C) | similar in effect to that described in paragraphs (A) or (B) above (if the Hedging Agreement is not based on an ISDA Master Agreement); |
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(e) | each Hedging Agreement will provide that the relevant Hedge Counterparty will be entitled to designate an Early Termination Date or otherwise be able to terminate each transaction under such Hedging Agreement if so required pursuant to Clause 5.10 (Required Enforcement: Hedge Counterparties); and |
(f) | each Hedging Agreement will permit the relevant Hedge Counterparty and each relevant Debtor to take such action as may be necessary to comply with Clause 5.13 (Total Interest Rate Hedging and Total Exchange Rate Hedging). |
5.13 | Total Interest Rate Hedging and Total Exchange Rate Hedging |
(a) | The Parent shall procure that, at all times: |
(i) | the Total Interest Rate Hedging does not exceed the Floating Rate Term Outstandings; and |
(ii) | the Total Exchange Rate Hedging does not exceed the Other Currency Term Outstandings. |
(b) | Subject to paragraph (a) above, if: |
(i) | the Total Interest Rate Hedging is less than the Floating Rate Term Outstandings, a Debtor may (but, subject to any express requirement in a Pari Passu Debt Document shall be under no obligation to) enter into additional hedging arrangements to increase the Total Interest Rate Hedging; or |
(ii) | the Total Exchange Rate Hedging is less than the Other Currency Term Outstandings, a Debtor may (but, subject to any express requirement in a Pari Passu Debt Document, shall be under no obligation to) enter into additional hedging arrangements to increase the Total Exchange Rate Hedging. |
(c) | If any reduction in the Floating Rate Term Outstandings or the Other Currency Term Outstandings results in: |
(i) | an Interest Rate Hedge Excess then, on the same day (or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter) as that reduction becomes effective in accordance with the terms of the relevant Debt Document, the relevant Debtor(s) shall, and the Parent shall procure that the relevant Debtor(s) shall, reduce each Hedge Counterparty’s Interest Rate Hedging by that Hedge Counterparty’s Interest Rate Hedging Proportion of that Interest Rate Hedge Excess by terminating or closing out any relevant hedging transaction(s) in full or in part, as may be necessary; or |
(ii) | an Exchange Rate Hedge Excess then, on the same day (or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter) as that reduction becomes effective in accordance with the terms of the relevant Debt Document, the relevant Debtor(s) shall, and the Parent shall procure that the relevant Debtor(s) shall, reduce each Hedge Counterparty’s Exchange Rate Hedging by that Hedge Counterparty’s Exchange Rate Hedging Proportion of that Exchange Rate Hedge Excess by terminating or closing out any relevant hedging transaction(s) in full or in part, as may be necessary. |
(d) | The relevant Debtor(s) shall, and the Parent shall procure that the relevant Debtor(s) will, pay to that Hedge Counterparty (in accordance with the relevant Hedging Agreement) an amount equal to the sum of all payments (if any) that become due from each relevant Debtor to a Hedge Counterparty under the relevant Hedging Agreement(s) as a result of any action described in paragraph (c) above. |
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(e) | Each Hedge Counterparty shall co-operate in any process described in paragraph (d) above and shall pay (in accordance with the relevant Hedging Agreement(s)) any amount that becomes due from it under the relevant Hedging Agreement(s) to a Debtor as a result of any action described in paragraph (c) above. |
5.14 | Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities |
(a) | The Parent may from time to time allocate (or reallocate or effect the release of any previous allocation of) the Super Senior Hedging Amount in whole or in part to one or more Hedge Counterparties subject to this Clause 5.14 (Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities). |
(b) | Any allocation or reallocation or release of any previous allocation of the Super Senior Hedging Amount (whether in whole or in part) by the Parent shall only take effect on receipt by the Intercreditor Agent (which receipt shall be acknowledged promptly) of a Super Senior Hedging Certificate which complies with the conditions set out in this Clause 5.14 (Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities). |
(c) | The Intercreditor Agent shall only be required to recognise and give effect to any allocation, reallocation or release of the Super Senior Hedging Amount requested by the Parent pursuant to any Super Senior Hedging Certificate to the extent such Super Senior Hedging Certificate: |
(i) | complies in form and substance with the form of Super Senior Hedging Certificate set out in Schedule 8 (Form of Super Senior Hedging Certificate); |
(ii) | has been duly executed by: (A) the Parent; (B) the Hedge Counterparty to whom any portion of the available Super Senior Hedging Amount is to be allocated and (C) if applicable, any Hedge Counterparty who is to release any portion of any Super Senior Hedging Amount previously allocated to it in accordance with this Clause 5.14 (Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities); |
(iii) | identifies the portion of the Super Senior Hedging Amount (by reference to an amount in the Common Currency) that is to be allocated to the proposed new Super Senior Hedge Counterparty and/or released by an existing Super Senior Hedge Counterparty; |
(iv) | identifies the relevant Hedging Agreement pursuant to which the relevant Hedging Liabilities arise; and |
(v) | complies with paragraph (d) below and does not otherwise purport to allocate any part of the Super Senior Hedging Amount which is not available for allocation or which has previously been allocated and not released to any other Hedge Counterparty pursuant to this Clause 5.14 (Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities). |
(d) | No Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amount may, whether on an individual basis or when aggregated with all previously Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amounts (to the extent not released pursuant to this Clause 5.14 (Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities)), exceed the lower of: |
(i) | the Super Senior Hedging Amount; and |
(ii) | any hedging limit specified in any Credit Facility Agreement or any Pari Passu Debt Document entered into after the date of this Agreement and notified in writing to the Intercreditor Agent by the relevant Creditor Representative to the extent that such limit is not lower than the aggregate of all Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amounts existing as at the date of notification. |
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(e) | The Intercreditor Agent shall not accept or give effect to any Super Senior Hedging Certificate to the extent it allocates or purports to allocate any part of the Super Senior Hedging Amount in breach of paragraph (d) above. |
(f) | An Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amount may not be: |
(i) | changed without the prior written consent of the relevant Hedge Counterparty to whom such Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amount has been allocated pursuant to this Clause 5.14 (Allocation of Super Senior Hedging Liabilities); or |
(ii) | allocated to another Hedge Counterparty or to any other Hedging Liabilities or Hedging Agreement other than through delivery of a Super Senior Hedging Certificate duly executed by the Parent and each Hedge Counterparty who agrees to release or reallocate any part of the Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amount. |
(g) | The Intercreditor Agent shall maintain a register for the recording of the names and addresses of the Hedge Counterparties and the Allocated Super Senior Hedging Amounts of each such Hedge Counterparty (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Parent, the Intercreditor Agent, the Common Security Agent and the Hedge Counterparties shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Super Senior Hedge Counterparty for the purposes of this Agreement to the extent of its Super Senior Hedging Liabilities. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Parent and any Hedge Counterparty, at all reasonable times and on reasonable notice to the Intercreditor Agent. |
5.15 | Hedge Counterparties’ guarantee and indemnity |
Each Debtor agrees that it will be bound by the obligations set out in Schedule 9 (Hedge Counterparties’ guarantee and indemnity).
5.16 | Notice and acknowledgement of Common Transaction Security |
Each Hedge Counterparty, by its accession to this Agreement as a Hedge Counterparty, acknowledges receipt of notice of assignment pursuant to the applicable Transaction Security Documents in respect of the Common Transaction Security of the proceeds owing by that Hedge Counterparty to any Debtor pursuant to the Hedging Agreement(s) to which that Hedge Counterparty is a party.
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6. | Option to purchase and Hedge Transfer |
6.1 | Option to purchase: Pari Passu Debt Creditors |
(a) | Any of the Pari Passu Noteholders and Pari Passu Lenders may, after a Distress Event, by giving not less than ten days’ prior notice in writing to the Intercreditor Agent, require the transfer to them (or to a nominee or nominees), in accordance with Clause 25.5 (Change of Credit Facility Lender or Pari Passu Lender under an Existing Credit Facility or Pari Passu Facility), of all, but not part, of the rights, benefits and obligations in respect of the Credit Facility Liabilities (including, for the avoidance of doubt, all Liabilities relating to the Rolled Loan) (such Pari Passu Noteholders and Pari Passu Lenders so requiring, the “Purchasing Secured Creditors”) if: |
(i) | that transfer is lawful and, subject to paragraph (ii) below, otherwise permitted by the terms of the relevant Credit Facility Agreement; |
(ii) | any conditions relating to such a transfer contained in the relevant Credit Facility Agreement are complied with, other than: |
(A) | any requirement to obtain the consent of, or consult with, any Debtor or other member of the Group relating to such transfer, which consent or consultation shall not be required; and |
(B) | any requirement that the Purchasing Secured Creditors (or their nominee or nominees) as Credit Facility Lenders must satisfy the requirements of paragraph (a)(ii) of clause 25.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer) of the original form of the relevant Credit Facility Agreement or must not be a “Defaulting Lender” (as defined in the original form of the relevant Credit Facility Agreement), which conditions shall not be required to be satisfied; and |
(C) | (x) any requirement that the Purchasing Secured Creditors provide cash cover for any Letter of Credit then outstanding in excess of the amount equal to 105 per cent. of the sum of such Letter of Credit then outstanding and the aggregate facing and similar fees that would accrue thereon through the stated maturity of such Letter of Credit (assuming no drawings thereon before stated maturity), which requirement in respect of such excess shall not be required to be satisfied and (y) to the extent the Purchasing Secured Creditors provide cash cover (in the amount set forth in the relevant Credit Facility Agreement, subject to the limit in (x) above) for any Letter of Credit then outstanding, the consent of the relevant Issuing Bank relating to such transfer, which consent shall not be required; and |
(D) | any condition more onerous than those contained in clause 25.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders) of the original form of the relevant Credit Facility Agreement; |
(iii) | each Credit Facility Agent, on behalf of the relevant Credit Facility Lenders, is paid an amount by the Purchasing Secured Creditors equal to the aggregate of: |
(A) | any amounts provided as cash cover by the Purchasing Secured Creditors for any relevant Letter of Credit (as envisaged in paragraph (ii)(C) above); |
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(B) | all of the relevant Credit Facility Liabilities at that time (whether or not due), including all amounts that would have been payable under the relevant Credit Facility Documents if such Credit Facility Liabilities were being prepaid by the relevant Debtors on the date of that payment (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any amounts that would have been payable under clause 13.4 (Break Costs) of the original form of the relevant Credit Facility Agreement); and |
(C) | all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by that Credit Facility Agent and/or the relevant Credit Facility Lenders as a consequence of giving effect to that transfer, |
together, and subject to paragraph (b) below, the “Capped Purchase Amount”;
(iv) | as a result of that transfer the Credit Facility Lenders have no further actual or contingent liability to any Debtor under the relevant Credit Facility Documents; |
(v) | an indemnity is provided from the Purchasing Secured Creditors (or from another third party acceptable to all the Credit Facility Lenders) in a form satisfactory to each Credit Facility Lender in respect of all losses which may be sustained or incurred by any Credit Facility Lender as a consequence of any sum received or recovered by any Credit Facility Lender from any person being required (or it being alleged that it is required) to be paid back by or clawed back from any Credit Facility Lender for any reason; and |
(vi) | the transfer is made without recourse to, or representation or warranty from, the Credit Facility Lenders, except that each Credit Facility Lender shall be deemed to have represented and warranted on the date of that transfer that it has the corporate power to effect that transfer, it has taken all necessary action to authorise the making by it of that transfer and that it is transferring all of its rights, benefits and obligations in respect of its Credit Facility Liabilities. |
(b) | Each Credit Facility Agent shall, within five Business Days of request, provide in reasonable detail a written statement setting out all amounts comprising the portion of the Capped Purchase Amount relating to Credit Facility Liabilities owed to the Credit Facility Lenders in respect of whom it is a Creditor Representative, provided that (i) such written statement is provided within five Business Days of request and (ii) such amounts are reasonable and in the absence of manifest error, the amounts set out in such written statement shall, in aggregate, constitute such portion of the Capped Purchase Amount. In the event the criteria set out in either subparagraph (i) or sub-paragraph (ii) of this paragraph are not fulfilled, such portion of the Capped Purchase Amount shall comprise the aggregate of the principal amount of all outstanding loans under the relevant Credit Facility Agreement (including cash cover for outstanding Letters of Credit issued thereunder) and all interest and fees which will have accrued on such loans and Letters of Credit up to and including the date of payment of such portion of the Capped Purchase Amount to the relevant Credit Facility Agent, each as calculated by the Purchasing Secured Creditors. |
(c) | Subject to paragraph (c) of Clause 6.2 (Hedge Transfer: Pari Passu Debt Creditors), the Purchasing Secured Creditors may only require a Credit Facility Lender Liabilities Transfer if, at the same time, they require a Hedge Transfer in accordance with Clause 6.2 (Hedge Transfer: Pari Passu Debt Creditors) and if, for any reason, a Hedge Transfer cannot be made in accordance with Clause 6.2 (Hedge Transfer: Pari Passu Debt Creditors), no Credit Facility Lender Liabilities Transfer may be required to be made. |
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(d) | The Creditor Representatives in respect of the relevant Credit Facilities shall, at the request of the Purchasing Secured Creditors, notify the Pari Passu Noteholders and Pari Passu Lenders of: |
(i) | the sum of the amounts described in paragraphs (a)(iii)(B) and (C) above; and |
(ii) | the amount of each Letter of Credit for which cash cover is to be provided by all the Purchasing Secured Creditors. |
(e) | If more than one Purchasing Secured Creditor wishes to exercise the option to purchase the Credit Facility Liabilities in accordance with paragraph (a) above, each such Purchasing Secured Creditor shall: |
(i) | acquire the Credit Facility Liabilities pro rata, in the proportion that its Pari Passu Credit Participation bears to the aggregate Pari Passu Credit Participations of all the Purchasing Secured Creditors at the time of such purchase; and |
(ii) | inform the relevant Creditor Representative(s) in accordance with the terms of the relevant Pari Passu Debt Documents, who will determine (consulting with each other as required) the appropriate share of the Credit Facility Liabilities to be acquired by each such Purchasing Secured Creditor and who shall inform each such Purchasing Secured Creditor accordingly, |
and the relevant Creditor Representative(s) (as applicable) shall promptly inform the relevant Credit Facility Agent(s) and the Hedging Counterparties of the Purchasing Secured Creditors intention to exercise the option to purchase the Credit Facility Liabilities.
6.2 | Hedge Transfer: Pari Passu Debt Creditors |
(a) | Any of the Pari Passu Noteholders and Pari Passu Lenders may, after a Distress Event, by giving not less than ten days’ prior notice in writing to the Intercreditor Agent, require a Hedge Transfer (such Pari Passu Noteholders and Pari Passu Lenders so requiring, the “Hedge Transfer Lenders”): |
(i) | if either: |
(A) | the Hedge Transfer Lenders are also Purchasing Secured Creditors and the Purchasing Secured Creditors require, at the same time, a Credit Facility Lender Liabilities Transfer; or |
(B) | the Hedge Transfer Lenders require that Hedge Transfer at any time on or after the Credit Facility Lender Discharge Date; and |
(ii) | if: |
(A) | that transfer is lawful and otherwise permitted by the terms of the Hedging Agreements in which case no Debtor or other member of the Group shall be entitled to withhold its consent to that transfer; |
(B) | any conditions (other than the consent of, or any consultation with, any Debtor or other member of the Group) relating to that transfer contained in the Hedging Agreements are complied with; |
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(C) | each Hedge Counterparty is paid (in the case of a positive number) or pays (in the case of a negative number) an amount equal to the aggregate of (i) the Hedging Purchase Amount in respect of the hedging transactions under the relevant Hedging Agreement at that time and (ii) all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred as a consequence of giving effect to that transfer (together, subject to paragraph (b) below, the “Capped Hedge Purchase Amount”); |
(D) | as a result of that transfer, the Hedge Counterparties have no further actual or contingent liability to any Debtor under the Hedging Agreements; |
(E) | an indemnity is provided from the Hedge Transfer Lenders who are receiving (or for which a nominee is receiving) that transfer (or from another third party acceptable to the relevant Hedge Counterparty) in a form satisfactory to the relevant Hedge Counterparty in respect of all losses which may be sustained or incurred by that Hedge Counterparty in consequence of any sum received or recovered by that Hedge Counterparty being required (or it being alleged that it is required) to be paid back by or clawed back from the Hedge Counterparty for any reason; and |
(F) | that transfer is made without recourse to, or representation or warranty from, the relevant Hedge Counterparty, except that the relevant Hedge Counterparty shall be deemed to have represented and warranted on the date of that transfer that it has the corporate power to effect that transfer, it has taken all necessary action to authorise the making by it of that transfer and that it is transferring all of its rights, benefits and obligations in respect of each Hedging Agreement, each Hedging Liability and each Hedge Counterparty Obligation. |
(b) | The relevant Hedge Counterparty shall, within two Business Days of a written request, provide in reasonable detail a written statement setting out all amounts comprising the Capped Hedge Purchase Amount. Provided that (i) such written statement is provided within two Business Days’ of request and (ii) such amounts are reasonable and in the absence of manifest error, the amounts set out in such written statement shall, in aggregate, constitute the Capped Hedge Purchase Amount. In the event the criteria set out in either sub-paragraph (i) or sub-paragraph (ii) are not fulfilled, the Capped Hedge Purchase Amount shall be an amount calculated by the Hedge Transfer Lenders (and, to assist in that calculation, the Debtors will promptly provide all reasonable assistance required by the Hedge Transfer Lenders including, without limitation, copies of all Hedging Agreements) |
(c) | The Hedge Transfer Lenders and any Hedge Counterparty may agree (in respect of the Hedging Agreements (or one or more of them) to which that Hedge Counterparty is a party) that a Hedge Transfer required by the Hedge Transfer Lenders pursuant to paragraph (a) above shall not apply to that Hedging Agreement(s) or to the Hedging Liabilities and Hedge Counterparty Obligations under that Hedging Agreement(s). |
(d) | If more than one Hedge Transfer Lender exercises the option to Hedge Transfer in accordance with this Clause 6.2, each such Hedge Transfer Lender shall: |
(i) | carry out the Hedge Transfer pro rata, in the proportion that its Senior Credit Participation bears to the aggregate Senior Credit Participations of all the Hedge Transfer Lenders; and |
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(ii) | inform the relevant Creditor Representative(s) in accordance with the terms of the relevant Pari Passu Debt Documents, who will determine (consulting with each other as required) the appropriate share of the Hedge Transfer to be acquired by each such Hedge Transfer Lender and who shall inform each such Hedge Transfer Lender accordingly, |
and the relevant Creditor Representative(s) (as applicable) shall promptly inform the relevant Hedging Counterparties accordingly.
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Section | 3 |
Other | Creditors |
7. | Existing Subordination Deed |
(a) | The Company and the Common Security Agent refer to the Subordination Deed dated 26 November 2013 between certain of the Debtors, the parties listed therein as subordinated creditors and the Common Security Agent as security agent (together, the “Existing Subordination Parties”) (the “Existing Subordination Deed”). The Company (as the Borrower under the Existing Subordination Deed) and the Common Security Agent (as Security Agent under the Existing Subordination Deed) hereby agree that, as at the date of this Agreement, the Existing Subordination Deed is terminated and is replaced by this Agreement, all of the rights of each Existing Subordination Party under the Existing Subordination Deed are waived in full and the Existing Subordination Parties are released from further obligations towards one another under the Existing Subordination Deed. |
(b) | The Company and the Common Security Agent refer to the Assignment of Subordinated Debt dated 26 November 2013 between Studio City Holdings Limited and the Common Security Agent as security agent (the “Existing Assignment of Subordination”). The Secured Parties hereby authorise and instruct the Common Security Agent to and the Common Security Agent (as Security Agent under the Existing Assignment of Subordination) hereby agrees that, as at the date of this Agreement, the Existing Assignment of Subordination is terminated, all of the rights of the Common Security Agent (as Security Agent under the Existing Assignment of Subordination) are waived in full and the Common Security Agent and Studio City Holdings Limited are released from further obligations towards one another under the Existing Assignment of Subordination. |
(c) | Studio City Holdings Limited may rely on this Clause 7 subject to Clause 1.5 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act. |
(d) | Clauses 1 (Definitions and interpretation) and 36 (Governing law) shall apply to this Clause 7. |
8. | Intra-Group Lenders and Intra-Group Liabilities |
8.1 | Restriction on Payment: Intra-Group Liabilities |
Prior to the Final Discharge Date, the Debtors shall not, and shall procure that no other member of the Group will, make any Payments of the Intra-Group Liabilities at any time unless:
(a) | that Payment is permitted under Clause 8.2 (Permitted Payments: Intra-Group Liabilities); or |
(b) | the taking or receipt of that Payment is permitted under paragraph (c) of Clause 8.7 (Permitted Enforcement: Intra-Group Lenders). |
8.2 | Permitted Payments: Intra-Group Liabilities |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Debtors may make Payments in respect of the Intra-Group Liabilities (whether of principal, interest or otherwise) from time to time when due. |
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(b) | Payments in respect of the Intra-Group Liabilities may not be made pursuant to paragraph (a) above if, at the time of the Payment, an Acceleration Event has occurred and is continuing unless: |
(i) | the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors consent to that Payment being made; or |
(ii) | that Payment is made to facilitate the making of a Permitted Credit Facility Payment, a Permitted Hedge Payment or a Permitted Pari Passu Debt Payment. |
8.3 | Payment obligations continue |
No Debtor shall be released from the liability to make any Payment (including of default interest, which shall continue to accrue) under any Debt Document by the operation of Clauses 8.1 (Restriction on Payment: Intra-Group Liabilities) and 8.2 (Permitted Payments: Intra-Group Liabilities) even if its obligation to make that Payment is restricted at any time by the terms of any of those Clauses.
8.4 | Acquisition of Intra-Group Liabilities |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, each Debtor may, and may permit any other member of the Group to: |
(i) | enter into any Liabilities Acquisition; or |
(ii) | beneficially own all or any part of the share capital of a company that is party to a Liabilities Acquisition, |
in respect of any Intra-Group Liabilities at any time.
(b) | Subject to paragraph (c) below, no action described in paragraph (a) above may take place in respect of any Intra-Group Liabilities if: |
(i) | that action would result in a breach of a Credit Facility Agreement, a Pari Passu Note Indenture or a Pari Passu Facility Agreement; or |
(ii) | at the time of that action, an Acceleration Event has occurred and is continuing. |
(c) | The restrictions in paragraph (b) above shall not apply if: |
(i) | the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors consent to that action; or |
(ii) | that action is taken to facilitate the making of a Permitted Credit Facility Payment, a Permitted Hedge Payment or a Permitted Pari Passu Debt Payment. |
8.5 | Security: Intra-Group Lenders |
Prior to the Final Discharge Date, the Intra-Group Lenders may not take, accept or receive the benefit of any Security, guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss in respect of the Intra-Group Liabilities unless the prior consent of the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors is obtained.
8.6 | Restriction on Enforcement: Intra-Group Lenders |
Subject to Clause 8.7 (Permitted Enforcement: Intra-Group Lenders), none of the Intra-Group Lenders shall be entitled to take any Enforcement Action in respect of any of the Intra-Group Liabilities at any time prior to the Final Discharge Date unless otherwise directed by the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent pursuant to Clause 15.6 (Exercise of voting rights) or 18 (Further assurance – disposals and releases), save in the case of making any demand for any payment, set off, account combination or payment netting that would be a Permitted Payment.
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8.7 | Permitted Enforcement: Intra-Group Lenders |
After the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to any member of the Group, each Intra-Group Lender may (unless otherwise directed by the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent or unless the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent has taken, or has given notice that it intends to take, action on behalf of that Intra-Group Lender in accordance with Clause 12.5 (Filing of claims)), exercise any right it may otherwise have against that member of the Group to:
(a) | accelerate any of that member of the Group’s Intra-Group Liabilities or declare them prematurely due and payable or payable on demand; |
(b) | make a demand under any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss given by that member of the Group in respect of any Intra-Group Liabilities; |
(c) | exercise any right of set-off or take or receive any Payment in respect of any Intra-Group Liabilities of that member of the Group; or |
(d) | claim and prove in the liquidation of that member of the Group for the Intra-Group Liabilities owing to it. |
8.8 | Representations: Intra-Group Lenders |
Each Intra-Group Lender which is not a Debtor represents and warrants to the Primary Creditors, the Intercreditor Agent and the Common Security Agent that:
(a) | it is a limited liability corporation or company duly incorporated or organised, as the case may be, and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organisation, as the case may be; |
(b) | subject to the Legal Reservations, the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this Agreement are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations; and |
(c) | the entry into and performance by it of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein, do not and will not conflict with: |
(i) | any law or regulation applicable to it; |
(ii) | its constitutional documents; or |
(iii) | any agreement or instrument binding upon it or any of its assets or constitute a default or termination event (however described) under any such agreement or instrument binding on it that could be materially adverse to the interests of the Secured Parties (taken as a whole). |
9. | [Reserved] |
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10. | Subordinated Liabilities |
10.1 | Restriction on Payment: Subordinated Liabilities |
Prior to the Final Discharge Date, neither the Parent nor any other Debtor shall, and the Parent shall procure that no other member of the Group will, make any Payment of the Subordinated Liabilities at any time unless:
(a) | that Payment is permitted under Clause 10.2 (Permitted Payments: Subordinated Liabilities); or |
(b) | the taking or receipt of that Payment is permitted under Clause 10.8 (Permitted Enforcement: Subordinated Creditors). |
10.2 | Permitted Payments: Subordinated Liabilities |
(a) | The Parent may make Payments in respect of the Subordinated Liabilities then due if: |
(i) | the Payment is expressly permitted or not prohibited (as applicable) by each Credit Facility Agreement, each Pari Passu Facility Agreement (if any) and each Pari Passu Note Indenture (if any); or |
(ii) | the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors each consent to that Payment being made. |
(b) | Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or restrict any roll-up or capitalisation of any amount in respect of any Subordinated Liabilities or the issue of any payment in kind instruments in satisfaction of any amount in respect of any Subordinated Liabilities or any forgiveness, write-off or capitalisation of any Subordinated Liabilities or the release or other discharge of any such Subordinated Liabilities. |
10.3 | Payment obligations continue |
Neither the Parent nor any other Debtor shall be released from the liability to make any Payment (including of default interest, which shall continue to accrue) under any Debt Document by the operation of Clauses 10.1 (Restriction on Payment: Subordinated Liabilities) and 10.2 (Permitted Payments: Subordinated Liabilities) even if its obligation to make that Payment is restricted at any time by the terms of any of those Clauses.
10.4 | No acquisition of Subordinated Liabilities |
Prior to the Final Discharge Date, the Debtors shall not, and shall procure that no other member of the Group will:
(a) | enter into any Liabilities Acquisition; or |
(b) | beneficially own all or any part of the share capital of a company that is party to a Liabilities Acquisition, |
in respect of any of the Subordinated Liabilities, unless the prior consent of the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors is obtained.
10.5 | Amendments and waivers: Subordinated Creditors |
Prior to the Final Discharge Date, the Subordinated Creditors may not amend, waive or agree the terms of any of the documents or instruments pursuant to which the Subordinated Liabilities are constituted unless:
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(a) | such amendment or waiver is expressly permitted or not prohibited (as applicable) by each Credit Facility Agreement, each Pari Passu Facility Agreement (if any) and each Pari Passu Note Indenture (if any); |
(b) | the prior consent of the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors is obtained; or |
(c) | that amendment, waiver or agreement is of a minor or administrative nature and is not prejudicial to any of the Secured Parties. |
10.6 | Security: Subordinated Creditors |
The Subordinated Creditors may not take, accept or receive the benefit of any Security, guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss from any member of the Group in respect of any of the Subordinated Liabilities prior to the Final Discharge Date.
10.7 | Restriction on Enforcement: Subordinated Creditors |
Subject to Clause 10.8 (Permitted Enforcement: Subordinated Creditors), no Subordinated Creditor shall be entitled to take any Enforcement Action in respect of any of the Subordinated Liabilities at any time prior to the Final Discharge Date, unless otherwise directed by the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent pursuant to Clause 15.6 (Exercise of voting rights) or 18 (Further assurance – disposals and releases), save in the case of making any demand for any payment, set off, account combination or payment netting that would be a Permitted Payment.
10.8 | Permitted Enforcement: Subordinated Creditors |
After the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to any member of the Group, each Subordinated Creditor may (unless otherwise directed by the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent or unless the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent has taken, or has given notice that it intends to take, action on behalf of that Subordinated Creditor in accordance with Clause 12.5 (Filing of claims)) exercise any right it may otherwise have in respect of that member of the Group to:
(a) | accelerate any of that member of the Group’s Subordinated Liabilities or declare them prematurely due and payable or payable on demand; |
(b) | make a demand under any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against loss given by that member of the Group in respect of any Subordinated Liabilities; |
(c) | exercise any right of set-off or take or receive any Payment in respect of any Subordinated Liabilities of that member of the Group; or |
(d) | claim and prove in the liquidation of that member of the Group for the Subordinated Liabilities owing to it. |
10.9 | Representations: Subordinated Creditors |
Each Subordinated Creditor represents and warrants to the Primary Creditors, the Intercreditor Agent and the Common Security Agent that:
(a) | it is a limited liability corporation or company duly incorporated or organised, as the case may be, and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organisation, as the case may be; |
(b) | subject to the Legal Reservations, the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this Agreement are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations; and |
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(c) | the entry into and performance by it of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein, do not and will not conflict with: |
(i) | any law or regulation applicable to it; |
(ii) | its constitutional documents; or |
(iii) | any agreement or instrument binding upon it or any of its assets or constitute a default or termination event (however described) under any such agreement or instrument binding on it that could be materially adverse to the interests of the Secured Parties (taken as a whole). |
11. | Bondco Liabilities |
11.1 | Bondco Loan Agreements |
The Parent shall not enter into any Bondco Loan Agreement with any person that is not a Party to this Agreement (or does not become a Party to this Agreement substantially concurrently with its entry into any Bondco Loan Agreement) as a Bondco at any time prior to the Final Discharge Date to the extent that, at the time of its entry into that Bondco Loan Agreement, any Credit Facility Agreement, any Pari Passu Facility Agreement or any Pari Passu Note Indenture in respect of which any Liabilities or commitments are outstanding contains any restriction on any of the Payments to be made by the Parent under that Bondco Loan Agreement.
11.2 | Restriction on Payment: Bondco Liabilities |
Prior to the Final Discharge Date, neither the Parent nor any other Debtor shall, and the Parent shall procure that no other member of the Group will, make any Payment of Bondco Liabilities in respect of the principal amount of any Bondco Loan and no Bondco shall accept any such Payments unless that Payment is permitted under Clause 11.3 (Permitted Payments: Bondco Liabilities).
11.3 | Permitted Payments: Bondco Liabilities |
The Parent, any other Debtor or any other member of the Group may make Payments in respect of the principal amount of any Bondco Loan and Bondco may accept any such Payments if:
(a) | at the time such Payment would be made, that Payment is expressly permitted or not prohibited (as applicable) by each Credit Facility Agreement, each Pari Passu Facility Agreement (if any) and each Pari Passu Note Indenture (if any); or |
(b) | the Majority Super Senior Creditors and the Required Pari Passu Creditors each consent to that Payment being made. |
11.4 | Payment obligations continue |
Neither the Parent nor any other Debtor shall be released from the liability to make any Payment under any Bondco Loan Agreement by the operation of Clause 11.2 (Restriction on Payment: Bondco Liabilities) even if its obligation to make that Payment is restricted at any time by the terms that Clause.
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Section | 4 |
Insolvency, | turnover and Enforcement |
12. | Effect of Insolvency Event |
12.1 | Credit Facility Cash Cover |
This Clause 12 is subject to Clause 19.3 (Treatment of Credit Facility Cash Cover and Credit Facility Lender Cash Collateral) and Clause 24.5 (Turnover obligations).
12.2 | Distributions |
(a) | After the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to any member of the Group, any Party entitled to receive a distribution out of the assets of that member of the Group (in the case of a Primary Creditor, only to the extent that such amount constitutes Enforcement Proceeds) in respect of Liabilities owed to that Party shall, to the extent it is able to do so, direct the person responsible for the distribution of the assets of that member of the Group to make that distribution to the Common Security Agent (or to such other person as the Common Security Agent shall direct) until the Liabilities owing to the Secured Parties have been paid in full. |
(b) | The Common Security Agent shall apply distributions made to it under paragraph (a) above in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds). |
12.3 | Set-off |
(a) | Subject to paragraph (b) below, to the extent that any member of the Group’s Liabilities are discharged by way of set-off (mandatory or otherwise) after the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to that member of the Group, any Creditor which benefited from that set-off shall (in the case of a Primary Creditor, only to the extent that such amount constitutes Enforcement Proceeds) pay an amount equal to the amount of the Liabilities owed to it which are discharged by that set-off to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds). |
(b) | Paragraph (a) above shall not apply to: |
(i) | any Close-Out Netting by a Hedge Counterparty or a Hedging Ancillary Lender; |
(ii) | any Payment Netting by a Hedge Counterparty or a Hedging Ancillary Lender; |
(iii) | any Inter-Hedging Agreement Netting by a Hedge Counterparty; and |
(iv) | any Inter-Hedging Ancillary Document Netting by a Hedging Ancillary Lender. |
12.4 | Non-Cash Distributions |
If the Common Security Agent or any other Secured Party receives a distribution in a form other than cash in respect of any of the Liabilities, the Liabilities will not be reduced by that distribution until and except to the extent that the realisation proceeds are actually applied towards the Liabilities, including pursuant to any composition or creditors’ agreement.
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12.5 | Filing of claims |
On or after the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to any member of the Group, each Creditor irrevocably authorises the Intercreditor Agent and the Common Security Agent (as applicable), on its behalf, to:
(a) | take any Enforcement Action (in accordance with the terms of this Agreement) against that member of the Group; |
(b) | demand, xxx, prove and give receipt for any or all of that member of the Group’s Liabilities; |
(c) | collect and receive all distributions on, or on account of, any or all of that member of the Group’s Liabilities; and |
(d) | file claims, take proceedings and do all other things the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent considers reasonably necessary to recover that member of the Group’s Liabilities. |
12.6 | Further assurance – Insolvency Event |
Each Creditor will:
(a) | do all things that the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent requests in order to give effect to this Clause 12; and |
(b) | if the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent is not entitled to take any of the actions contemplated by this Clause 12 or if the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent requests that a Creditor take that action, undertake that action itself in accordance with the instructions of the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent or grant a power of attorney to the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent (on such terms as the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent may reasonably require) to enable the Intercreditor Agent or the Common Security Agent to take such action (as applicable). |
12.7 | Instructions |
(a) | For the purposes of Clause 12.2 (Distributions), Clause 12.5 (Filing of claims) and Clause 12.6 (Further assurance – Insolvency Event) the Common Security Agent shall act: |
(i) | on the instructions of the Intercreditor Agent (acting on the instructions of the Instructing Group or relevant Secured Parties, as applicable) or the Instructing Group; or |
(ii) | in the absence of any such instructions, as the Common Security Agent sees fit. |
(b) | For the purposes of Clause 12.5 (Filing of claims) and Clause 12.6 (Further assurance – Insolvency Event) the Intercreditor Agent shall act: |
(i) | on the instructions of the Instructing Group; or |
(ii) | in the absence of any such instructions, as the Intercreditor Agent sees fit. |
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13. | Turnover of receipts |
13.1 | Credit Facility Cash Cover |
This Clause 13 is subject to Clause 19.3 (Treatment of Credit Facility Cash Cover and Credit Facility Lender Cash Collateral) and Clause 24.5 (Turnover obligations).
13.2 | Turnover by the Primary Creditors |
Subject to Clause 13.4 (Exclusions) and to Clause 13.5 (Permitted assurance and receipts), if at any time prior to the Final Discharge Date any Primary Creditor receives or recovers any Enforcement Proceeds or any Pari Passu Creditor receives or recovers any amount in respect of any Guarantee Liabilities (whether before or after an Insolvency Event) in each case except in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds), that Primary Creditor will:
(a) | in relation to receipts and recoveries not received or recovered by way of set-off: |
(i) | hold an amount of that receipt or recovery equal to the Relevant Liabilities (or if less, the amount received or recovered) on trust for the Common Security Agent and promptly pay or distribute that amount to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and |
(ii) | promptly pay or distribute an amount equal to the amount (if any) by which the receipt or recovery exceeds the Relevant Liabilities to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and |
(b) | in relation to receipts and recoveries received or recovered by way of set-off, promptly pay an amount equal to that recovery to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
13.3 | Turnover by the other Creditors |
Subject to Clause 13.4 (Exclusions) and to Clause 13.5 (Permitted assurance and receipts), if at any time prior to the Final Discharge Date, any Creditor other than a Primary Creditor receives or recovers:
(a) | any Payment or distribution of, or on account of or in relation to, any of the Liabilities which is neither: |
(i) | a Permitted Payment; nor |
(ii) | made in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds); |
(b) | other than where paragraph (a) of Clause 12.3 (Set-off) applies, any amount by way of set-off in respect of any of the Liabilities owed to it which does not give effect to a Permitted Payment; |
(c) | notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b) above, and other than where paragraph (a) of Clause 12.3 (Set-off) applies, any amount: |
(i) | on account of, or in relation to, any of the Liabilities: |
(A) | after the occurrence of a Distress Event; or |
(B) | as a result of any other litigation or proceedings against a member of the Group (other than after the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in respect of that member of the Group); or |
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(ii) | by way of set-off in respect of any of the Liabilities owed to it after the occurrence of a Distress Event, |
other than, in each case, any amount received or recovered in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds);
(d) | the proceeds of any enforcement of any Transaction Security except in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds); or |
(e) | other than where paragraph (a) of Clause 12.3 (Set-off) applies, any distribution or Payment of, or on account of or in relation to, any of the Liabilities owed by any member of the Group which is not in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds) and which is made as a result of, or after, the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in respect of that member of the Group, |
that Creditor will:
(i) | in relation to receipts and recoveries not received or recovered by way of set-off: |
(A) | hold an amount of that receipt or recovery equal to the Relevant Liabilities (or if less, the amount received or recovered) on trust for the Common Security Agent and promptly pay or distribute that amount to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and |
(B) | promptly pay or distribute an amount equal to the amount (if any) by which the receipt or recovery exceeds the Relevant Liabilities to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and |
(ii) | in relation to receipts and recoveries received or recovered by way of set-off, promptly pay an amount equal to that recovery to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
13.4 | Exclusions |
Clause 13.2 (Turnover by the Primary Creditors) and Clause 13.3 (Turnover by other Creditors) shall not apply to any receipt or recovery:
(a) | by way of: |
(i) | Close-Out Netting by a Hedge Counterparty or a Hedging Ancillary Lender; |
(ii) | Payment Netting by a Hedge Counterparty or a Hedging Ancillary Lender; |
(iii) | Inter-Hedging Agreement Netting by a Hedge Counterparty; or |
(iv) | Inter-Hedging Ancillary Document Netting by a Hedging Ancillary Lender; or |
(b) | made in accordance with Clause 20 (Equalisation). |
13.5 | Permitted assurance and receipts |
Nothing in this Agreement shall restrict the ability of any Primary Creditor, Bondco or Subordinated Creditor to:
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(a) | arrange with any person which is not a member of the Group any assurance against loss in respect of, or reduction of its credit exposure to, a Debtor (including assurance by way of credit based derivative or sub-participation); or |
(b) | make any assignment or transfer permitted by Clause 25 (Changes to the Parties), which: |
(i) | is expressly permitted or not prohibited (as applicable) by each Credit Facility Agreement, each Pari Passu Facility Agreement (if any) and each Pari Passu Note Indenture (if any); and |
(ii) | is not in breach of: |
(A) | Clause 5.5 (No acquisition of Hedging Liabilities); or |
(B) | Clause 10.4 (No acquisition of Subordinated Liabilities), |
and that Primary Creditor, Bondco or Subordinated Creditor shall not be obliged to account to any other Party for any sum received by it as a result of that action.
13.6 | Amounts received by Debtors |
If any of the Debtors receives or recovers any amount which, under the terms of any of the Debt Documents, should have been paid to the Common Security Agent, that Debtor will:
(a) | hold an amount of that receipt or recovery equal to the Relevant Liabilities (or if less, the amount received or recovered) on trust for the Common Security Agent and promptly pay that amount to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and |
(b) | promptly pay an amount equal to the amount (if any) by which the receipt or recovery exceeds the Relevant Liabilities to the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
13.7 | Saving provision |
If, for any reason, any of the trusts expressed to be created in this Clause 13 should fail or be unenforceable, the affected Creditor or Debtor will promptly pay or distribute an amount equal to that receipt or recovery to the Common Security Agent to be held on trust by the Common Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
14. | Redistribution |
14.1 | Recovering Creditor’s Rights |
(a) | Any amount paid or distributed by a Creditor (a “Recovering Creditor”) to the Common Security Agent under Clause 12 (Effect of Insolvency Event) or Clause 13 (Turnover of receipts) shall be treated as having been paid or distributed by the relevant Debtor and shall be applied by the Common Security Agent in accordance with Clause 19 (Application of proceeds). |
(b) | On an application by the Common Security Agent pursuant to Clause 19 (Application of proceeds) of a Payment or distribution received by a Recovering Creditor from a Debtor, as between the relevant Debtor and the Recovering Creditor an amount equal to the amount received or recovered by the Recovering Creditor and paid or distributed to the Common Security Agent by the Recovering Creditor (the “Shared Amount”) will be treated as not having been paid or distributed by that Debtor. |
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14.2 | Reversal of Redistribution |
(a) | If any part of the Shared Amount received or recovered by a Recovering Creditor becomes repayable or returnable to a Debtor and is repaid or returned by that Recovering Creditor to that Debtor, then: |
(i) | each Party that received any part of that Shared Amount pursuant to an application by the Common Security Agent of that Shared Amount under Clause 14.1 (Recovering Creditor’s rights) (a “Sharing Party”) shall (subject to Clause 24 (Pari Passu Note Trustee protections)), upon request of the Common Security Agent, pay or distribute to the Common Security Agent for the account of that Recovering Creditor an amount equal to the appropriate part of its share of the Shared Amount (together with an amount as is necessary to reimburse that Recovering Creditor for its proportion of any interest on the Shared Amount which that Recovering Creditor is required to pay) (the “Redistributed Amount”); and |
(ii) | as between the relevant Debtor and each relevant Sharing Party, an amount equal to the relevant Redistributed Amount will be treated as not having been paid or distributed by that Debtor. |
(b) | The Common Security Agent shall not be obliged to pay or distribute any Redistributed Amount to a Recovering Creditor under paragraph (a)(i) above until it has been able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that Redistributed Amount from the relevant Sharing Party. |
14.3 | Deferral of Subrogation |
(a) | No Creditor (other than a Subordinated Creditor) or Debtor will exercise any rights which it may have by reason of the performance by it of its obligations under the Debt Documents to take the benefit (in whole or in part and whether by way of subrogation or otherwise) of any rights under the Debt Documents of any Creditor (other than a Subordinated Creditor) which ranks ahead of it in accordance with the priorities set out in Clause 2 (Ranking and priority) or the order of application in Clause 19 (Application of proceeds) until such time as all of the Liabilities owing to each prior ranking Creditor (or, in the case of any Debtor, owing to each Creditor (other than a Subordinated Creditor)) have been irrevocably discharged in full. |
(b) | No Subordinated Creditor will exercise any rights which it may have to take the benefit (in whole or in part and whether by way of subrogation or otherwise) of any rights under the Debt Documents of any Creditor until such time as all of the Liabilities owing to each Creditor (other than a Subordinated Creditor) have been irrevocably discharged in full. |
15. | Enforcement of Transaction Security |
15.1 | Credit Facility Cash Cover |
This Clause 15 is subject to Clause 19.3 (Treatment of Credit Facility Cash Cover and Credit Facility Lender Cash Collateral).
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15.2 | Instructions to enforce |
(a) (i) | In the case of the Common Transaction Security, if either the Majority Super Senior Creditors or the Majority Pari Passu Creditors wish to issue Enforcement Instructions in respect of any Common Transaction Security, the Creditor Representatives (and, if applicable, Hedge Counterparties) representing the Primary Creditors comprising the Majority Super Senior Creditors or Majority Pari Passu Creditors (as the case may be) shall deliver a copy of those proposed Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security (a “Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice”) to the Intercreditor Agent and the Intercreditor Agent shall promptly forward such Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice to each Creditor Representative and each Hedge Counterparty which did not deliver such Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice. |
(ii) | In the case of any Transaction Security in respect of a Pari Passu Notes Interest Accrual Account, if the Creditor Representative representing the Pari Passu Noteholders in respect of the Pari Passu Notes to which the Pari Passu Notes Interest Accrual Account relates (acting on behalf of such Pari Passu Noteholders) wishes to issue Enforcement Instructions in respect of such Transaction Security, that Creditor Representative shall deliver a copy of those Enforcement Instructions in respect of such Credit-Specific Transaction Security to the Intercreditor Agent and the Intercreditor Agent shall promptly forward such Enforcement Instructions to the Common Security Agent. |
(iii) | In the case of any Transaction Security in respect of a Pari Passu Facility Debt Service Reserve Account, if the Creditor Representative representing the Pari Passu Lenders in respect of the Pari Passu Facility to which the Pari Passu Facility Debt Service Reserve Account relates (acting on behalf of such Pari Passu Lenders) wishes to issue Enforcement Instructions in respect of such Transaction Security, that Creditor Representative shall deliver a copy of those Enforcement Instructions in respect of such Credit-Specific Transaction Security to the Intercreditor Agent and the Intercreditor Agent shall promptly forward such Enforcement Instructions to the Common Security Agent. |
(b) | The delivery of a Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice to the Intercreditor Agent shall, if as at such time any Pari Passu Liabilities are outstanding (the “Consultation Pre-condition”), commence a 30-day consultation period (or such shorter period as the relevant Creditor Representatives shall agree) (the “Initial Consultation Period”) during which time the Creditor Representatives for each of the Super Senior Creditors and the Pari Passu Creditors (or, in the case of any group of Secured Parties that choses to do so, a representative or committee of such creditor group appointed in place of its Creditor Representative for this purpose), shall consult with each other in good faith with a view to coordinating the proposed instructions as to Enforcement of the Common Transaction Security and shall use their reasonable commercial efforts to keep the Intercreditor Agent informed of such consultation and coordination efforts. Such Creditor Representatives shall not be obliged to consult (or, in the case of (ii) below, shall only be obliged to consult for such shorter period of time as the Intercreditor Agent (acting reasonably and, if it chooses (in its sole discretion) to do so, on the advice of its legal counsel or other relevant professional adviser) may determine) in accordance with this paragraph (b) (and, accordingly, no Initial Consultation Period shall arise or there shall be no further obligation to consult, as applicable) if: |
(i) | an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing in respect of a Debtor or the Security Provider; |
(ii) | an Event of Default being continuing in relation to Liabilities owed to the relevant Secured Parties, a Creditor Representative acting on behalf of any Secured Party(ies) (such Secured Party(ies) having made a determination acting reasonably and in good faith) notifies the Intercreditor Agent that: |
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(A) | to enter into or continue such consultations and thereby delay the commencement of enforcement of the Common Transaction Security could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability to effect a Distressed Disposal or on the expected realisation proceeds of any Enforcement; or |
(B) | the circumstances described in paragraph (c)(ii) or paragraph (c)(iii) below have occurred; or |
(iii) | the Creditor Representatives of each other group of Secured Parties agree on the proposed Enforcement Instructions and that no Initial Consultation Period (or further consultation during such Initial Consultation Period) is required. |
(c) | If the consultation as may be required pursuant to paragraph (b) above has taken place (such consultation to be (x) considered to have taken place regardless of whether each Creditor Representative (having been invited to do so at reasonable times and on a reasonable basis) has participated or has participated in good faith, so long as the Creditor Representative that delivered the Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice has complied or made itself available so as to comply with its obligation to do so and (y) deemed to have taken place if the Consultation Pre-condition was not met) (the “Consultation Condition” having been “satisfied” and, for this purpose, unless otherwise advised by a Creditor Representative, the Intercreditor Agent is entitled to assume that the required consultation has taken place upon the expiry of the Initial Consultation Period): |
(i) | subject to paragraphs (c)(ii), (c)(iii) and (d) below, the Intercreditor Agent shall deliver to the Common Security Agent the Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security received from the Majority Pari Passu Creditors (if any); |
(ii) | if: |
(A) | the Majority Pari Passu Creditors have not either: |
(1) | made a determination as to the method of Enforcement (save with respect to any Credit-Specific Transaction Security) they wish to instruct the Common Security Agent to pursue (and notified the Intercreditor Agent of that determination in writing); or |
(2) | appointed a Financial Adviser to assist them in making such a determination, |
within 3 months of the date of the Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice; or
(B) | the Super Senior Discharge Date or the Rolled Loan Discharge Date has not occurred within 6 months of the date of the Common Transaction Security Initial Enforcement Notice; or |
(C) | upon or at any time after the Consultation Condition being satisfied, there are no Pari Passu Liabilities outstanding, then the Intercreditor Agent shall deliver to the Common Security Agent the Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security received from the Majority Super Senior Creditors; and |
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(iii) | if the Majority Pari Passu Creditors have not either: |
(A) | made a determination as to the method of Enforcement (save with respect to any Credit-Specific Transaction Security) they wish to instruct the Common Security Agent to pursue (and notified the Intercreditor Agent of that determination in writing); or |
(B) | appointed a Financial Adviser to assist them in making such a determination, |
and the Majority Super Senior Creditors:
(1) | determine in good faith (and notify the other Creditor Representatives, the Hedge Counterparties and the Intercreditor Agent) that a delay in issuing Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability to effect a Distressed Disposal or on the expected realisation proceeds of any such Enforcement; and |
(2) | deliver Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security which they reasonably believe to be consistent with the Enforcement Principles before the Intercreditor Agent has received any Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security from the Majority Pari Passu Creditors, |
then the Intercreditor Agent shall deliver to the Common Security Agent the Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security received from the Majority Super Senior Creditors.
(d) | If an Insolvency Event (other than an Insolvency Event directly caused by any Enforcement Action taken by or at the request or direction of a Super Senior Creditor) is continuing with respect to a Debtor or the Security Provider then the Intercreditor Agent shall, to the extent the Majority Super Senior Creditors elect to provide such Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security (such Enforcement Instructions to be limited to such Enforcement as may be reasonably necessary to preserve and protect the claims and interest of the Super Senior Creditors), deliver to the Common Security Agent the Enforcement Instructions in respect of the Common Transaction Security received from the Majority Super Senior Creditors. |
(e) | The Common Security Agent shall act in accordance with any Enforcement Instructions received from the Intercreditor Agent pursuant to this Clause 15 (and not withdrawn), save that (i) in the case of Enforcement Instructions delivered to the Common Security Agent pursuant to paragraph (d) above, the Common Security Agent shall only act in accordance with such Enforcement Instructions until the Super Senior Discharge Date has occurred and (ii) in the case of Enforcement Instructions delivered to the Common Security Agent pursuant to paragraphs (c)(ii) or (c)(iii) above, the Common Security Agent shall only act in accordance with such Enforcement Instructions until later of the Super Senior Discharge Date and the Rolled Loan Discharge Date. |
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15.3 | Enforcement Instructions |
(a) | The Common Security Agent may refrain from enforcing the Transaction Security or taking any other action as to Enforcement unless instructed otherwise by the Intercreditor Agent and the Intercreditor Agent may refrain from delivering such instructions to the Common Security Agent or taking any other action as to Enforcement unless instructed otherwise by the Instructing Group in accordance with Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce). |
(b) | Subject to Clause 15.2 (Instructions to enforce), the applicable Instructing Group may deliver or refrain from delivering instructions to the Intercreditor Agent directing the Common Security Agent to take action as to Enforcement in accordance with the Enforcement Principles as they see fit by way of the issuance of Enforcement Instructions. |
(c) | The Intercreditor Agent and the Common Security Agent are entitled to rely on and comply with instructions given in accordance with this Clause 15.3. |
15.4 | Enforcement of Transaction Security – Rolled Loan Cash Collateral |
(a) | This Clause 15.4 is subject to Clause 3.2 (Rolled Loan – restrictions). |
(b) | If the Rolled Loan Facility Lender wishes to take Enforcement Action in respect of any Transaction Security in respect of the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account, the Rolled Loan Facility Lender shall first inform the Intercreditor Agent in writing of its intention to do so and the Intercreditor Agent shall promptly forward such notice to the Common Security Agent and each Creditor Representative. The Rolled Loan Facility Lender shall not take Enforcement Action in respect of any Transaction Security in respect of the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral Account on or before the date that is five (5) Business Days after the delivery of such notice to the Intercreditor Agent. |
(c) | If at any time prior to the Final Discharge Date (for these purposes, ignoring any amounts in respect of the Rolled Facility Loan) the Rolled Loan Facility Lender receives or recovers any Enforcement Proceeds in respect of the Rolled Loan Cash Collateral, it will hold and apply such Enforcement Proceeds (or an amount equal to such Enforcement Proceeds) in accordance with Clause 13.2 (Turnover by the Primary Creditors), save that it shall not be required to do so and shall be entitled to apply such Enforcement Proceeds as it choses in circumstances where such Enforcement Proceeds have been received or recovered in connection with Enforcement Action taken as permitted by limb (ii) of |