Exhibit 10.9
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AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of June 27, 2000
between
LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORPORATION
and
FLEET NATIONAL BANK,
as Administrative Agent,
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
As Syndication Agent
and
THE BANKS
listed on Schedule 1 hereto
with
FLEETBOSTON XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX INC.,
as Arranger
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1 DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined Terms...............................................................................1
1.2 Other Definitional Provisions..............................................................13
SECTION 2 REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY
2.1 Revolving Credit Commitment................................................................14
2.2 Notes......................................................................................14
2.3 Procedure for Credit Borrowing.............................................................15
2.4. Procedure for Optional Currencies..........................................................16
2.5. Interest Rate..............................................................................18
2.6. Conversion Options.........................................................................18
2.7. Termination or Reduction of Commitment.....................................................19
2.8. Increase in Total Commitment; Additional Banks.............................................19
2.9. Prepayments................................................................................20
2.10 Repayment of Loans.........................................................................20
SECTION 3 SWING LINE FACILITY
3.1. The Swing Line Loans.......................................................................20
3.2. Notice of Borrowing........................................................................20
3.3. Interest on Swing Line Loans...............................................................21
3.4. Repayment of Swing Line Loans..............................................................21
3.5. The Swing Line Note........................................................................21
SECTION 4 CERTAIN GENERAL PROVISIONS
4.1. Use of Proceeds............................................................................22
4.2. Facility Fee...............................................................................22
4.3. Agents' Fees...............................................................................22
4.4. Computation of Interest and Fees...........................................................22
4.5. Inability to Determine Interest Rate.......................................................23
4.6. Overdue Amounts; Interest Payments.........................................................23
4.7. Payments...................................................................................23
4.8. Foreign Taxes..............................................................................24
4.9. Illegality.................................................................................24
4.10. Additional Costs, Etc......................................................................24
4.11. Indemnity..................................................................................26
SECTION 5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
5.1. Financial Condition........................................................................27
5.2. No Change..................................................................................27
5.3. Corporate Existence; Compliance with Law...................................................27
5.4. Corporate Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations....................................27
5.5. No Legal Bar...............................................................................28
5.6. No Material Litigation.....................................................................28
5.7. No Default.................................................................................28
5.8. Ownership of Property; Liens...............................................................28
5.9. No Burdensome Restrictions.................................................................29
5.10. Taxes......................................................................................29
5.11. Federal Regulations........................................................................29
5.12. ERISA......................................................................................29
5.13. Investment Company Act.....................................................................29
5.14. Full Disclosure............................................................................29
5.15. Certain Contingent Obligations.............................................................30
5.16. Environmental Compliance...................................................................30
5.17 Nonrecourse Indebtedness...................................................................30
SECTION 6 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
6.1. Conditions of Initial Loan.................................................................30
6.2. Conditions to All Loans....................................................................31
SECTION 7 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
7.1. Financial Statements.......................................................................31
7.2. Certificates; Other Information............................................................32
7.3. Payment of Obligations.....................................................................33
7.4. Conduct of Business, and Maintenance of Existence..........................................33
7.5. Maintenance of Property, Insurance.........................................................33
7.6. Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions.....................................33
7.7. Notices....................................................................................33
SECTION 8 NEGATIVE COVENANTS
8.1. Total Liquid Assets Ratio..................................................................34
8.2. Maintenance of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth.............................................34
8.3. Debt Leverage Ratio........................................................................35
8.4. Limitations on Liens.......................................................................35
8.5. Prohibition of Fundamental Changes.........................................................36
8.6. Acquisitions...............................................................................36
8.7. Investments................................................................................37
8.8. Limitation on Contingent Obligations.......................................................37
8.9. Limitation on Subsidiary Indebtedness......................................................37
8.10. Transactions with Affiliates...............................................................37
SECTION 9 EVENTS OF DEFAULT.........................................................................................38
SECTION 10 THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
10.1. Authorization..............................................................................40
10.2. Employees and Administrative Agents........................................................40
10.3. No Liability...............................................................................40
10.4. No Representations.........................................................................40
10.5. Payments...................................................................................41
10.6. Holders of Notes...........................................................................41
10.7. Indemnity..................................................................................41
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10.8. Administrative Agent as Bank...............................................................42
10.9. Resignation................................................................................42
10.10. Notification of Defaults and Events of Default.............................................42
SECTION 11 ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION AND ADDITIONAL BANKS
11.1. Conditions to Assignment by Banks..........................................................42
11.2. Certain Representations and Warranties; Limitations;
Covenants..................................................................................43
11.3. Register...................................................................................43
11.4. New Notes..................................................................................44
11.5. Participations.............................................................................44
11.6. Disclosure.................................................................................44
11.7. Assignee or Participant Affiliated with the Company........................................44
11.8. Miscellaneous Assignment Provisions........................................................45
11.9. Assignment by the Company..................................................................45
11.10. Additional Banks...........................................................................45
SECTION 12 MISCELLANEOUS
12.1. Consents, Amendments and Waivers...........................................................46
12.2. Notices....................................................................................46
12.3. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.............................................................48
12.4. Survival of Representations and Warranties.................................................48
12.5. Payment of Expenses........................................................................48
12.6. Indemnification............................................................................48
12.7. Successors and Assigns.....................................................................49
12.8. Set-off....................................................................................49
12.9. Termination................................................................................50
12.10. Counterparts...............................................................................50
12.11. Governing Law..............................................................................50
12.12. Effective Date.............................................................................50
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SCHEDULES
Schedule 1 List of Banks
Schedule 4.1 Indebtedness To Be Repaid
Schedule 5.16 Environmental Compliance
Schedule 5.17 Nonrecourse Indebtedness
Schedule 8.4 Permitted Liens
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Revolving Credit Note
Exhibit B Swing Line Note
Exhibit C Legal Opinion
Exhibit D Officer's Certificate
Exhibit E Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit F Instrument of Adherence
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AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT (this
"Agreement") is entered into as of June 27, 2000, to become effective as of the
Effective Date as defined in Section 13.13 hereof only upon satisfaction of the
conditions specified therein, between LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORPORATION, a New York
corporation (the "Company"), the lending institutions listed on Schedule 1
attached hereto (the "Banks"), FLEET NATIONAL BANK (formerly named BankBoston,
N.A.), as administrative agent for itself and the other Banks (the
"Administrative Agent"), and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, as syndication agent for
itself and the other Banks (the "Syndication Agent") amending and restating in
its entirety the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of
November 8, 1997 (the "Prior Agreement") between the Company, the Banks,
BankBoston, N.A. as the Administrative Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank as the
Syndication Agent, and Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association as
the Documentation Agent.
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 DEFINED TERMS. As used in this Agreement, the following terms
have the following meanings:
"Additional Bank": as defined in Section 2.8(c).
"Administrative Agent": Fleet National Bank acting in the capacity of
Administrative Agent for the Banks, or any successor in such capacity.
"Affiliate": any Person that would be considered to be an affiliate
of the Company under Rule 144(a) of the Rules and Regulations of the Securities
and Exchange Commission, as in effect on the date hereof, if the Company were
issuing securities.
"Agreement": this Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement, as
it may be further amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.
"Applicable Pricing": For any Interest Period, with respect to the
Eurocurrency Rate (applicable to Eurocurrency Loans pursuant to Section 2.5(a)
hereof) and the Facility Fee, the rate per annum specified in the Rate Level row
of the table below as the Eurocurrency Margin and Facility Fee Rate,
respectively, opposite the Company's senior unsecured long-term debt ratings in
effect on the last day of such Interest Period as assigned by Xxxxx'x Investors
Service, Inc. ("Moody's") and Standard & Poor's Ratings Group ("Standard &
Poor's"), respectively:
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Rate Senior Unsecured Eurocurrency Facility Fee
Level Long-Term Debt Rating Margin Rate
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1 A3/A- 0.40% 0.15%
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2 Baa1/BBB+ 0.50% 0.25%
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3 Baa2/BBB 0.75% 0.25%
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4 Baa3/BBB- 1.00% 0.25%
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5 lower than Baa3/BBB- 1.25% 0.25%
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provided, however, (i) that the Eurocurrency Margin and Facility Fee Rate shall
not be less than as set forth in Rate Level 2 above for the period commencing on
the date hereof and ending on the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent of
the Officer's Certificate referred to in Section 7.2(b) for the fiscal period
ending September 30, 2000; (ii) in the event of a single split rating by such
rating organizations, the higher rating will apply, and in the event of a double
(or more) split rating by such rating organizations, the Eurocurrency Margin and
Facility Fee Rate shall be as set forth in the next Rate Level below the Rate
Level in which the highest rating falls; and (iii) if no rating is available on
any date of determination from either Moody's or Standard & Poor's, the
Eurocurrency Margin and Facility Fee Rate shall be as set forth in Rate Level 5.
The Prime Rate is applicable (without margin) to Prime Rate Loans as specified
in Section 2.5(b).
"Assignment and Acceptance": as defined in Section 13.1.
"Banking Subsidiaries": (i) so long as they are Subsidiaries of the
Company, (x) American Investment Bank, N.A., and (y) American Investment
Financial and (ii) any other Subsidiary of the Company taking Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (or other similar entity) insured deposits.
"Banks": at any time of reference thereto, those lending institutions
listed on Schedule 1 hereto (including without limitation the Swing Line Bank
acting in such capacity) and any other Person who becomes an Assignee of any
rights and obligations of a Bank pursuant to Section 11 hereof; and any one of
the Banks individually, a "Bank".
"Borrowing Date": any Business Day specified in a notice pursuant to
Sections 2.3, 3.2 or 3.4 as a date on which the Company requests (or is deemed
to have requested) the Banks to make Revolving Credit Loans or the Swing Line
Bank to make a Swing Line Loan hereunder.
"Business Day": any day other than a Saturday or Sunday on which
banking institutions in Boston, Massachusetts, are open for the transaction of
banking business and, in addition, (i) if Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in
Dollars are involved, a day which is also a day on which commercial banks are
open for international business (including dealings in Dollar Deposits) in
London or such other Eurocurrency Interbank Market as may be selected by the
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion acting in good faith, and (ii) if
Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in an Optional Currency are involved, a day
on which dealings and exchange in Dollars and the relevant Optional Currency can
be carried on in the relevant Eurocurrency Interbank Market and Dollar
settlements of such dealings may be effected in Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx and, with respect to dealings and exchange in Yen, Tokyo, Japan.
"Code": the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and in effect
from time to time.
"Commitment": with respect to each Bank, the amount set forth herein
as its commitment to make Loans to the Company as such amount may be reduced
from time to time as provided herein.
"Commitment Increase Request": as defined in Section 2.8(a).
"Commitment Percentage": with respect to each Bank, the percentage
set forth beside its name in Schedule 1 (subject to adjustment upon any
assignment permitted by Section 11 hereof, any increase of Total Commitment
pursuant to Section 2.8 and any admission of any Additional Bank pursuant to
Section 11.10) as such Bank's percentage of the Total Commitment and such Bank's
interest in the aggregate amount of all Swing Line Loans.
"Commitment Period": the period from and including the date hereof
to, but not including, the Termination Date or such earlier date as the
Commitment shall terminate as provided herein.
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"Commonly Controlled Entity": an entity, whether or not incorporated,
which is under common control with the Company within the meaning of Section
414(b) or (c) of the Code.
"Company": Leucadia National Corporation, a New York corporation.
"Consolidated" or "consolidated": with reference to any term defined
herein, that term as applied to the accounts of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, consolidated in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Intangibles": at a particular date, all assets of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis at such date,
that would be classified as intangible assets in accordance with GAAP, but in
any event including, without limitation, unamortized debt discount and expense,
unamortized organization and reorganization expense, costs in excess of the net
asset value of acquired companies, patents, trade or service marks, franchises,
trade names, goodwill and deferred tax assets. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in the preceding sentence, Consolidated Intangibles shall not
include deferred insurance policy acquisition costs or the value of life
insurance in force.
"Consolidated Net Worth": as to any Person at a particular date, all
amounts which should be included under shareholders' equity on a balance sheet
of such Person and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis as at
such date; provided that, in calculating shareholders' equity, marketable
securities that have not suffered a decline in value (other than a decline of a
temporary nature) shall be reflected at the amortized cost thereof and
marketable securities that have suffered a decline in value considered to be
other than temporary shall be reflected at the current value thereof. For
purposes of this definition, the recorded value of the Company's outstanding
preferred stock shall be included under shareholders' equity.
"Consolidated Tangible Net Worth": at a particular date, the excess,
if any, of Consolidated Net Worth over Consolidated Intangibles as at such date.
"Contingent Obligation": as to any Person, any reimbursement
obligation of such Person in respect of the face amount of all letters of credit
for the account of such Person and (without duplication) all drafts thereunder
(other than trade letters of credit or interest or currency swap transactions
entered into in the ordinary course of business) and any obligation of such
Person guarantying or in effect guarantying any Indebtedness, leases, dividends
or other obligations ("primary obligations") of any other Person (the "primary
obligor") in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without
limitation, any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (a) to
purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or
indirect security therefor, (b) to advance or supply funds (i) for the purchase
or payment of any such primary obligation or (ii) to maintain working capital or
equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or
solvency of the primary obligor, (c) to purchase property, securities or
services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary
obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary
obligation or (d) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of such primary
obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term
Contingent Obligation shall not include (i) endorsements of instruments for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business, (ii) indemnities
granted in the ordinary course of business (including in connection with
dispositions by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries), (iii) any insurance or
reinsurance obligation of any Subsidiary of the Company entered into in the
ordinary course of the insurance business of such Subsidiary, (iv) any guaranty
by a Subsidiary of the Company of the obligation of another Subsidiary (other
than the Company, if the guarantied obligation of the Subsidiary is reflected in
the Company's consolidated financial statements as a liability, (v) any
obligation (other than the guaranty by a Subsidiary of an obligation of the
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Company) reflected as a liability in the Company's consolidated financial
statements, including without limitation the Company's obligations in respect of
the TRUPS and (vi) any Indebtedness. The amount of any Contingent Obligation
shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of
the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made
or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability
in respect thereof as determined by the Company in good faith. For the purposes
of this definition, Contingent Obligations shall not include (x) any guaranty or
indemnification undertaking given in connection with the return of the assets of
Commercial Loan Insurance Corporation ("CLIC") and WMAC Credit Insurance
Corporation ("WMAC Credit"), or the assets of any other Insurance Subsidiary
under the jurisdiction of the Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner (collectively,
the "Returned Companies") to the control of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or (y) any contingent obligation arising from the operations of
such Returned Companies; provided, that, any such guaranty, indemnification,
undertaking or contingent obligation has recourse solely to such Returned
Companies and the operations of such Returned Companies are kept separate and
apart from those of the Company and each of the Company's other Subsidiaries.
"Contractual Obligation": as to any Person, any provision of any
security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or undertaking to
which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
"Conversion Request": as defined in Section 2.6(a).
"Default": any of the events specified in Section 9, whether or not
any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, or any
other condition, has been satisfied.
"Delinquent Bank": any Bank that fails to make available when due to
the Administrative Agent its pro rata share of any Loan, or fails to make
available when due to the Swing Line Bank its pro rata share of any Swing Line
Loan.
"Dollar Equivalent": on any date of determination, with respect to
any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount in Dollars, and with respect to
any amount denominated in a currency other than Dollars, the amount of Dollars
(as conclusively ascertained by the Administrative Agent absent manifest error)
which could be purchased with that amount of such other currency by the
Administrative Agent in accordance with its normal banking practices in the
London foreign currency deposit market at the spot rate of exchange prevailing
at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such date of determination.
"Dollars or $": Dollars in lawful currency of the United States of
America.
"Domestic Lending Office": initially, the office of each Bank
designated as such in Schedule 1 hereto; thereafter, such other office of such
Bank, if any, located within the United States that will be making or
maintaining Prime Rate Loans.
"Eligible Assignee": Any of (i) a commercial bank organized under the
laws of the United States, or any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and
having total assets in excess of $1,000,000,000; (ii) a savings and loan
association or savings bank organized under the laws of the United States, or
any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and having a net worth of at
least $500,000,000, calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles; (iii) a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other
country which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (the "OECD"), or a political subdivision of any such country, and
having total assets in excess of $1,000,000,000, provided that such bank is
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acting through a branch or agency located in the country in which it is
organized or another country which is also a member of the OECD; (iv) the
central bank of any country which is a member of the OECD; and (v) if, but only
if, any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other bank,
insurance company, commercial finance company or other financial institution
approved by the Administrative Agent, such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld.
"EMU": The European Economic and Monetary Union formed pursuant to
the EU Treaties.
"Entity": any partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint
venture or other business entity of whatever nature.
"Environmental Laws": any judgment, decree, order, law, license, rule
or regulation of any Governmental Authority pertaining to protection of the
environment, or any United States state or local statute, regulation, ordinance,
order or decree relating to health, safety or the environment.
"ERISA": the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time.
"Euro": the lawful single currency of the member states of the EMU
adopted in accordance with the EU Treaties.
"Eurocurrency Interbank Market": any lawful recognized market in
which deposits of Dollars and the relevant Optional Currencies are offered by
international banking units of United States banking institutions and by foreign
banking institutions to each other and in which foreign currency and exchange
operations or eurocurrency funding operations are customarily conducted.
"Eurocurrency Lending Office": initially, the office of each Bank
designated as such on Schedule 1 hereto; thereafter, such other office of such
Bank, if any, that shall be making or maintaining Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
"Eurocurrency Loans": Loans hereunder at any time of reference
bearing interest at a rate based upon the Eurocurrency Rate.
"Eurocurrency Margin": as specified in this Section 1.1 in the
definition of Applicable Pricing.
"Eurocurrency Offered Rate": with respect to any Interest Period of
any Eurocurrency Loan denominated in an Optional Currency, the rate per annum
determined by the Administrative Agent at which deposits in the relevant
Optional Currency for such Interest Period are offered, based on the offered
rates appearing on Page 3750 of the Telerate Service (or any successor or
substitute page of such service) as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business
Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period; provided that, if for any
reason the Telerate quotation is unavailable, then the Eurocurrency Offered Rate
shall be the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent at which
deposits in the relevant Optional Currency for such Interest Period are offered,
based on the information appearing on Reuters Page "LIBO" (or any successor or
substitute page of such service) as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business
Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period; and, if for any reason both
the Telerate and the Reuters quotations are unavailable, then the Eurocurrency
Offered Rate shall be the rate per annum (rounded upwards to the nearest 1/16 of
one percent) equal to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is offered
deposits in the relevant Optional Currency, at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time)
two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period, in the
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Eurocurrency Interbank Market where the foreign currency and exchange operations
or eurocurrency funding operations of the Administrative Agent are customarily
conducted, for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period, for the number
of days comprised therein and in an amount equal (as nearly as may be) to the
amount of the Eurocurrency Loan to which such Interest Period applies.
"Eurocurrency Rate": with respect to the Interest Period of any
Eurocurrency Loan, the annual rate of interest (rounded upwards to the nearest
1/16 of one percent) determined by the Administrative Agent to be equal to (a)
as to Loans denominated in Dollars, the Eurodollar Offered Rate, and as to Loans
denominated in any Optional Currency, the Eurocurrency Offered Rate, divided by
(b) a number equal to 1.00 minus the Eurocurrency Reserve Rate, if applicable.
"Eurocurrency Reserve Rate": for any day with respect to a
Eurocurrency Loan, the maximum rate (expressed as a decimal) at which any lender
subject thereto would be required to maintain reserves under Regulation D of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor or similar
regulations relating to such reserve requirements) against "Eurocurrency
Liabilities" (as that term is used in Regulation D), if such liabilities were
outstanding. The Eurocurrency Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on
and as of the effective date of any change in the Eurocurrency Reserve Rate.
"Eurodollar Offered Rate": with respect to any Interest Period of any
Eurocurrency Loan denominated in Dollars, the rate per annum determined by the
Administrative Agent at which deposits in Dollars for such Interest Period are
offered, based on the offered rates appearing on Page 3750 of the Telerate
Service (or any successor or substitute page of such service) as of 11:00 a.m.
(London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest
Period; provided that, if for any reason the Telerate quotation is unavailable,
then the Eurocurrency Offered Rate shall be the rate per annum determined by the
Administrative Agent at which deposits in Dollars for such Interest Period are
offered, based on the information appearing on Reuters Page "LIBO" (or any
successor or substitute page of such service) as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) two
(2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period; and, if for
any reason both the Telerate and the Reuters quotations are unavailable, then
the Eurocurrency Offered Rate shall be the rate per annum (rounded upwards to
the nearest 1/16 of one percent) equal to the rate at which the Administrative
Agent is offered Dollar deposits at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two
(2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period, in the
Eurocurrency Interbank Market where the eurodollar, foreign currency and
exchange operations of the Administrative Agent are customarily conducted, for
delivery on the first day of such Interest Period, for the number of days
comprised therein and in an amount equal (as nearly as may be) to the amount of
the Eurocurrency Loan to which such Interest Period applies.
"EU Treaties": The Treaty of Rome of 25 March, 1957, establishing the
European Community, as amended by the Single Xxxxxxxx Xxx 0000 and by the Treaty
on European Union signed at Maastricht on 1 February 1992, pursuant to which the
European Union came into being on November 1, 1993 (the "Maastricht Treaty"), as
further amended from time to time and in effect at any time of reference.
"Event of Default": any of the events specified in Section 9,
provided that any requirement for the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or
both, or any other condition specified therein, has been satisfied.
"Facility Fee": as defined in Section 4.2.
"Facility Fee Rate": as specified in this Section 1.1 in the
definition of Applicable Pricing.
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"Fleet": Fleet National Bank, a national banking association, in its
individual capacity.
"Foreign Recipient": any Bank or Participant which is a recipient of
payments under Section 4.8 and that is organized under a jurisdiction other than
the United States of America or a state thereof.
"Foreign Taxes": as defined in Section 4.8.
"Funded Debt": all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries
on a consolidated basis in respect of (i) Loans under this Agreement, and (ii)
any other Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than Nonrecourse Debt);
provided that Funded Debt shall not be deemed to include customer deposits of
Banking Subsidiaries.
"F&H Guaranty": the Guaranty of the Company in the form of Exhibit E
to the Master Agreement dated as of November 1989, by and among CX Partners,
L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, each of its Limited Partners, including
F&H Associates, C.V., a Netherlands Antilles limited partnership ("F&H"), its
Liquidating Trustee, and the parties named therein, with respect to the
obligations of F&H under said Master Agreement.
"GAAP": (i) When used in Section 8 means generally accepted
accounting principles that are consistent with the accounting practices of the
Company reflected in its financial statements for the fiscal year ended on
December 31, 1999 referred to in Section 5.1, and (ii) when used in general,
other than in Section 8, means generally accepted accounting principles that are
consistent with the principles promulgated or adopted by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board and its predecessors, as in effect from time to time.
"Governmental Authority": any nation or government (other than
Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, or Russia), any state or other political subdivision
thereof, and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory
or administrative functions of or pertaining to such government.
"Hazardous Substances": hazardous waste, pollutants or contaminants,
toxic substances, oil or hazardous materials or other chemicals or substances
regulated by any Environmental Laws.
"Indebtedness": as to any Person at a particular time, all items
which, in conformity with GAAP, would be classified as liabilities on a balance
sheet of such Person as at such time and which constitute (a) indebtedness for
borrowed money or constituting the deferred purchase price of assets or other
property, (b) obligations with respect to any conditional sale agreement or
title retention agreement, (c) indebtedness arising under acceptance facilities
and all drafts drawn under all letters of credit issued for the account of such
Person, (d) all liabilities secured by any Lien on any property owned by such
Person even though it has not assumed or otherwise become liable for the payment
thereof, (e) obligations under leases which have been, or under GAAP are
required to be, capitalized, (f) obligations with respect to interest payable
and (g) any asserted withdrawal liability of such Person or a Commonly
Controlled Entity to a Multiemployer Plan.
"Insurance Subsidiary": Any Subsidiary of the Company licensed as an
insurance company.
"Interest Payment Date": (a) as to any Prime Rate Loan, the last day
of each March, June, September and December and the Termination Date or such
earlier date as the Commitment shall terminate as provided herein, and (b) as to
any Eurocurrency Loan in respect of which the Interest Period is (i) three
months or less, the last day of such Interest Period and (ii) more than three
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months, the date which is three months from the first day of such Interest
Period and in addition the last day of such Interest Period.
"Interest Period": with respect to each Loan, (i) initially, the
period commencing on the Borrowing Date of such Loan and ending as set forth
below in accordance with the Loan Request or SL Loan Request therefor, and (ii)
thereafter each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest
Period applicable to such Loan and ending as set forth below in accordance with
the Conversion Request relating thereto:
(a) for any Prime Rate Loan, the last day of the calendar quarter,
(b) for any Eurocurrency Loan, the last day of the one, two, three or
six month period selected in the Loan Request or Conversion Request,
(c) for any Swing Line Loan, the maturity date specified in the SL
Loan Request therefor, and
(d) for any Loan, on such earlier day as may be required by the terms
of this Agreement;
provided, that, all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are
subject to the following:
(I) if any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurocurrency Loan would
otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period shall
be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such
extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month, in
which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business
Day;
(II) if any Interest Period pertaining to a Prime Rate Loan or Swing
Line Loan would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, such
Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day;
(III) if the Company shall fail to give notice by Conversion Request
as provided in Section 2.6(a), then (A) for any Loan denominated in Dollars, the
Company shall be deemed to have requested a conversion of the affected
Eurocurrency Loan to a Prime Rate Loan and the continuance of all Prime Rate
Loans as Prime Rate Loans on the last day of the then current Interest Period
with respect thereto, and (B) for any Loan denominated in an Optional Currency,
the Company shall repay such Loan on the last day of the then current Interest
Period with respect thereto;
(IV) any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurocurrency Loan that
begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there
is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such
Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; and
(V) any Interest Period that would otherwise extend beyond the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
"Investments": any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital
contribution to, or purchase of any stocks, bonds, notes, debentures or other
securities of, or any other investment in, any Person.
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"Lien": any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit
arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), or preference, priority or
other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature
whatsoever (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, and any financing lease having substantially the same
economic effect as any of the foregoing).
"Loan Request": as defined in Section 2.3(a).
"Loans": the Revolving Credit Loans and the Swing Line Loans; and any
one of such Loans individually, a "Loan".
"Majority Banks": as of any date, the Banks holding at least
fifty-one percent (51%) of the outstanding principal amount of the Revolving
Credit Notes on such date; and if no such principal is outstanding, the Banks
whose aggregate Commitments constitute at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the
Total Commitment.
"Market Price": with reference to the Company's Common Shares
("Common Share") for any Trading Day, the last reported sale price of a Common
Share as reported on the New York Stock Exchange or on any principal stock
exchange on which the Common Shares are then listed or admitted to trading or on
the National Association of Securities Dealers National Market System, if
quoted; or, if the Common Shares are not then listed or admitted to trading on
any national securities exchange and there is no reported last sale price or bid
and asked prices available, the average of the reported high-bid and low-asked
prices on such day as reported by a reputable quotation service or a newspaper
of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York,
customarily published on each business day; or, in the absence of one or more
such quotations, the current market price determined in good faith by the Board
of Directors of the Company on the basis of such quotations or factors as it
deems appropriate.
"Market Value": with reference to the Company's Common Shares, the
average Market Price of such Common Shares for the twenty Trading Days
immediately preceding the date of the sale, transfer or disposition giving rise
to the need to determine Market Value.
"Maximum Swing Line Loan Amount": as defined in Section 3.1.
"Multiemployer Plan": a Plan which is a multiemployer plan as defined
in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
"Nonrecourse Debt": (x) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary of the Company
which is not guaranteed by, is not secured by assets (other than assets of such
Subsidiary) of, and does not otherwise have recourse to, the Company or its
assets (other than assets of such Subsidiary) and (y) Indebtedness of the
Company incurred to finance one or more assets of the Company, which
Indebtedness has recourse only to such asset or assets for payment.
"Note Record": the grid attached to a Revolving Credit Note or the
Swing Line Note, or the continuation of such grid, or any other similar record,
including computer records, maintained by any Bank with respect to any Loan
referred to in such Note.
"Notes": the Revolving Credit Notes and the Swing Line Note; and any
one of such Notes individually, a "Note".
"OC Request": as defined in Section 2.4(a).
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"Optional Currency": any of the Euro, Sterling and Yen, so long as
any such currency is freely convertible into Dollars and is traded on any
recognized interbank market selected by the Administrative Agent in good faith
(the "Specified Optional Currencies"), and any currency other than Dollars and
the Specified Optional Currencies which is freely convertible into Dollars and
traded on any recognized interbank market selected by the Administrative Agent
in good faith and which is requested by the Borrower and approved by each of the
Banks.
"Overnight Rate": for any day, (i) as to Loans denominated in
Dollars, the weighted average interest rate paid for federal funds acquired by
the Administrative Agent, and (ii) as to Loans denominated in an Optional
Currency, the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in the
applicable Optional Currency in an amount approximately equal to the amount with
respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by
the Administrative Agent to major banks in the London interbank market.
"Participant": as defined in Section 11.5.
"PBGC": the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant
to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA.
"Permitted Distribution": any distribution to the Company's
shareholders of equity shares of one or more Subsidiaries, provided, that (i)
the aggregate book value of such Subsidiary or Subsidiaries, when added together
with the aggregate book value of all other Subsidiaries with respect to which
such a Permitted Distribution has been effected from and after January 1, 2000,
shall not exceed $150,000,000, and (ii) no Default or Event of Default exists at
the time of declaration of such distribution or at the time of the consummation
thereof, either before or after giving effect thereto.
"Permitted Liens": as defined in Section 8.4.
"Permitted Voluntary Proceeding": the commencement by the Company of
a voluntary case or proceeding under Title 13, U.S. Code or any similar federal
or state law for the relief of debtors with respect to any Subsidiary if (i) the
sum of the Company's total investment at cost, after write-downs, in such
Subsidiary and the Company's Contingent Obligations in respect of liabilities of
such Subsidiary does not exceed $90,000,000, and (ii) the commencement of such
case or proceeding does not create nor occasion any violation or noncompliance
with other provisions of this Agreement.
"Person": an individual, Entity or Governmental Authority.
"Plan": any pension plan which is covered by Title IV of ERISA and in
respect of which the Company or a Commonly Controlled Entity is an "employer" as
defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
"Prime Rate": the interest rate per annum equal to the higher of (a)
the rate of interest publicly announced by the Administrative Agent at its
office at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx in Boston, Massachusetts from time to time as its
prime or base rate (such rate not being intended as the lowest rate of interest
charged by Fleet in connection with extensions of credit to debtors), and (b)
one-half of one percentage point (0.5%) above the overnight Federal Funds
Effective Rate. For the purposes of this definition, "Federal Funds Effective
Rate" shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average
of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or,
if such day is not a Business Day for the next preceding Business Day) by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any
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day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such
transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three funds brokers of
recognized standing selected by the Administrative Agent.
"Prime Rate Loans": Loans hereunder at any time of reference bearing
interest at a rate based upon the Prime Rate.
"Prior Agreement": as defined in the preamble.
"Real Estate": the real properties owned or leased by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries.
"Recipient": as defined in Section 12.9.
"Register": as defined in Section 11.3.
"Reportable Event": any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of
ERISA or the regulations thereunder.
"Requirements of Law": as to any Person, the Certificate of
Incorporation and By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such
Person, and (other than with respect to Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia) any
law, treaty, rule or regulation, or determination of an arbitrator or a court or
other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such
Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is
subject.
"Responsible Officer": the Chairman of the Board of Directors,
President, Treasurer or any Vice President of the Company.
"Revolving Credit Loans": as defined in Section 2.1.
"Revolving Credit Notes": as defined in Section 2.2.
"Same Day Funds": with respect to disbursements and payments in (i)
Dollars, immediately available and freely transferable funds, and (ii) an
Optional Currency, same day or other funds as may be determined by the
Administrative Agent to be customary in the place of disbursement or payment for
the settlement of international banking transactions in the relevant Optional
Currency.
"Shareholders' Equity": at any particular date, the total
shareholders' equity of the Company (including without limitation equity in
respect of the Company's outstanding preferred stock, if any), determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that, if any Nonrecourse
Debt is excluded from the computation of Funded Debt under Section 8.3, then,
for purposes of determining Shareholders' Equity under Section 8.3,
Shareholders' Equity shall be reduced (x) by the carrying value of the assets of
the Company to which such Nonrecourse Debt has recourse, to the extent of such
Nonrecourse Debt of the Company, and/or (y) by the Company's equity investment
in any Subsidiary having such Nonrecourse Debt, to the extent of such
Subsidiary's Nonrecourse Debt.
"Single Employer Plan": any Plan which is not a Multiemployer Plan.
"SL Loan Request": as defined in Section 3.2.
"Sterling": Pounds Sterling in lawful currency for the time being of
the United Kingdom.
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"Subsidiary": as to any Person, any Entity which is consolidated in
such Person's consolidated financial statements determined in accordance with
GAAP as in effect on December 31, 1999.
"Syndication Agent": The Chase Manhattan Bank acting in the capacity
of syndication agent for the Banks.
"Swing Line Bank": Fleet National Bank acting in such capacity under
Section 3 hereof, or any successor in such capacity.
"Swing Line Loan": any loan made by the Swing Line Bank pursuant to
Section 3.
"Swing Line Loan Maturity Date": as defined in Section 3.2.
"Swing Line Note": as defined in Section 3.5.
"Taxes": as defined in Section 4.10.
"Terminating Event": any of the events specified in Section 12.9,
whether or not any requirement for the lapse of time, or any other condition,
has been satisfied.
"Termination Date": June 27, 2003.
"Total Commitment": the aggregate amount of the Commitments of the
Banks to make Loans to the Company as provided herein.
"Total Liquid Assets": at any date of determination, the sum of (i)
the market value (as determined in accordance with GAAP and adjusted regularly
by the net unrealized gain or loss on such securities not reflected in book
value) of all marketable securities held by the Company and/or its consolidated
Subsidiaries (other than Banking Subsidiaries and Insurance Subsidiaries), after
deducting therefrom the amount of any obligations (including without limitation
amounts available for drawing under, and unpaid reimbursement obligations in
respect of, outstanding letters of credit) secured by Permitted Liens on such
marketable securities, (ii) the aggregate cash and cash equivalent balances held
by the Company and/or its consolidated Subsidiaries (other than Banking
Subsidiaries and Insurance Subsidiaries), (iii) all amounts legally
distributable from the Company's Insurance Subsidiaries and Banking
Subsidiaries, and (iv) amounts payable (to the extent such rights to payment
have not been transferred or assigned) under negotiable promissory notes issued
by Conseco, Inc. to Colonial Penn Holdings Inc., which notes are backed by
letters of credit. For purposes of this definition, "marketable securities"
shall mean (A) securities that are publicly traded or (B) securities offered by
an independent broker that the Company in good faith believes can be sold within
180 days; and "legally distributable from the Company's Insurance Subsidiaries
and Banking Subsidiaries" shall mean, in the case of the Company's Insurance
Subsidiaries, the maximum sum which those regulators with supervisory authority
over such Subsidiaries in the state or states of their incorporation permit them
to distribute by statute, regulation or otherwise, and in the case of the
Company's Banking Subsidiaries, the maximum sum which those regulators with
supervisory authority over such Subsidiaries either at the national level or in
the state of their incorporation permit them to distribute by statute,
regulation or otherwise.
"Trading Day": any day on which the principal exchange or quotation
system on which the Company's Common Shares are listed or traded, is open for
trading.
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"TRUPS": the $150,000,000 8.65% Capital Trust Pass-through Securities
(of which $98,200,000 remains outstanding) issued in January 1997 by Leucadia
Capital Trust I, all of the common capital securities of which are owned by the
Company.
"Type": as to all or any portion of any Loan, its nature as a Prime
Rate Loan or Eurocurrency Loan.
"Voting Stock": as to the Company, shares of stock having ordinary
voting power (other than stock having such power only by reason of the happening
of a contingency).
"Yen": the lawful currency for the time being of Japan.
1.2. OTHER DEFINITIONAL AND INTERPRETIVE PROVISIONS.
(a) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in the Notes or any certificate or other document made or
delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b) As used herein and in the Notes, and any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto, accounting terms relating to the
Company and its Subsidiaries not defined in Section 1.1, and accounting terms
partly defined in Section 1.1 to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under GAAP.
(c) The words "hereof", "herein" and "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and
not to any particular provision of this Agreement.
(d) Section, schedule and exhibit references are to this Agreement
unless otherwise specified.
(e) The singular includes the plural and the plural includes the
singular.
(f) The words "include", "includes" and "including" are not limiting.
(g) Unless otherwise expressly indicated, in the computation of
periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word "from"
means "from and including", the words "to" and "until" each mean "to but
excluding", and the word "through" means "to and including".
(h) A reference to any law includes any amendment or modification to
such law.
(i) A reference to any Person includes its permitted successors and
permitted assigns.
(j) This Agreement may use several different limitations, tests or
measurements to regulate the same or similar matters. All such limitations,
tests and measurements are, however, cumulative and are to be performed in
accordance with the terms thereof.
(k) This Agreement is the result of negotiation among, and has been
reviewed by counsel to, among others, the Administrative Agent and the Company
and is the result of discussions and negotiations among all parties.
Accordingly, this Agreement is not intended to be construed against the
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Administrative Agent or any of the Banks merely on account of the Administrative
Agent's or any Bank's involvement in the preparation of such documents.
SECTION 2. REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY
2.1. REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each of the Banks
severally agrees to make revolving credit loans (individually, a "Revolving
Credit Loan" and, collectively the "Revolving Credit Loans") in Dollars and/or
Optional Currency to the Company from time to time during the Commitment Period,
upon notice by the Company to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with
Section 2.3 hereof and subject to the following paragraphs (b) and (c), in an
amount equal to such Bank's Commitment Percentage of the aggregate principal
amount of Loans requested in the Company's notice. The respective amount of each
Bank's Commitment and its Commitment Percentage shall be as set forth in
Schedule 1 attached hereto.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement but subject
to the following paragraph (c) of this Section 2.1, at no time shall the Dollar
Equivalent of the sum of the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit
Loans outstanding (after giving effect to all Loans requested) and all Swing
Line Loans outstanding exceed the Total Commitment of the Banks then in effect.
The Dollar Equivalent of the principal amount of the Revolving Credit Loans
outstanding from each Bank to the Company shall not at any time exceed in the
aggregate an amount (after giving effect to all Loans requested) equal to such
Bank's Commitment Percentage times (i) the Total Commitment minus (ii) the sum
of the aggregate principal amount of all Swing Line Loans outstanding. Within
the foregoing limits, and subject to all of the other terms and conditions set
forth in this Agreement, the Company may borrow, prepay pursuant to Section 2.7
hereof, and reborrow Revolving Credit Loans.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the Banks agrees to, on
one or more occasions during the Commitment Period, and regardless of whether
the conditions set forth in Section 6 are satisfied, make Revolving Credit Loans
to the Company solely for the purposes of repaying Swing Line Loans pursuant to
Section 3.4 hereof. Section 3 hereof shall govern the Company's obligations with
respect to Swing Line Loans. In the event that any advances of Revolving Credit
Loans pursuant to this Section 2.1(c) cause the sum of the aggregate principal
amount of Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans outstanding to exceed the
Total Commitment then in effect, the Company shall immediately prepay such
excess amount together with any interest accrued thereon.
(d) The Revolving Credit Loans may be Eurocurrency Loans or Prime
Rate Loans, or combinations thereof, as determined by the Company and notified
to the Administrative Agent and the Banks in accordance with Section 2.3;
provided that no Eurocurrency Loan shall be made with an Interest Period
extending beyond the Termination Date. Each Prime Rate Loan or Swing Line Loan
shall be denominated in Dollars, and each Eurocurrency Loan shall be denominated
in Dollars or, subject to Section 2.4 hereof, in an Optional Currency.
Eurocurrency Loans shall be made and maintained by the Administrative Agent for
the accounts of the Banks at its Eurocurrency Lending Office, and Prime Rate
Loans shall be made and maintained by the Administrative Agent for the accounts
of the Banks at its Domestic Lending Office.
2.2. NOTES. The Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant hereto are
evidenced by separate promissory notes of the Company, substantially in the form
of Exhibit A (together with any promissory notes in substantially such form
issued in substitution or replacement therefor, the "Revolving Credit Notes" or,
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in the singular, a "Revolving Credit Note"); one Revolving Credit Note being
payable to the order of each Bank in a principal amount equal to such Bank's
Commitment and representing the obligation of the Company to pay to such Bank
the amount of the Commitment or, if less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount
of all Revolving Credit Loans made by such Bank hereunder, plus accrued interest
thereon, as set forth below. Each Bank is hereby authorized to record the date
and amount of its Revolving Credit Loan, the maturity date thereof, the date and
amount of each repayment of principal thereof, and, in the case of Eurocurrency
Loans, the interest rate with respect thereto, on such Bank's Note Record. The
outstanding amount of the Revolving Credit Loans set forth on such Bank's Note
Record shall be prima facie evidence of the principal amount thereof owing and
unpaid to such Bank, but the failure to record, or any error in so recording,
any such amount on such Bank's Note Record shall not limit or otherwise affect
the actual amount of the obligations of the Company hereunder or under any
Revolving Credit Note to make payments of principal of or interest on any
Revolving Credit Note when due.
2.3. PROCEDURE FOR REVOLVING CREDIT BORROWING.
(a) The Company may borrow Revolving Credit Loans under the
Commitments during the Commitment Period on any Business Day; provided, that,
the Company shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (a "Loan
Request"), which notice must be in writing (or by confirmed electronic
communication or by telephone confirmed in writing) and must be received by the
Administrative Agent (i) prior to 10:00 A.M., Boston time three (3) Business
Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans,
and (ii) prior to 12:00 noon Boston time on the requested Borrowing Date, in the
case of Prime Rate Loans, specifying (A) the principal amount of the Revolving
Credit Loan requested, stated in either Dollars or (subject to Section 2.4) an
Optional Currency, (B) the requested Borrowing Date, (C) whether the borrowing
is to be a Eurocurrency Loan or a Prime Rate Loan, or a combination thereof
(and, if a Eurocurrency Loan denominated in an Optional Currency is requested,
such Loan Request must also comply with the requirements of an OC Request
pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof), and (D) the length of the Interest Period for
each Eurocurrency Loan included in such notice. No more than ten (10)
Eurocurrency Loans with different Interest Periods shall be outstanding at one
time. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent shall
notify each of the Banks thereof. Each borrowing of Prime Rate Loans pursuant to
the Commitments shall be in a minimum aggregate principal amount equal to the
lesser of (i) $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $250,000 in excess thereof,
and (ii) the aggregate amount of the Total Commitment in excess of the sum of
all Loans outstanding. Each borrowing of Eurocurrency Loans pursuant to the
Commitments shall be in a minimum amount equal to $5,000,000 and shall be in an
integral multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof.
(b) Not later than 2:00 P.M. (Boston time) on any requested Borrowing
Date (including without limitation pursuant to notice under Section 3.4 with
regard to the repayment of any Swing Line Loan), each of the Banks will make
available to the Administrative Agent, at its head office, in immediately
available funds, the amount of the Revolving Credit Loan to be loaned by it on
such Borrowing Date. Upon receipt from each Bank of the amount of its Revolving
Credit Loan, the Administrative Agent will make the aggregate amount of such
Revolving Credit Loans available to the Company. The failure or refusal of any
Bank to make available to the Administrative Agent at the aforesaid time on any
Borrowing Date the amount of the Revolving Credit Loan to be made by such Bank
shall not relieve any other Bank from its several obligations hereunder to make
its respective Commitment Percentage of any requested Loans.
(c) The Administrative Agent may (unless notified to the contrary by
a Bank prior to a Borrowing Date) assume that each Bank has made available to
the Administrative Agent on such Borrowing Date such Bank's Commitment
Percentage of the Revolving Credit Loans to be made on such Borrowing Date, and
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the Administrative Agent may (but it shall not be required to), in reliance upon
such assumption, make available to the Company a corresponding amount. If any
Bank makes available all or any portion of such amount to the Administrative
Agent on a date after such Borrowing Date, then such Delinquent Bank shall pay
to the Administrative Agent on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) the
average computed for the period referred to in clause (iii) below, of the
Overnight Rate for each day included in such period, times (ii) the amount equal
to the lesser of such Bank's Commitment Percentage of such borrowing or the
portion thereof made available after such Borrowing Date, times (iii) a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse from and
including such Borrowing Date to the date on which such Bank's Commitment
Percentage of such borrowing shall become immediately available to the
Administrative Agent, and the denominator of which is 365. A statement of the
Administrative Agent submitted to any Bank with respect to any amounts owing
under this paragraph shall be prima facie evidence of the amount due and owing.
If any portion of such Bank's Commitment Percentage of such Loan is not in fact
made available to the Administrative Agent by such Bank within three Business
Days of such Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to
recover such amount from the Company on demand, with interest thereon at the
rate per annum applicable to the Loans made on such Borrowing Date.
(d) If the Administrative Agent, for the account of a Bank, makes a
new Revolving Credit Loan on a day on which the Company is to repay all or any
part of any outstanding Revolving Credit Loan denominated in the same currency
from such Bank, such Bank shall apply the proceeds of its new Loan to make such
repayment, and only an amount equal to the difference (if any) between the
amount being borrowed and the amount being repaid shall be made available by
such Bank to the Company or remitted by the Company to such Bank as provided in
Section 4.7, as the case may be.
2.4. PROCEDURE FOR OPTIONAL CURRENCIES.
(a) Request for Optional Currency. Subject to the limitations set
forth in Section 2.1, the Company may upon not less than three (3) Business
Days' notice to the Administrative Agent (an "OC Request"), request that one or
more Revolving Credit Loans be made as Eurocurrency Loans in an Optional
Currency, provided that any Eurocurrency Loan requested shall be in an amount
not less than $5,000,000, and shall be in an integral multiple of $500,000 in
excess thereof. Each OC Request shall be in writing (or by confirmed electronic
communication or by telephone confirmed in writing) and shall specify (in
addition to compliance with the requirements of a Loan Request pursuant to
Section 2.3(a)): (i) the Optional Currency in which the Eurocurrency Loan is
requested to be made and (ii), in the case of an Optional Currency which is the
legal tender of a country in which the Administrative Agent has no office, the
Company's account with a depository in such country to which payment of the
proceeds of such Eurocurrency Loan is requested to be made. If any Bank, on or
prior to the second (2nd) Business Day preceding the first day of any Interest
Period for which an OC Request has been delivered requesting a Eurocurrency Loan
in an Optional Currency or on any funding date, determines (which determination
shall be conclusive) that the Optional Currency requested is not freely
transferable and convertible into Dollars or that it will be impracticable for
such Bank to fund the requested Revolving Credit Loan in such Optional Currency,
then such Bank shall so notify the Administrative Agent, which notification
shall be given immediately by the Administrative Agent to the Company, and such
Bank's portion of the requested Revolving Credit Loan shall, notwithstanding any
contrary election by the Company or any other provisions hereof, be denominated
in Dollars as a Prime Rate Loan unless the Company, one (1) Business Day prior
to the commencement of such Interest Period and by notice complying with the
requirements of Section 2.3(a) hereof, elects to have such Bank's Revolving
Credit Loan denominated in Dollars as a Eurocurrency Loan. In the event that the
Company repays such portion of a Revolving Credit Loan denominated in Dollars as
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a Prime Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Loan, as the case may be, in accordance with
Section 2.7 and such repayment results in Revolving Credit Loans outstanding
that are not pro rata in accordance with the Commitment Percentages of the
Banks, then all subsequent principal repayments denominated in the Optional
Currency which the applicable Bank did not advance shall be made by the Company
to the Administrative Agent for the respective accounts of such Banks other than
the Bank which did not advance the Optional Currency on a pro rata basis until
such time as the Revolving Credit Loans are outstanding on a pro rata basis.
Subject to the foregoing and to the satisfaction of the terms and conditions of
Section 6, each Revolving Credit Loan requested to be made in an Optional
Currency shall be made on the date specified therefor in the related Loan
Request, in the currency requested in the related OC Request and, upon being so
made, will have the Interest Period requested in the related Loan Request.
(b) Exchange Rate. For purpose of this Agreement the amount in one
currency which shall be equivalent on any particular date to a specified amount
in another currency shall be that amount (as conclusively ascertained by the
Administrative Agent by its normal banking practices, absent manifest error) in
the first currency which is or could be purchased by the Administrative Agent in
accordance with its normal banking practices with such specified amount in the
second currency in any recognized Eurocurrency Interbank Market selected by the
Administrative Agent in good faith for delivery on such date at the spot rate of
exchange prevailing at 10:00 a.m. (Boston time), or as soon thereafter as
practicable, on such date.
(c) Denominations. In the event that any portion of the funds
available under the terms of this Agreement is denominated in an Optional
Currency, the Dollar Equivalent of such portion of the funds shall be calculated
pursuant to Section 2.4(b) above. The amount so determined shall then be added
to the amount already outstanding in Dollars for the purpose of determining the
remaining availability of funds under Section 2.1 hereof and any required
repayments under the following Section 2.4(d).
(d) Repayment. If at any time prior to the Termination Date, the
Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount outstanding of all Revolving
Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans shall exceed the Total Commitment for three
(3) or more consecutive Business Days as a result of fluctuations in applicable
conversion rates between Dollars and any Optional Currencies, the Company shall
pay or cause to be paid immediately, upon demand made by the Administrative
Agent, such amounts as are sufficient to eliminate such excess and to reduce the
aggregate principal amount outstanding to the Dollar Equivalent of the Total
Commitment. In the event there are any Revolving Credit Loans outstanding which
are denominated in an Optional Currency, the Administrative Agent shall provide
the Banks and the Company with calculations on the last day of each calendar
month that such Loans are outstanding as to the Dollar Equivalents of such
Revolving Credit Loans.
(e) Funding. Each Bank may make any Eurocurrency Loan denominated in
an Optional Currency by causing any of its foreign branches or foreign
affiliates to make such Eurocurrency Loan (whether or not such branch or
affiliate is named as a lending office on the signature pages hereof); provided
that in such event the obligation of the Company to repay such Eurocurrency Loan
shall nevertheless be to such Bank and shall, for all purposes of this Agreement
(including without limitation for purposes of the definition of the term
"Majority Banks") be deemed made by such Bank, to the extent of such
Eurocurrency Loan, for the account of such branch or affiliate.
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2.5. INTEREST RATE.
(a) Each Eurocurrency Loan shall bear interest, for the period
commencing on the Borrowing Date thereof and ending on the last day of the
Interest Period with respect thereto, on the unpaid principal amount thereof at
a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate determined by the Administrative
Agent for the Interest Period therefor plus the Eurocurrency Margin (as set
forth in the Applicable Pricing).
(b) Each Prime Rate Loan shall bear interest for the period
commencing on the Borrowing Date thereof on the unpaid principal amount thereof
at a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the Prime Rate.
2.6. CONVERSION OPTIONS.
(a) The Company may elect from time to time, by request (a
"Conversion Request") in writing (or by confirmed electronic communication or by
telephone confirmed in writing), to convert any outstanding Loan (other than a
Swing Line Loan) denominated in Dollars to a Loan of another Type denominated in
Dollars, provided that (i) with respect to any such conversion of a Eurocurrency
Loan to a Prime Rate Loan, the Company shall give the Administrative Agent at
least one (1) Business Day prior written notice of such election; (ii) with
respect to any such conversion of a Prime Rate Loan to a Eurocurrency Loan, the
Company shall give the Administrative Agent at least three (3) Business Days'
prior written notice of such election; (iii) with respect to any such conversion
of a Eurocurrency Loan into a Prime Rate Loan, such conversion shall only be
made on the last day of the Interest Period with respect thereto, and (iv) no
Prime Rate Loan may be converted into a Eurocurrency Loan when any Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. On the date on which such
conversion is being made each Bank shall take such action as is necessary to
transfer its portion of such Loans to its Domestic Lending Office or its
Eurocurrency Lending Office, as the case may be. All or any part of outstanding
Revolving Credit Loans of any Type may be converted into a Revolving Credit Loan
of another Type as provided herein, provided that any conversion shall comply
with the minimum aggregate principal amount requirements set forth in Section
2.3(a). Each Conversion Request relating to the conversion of a Prime Rate Loan
to a Eurocurrency Loan shall be irrevocable by the Company.
(b) Any Revolving Credit Loan of any Type may be continued as a
Revolving Credit Loan of the same Type upon the expiration of an Interest Period
with respect thereto by compliance by the Company with the notice provisions
contained in Section 2.6(a) hereof; provided that (i) as to any Eurocurrency
Loan denominated in Dollars, no such Eurocurrency Loan may be continued as such
when any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, but shall
be automatically converted to a Prime Rate Loan on the last day of the first
Interest Period relating thereto ending during the continuance of any Default or
Event of Default of which officers of the Administrative Agent active upon the
account have actual knowledge; and (ii) as to any Eurocurrency Loan denominated
in an Optional Currency, no such Eurocurrency Loan may be continued as such when
any Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing, but shall be
repaid by the Company on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto.
In the event that the Company fails to provide any Conversion Request with
respect to the continuation of any Eurocurrency Loan as such, then (x) as to any
Eurocurrency Loan denominated in Dollars, such Eurocurrency Loan shall be
automatically converted to a Prime Rate Loan on the last day of the first
Interest Period relating thereto, and (y) as to any Eurocurrency Loan
denominated in an Optional Currency, such Eurocurrency Loan shall be repaid on
the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto. The Administrative Agent
shall notify the Banks promptly when any such automatic conversion contemplated
by this Section 2.6(b) is scheduled to occur.
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(c) Any conversion to or from Eurocurrency Loans shall be in such
amounts and be made pursuant to such elections so that, after giving effect
thereto, the aggregate principal amount of all Eurocurrency Loans having the
same Interest Period shall not be less than $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of
$500,000 in excess thereof (or, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans denominated in
an Optional Currency, that whole number which is nearest to the Dollar
Equivalent of $5,000,000 or $500,000, as the case may be, rounded to the nearest
one thousandth). No more than ten (10) Eurocurrency Loans with different
Interest Periods shall be outstanding at one time.
2.7. TERMINATION OR REDUCTION OF COMMITMENT. The Company shall have
the right, upon not less than five (5) Business Days' notice to the
Administrative Agent, to terminate the Total Commitment or, from time to time,
reduce the amount of the Total Commitment, provided, that, (i) each reduction
(other than a termination) shall be in a minimum amount of $10,000,000 and in
integral multiples of $5,000,000 in excess thereof, (ii) no such reduction or
termination shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any
prepayments of the Loans made on the effective date thereof, the then
outstanding principal amount of the Loans would exceed the amount of the Total
Commitment then in effect and (iii) each Bank's Commitment shall be reduced
proportionately. Termination of the Commitments shall also terminate the
obligation of the Banks to make Loans. The portions of Commitments once
terminated or reduced may not be reinstated.
2.8. INCREASE OF TOTAL COMMITMENT; ADDITIONAL BANKS. The Company
shall have the right upon one or more occasions by written notice to the
Administrative Agent (a "Commitment Increase Request") to request an increase in
the Total Commitment (the amount of increase requested on any occasion being
referred to herein as the "Increase Amount"), up to a maximum Total Commitment
of $200,000,000; provided that, at the time of the Commitment Increase Request
and at the time such request would become effective, no Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing or would exist after giving effect to
such increase in the Total Commitment. Following a Commitment Increase Request,
one or more other Entities which would qualify as an Eligible Assignee (an
"Additional Bank") and which are acceptable to each of the Administrative Agent
and Company may be admitted as a Bank party to this Agreement in accordance with
the provisions of Section 11.10, provided that the Commitment of any such
Additional Bank shall not be less than $10,000,000 nor greater than the
difference between the new Total Commitment and the aggregate Commitments of the
other Banks (including the Commitment of any other Additional Bank being
admitted at the same time as a Bank party to this Agreement). Any such increase
in the Total Commitment shall become effective only upon written notice by the
Administrative Agent to the Company and the Banks specifying the effective date
of such increase in Total Commitment, together with a revised Schedule 1 stating
the new Total Commitment, and, in respect thereof, the Commitment Amount of each
Additional Bank, the respective continuing Commitment Amounts of the other Banks
and the new Commitment Percentages of the Banks. Upon the effective date of the
increased Total Commitment, each Additional Bank shall make all (if any) such
payments to the other Banks as may be necessary to result in the respective
Revolving Credit Loans held by such Additional Bank and the other Banks being
equal to such applicable Bank's Commitment Percentage (as set forth in the
revised Schedule 1) of the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit
Loans outstanding as of such date. The Company hereby agrees that any Additional
Bank so paying any such amount to the other Banks pursuant to the preceding
sentence shall be entitled to all the rights of a Bank having Commitments
hereunder in respect of such amounts, that such payments to such other Banks
shall thereafter constitute Revolving Credit Loans made by such Additional Bank
hereunder and that such Additional Bank may, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, exercise all of its right of payment (including the right of set-off) with
respect to such amounts as fully as if such Additional Bank had initially
advanced to the Company directly the amount of such payments. If any such
adjustment payments pursuant to the preceding sentences of this Section 2.8 are
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made by an Additional Bank to other Banks at a time other than the end of an
Interest Period in the case of all or any portion of Revolving Credit Loans
constituting Eurocurrency Loans, the Company shall pay to each of the Banks
receiving any such payment, at the time that such payment is made pursuant to
Section 2.8, the amount that would be required to be paid by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.11 had such payments been made directly by the Company.
2.9. PREPAYMENTS. The Company may (i) at any time and from time to
time prepay the Prime Rate Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or
penalty and (ii) subject to payment of the amounts set forth in Section 4.11,
prepay the Eurocurrency Loans, in either case upon at least one Business Day's
irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, specifying the date and amount
of prepayment and whether the prepayment is of Eurocurrency Loans or Prime Rate
Loans, or a combination thereof, and if of a combination thereof, the amount of
prepayment allocable to each. If such notice is given, the Administrative Agent
shall thereupon transmit such notice to the Banks, the Company shall make such
prepayment to the Administrative Agent for the accounts of the Banks, and the
prepayment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date
specified therein, together with accrued interest to such date on the amount
prepaid. Partial prepayments shall be in an amount equal to $100,000 or a whole
multiple thereof and may only be made if, after giving effect thereto, Section
2.7 shall not have been contravened, and each partial prepayment shall be
allocated among the Banks, in proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the
respective unpaid principal amount of each Bank's Revolving Credit Note, with
adjustments to the extent practical to equalize any prior prepayments not
exactly in proportion.
2.10. REPAYMENT OF LOANS. The Company will pay to the Administrative
Agent for the accounts of the Banks the unpaid principal amount of each
Revolving Credit Loan, to the extent not converted or continued pursuant to
Section 2.6, on the last day of the Interest Period therefor. On the Termination
Date, there shall become absolutely due and payable and the Company will pay all
of the Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, together with any and all accrued and
unpaid interest thereon.
SECTION 3. SWING LINE FACILITY
3.1. THE SWING LINE LOANS. Subject to the terms and conditions
hereinafter set forth, upon notice by the Company made to the Swing Line Bank in
accordance with Section 3.2 hereof, the Swing Line Bank agrees to lend to the
Company Swing Line Loans on any Business Day during the Commitment Period in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000 (the "Maximum Swing Line
Loan Amount"). Each Swing Line Loan shall be in such minimum amount as
determined by the Swing Line Bank. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Agreement and in addition to the limit set forth above, (a) at no time shall the
aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Swing Line Loans exceed the Total
Commitment of the Banks then in effect minus the aggregate principal amount of
all Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, provided however that, subject to the
limitations set forth in this Section, from time to time the sum of the
aggregate outstanding Swing Line Loans plus all outstanding Revolving Credit
Loans made by the Swing Line Bank may exceed the Swing Line Bank's Commitment
then in effect.
3.2. NOTICE OF BORROWING. When the Company desires the Swing Line
Bank to make a Swing Line Loan, it shall give to the Administrative Agent and
the Swing Line Bank irrevocable notice (a "SL Loan Request"), which notice must
be in writing (or by confirmed electronic communication or by telephone
confirmed in writing), and which shall set forth the principal amount of the
proposed Swing Line Loan and the date on which the proposed Swing Line Loan
would mature (the "Swing Line Loan Maturity Date") which shall be not earlier
than the first day after the Borrowing Date nor later than the third day after
the Borrowing Date thereof, and in no event shall be later than the last day of
the Commitment Period. Each such Loan request must be received by the Swing Line
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Bank not later than 3:00 p.m. (Boston time) on the date of the proposed
borrowing. Each Swing Line Loan request shall be irrevocable and binding on the
Company and shall obligate the Company to borrow the Swing Line Loan from the
Borrowing Date thereof. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth
in this Agreement, on the proposed Borrowing Date the Swing Line Bank shall make
the Swing Line Loan available to the Company by 5:00 p.m. (Boston time) on the
proposed Borrowing Date by crediting the amount of the Swing Line Loan to the
Company's account maintained with the Administrative Agent at the Head Office;
provided that the Swing Line Bank shall not advance any Swing Line Loans after
it has received notice that a Default or Event of Default has occurred and has
not been cured or waived in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
The Swing Line Bank shall not be obligated to make any Swing Line Loans at any
time when any Bank is a Delinquent Bank unless the Swing Line Bank has entered
into arrangements satisfactory to it to eliminate the Swing Line Bank's risk
with respect to such Delinquent Bank, including by cash collateralizing such
Delinquent Bank's Commitment Percentage of the outstanding Swing Line Loans and
any such additional Swing Line Loans to be made.
3.3. INTEREST ON SWING LINE LOANS. Each Swing Line Loan shall bear
interest from the Borrowing Date thereof until the Swing Line Loan Maturity Date
thereof at the rate quoted by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion
(which shall not be greater than the then applicable Prime Rate) at the time the
request for such Swing Line Loan is made.
3.4. REPAYMENT OF SWING LINE LOANS. The Company shall repay each
outstanding Swing Line Loan on the Swing Line Loan Maturity Date. Upon notice by
the Swing Line Bank on any Business Day, the Company shall be deemed irrevocably
to have requested, and each of the Banks hereby agrees to make, a Revolving
Credit Loan bearing interest at the Prime Rate to the Company on the next
succeeding Business Day following such notice, in an amount equal to such Bank's
Commitment Percentage of the aggregate amount of all Swing Line Loans
outstanding. The proceeds thereof shall be applied directly to repay the Swing
Line Bank for such outstanding Swing Line Loans. In the event that it is
impracticable for such Revolving Credit Loan to be made for any reason on the
date otherwise required above, then each Bank hereby agrees that it shall
forthwith purchase (as of the date such Revolving Credit Loan would have been
made, but adjusted for any payments received from the Company on or after such
date and prior to such purchase) from the Swing Line Bank, and the Swing Line
Bank shall sell to each Bank, such participations in the Swing Line Loans
(including all accrued and unpaid interest thereon) outstanding as shall be
necessary to cause the Banks to share in such Swing Line Loans pro rata based on
their respective Commitment Percentages by making available to the Swing Line
Bank an amount equal to such Bank's participation in the Swing Line Loans;
provided that all interest payable on the Swing Line Loans shall be for the
account of the Swing Line Bank as a funding and administrative fee until the
date as of which the respective participation is purchased. The obligation of
each Bank to make such Revolving Credit Loan, or as the case may be to purchase
such participation in a Swing Line Loan, upon one Business Day's notice as set
forth above, is absolute, unconditional and irrevocable notwithstanding (i) that
the amount of such Loan may not comply with the applicable minimums set forth in
Section 2.3 hereof, (ii) the failure of the Company to meet the conditions set
forth in Section 6 hereof, (iii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or
an Event of Default hereunder, (iv) the date of such Revolving Credit Loan or
participation, and (v) the Commitment of the Swing Line Bank in effect at such
time.
3.5. THE SWING LINE NOTE. The obligation of the Company to repay the
Swing Line Loans made pursuant to this Agreement and to pay interest thereon as
set forth in this Agreement shall be evidenced by a promissory note of the
Company with appropriate insertions substantially in the form of Exhibit B
attached hereto (the "Swing Line Note"), of even date herewith and payable to
the order of the Swing Line Bank in a principal amount stated to be the lesser
of (i) the Maximum Swing Line Loan Amount, or (ii) the aggregate principal
amount of Swing Line Loans at any time advanced by the Swing Line Bank and
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outstanding thereunder. The Company irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Bank
to make or cause to be made, at or about the time of the Borrowing Date of any
Swing Line Loan or at the time of receipt of any payment of principal on the
Swing Line Note, an appropriate notation on the Note Record reflecting the
making of such Swing Line Loan or (as the case may be) the receipt of such
payment. The outstanding amount of the Swing Line Loans set forth on such Note
Record shall be prima facie evidence of the principal amount thereof owing and
unpaid to the Swing Line Bank, but the failure to record, or any error in so
recording, any such amount on such Note Record shall not limit or otherwise
affect the actual amount of the obligations of the Company hereunder or under
the Swing Line Note to make payments of principal of or interest on the Swing
Line Note when due.
SECTION 4. CERTAIN GENERAL PROVISIONS
4.1. USE OF PROCEEDS. The Company shall use the proceeds of the Loans
to refinance existing debt set forth on Schedule 4.1 and for general corporate
purposes in the ordinary course of its business. No part of the proceeds of any
Loans hereunder will be used (a) for "purchasing" or "carrying" any "margin
security" or "margin stock" within the respective meanings of each of the quoted
terms under Regulations U and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System as now and from time to time hereafter in effect unless (i) the Company
shall have theretofore furnished to the Banks a statement on Federal Reserve
Form U-1 with respect to such Loans or (ii) not more than 25% of the value of
the assets of either the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, respectively, is represented by "margin stock" as so
defined, or (b) for any purpose which violates, or which would be inconsistent
with, the provisions of the Regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
4.2. FACILITY FEE. The Company agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent for the accounts of the Banks in accordance with their respective
Commitment Percentages a facility fee (the "Facility Fee") calculated at the
Facility Fee Rate (as set forth in the Applicable Pricing) on the amount of the
Total Commitment, payable quarterly in arrears on each June 30, September 30,
December 31 and March 31, and the Termination Date or such earlier date as the
Commitment shall terminate as provided herein (without regard to whether any
Loans by any of the Banks is or have been outstanding and whether the
availability of any Bank's Commitment is or has been reduced by outstanding
Swing Line Loans).
4.3. AGENTS' FEES. The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent,
on the date hereof, an Administrative Agent's closing fee and on each
anniversary of such date, up to but not including the Termination Date or such
earlier date as the Commitment shall terminate as provided herein, an
administration fee, in each case for the Administrative Agent's own account, as
set forth in a certain letter agreement between the Company and the
Administrative Agent dated March 24, 2000. The Company shall pay to the
Syndication Agent a fee as set forth in a certain letter agreement between the
Company and the Syndication Agent.
4.4. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST AND FEES. (a) Interest in respect of
Prime Rate Loans shall be calculated on the basis of a 365-day year for the
actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last
day). Facility Fees and interest in respect of Eurocurrency Loans and Swing Line
Loans shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual number
of days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify
the Company and the Banks of each determination of a Eurocurrency Rate. Any
change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the Prime Rate
shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such
change in the Prime Rate is announced. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as
practicable notify the Company of the effective date and the amount of each such
change. The outstanding amount of the Loans as reflected on the Administrative
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Agent's records from time to time shall be considered correct and binding on the
Company and the Banks unless within five Business Days after receipt of any
notice by the Administrative Agent of such outstanding amount, the Company or
any of the Banks, as the case may be, shall notify the Administrative Agent to
the contrary.
(b) Each determination of an interest rate by the Administrative
Agent pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and
binding on the Company in the absence of manifest error. The Administrative
Agent shall, at the request of the Company, deliver to the Company a statement
showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any
interest rate pursuant to Section 2.4(a).
4.5. INABILITY TO DETERMINE INTEREST RATE. In the event that the
Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be
conclusive and binding upon the Company) that, (i) by reason of circumstances
affecting the Eurocurrency Interbank Markets, adequate and reasonable means do
not exist for ascertaining the Eurocurrency Rate applicable pursuant to Section
2.4(a) for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Loan that
the Company has requested be made as a Eurocurrency Loan, or (ii) deposits of
Dollars or the relevant Optional Currency, as the case may be, for the relevant
Interest Period are not available to the Administrative Agent or the Banks in
any Eurocurrency Interbank Market, or (iii) the Eurocurrency Rate determined or
to be determined for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect
the cost to the Banks of making or maintaining their Eurocurrency Loans during
such period, then the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give notice to the
Company and the Banks (by telex, telecopy or other confirmed electronic
communication) of such determination, which shall be conclusive and binding on
the Company and the Banks. In such event (a) any Loan Request or Conversion
Request with respect to Eurocurrency Loans shall be automatically withdrawn and,
in the case of Loans denominated in Dollars, shall be deemed a request for Prime
Rate Loans; (b) each Eurocurrency Loan will automatically, on the last day of
the then current Interest Period relating thereto, if denominated in Dollars,
become a Prime Rate Loan and, if denominated in any Optional Currency, be
repaid; and (c) the obligations of the Banks to make Eurocurrency Loans, or
Eurocurrency Loans denominated in such Optional Currency (as the case may be),
shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent or the Majority Banks
determines that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer
exist, whereupon the Administrative Agent or, as the case may be, the
Administrative Agent upon the instruction of the Majority Banks, shall so notify
the Company and the Banks.
4.6. OVERDUE AMOUNTS; INTEREST PAYMENTS.
(a) Overdue principal of any Loan and (to the extent permitted by
law) overdue interest on the Loans and all other overdue amounts payable
hereunder shall, without limiting any rights of the Administrative Agent under
Section 9, bear interest at a rate per annum which is 2% above the Prime Rate
until paid in full (after as well as before judgment).
(b) Interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each
Interest Payment Date with respect thereto and after the occurrence of any Event
of Default, shall be payable upon demand.
4.7. PAYMENTS. All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the
Company on account of principal, interest and fees shall be made without set off
or counterclaim, shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the accounts of
the Banks at the Administrative Agent's office set forth in Section 12.2 in Same
Day Funds, and shall be paid, if in respect of any Eurocurrency Loan denominated
in an Optional Currency, in the same currency, and otherwise in lawful money of
the United States of America. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on
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the Eurocurrency Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business
Day, such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and,
with respect to payments of principal, interest thereon shall be payable at the
Prime Rate. If any payment on a Eurocurrency Loan becomes due and payable on a
day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the
next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to
extend such payment into another calendar month in which event such payment
shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.
4.8. FOREIGN TAXES. All payments made by the Company under this
Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without reduction for or on
account of, any present or future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts,
duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed,
levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority excluding
income and franchise taxes of the United States of America or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (including Puerto Rico), and
the country in which the Administrative Agent's Eurocurrency Lending Office is
located or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein
(such non-excluded taxes being herein called "Foreign Taxes"). If any Foreign
Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Banks
hereunder or under the Notes, the amounts so payable to the Banks shall be
increased to the extent necessary to yield to the Banks (after payment of all
Foreign Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates
or in the amounts specified in this Agreement and the Notes. Whenever any
Foreign Tax is payable by the Company, as promptly as possible thereafter, the
Company shall send to the Administrative Agent a certified copy of an original
official receipt showing payment thereof. If the Company fails to pay any
Foreign Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to
the Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary
evidence, the Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Banks for
any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the
Banks as a result of any such failure.
4.9. ILLEGALITY. Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, (i) if
any Requirement of Law enacted after the date hereof, or (ii) if any change in
the interpretation or application of any Requirement of Law as in effect on the
date hereof, shall make it unlawful for the Banks to make or maintain
Eurocurrency Loans, or to make or maintain any Eurocurrency Loans denominated in
an Optional Currency, as contemplated by this Agreement, then as applicable: (a)
the Commitment to make Eurocurrency Loans, or as the case may be to make
Eurocurrency Loans denominated in such Optional Currency, shall forthwith be
cancelled, (b) the Loans then outstanding as Eurocurrency Loans denominated in
Dollars, if any, shall be repaid on the last day of the Interest Period
therefor, or within such earlier period as required by law, and reborrowed as
Prime Rate Loans, and (c) the Eurocurrency Loans then outstanding and
denominated in such Optional Currency, if any, shall be repaid on the last day
of each Interest Period applicable to such Eurocurrency Loans or within such
earlier period as may be required by law. If any such prepayment of a
Eurocurrency Loan is made on a day which is not the last day of the Interest
Period therefor, the Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
accounts of the Banks such amounts, if any, as may be required pursuant to
Section 4.11.
4.10. ADDITIONAL COSTS, ETC.
(a) In the event that any Requirement of Law or any change therein or
in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Bank with any
request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central
bank or other Governmental Authority or any agency or instrumentality thereof:
(i) does or shall subject any Bank to any tax of any kind whatsoever
other than taxes imposed on or measured by the net income or any franchise taxes
imposed in lieu of a tax on or measured by net income of such Bank or any
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Participant (such non-excluded items being hereinafter referred to as "Taxes")
with respect to this Agreement, the Notes or any Loans made hereunder, or
changes the basis of taxation of payments to such Bank of principal, Facility
Fees, interest or any other amount payable hereunder (except for changes in the
rate of tax on the overall net income of such Bank);
(ii) does or shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve,
special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by,
or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances or loans by,
or other credit extended by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of
such Bank which are not otherwise included in the determination of the
Eurocurrency Rate; or
(iii) does or shall impose on such Bank any other condition;
and the result of any of the foregoing is, in respect of Eurocurrency Loans, to
increase the cost to such Bank of making, renewing or maintaining Loans or
extensions of credit hereunder or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder,
then the Company shall promptly pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account
of such Bank, upon demand, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such
Bank for such additional cost or reduced amount receivable which such Bank deems
to be material as determined by such Bank with respect to such Eurocurrency
Loans. If such Bank becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to
this subsection, it shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent which will
promptly notify the Company of the event by reason of which such Bank has become
so entitled. A statement as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to the
foregoing sentence submitted by the Administrative Agent to the Company shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the
termination of this Agreement and payment of the Notes.
(b) If any change in, or the introduction, adoption, effectiveness,
interpretation, reinterpretation or phase-in of, any law or regulation,
directive, guideline, decision or request (whether or not having the force of
law) of any court, central bank, regulator or other Governmental Authority
affects or would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be
maintained by any Bank or any corporation controlling any Bank, and such Bank
determines (in its sole and absolute discretion) that the rate of return on such
Bank's or such controlling corporation's capital as a consequence of its
obligation hereunder is reduced to a level below that which such Bank or such
controlling corporation could have achieved but for the occurrence of any such
circumstance, then, in any such case, upon the notice from time to time by the
Administrative Agent or such Bank to the Company, the Company shall pay to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of such Bank, on demand, any additional
amount or amounts as may be sufficient to compensate such Bank or such
controlling corporation for such reduction in rate of return. A statement of the
Administrative Agent or such Bank as to any such additional amount or amounts
(including calculations thereof in reasonable detail) shall, in the absence of
manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Company. In determining such
amount or amounts, such Bank may use any method of averaging and attribution
that it (in its sole and absolute discretion) shall deem applicable. This
covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and payment of the
Notes.
(c) Any Foreign Recipient, no later than the date of the initial Loan
(or the date of assignment or transfer, as the case may be) and, subject to
clause (e) below, annually (or at such other times as the Company may reasonably
request) thereafter, shall timely deliver two accurate and complete signed
originals of either of Internal Revenue W-8BEN or W-8ECI (or any successor of
such form) to the Company (or in the case of a Participant which holds a
participation interest which it acquired from any Bank, to such Bank which shall
provide copies thereof to the Company), in either case, indicating that all
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payments by the Company of principal of, and interest on, the Loans and all
other amounts payable hereunder to such Foreign Recipient may be made free and
clear of, and without deduction for, any United States withholding tax. In
addition, if required under statute, treaty, regulation, or administrative
practice of the United States, the Foreign Recipient that is claiming exemption
from U.S. withholding tax under a treaty agrees to provide the Company with
proof of tax residence in the applicable country by providing a certified
taxpayer identification number (TIN), a certificate of residence or other
documentary evidence. The obligation to deliver forms set forth in the preceding
sentence shall not apply for any period during which any change in law or
circumstance shall have eliminated any and all obligations imposed on the
Company to withhold or deduct United States withholding tax in respect of
payments made by the Company hereunder; provided that the Foreign Recipient has
complied with all requirements, if any, imposed by statute, treaty, regulation
or administrative practice of the United States necessary to eliminate such
obligation to withhold by the Company.
(d) The Company shall not be required to pay any additional amounts
to a Foreign Recipient in respect of United States withholding tax pursuant to
Section 4.08 or this Section 4.10 if the obligation to pay such additional
amounts would not have arisen but for a failure by such Foreign Recipient to
comply with the provisions of Section 4.10(c) for any reason (including a change
in circumstances that renders such Foreign Recipient unable to so comply) other
than (x) a change in applicable law, regulation or official interpretation
thereof or (y) an amendment, modification or revocation of any applicable tax
treaty or a change in official position regarding the application or
interpretation thereof, in each case after the date hereof (and in the case of a
Participant, after the date of assignment or transfer). In no event, however,
will the Company be required to pay additional amounts if any obligation to pay
such additional amounts would not have arisen but for the failure of the Foreign
Recipient to comply with any requirement under a statute, treaty, regulations,
or administrative practice of the United States to establish exemption from all
or part of the tax in respect of which the additional amount would otherwise be
paid.
(e) If, solely as a result of an event described in clause (x) or (y)
of Section 4.10(d), after the date hereof (or, in the case of a Participant,
after the date of assignment or transfer), (i) any Foreign Recipient is unable
to furnish the Company with a form otherwise required to be delivered by it
pursuant to Section 4.10(c), or (ii) any Bank or any Foreign Recipient makes any
payment or becomes liable to make any payment on account of any Taxes, other
than a United States withholding tax, with respect to payments by the Company
hereunder, the Company may, at its option, either (x) prepay the Loans held by
such Bank (or such Foreign Recipient) or (y) continue to make payments to the
Administrative Agent on behalf of such Bank or such Foreign Recipient under the
terms of this Agreement and the Notes, which payments shall be made in
accordance with the provisions hereof if the condition set forth in the next
succeeding sentence is satisfied. If the Company exercises its option under
clause (y) of the preceding sentence, the Company's obligation to make payments
to the Administrative Agent on behalf of such Bank (or such Foreign Recipient)
under the terms of this Agreement and the Notes without deduction for Taxes
shall be conditioned on such Bank (or such Foreign Recipient), prior to the time
that the next payment under the Notes is due (and thereafter as is required by
applicable law), having furnished the Company with such certificate as may be
required, and having taken such other steps as reasonably may be available to
it, under applicable tax laws and any applicable tax treaty or convention to
obtain an exemption from, or reduction (to the lowest applicable rate) of, such
Taxes.
4.11. INDEMNITY. The Company agrees to indemnify each Bank and to
hold each Bank harmless from and against any loss, cost or expense or loss of
margin that such Bank may sustain or incur as a consequence of (i) default by
the Company in payment of the principal amount of or any interest on any
Eurocurrency Loans as and when due and payable, including any such loss or
expense arising from interest or fees payable by such Bank to lenders of funds
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obtained by it in order to maintain its Eurocurrency Loans, (ii) default by the
Company in making a borrowing or conversion after the Company has given (or is
deemed to have given) a Loan Request or Conversion Request in accordance with
Sections 2.3 and 2.6 hereof, (iii) default by the Company in making any
prepayment of a Loan after the Company has given a notice in accordance with
Section 2.9 hereof or (iv) the making of any payment of a Eurocurrency Loan
(including, without limitation, any prepayment made as a result of action taken
under Section 4.9 or as a result of the Administrative Agent's exercise of
rights under Section 9 hereof) on a day that is not the last day of the
applicable Interest Period with respect thereto, or the making of any payment on
a Swing Line Loan on a day other than the maturity date thereof, including (in
the case of either such Eurocurrency Loan or Swing Line Loan payments) interest
or fees payable by such Bank to lenders of funds obtained by it in order to
maintain any such Loans. This covenant shall survive termination of this
Agreement and payment of the Notes.
SECTION 5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Banks to enter into this Agreement and to make the
Loans herein provided for, the Company hereby covenants, represents and warrants
to the Banks that:
5.1. FINANCIAL CONDITION. The consolidated balance sheet of the
Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at December 31, 1999, and the
related consolidated statements of income, statements of changes in shareholders
equity and statements of cash flows for the fiscal year ended on such date,
certified by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, copies of which have heretofore been
furnished to the Banks, are complete and correct and present fairly in
accordance with GAAP the consolidated financial condition of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as at such date, and the consolidated results of their
operations and changes in cash flows for the fiscal year then ended. All such
financial statements, including the related schedules and notes thereto, have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied consistently with the preceding
year.
5.2. NO CHANGE. Except as set forth in the filings of the Company
with the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to the date hereof, copies of
which have been delivered to the Banks, since December 31, 1999 there has been
no material adverse change in the business, operations, assets or financial or
other condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
5.3. CORPORATE EXISTENCE; COMPLIANCE WITH LAW. Each of the Company
and its Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, (b) has the
corporate power and authority and the legal right to own and operate its
property, to lease the property it operates and to conduct the business in which
it is currently engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation and in
good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or
operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification, except in those jurisdictions in which the failure to be so
qualified or in good standing would not be reasonably likely to have a material
adverse effect upon the business, operations or condition, financial or
otherwise, of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and (d) is in
compliance with all Requirements of Law, except (with reference to each of
clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) above) to the extent that the failure to comply
therewith would not, in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to have a material
adverse effect on the business, operations, property or financial or other
condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and would not be
reasonably likely to have a material adverse affect on the ability of the
Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement and the Notes.
5.4. CORPORATE POWER; AUTHORIZATION; ENFORCEABLE OBLIGATIONS. The
Company has the corporate power and authority and the legal right to make,
deliver and perform this Agreement and the Notes and to borrow hereunder and has
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taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the borrowings on the terms
and conditions of this Agreement and the Notes and to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Notes. No consent or
authorization of, filing with, or other act by or in respect of any Governmental
Authority, is required in connection with the borrowings hereunder or with the
execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement
or the Notes. This Agreement has been, and the Notes will be, duly executed and
delivered on behalf of the Company and this Agreement constitutes, and the Notes
when executed and delivered will constitute, legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with
their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement
of creditors' rights generally.
5.5. NO LEGAL BAR. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the Notes, the borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds
thereof, (a) will not violate any Requirement of Law, (b) will not violate any
Contractual Obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (c) will
not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of its
or their respective properties or revenues pursuant to any Requirement of Law or
Contractual Obligation, except in the case of clauses (b) and (c) any
contractual violations and/or Liens which in the aggregate would not be
reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the business, operations,
property or financial or other condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries
taken as a whole and would not be reasonably likely to have a material adverse
affect on the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this
Agreement and the Notes.
5.6. NO MATERIAL LITIGATION. Except as set forth in the filings of
the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which have
been delivered to the Banks, no litigation, investigation or proceeding of or
before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge
of the Company, threatened by or against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
or against any of its or their respective properties or revenues (a) with
respect to this Agreement or the Notes or any of the transactions contemplated
hereby, or (b) which would be reasonably likely to result in any material
adverse change in the business, operations, property or financial or other
condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
5.7. NO DEFAULT. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is
in default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation in any respect
which would be reasonably likely to be materially adverse to the business,
operations, property or financial or other condition of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or which would be reasonably likely to materially
adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under
this Agreement and the Notes. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing.
5.8. OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY; LIENS. Each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (a) has good record and marketable title in fee simple to or valid
leasehold interests in all its real property, and good title to all its other
property (except that such representation is not made for any such property with
a book value of $1,000,000 or less provided that the aggregate book value of
such property for which such representation is not made shall not exceed
$10,000,000), and (b) none of such property is subject to any Lien, except as
permitted in Section 8.4, except (with reference to clauses (a) and (b)) any
defects in title or Liens which in the aggregate would not be reasonably likely
to have a material adverse effect on the business, operations, property or
financial or other condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole and would not be reasonably likely to have a material adverse affect on
the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement and
the Notes.
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5.9. NO BURDENSOME RESTRICTIONS. No Contractual Obligation of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries and no Requirement of Law materially
adversely affects, or insofar as the Company may reasonably foresee may so
affect, the business, operations, property or financial or other condition of
the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
5.10. TAXES. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has filed or
caused to be filed all tax returns which to the knowledge of the Company are
required to be filed, and has paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on said
returns or on any assessments made against it or any of its property and all
other taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or any of its property by any
Governmental Authority (other than (i) those the amount or validity of which is
currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with
respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided on the
books of the Company or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be or (ii) those which
if not paid would not, either individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably
likely to have a material adverse effect upon the business, operations, property
or financial or other condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole); and no tax liens have been filed (other than those which, if foreclosed,
would not, either individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to have
a material adverse effect upon the business, operations, property or financial
or other condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole) and, to
the knowledge of the Company, no claims are being asserted with respect to any
such taxes, fees or other charges.
5.11. FEDERAL REGULATIONS. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important
activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of "purchasing"
or "carrying" any "margin stock" within the respective meanings of each of the
quoted terms under Regulations U and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System as now and from time to time hereafter in effect. No part of the
proceeds of any Loans hereunder will be used (a) for "purchasing" or "carrying"
"margin stock" as so defined unless (i) the Company shall have theretofore
furnished to the Banks a statement on Federal Reserve Form U-1 with respect to
such Loans or (ii) not more than 25% of the value of the assets of either the
Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis,
respectively, is represented by "margin stock" as so defined, or (b) for any
purpose which violates, or which would be inconsistent with, the provisions of
the Regulations of such Board of Governors.
5.12. ERISA. As of December 31, 1999 the actuarially determined
aggregate amount of unfunded vested benefits under the Plans administered by the
Company and its Subsidiaries, determined on an ongoing plan basis, was less than
$1,000,000. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all
applicable provisions of ERISA except for any noncompliance which, either
individually or in the aggregate with all other instances of such noncompliance,
would not be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect upon the
business, operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
5.13. INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT. The Company is not an "investment
company" or a company "controlled" by an "investment company", within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
5.14. FULL DISCLOSURE. Neither this Agreement nor any other
certificate, report, statement or other writing furnished to the Administrative
Agent or the Banks by the Company in connection with the negotiation of this
Agreement, at the time of execution or delivery, contained any untrue fact or
omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained herein
or therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
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5.15. CERTAIN CONTINGENT OBLIGATIONS. As of January 1, 2000, each of
CLIC and WMAC Credit has assets in excess of its liabilities. The guaranties or
indemnification undertakings given by CLIC and/or WMAC Credit referenced in the
definition of Contingent Obligation are obligations of CLIC or WMAC Credit, as
the case may be, without recourse to the Company.
5.16. ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE. With respect to the Real Estate and
operations thereon by the Company or its Subsidiaries, and except as set forth
on Schedule 5.16, to the knowledge of the Company:
(a) none of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any operator of the Real
Estate which is a Subsidiary, has received any written notice from any
Governmental Authority of any actual or alleged violation of any Environmental
Laws which has not heretofore been resolved, which violation would be reasonably
likely to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets or financial
condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(b) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any
written notice from any Governmental Authority or other third party (i) that any
one of them is currently identified by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency as a potentially responsible party under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended,
with respect to a site listed on the National Priorities List, 40 C.F.R. Part
300 Appendix B, or that any of them is currently identified as a potentially
responsible party for environmental damage under any state or local
Environmental Laws; (ii) that any Hazardous Substances which any one of them has
generated, transported or disposed of has been found at any site at which a
federal, state or local governmental agency has conducted or has ordered that
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries conduct a remedial investigation, removal
or other response action pursuant to any Environmental Law and which has not
heretofore been resolved or from which the Company or its Subsidiaries have not
heretofore been dismissed; or (iii) that it is currently a named party to any
claim, action, cause of action, complaint, or legal or administrative proceeding
(in each case, contingent or otherwise) arising out of any third party's
incurrence of costs, expenses, losses or damages of any kind whatsoever in
connection with the release of Hazardous Substances and which would be
reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets or
financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; and
(c) in the conduct of its business by the Company and its
Subsidiaries, the Company or its Subsidiaries have exercised reasonable
diligence in taking appropriate measures so that no Hazardous Substances are
generated, stored, used or disposed of except in material compliance with
applicable Environmental Laws.
5.17. NONRECOURSE INDEBTEDNESS. Schedule 5.17 sets forth, as of
December 31, 1999, the aggregate outstanding amount on a consolidated basis of
the Nonrecourse Debt.
SECTION 6. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
6.1. CONDITIONS OF INITIAL LOAN. The obligation of the Banks to make
Loans hereunder on the first Borrowing Date is subject to the satisfaction of
the following conditions precedent:
(a) Loan Documents. This Agreement shall have been duly executed and
delivered to the Administrative Agent by the respective parties and shall be in
full force and effect. The Administrative Agent shall have received each of the
Notes, conforming to the requirements hereof and executed by a duly authorized
officer of the Company.
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(b) Legal Opinion. The Banks shall have received an opinion addressed
to the Administrative Agent and the Banks of Weil, Gotshal & Xxxxxx LLP, counsel
to the Company, dated the first Borrowing Date, substantially in the form of
Exhibit C. Such opinion shall also cover such other matters incident to the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement as the Administrative Agent shall
reasonably require.
(c) Payment of Existing Notes, Etc. The Administrative Agent shall
have received evidence in form and substance satisfactory to it that the
principal of and interest on the notes and all other obligations and liabilities
of the Company under the credit agreements listed on Schedule 4.1 shall have
been paid in full or discharged; and each of the Banks holding notes of the
Company evidencing Indebtedness to be paid off listed on Schedule 4.1 shall have
returned such notes to the Company or other arrangements satisfactory to the
Company have been made with respect thereto.
(d) Officer's Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have
received an Officer's Certificate dated the first Borrowing Date, substantially
in the form of Exhibit D, with appropriate insertions and attachments
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel, executed by the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company.
(e) Additional Matters. All other documents and legal matters in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be
satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
6.2. CONDITIONS TO ALL LOANS. The obligation of the Banks to make any
Loans to be made by them hereunder (including the initial Loans) is subject to
the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent on the relevant Borrowing
Date:
(a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and
warranties contained in Section 5 shall be correct on and as of the Borrowing
Date for such Loan with the same effect as if made on and as of such date.
(b) No Existing Default. No Default, Event of Default or Terminating
Event shall have occurred and be continuing hereunder on the Borrowing Date with
respect to such Loan or after giving effect to the Loans to be made on such
Borrowing Date.
Each borrowing by the Company hereunder shall constitute a
representation and warranty by the Company hereunder as of the date of each such
borrowing that the conditions in clauses (a) and (b) of this Section applicable
thereto have been satisfied.
SECTION 7. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
The Company hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitment remains in
effect, any Note remains outstanding and unpaid or any other amount is owing to
any of the Banks hereunder, the Company shall, and in the case of the agreements
set forth in Sections 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries to:
7.1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. Furnish to each of the Banks:
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within one hundred days
after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a copy of (i) the consolidated
balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of
such year and the related consolidated statements of income, statements of
change in shareholder equity and statements of cash flows for such year, setting
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forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year,
certified, without a going concern or like qualification or exception arising
out of the scope of the audit, by independent certified public accountants of
nationally recognized standing not unacceptable to the Administrative Agent,
(ii) the consolidating balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year and the related consolidating
statements of income for such fiscal year, showing in each case inter-company
eliminations, certified by a Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all
material respects when considered in relation to the consolidated financial
statements of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
and
(b) as soon as available, but in any event not later than fifty-five
days after the end of each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal
year of the Company, (i) the Company's quarterly report to shareholders on Form
10-Q, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, certified by a
Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject to
normal year-end audit adjustments) and (ii) the consolidating balance sheet of
the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of each such quarter, showing
inter-company eliminations, and the related consolidating statements of income,
showing inter-company eliminations, certified by a Responsible Officer as being
fairly stated in all material respects;
all such financial statements to be prepared in accordance with GAAP applied
consistently throughout the periods reflected therein except as approved by such
accountants or Responsible Officer, as the case may be, and disclosed therein.
7.2. CERTIFICATES; OTHER INFORMATION. Furnish to each of the Banks:
(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements
referred to in Section 7.1(a) above, a certificate of the independent certified
public accountants certifying such financial statements stating that in making
the examination necessary therefor no knowledge was obtained of any Default or
Event of Default, except as specified in such certificate;
(b) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements
referred to in Sections 7.1(a) and (b) above, a certificate of a Responsible
Officer (i) stating that, to the best of such officer's knowledge, the Company
during such period has observed or performed all of its covenants and other
agreements, and satisfied every condition contained in this Agreement and in the
Notes to be observed, performed or satisfied by it, and that such officer has
obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as specified in
such certificate, and (ii) showing in detail the calculations supporting such
statement in respect of Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.8, and 8.9;
(c) within ten days after the same are sent, copies of all financial
statements and reports which the Company sends to its stockholders, and within
ten days after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements and
reports which the Company may make to, or file with, the Securities and Exchange
Commission or any successor or analogous Governmental Authority;
(d) as soon as available, but in any event within thirty days after
filing with the appropriate insurance department, the annual statements for each
Insurance Subsidiary as filed with the insurance department in its state of
domicile, provided that the Company shall deliver one copy thereof to the
Administrative Agent who shall make such copy available upon request to the
Banks, and upon request by any Bank the Company shall deliver additional copies
thereof to such Bank; and
(e) promptly, any such additional financial and other information as
the Administrative Agent or any Bank may from time to time reasonably request.
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7.3. PAYMENT OF OBLIGATIONS. Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at
or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all its
Indebtedness and other obligations of whatever nature, except (a) when the
amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect
thereto have been provided on the books of the Company or its Subsidiaries, as
the case may be, or (b) where the failure so to pay, discharge or satisfy would
not be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the business,
operations, property or financial or other condition of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole; provided that for purposes of this Section 7.3,
the term "Indebtedness" shall not include any Nonrecourse Debt.
7.4. CONDUCT OF BUSINESS, AND MAINTENANCE OF EXISTENCE. (a) Continue
to engage in business of the same general type as now conducted by it, and
preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and
take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises
necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, provided, however,
that a Permitted Distribution shall not be prohibited or limited by this Section
7.4 and further provided that, subject to Section 8 hereof, this Section 7.4
shall not prohibit the Company or any Subsidiary from taking any action if such
action would not reasonably be likely to have a material adverse effect upon the
business, operations, property or financial or other condition of the Company
and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (b) comply with all Contractual
Obligations and Requirements of Law except to the extent that the failure to
comply therewith would not be reasonably likely to, in the aggregate, have a
material adverse effect on the business, operations, property or financial or
other condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
7.5. MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTY, INSURANCE. Keep all property useful and
necessary in its business in good working order and condition, except where the
failure to comply herewith would not be reasonably likely to have a material
adverse effect on the business, operations, property, or financial or other
condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; to the extent
obtainable on terms which its management deems reasonable, maintain with
financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all its
property against such casualties and contingencies and in such types and amounts
as, in the judgment of its executive officers, is deemed adequate; and furnish
to the Administrative Agent, upon written request, full information as to the
insurance carried.
7.6. INSPECTION OF PROPERTY; BOOKS AND RECORDS; DISCUSSIONS. Keep
proper books of record and account in which entries, which are accurate and
complete in all material respects, in conformity with GAAP and Requirements of
Law shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business
and activities; and permit the Banks, through the Administrative Agent or any of
their designated representatives, to visit and inspect any of its properties and
examine and make abstracts from any of its books and records at any reasonable
time and as often as may reasonably be desired, and to discuss the business,
investments, operations, properties and financial and other condition of the
Company and its Subsidiaries with officers and employees of the Company and its
Subsidiaries and with its independent certified public accountants.
7.7. NOTICES. Promptly give notice in writing to each of the Banks:
(a) of the occurrence of any Default, Terminating Event or Event of
Default;
(b) of any (i) default or event of default under any Contractual
Obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) litigation,
investigation or proceeding which may exist at any time between the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries and any Governmental Authority, which in either case
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would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the business,
operations, property or financial or other condition of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(c) if any litigation or proceeding affecting the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries in which the relief sought is $30,000,000 or more and not
covered by insurance, or in which injunctive or similar relief is sought and, if
granted, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the
business, assets, operations, financial or other condition of the Company and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(d) of the following events, as soon as possible and in any event
within 30 days after the Company knows or has reason to know thereof: (i) the
occurrence or expected occurrence of any Reportable Event with respect to any
Plan, or (ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking or expected taking of
any other action by PBGC or the Company or any Commonly Controlled Entity to
terminate, withdraw or partially withdraw from any Plan and with respect to a
Multiemployer Plan, the reorganization or insolvency of the Plan, and in
addition to such notice, deliver to each of the Banks whichever of the following
may be applicable: (A) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company
setting forth details as to such Reportable Event and the action that the
Company or Commonly Controlled Entity proposes to take with respect thereto,
together with a copy of any notice of such Reportable Event that may be required
to be filed with PBGC, or (B) any notice delivered by PBGC evidencing its intent
to institute such proceedings or any notice to PBGC that such Plan is to be
terminated, as the case may be; and
(e) of a material adverse change in the business, operations,
property or financial or other condition of the Company, or the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
Each notice pursuant to this subsection shall be accompanied by a statement of a
Responsible Officer of the Company setting forth details of the occurrence
referred to therein and stating what action the Company proposes to take with
respect thereto. For all purposes of clause (d) of this subsection, the Company
shall be deemed to have all knowledge of all facts attributable to the
administrator of such Plan.
SECTION 8. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
The Company hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitment of any Bank
remains in effect, any Note remains outstanding and unpaid or any other amount
is owing to any Bank hereunder:
8.1. TOTAL LIQUID ASSETS RATIO. At the end of any calendar quarter,
the Company will not permit the ratio of (a) Total Liquid Assets to (b) the sum
of (i) the principal of all outstanding consolidated Indebtedness due within
twelve months (excluding Indebtedness of the Company's Banking Subsidiaries),
(ii) the principal amount of all Loans outstanding under this Agreement (without
duplication of amounts included under the preceding clause (i)), and (iii)
interest accruing within the next twelve months on all outstanding consolidated
Indebtedness determined on a pro forma basis based on the interest rate or rates
on such debt in effect on the calculation date, to be less than 1 to 1.
8.2. MAINTENANCE OF CONSOLIDATED TANGIBLE NET WORTH. At any time
during each fiscal year or portion thereof commencing on the date hereof the
Company will not permit the sum of (x) Consolidated Tangible Net Worth and (y)
the outstanding principal balance of TRUPS to be less than an amount equal to
the sum of (i) $800,000,000 (the "Baseline Amount"), plus (ii) an amount equal
to the sum of 40% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (as determined in accordance with GAAP) for each prior full
calendar year commencing after December 31, 1999 (provided (A) that the amount
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determined pursuant to clause (ii) shall be equal to zero for any calendar year
for which there is a net loss and (B) that the amounts included in net income
(determined in accordance with GAAP) resulting from changes in accounting
principles to the extent that such changes increase intangibles shall not be
included in net income for purposes of this Section).
8.3. DEBT LEVERAGE RATIO. The Company will not at any time permit the
ratio of (a) Funded Debt to (b) the sum of (x) Shareholders' Equity and (y)
Funded Debt to exceed 0.5 to 1.0.
8.4. LIMITATIONS ON LIENS. The Company will not, nor shall it permit
any Subsidiary to, at any time directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or
suffer to exist, any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following ("Permitted Liens"):
(a) Liens for taxes not yet due or which are being contested in good
faith and by appropriate proceedings if adequate reserves with respect thereto
are maintained on the books of the Company or its Subsidiaries, as the case may
be, in accordance with GAAP;
(b) carriers', warehousemen's, mechanics', materialmen's, repairmen's
or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not
overdue for a period of more than 30 days or which are being contested in good
faith and by appropriate proceedings;
(c) pledges or deposits in connection with workmen's compensation,
unemployment insurance and other social security legislation;
(d) pledges or deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade
contracts (other than for borrowed money), option agreements (other than for
borrowed money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds,
performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the
ordinary course of business;
(e) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar
encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business which, in the
aggregate, are not substantial in amount, and which do not in any case
materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere
with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries;
(f) Liens described in Schedule 8.4;
(g) Liens on assets owned by the Company or any Subsidiary securing
an amount not to exceed (i) $315,000,000 in the aggregate for all such assets or
(ii) $200,000,000 in the aggregate for Liens imposed in connection with any
single transaction or related series of transactions, provided that the
aggregate book value of all assets securing such Liens shall not exceed 200% of
the aggregate amounts secured thereby;
(h) pledges or deposits effected by the Company or any Insurance
Subsidiary as a condition to obtaining or maintaining any license, permit or
authorization to transact insurance or reinsurance business;
(i) deposits with insurance regulatory authorities;
(j) Liens arising under ceding reinsurance agreements entered into by
any Insurance Subsidiary; and
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(k) Liens on cash and/or securities deposited with The Chase
Manhattan Bank ("Chase") as collateral for the standby letter of credit referred
to in Section 8.8 pursuant to the Amended and Restated Collateral Agreement
dated as of March 8, 2000 between Chase and the Company.
8.5. PROHIBITION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES. The Company will not, nor
will it permit any Subsidiary to, at any time enter into any transaction of
merger or consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve
itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or convey, sell, lease,
transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of
transactions, all or substantially all of its business or assets, except that:
(a) any Subsidiary of the Company may be merged or consolidated with
or into the Company (provided, that, the Company shall be the continuing or
surviving corporation) or with any one or more Subsidiaries of the Company;
(b) the Company or any Subsidiary may sell, lease, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or
otherwise) to the Company or any Subsidiary;
(c) the Company may, or may permit a Subsidiary to, liquidate, sell
or dispose of all or substantially all of a Subsidiary's business or assets at
any time, provided that (i) the book value of the Subsidiary business or assets
being liquidated, sold or disposed of shall not exceed 10% of the then
Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the Company, and (ii) no Default or Event of
Default then exists or shall exist after giving effect to such liquidation, sale
or disposition;
(d) for purposes of this Section, a Permitted Distribution shall not
constitute a transfer or disposition of all or substantially all of the
Company's business or assets; and
(e) a Permitted Voluntary Proceeding shall not be prohibited by this
Section 8.5.
8.6. ACQUISITIONS. The Company will not nor will it permit any
Subsidiary to agree to or effect any acquisition of the stock or assets of
another Entity other than any acquisition (a "Permitted Acquisition") satisfying
all of the following conditions:
(a) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at
the time of such acquisition or would exist after consummation of such
acquisition;
(b) if such acquisition is made by a merger, the Company or the
Subsidiary party thereto shall be the surviving entity;
(c) the board of directors and (if required by applicable law) the
shareholders, or the equivalent thereof, of the business to be acquired has
approved such acquisition and such acquisition is otherwise considered
"friendly";
(d) the business to be acquired would not subject the Administrative
Agent or any Bank to any additional regulatory or third party approvals in
connection with the exercise of its rights and remedies under this Agreement;
(e) no contingent obligations or liabilities will be incurred or
assumed in connection with such acquisition which could reasonably be expected
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to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets or financial condition
of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; and
(f) the business and assets acquired shall be acquired by the Company
or its Subsidiary, as the case may be, free and clear of all Liens other than
Permitted Liens and all Indebtedness other than Indebtedness permitted pursuant
to Section 8.9.
8.7. INVESTMENTS. The Company will not nor will it permit any
Subsidiary to make or commit to make any Investment in a single Person, other
than an Investment in any Governmental Authority of the United States of
America, in an aggregate amount exceeding the then Consolidated Tangible Net
Worth of the Company.
8.8. LIMITATION ON CONTINGENT OBLIGATIONS. The Company will not, nor
will it permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume, guarantee, endorse or
otherwise in any way be or become responsible or liable for, directly or
indirectly, or suffer to exist Contingent Obligations in an aggregate amount for
the Company and its Subsidiaries in excess of $200,000,000; provided, that such
amount shall not include the F&H Guaranty or the reimbursement obligation of the
Company in respect of a standby letter of credit issued by Chase for the benefit
of General Electric Capital Corporation in an aggregate maximum face amount of
up to $105,260,000; and provided, further, that as of any time of determination
under this Section 8.8, if the aggregate amount of any then outstanding
Contingent Obligations of the Company and/or any Subsidiary would be permitted
under Section 8.3 hereof had the amount of such Contingent Obligations been
incurred as Funded Debt, then for the purposes of this Section 8.8, only 50% of
the amount of such Contingent Obligations shall be counted towards the
$200,000,000 limitation.
8.9. LIMITATION ON SUBSIDIARY INDEBTEDNESS. At the end of any
calendar quarter commencing March 31, 2000, the Company will not permit the
aggregate Indebtedness of all of the Company's consolidated Subsidiaries to be
greater than 25% of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth at such date; provided that,
for purpose of this Section, Indebtedness of a Subsidiary shall not include:
(i) any Indebtedness outstanding at March 31, 2000;
(ii) any Indebtedness secured by Permitted Liens ;
(iii) any Indebtedness of the Company's Banking Subsidiaries;
(iv) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary the ownership of which is
acquired by the Company, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof, or which
is established by the Company after the date hereof for the purpose of acquiring
assets or equity of any Person not owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company
on the date hereof; provided, that, such Indebtedness is not guarantied by, is
not secured by assets (other than assets of such Subsidiary) of, and does not
otherwise have recourse to the Company or its assets (other than the assets of
such Subsidiary); and
(v) any Indebtedness of a Subsidiary to another Subsidiary or to the
Company.
8.10. TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES. The Company will not, nor will it
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into any
transaction or series of related transactions with any Affiliate (other than
with the Company or a directly or indirectly wholly-owned Subsidiary), including
without limitation, any loan, advance or investment or any purchase, sale, lease
or exchange of property or the rendering of any service, unless such transaction
or series of transactions is in good faith and at arm's-length and on terms
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which are at least as favorable as those available in a comparable transaction
from a Person which is not an Affiliate. Any such transaction that involves in
excess of $10,000,000 shall be approved by a majority of the independent
directors on the Board of Directors of the Company; or, in the event that at the
time of any such transaction or series of related transactions there are no
independent directors serving on the Board of Directors of the Company, such
transaction or series of related transactions shall be approved by a nationally
recognized expert with experience in appraising the terms and conditions of the
type of transaction for which approval is required.
SECTION 9. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) The Company shall fail to pay any principal of the Notes when due
in accordance with the terms thereof or hereof; or
(b) The Company shall fail to pay any interest on the Notes, any
Facility Fees, Administrative Agent's fees, Syndication Agent's fees or other
sums due hereunder or under the Notes, when the same become due in accordance
with the terms thereof or hereof, and such default shall continue unremedied for
a period of five Business Days; or
(c) Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by the Company
herein or which is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other
statement furnished at any time under or in connection with this Agreement shall
prove to have been incorrect in any material respect on or as of the date made
or deemed made; or
(d) The Company shall default in the observance or performance of any
agreement contained in Sections 7.4, 7.7 or 8; or
(e) The Company shall default in the observance or performance of any
other agreement contained in this Agreement, and such default shall continue
unremedied for a period of 30 days; or
(f) The Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) default in any
payment of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness (other than the Notes
and other than any Nonrecourse Debt) or in the payment of any Contingent
Obligation, in any case having a principal amount exceeding $30,000,000 or in
the aggregate having a principal amount exceeding $50,000,000, in either case
beyond the period of grace (not to exceed 30 days), if any, provided in the
instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness or Contingent Obligation
was created; or (ii) default in the observance or performance of any other
agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Contingent
Obligation or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or
relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect
of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or to permit the
holder or holders of such Indebtedness or beneficiary or beneficiaries of such
Contingent Obligation (or a trustee or Administrative Agent on behalf of such
holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of
notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity
or such Contingent Obligation to become payable, provided, however, that if any
such default shall occur in respect of the TRUPS, no Event of Default under this
Section 9(f) shall be deemed to have occurred (x) so long as no acceleration of
payment obligations in respect of the TRUPS shall have been declared in
accordance with the governing provisions thereof, or (y) if such acceleration
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shall have been declared, so long as the existence of such default shall be
contested in good faith by appropriate legal proceedings by the Company and/or
the issuer of the TRUPS and the enforcement of such acceleration shall be
judicially stayed pending final judgment or settlement.
(g) (i) The Company or any Subsidiary shall commence any case,
proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any
jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered
with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, rehabilitation, winding-up,
liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its
debts (and except for the commencement of a Permitted Voluntary Proceeding), or
(B) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar
official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or the Company
or any Subsidiary shall make a general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors; or (ii) there shall be commenced against the Company or any
Subsidiary any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in
clause (i) above which (A) results in the entry of an order for relief or any
such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed, undischarged or
unbonded for a period of 60 days; or (iii) there shall be commenced against the
Company or any Subsidiary any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance
of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all
or any substantial part of its assets which results in the entry of an order for
any such relief which shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or
bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or (iv) the Company
or any Subsidiary shall have taken any action indicating its consent to,
approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clause (i), (ii)
or (iii) above; or (v) the Company or any Subsidiary shall generally not, or
shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts as
they become due; or
(h) (i) Any Person shall engage in any "prohibited transaction" (as
defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) involving any Plan,
(ii) any "accumulated funding deficiency" (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA),
whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan, (iii) a Reportable
Event shall occur with respect to, or proceedings shall commence to have a
trustee appointed, or a trustee shall be appointed, to administer or to
terminate, any Single Employer Plan, which Reportable Event or institution of
proceedings is, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, likely to
result in the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, and,
in the case of a Reportable Event, the continuance of such Reportable Event
unremedied for ten days after notice of such Reportable Event pursuant to
Section 4043(a), (c) or (d) of ERISA is given or the continuance of such
proceedings for ten days after commencement thereof, as the case may be, (iv)
any Single Employer Plan shall terminate for purposes of Title V of ERISA, or
(v) any other event or condition shall occur or exist with respect to a Single
Employer Plan; and in each case in clauses (i) through (v) above, such event or
condition, together with all other such events or conditions, if any, could
subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any tax, penalty or other
liabilities which are, in the aggregate, material in relation to the business,
operations, property or financial or other conditions of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole; or
(i) One or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate a liability (not
paid or fully covered by insurance) of $30,000,000 or more and all such
judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or
bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof;
then, and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified
in clauses (i), (ii) or (iv) of paragraph (g) above, automatically the
Commitments shall immediately terminate and the Loan or Loans hereunder (with
accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and
the Notes shall immediately become due and payable, and (B) if such event is any
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other Event of Default, either or both of the following actions may be taken:
(I) the Administrative Agent may, and upon the request of the Majority Banks
shall, by notice of default to the Company, declare the Commitment to be
terminated forthwith whereupon the Commitment shall immediately terminate; and
(II) the Administrative Agent may, and upon the request of the Majority Banks
shall, by notice of default to the Company, declare the Loan or Loans hereunder
(with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement
and the Notes to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall
immediately become due and payable. Except as expressly provided above in this
Section, presentment, demand, protest and all other notices of any kind are
hereby expressly waived.
SECTION 10. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
10.1. AUTHORIZATION.
(a) Each Bank hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Fleet as the
Administrative Agent under this Agreement and irrevocably authorizes the
Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of
this Agreement and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are
expressly delegated to said agents by the terms of this Agreement together with
such other powers as are reasonably incident thereto, provided that no duties or
responsibilities not expressly assumed herein or therein shall be implied to
have been assumed by said agents.
(b) The relationship between the Administrative Agent and each of the
Banks is that of an independent contractor. The use of the term "Agent" is for
convenience only and is used to describe, as a form of convention, the
independent contractual relationship between the Administrative Agent, acting in
such capacity, and each of the Banks. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall
be construed to create an agency (except to the extent of the specific
contractual obligations of the Administrative Agent hereunder), trust or other
fiduciary relationship between the Administrative Agent and any of the Banks.
10.2. EMPLOYEES AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENTS. The Administrative Agent
may exercise its powers and execute its duties by or through employees or
Administrative Agents and shall be entitled to take, and to rely on, advice of
counsel concerning all matters pertaining to its rights and duties under this
Agreement. The Administrative Agent may utilize the services of such Persons as
the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion may reasonably determine, and
all reasonable fees and expenses of any such Persons shall be paid by the
Company.
10.3. NO LIABILITY. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its
shareholders, directors, officers or employees nor any other Person assisting it
in its duties nor any Administrative Agent or employee thereof, shall be liable
for any waiver, consent or approval given or any action taken, or omitted to be
taken, in good faith by it or them hereunder, or in connection herewith, or be
responsible for the consequences of any oversight or error of judgment
whatsoever, except that the Administrative Agent or such other Person, as the
case may be, may be liable for losses due to its willful misconduct or gross
negligence.
10.4. NO REPRESENTATIONS. The Administrative Agent shall not be
responsible for the execution or validity or enforceability of this Agreement,
the Notes, or for any recitals or statements, warranties or representations made
herein or in any certificate or instrument hereafter furnished to it by or on
behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or be bound to ascertain or
inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, conditions,
covenants or agreements herein or in any books or records of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries. The Administrative Agent shall not be bound to ascertain
whether any notice, consent, waiver or request delivered to it by the Company or
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any holder of any of the Notes shall have been duly authorized or is true,
accurate and complete. The Administrative Agent has not made nor does it now
make any representations or warranties, express or implied, nor does it assume
any liability to the Banks, with respect to the credit worthiness or financial
conditions of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Each Bank acknowledges
that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or
any other Bank, and based upon such information and documents as it has deemed
appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this
Agreement.
10.5. PAYMENTS.
(a) Payments to Administrative Agent. A payment by the Company to the
Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of any Bank shall constitute a
payment to such Bank. The Administrative Agent agrees promptly to distribute to
each Bank such Bank's pro rata share of payments received by the Administrative
Agent for the account of the Banks except as otherwise expressly provided
herein.
(b) Distribution by Administrative Agent. If in the opinion of the
Administrative Agent the distribution of any amount received by it in such
capacity hereunder or under the Notes might involve it in liability, it may
refrain from making distribution until its right to make distribution shall have
been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction. If a court of competent
jurisdiction shall adjudge that any amount received and distributed by the
Administrative Agent is to be repaid, each Person to whom any such distribution
shall have been made shall either repay to the Administrative Agent its
proportionate share of the amount so adjudged to be repaid or shall pay over the
same in such manner and to such Persons as shall be determined by such court.
(c) Delinquent Banks. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Agreement, any Bank that fails to make available to the
Administrative Agent its pro rata share of any Loan, or fails to make available
to the Swing Line Bank its pro rata share of any Swing Line Loan, when and to
the full extent required by the provisions of this Agreement, shall be deemed a
Delinquent Bank and shall be deemed a Delinquent Bank until such time as such
delinquency is satisfied. A Delinquent Bank shall be deemed to have assigned any
and all payments due to it from the Company to the remaining nondelinquent Banks
for application to, and reduction of, their respective pro rata shares of all
outstanding Loans. The Delinquent Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative
Agent to distribute such payments to the nondelinquent Banks in proportion to
their respective pro rata shares of all outstanding Loans. A Delinquent Bank
shall be deemed to have satisfied in full a delinquency when and if, as a result
of application of the assigned payments to all outstanding Loans of the
nondelinquent Banks, the Banks' respective pro rata shares of all outstanding
Loans have returned to those in effect immediately prior to such delinquency and
without giving effect to the nonpayment causing such delinquency.
10.6. HOLDERS OF NOTES. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat
the payee of any Note as the absolute owner or purchaser thereof for all
purposes hereof until it shall have been furnished in writing with a different
name by such payee or by a subsequent holder, assignee or transferee.
10.7. INDEMNITY. The Banks ratably agree hereby to indemnify and hold
harmless the Administrative Agent from and against any and all claims, actions
and suits (whether groundless or otherwise), losses, damages, costs, expenses
(including without limitation, any expenses for which the Administrative Agent
has not been reimbursed by the Company as required by Section 12.5 hereof), and
liabilities of every nature and character arising out of or related to this
Agreement, the Notes, or the transactions contemplated or evidenced hereby, or
the Administrative Agent's actions taken hereunder, except to the extent that
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any of the same shall be caused by the Administrative Agent's willful misconduct
or gross negligence.
10.8. ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AS BANK. In its individual capacity, Fleet
shall have the same obligations and the same rights, powers and privileges in
respect to its Commitment and the Loans made by it, and as the holder of any of
the Notes, as it would have were it not also the Administrative Agent.
10.9. RESIGNATION. The Administrative Agent may resign at any time by
giving sixty (60) days prior written notice thereof to the Banks and the
Company. Upon any such resignation, the Majority Banks shall have the right to
appoint a successor Administrative Agent. Unless a Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, such successor Administrative Agent shall
be reasonably acceptable to the Company. If no successor Administrative Agent
shall have been so appointed by the Majority Banks and shall have accepted such
appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent's
giving of notice of resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on
behalf of the Banks, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a
financial institution having a rating of not less than A or its equivalent by
Standard & Poor's Rating Group. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as
Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent, such
successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with
all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative
Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties
and obligations hereunder. After any retiring Administrative Agent's
resignation, the provisions of this Agreement shall continue in effect for its
benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it
was acting as Administrative Agent.
10.10. NOTIFICATION OF DEFAULTS AND EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each Bank
hereby agrees that, upon learning of the existence of a Default or an Event of
Default, it shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof. The
Administrative Agent hereby agrees that upon receipt of any notice under this
Section it shall promptly notify the other Banks of the existence of such
Default or Event of Default.
SECTION 11. ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION AND ADDITIONAL BANKS
11.1. CONDITIONS TO ASSIGNMENT BY BANKS. Except as provided herein,
each Bank may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its
interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a
portion of its Commitment Percentage and Commitment and the same portion of the
Loans at the time owing to it and the Notes held by it); provided that (i) each
of the Administrative Agent and, unless (x) a Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing or (y) the Assignee is an Affiliate of the
assigning Bank, the Company shall have given its prior written consent to such
assignment, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, (ii) each such
assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all the
assigning Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (iii) each
assignment shall be in an amount that is a whole multiple of $2,500,000, (iv)
the parties to such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative
Agent, for recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance,
substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto (an "Assignment and Acceptance"),
together with any Notes subject to such assignment, and (v) the Company shall
not, at the time of such assignment, incur any additional expenses solely as a
result of such assignment other than as contemplated under Section 11.4 hereof.
Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the
effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date
shall be at least five (5) Business Days after the execution thereof, (i) the
assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent provided in such
Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Bank hereunder,
and (ii) the assigning Bank shall, to the extent provided in such assignment and
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upon payment to the Administrative Agent of the registration fee referred to in
Section 11.3, be released from its obligations under this Agreement.
11.2. CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; LIMITATIONS; COVENANTS.
By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the parties to the
assignment thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties
hereto as follows:
(a) other than the representation and warranty that it is the legal
and beneficial owner of the interest being assigned thereby free and clear of
any adverse claim, the assigning Bank makes no representation or warranty,
express or implied, and assumes no responsibility with respect to any
statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this
Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness,
sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant hereto;
(b) the assigning Bank makes no representation or warranty and
assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, or the performance or observance by the Company and its
Subsidiaries of any of their obligations under this Agreement or any other
instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto;
(c) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this
Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements referred
to herein and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate
to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and
Acceptance;
(d) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the
assigning Bank, the Administrative Agent or any other Bank and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to
make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement;
(e) such assignee represents and warrants that it is an Eligible
Assignee;
(f) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to
take such action as Administrative Agent on its behalf and to exercise such
powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the
terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto;
(g) such assignee agrees that it will perform all of the obligations
that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a
Bank;
(h) such assignee represents and warrants that it is legally
authorized to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance.
11.3. REGISTER. The Administrative Agent shall maintain a copy of
each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register or similar list
(the "Register") for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Banks and
the Commitment Percentage of, and principal amount of the Loans owing to the
Banks from time to time. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the
absence of manifest error, and the Company, the Administrative Agent and the
Banks may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Bank
hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available
for inspection by the Company and the Banks at any reasonable time and from time
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to time upon reasonable prior notice. Upon each such recordation, the assigning
Bank agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent a registration fee in the sum of
$3,500.
11.4. NEW NOTES. Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance
executed by the parties to such assignment, together with each Note subject to
such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall (i) record the information
contained therein in the Register, and (ii) give prompt notice thereof to the
Company and the Banks (other than the assigning Bank). Within five (5) Business
Days after receipt of such notice, the Company, at its own expense, shall
execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, in exchange for each
surrendered Note, a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount
equal to the amount assumed by such Eligible Assignee pursuant to such
Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Bank has retained some portion
of its obligations hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Bank in
an amount equal to the amount retained by it hereunder. Such new Notes shall
provide that they are replacements for the surrendered Notes, shall be in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
surrendered Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such in Assignment and
Acceptance and shall otherwise be substantially the form of the assigned Notes.
The surrendered Notes shall be cancelled and returned to the Company.
11.5. PARTICIPATIONS. Each Bank may sell participations to one or
more banks or other entities (any such entity, a "Participant" in all or a
portion of such Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement; provided
that (i) each such participation shall be in an amount of not less than
$2,500,000, (ii) any such sale or participation shall not affect the rights and
duties of the selling Bank hereunder to the Company, (iii) the only rights
granted to the Participant pursuant to such participation arrangements with
respect to waivers, amendments or modifications of this Agreement shall be the
rights to approve waivers, amendments or modifications that would reduce the
principal of or the interest rate on any Loans, extend the term or increase the
amount of the Commitment of such Bank as it relates to such Participant, reduce
the amount of any Facility Fees to which such Participant is entitled or extend
any regularly scheduled payment date for principal or interest and (iv) the
Company shall not, at the time of such transfer of a participation interest,
incur any additional expenses solely as a result of such transfer. The Company
agrees that each Participant may, subject to the provisions of this Agreement,
exercise all rights of payment with respect to the portion of such Loans held by
it as fully as if such Participant were the direct holder thereof, and that each
Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 4.7, 4.9 and 4.10
(including without limitation, with respect to Section 4.10, that the covenants
therein shall survive termination of this Agreement and payment of the Notes)
with respect to its participation in any Eurocurrency Loans; provided that such
Participant complies with the provisions of such Sections, and provided further
that the Company shall not be obligated to pay to a Bank and its Participants
collectively, in respect of such Sections, any greater amount than the Company
would be obligated to pay to such Bank had it not entered into any
participations.
11.6. DISCLOSURE. The Company agrees that in addition to disclosures
made in accordance with standard and customary banking practices any Bank may
disclose information obtained by such Bank pursuant to this Agreement to
Eligible Assignees or Participants and potential Eligible Assignees or
Participants hereunder; provided that such Eligible Assignees or Participants or
potential Eligible Assignees or Participants shall agree (i) to treat in
confidence such information unless such information otherwise becomes public
knowledge, (ii) not to disclose such information to a third party, except as
required by law or legal process and (iii) not to make use of such information
for purposes of transactions unrelated to such contemplated assignment or
participation.
11.7. ASSIGNEE OR PARTICIPANT AFFILIATED WITH THE COMPANY. If any
assignee Bank is an Affiliate of the Company, then any such assignee Bank shall
have no right to vote as a Bank hereunder for purposes of granting consents or
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waivers or for purposes of agreeing to amendments or other modifications to this
Agreement, and the determination of the Majority Banks shall for all purposes of
this Agreement be made without regard to such assignee Bank's interest in any of
the Loans. If any Bank sells a participating interest in any of the Loans to a
Participant, and such Participant is the Company or an Affiliate of the Company,
then such transferor Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of the
sale of such participation. A transferor Bank shall have no right to vote as a
Bank hereunder for purposes of granting consents or waivers or for purposes of
agreeing to amendments or modifications to this Agreement to the extent that
such participation is beneficially owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the
Company, and the determination of the Majority Banks shall for all purposes of
this Agreement be made without regard to the interest of such transferor Bank in
the Loans to the extent of such participation.
11.8. MISCELLANEOUS ASSIGNMENT PROVISIONS. Any assigning Bank shall
retain its rights to be indemnified pursuant to Section 13.6 with respect to any
claims or actions arising prior to the date of such assignment. If any assignee
Bank is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any
state thereof, it shall, prior to the date on which any interest or fees are
payable hereunder for its account, deliver to the Company and the Administrative
Agent certification as to its exemption from deduction or withholding of any
United States federal income taxes. Anything contained in this Section to the
contrary notwithstanding, any Bank may at any time pledge all or any portion of
its interest and rights under this Agreement (including all or any portion of
its Notes) to any of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks organized under Section 4
of the Federal Reserve Act, 12 U.S.C. Section 341. No such pledge or the
enforcement thereof shall release the pledgor Bank from its obligations
hereunder.
11.9. ASSIGNMENT BY THE COMPANY. The Company shall not assign or
transfer any of its rights or obligations under any of this Agreement without
the prior written consent of each of the Banks.
11.10. ADDITIONAL BANKS. On one or more occasions, one or more
Additional Banks may be admitted as Banks party to this Agreement in connection
with an increase of the Total Commitment pursuant to Section 2.8, subject to (i)
execution and delivery by any such Additional Bank to the Administrative Agent,
for recording in the Register pursuant to Section 11.4, of an Instrument of
Adherence substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto (an "Instrument of
Adherence"), (ii) acceptance of such Instrument of Adherence by each of the
Administrative Agent and the Company by their respective executions thereof, and
(iii) execution and delivery by the Company of a Revolving Credit Note to the
order of such Additional Bank in the form of Exhibit A hereto. Upon the
satisfaction of the foregoing conditions, from and after the effective date
specified in each such Instrument of Adherence, which effective date shall be at
least five (5) Business Days after the execution thereof, the Additional Bank
shall be a Bank party hereto and have the rights and obligations of a Bank
hereunder. By its execution and delivery of an Instrument of Adherence, each
Additional Bank shall represent and warrant to and agree with the other parties
to this Agreement as follows:
(a) that such Additional Bank has received a copy of this Agreement,
together with copies of the most recent financial statements referred to in
Section 5.1 and Section 7.1 and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into
such Instrument of Adherence;
(b) that such Additional Bank will, independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Bank and based on such
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documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to
make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement;
(c) that such Additional Bank is qualified as an Eligible Assignee;
(d) that such Additional Bank appoints and authorizes the
Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by
the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental
thereto;
(e) that such Additional Bank agrees that it will perform all of the
obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by
it as a Bank; and
(f) that such Additional Bank is legally authorized to enter into
such Instrument of Adherence.
SECTION 12. MISCELLANEOUS
12.1. CONSENTS, AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any consent or approval
required or permitted by this Agreement to be given by all of the Banks may be
given, and any term of this Agreement or any instrument related hereto may be
amended, and the performance or observance by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries of any terms of this Agreement or the continuance of any Default or
Event of Default may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and
either retroactively or prospectively) with, but only with, the written consent
of the Company and the written consent of the Majority Banks. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the rate of interest on the Notes, the term of the Notes, the
Total Commitment, the Commitment Percentage of any Bank, and the amount of the
Facility Fee hereunder may not be changed without the written consent of the
Company and the written consent of each Bank affected thereby; the definition of
Majority Banks may not be amended without the written consent of all of the
Banks; and the amount of the Administrative Agent's fees and Syndication Agent's
fees and Section 10 may not be amended without the written consent of the
Administrative Agent or Syndication Agent, as applicable, and, if affected
thereby, the Syndication Agent. No waiver shall extend to or affect any
obligation not expressly waived or impair any right consequent thereon. No
course of dealing or delay or omission on the part of the Administrative Agent
or any Bank in exercising any right shall operate as a waiver thereof or
otherwise be prejudicial thereto. No notice to or demand upon the Company shall
entitle the Company to other or further notice or demand in similar or other
circumstances.
12.2. NOTICES. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the
respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing and, unless
otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or
made when delivered by hand, or when deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or,
if sent by telecopy, when received, addressed as follows or to such other
address as may be hereafter notified by the respective parties hereto and any
future holders of the Notes:
The Company: Leucadia National Corporation
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: President
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
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with a copy to: Weil, Gotshal & Xxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq.
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
The Banks: Fleet National Bank
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
The Chase Manhattan Bank
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
Bank of America National Association
000 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxxxx X.X. Xxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
HSBC Bank USA
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx XxXxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
U.S. Bank National Association
First Bank Place, MPFP 0704
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
National Bank of Canada
000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
Israel Discount Bank of New York
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
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The Administrative Agent: Fleet National Bank
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Sections 2.3 or 3.2 shall be subject to the time restrictions stated
in those Sections.
12.3. NO WAIVER; CUMULATIVE REMEDIES. No failure to exercise and no
delay in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or the Banks, any
right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof;
nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or
privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies,
powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any
rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
12.4. SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. All representations
and warranties made hereunder and in any document, certificate or statement
delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution
and delivery of this Agreement and the Notes.
12.5. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES. Subject to a Bank's compliance with
Section 5.10 hereof, the Company agrees to pay (a) the reasonable costs of
producing and reproducing this Agreement, (b) any taxes (including any interest
and penalties in respect thereto) payable by the Administrative Agent or any of
the Banks (other than taxes based upon the Administrative Agent's or any Bank's
net income) on or with respect to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement (the Company hereby agreeing to indemnify the Administrative Agent and
each Bank with respect thereto), (c) the reasonable fees, expenses and
disbursements of the Administrative Agent's counsel incurred in connection with
the preparation, administration or interpretation of this Agreement, each
closing hereunder, and amendments, modifications, approvals, consents or waivers
hereto or hereunder, (d) the fees, expenses and disbursements of the
Administrative Agent incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the
preparation, administration or interpretation of this Agreement, and (e) all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including without limitation reasonable
attorneys' fees and costs, which attorneys may be employees of any Bank or the
Administrative Agent, and reasonable consulting, accounting, appraisal,
investment banking and similar professional fees and charges) incurred by any
Bank or the Administrative Agent in connection with (i) the enforcement of or
preservation of rights under this Agreement against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or the administration thereof after the occurrence of a Default or
Event of Default and (ii) any litigation, proceeding or dispute whether arising
hereunder or otherwise, in any way related to any Bank's or the Administrative
Agent's relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The agreements
in this subsection shall survive repayment of the Notes and all other amounts
payable hereunder.
12.6. INDEMNIFICATION. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless the Administrative Agent and the Banks from and against any and all
claims, actions and suits whether groundless or otherwise, and from and against
any and all liabilities, losses, damages and expenses of every nature and
character arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby
including, without limitation, (i) any actual or proposed use by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries of the proceeds of any of the Loans, (ii) the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries entering into or performing this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents or (iii) with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries
and their respective properties and assets, the violation of any Environmental
Law, the presence, disposal, escape, seepage, leakage, spillage, discharge,
emission, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Substances or any
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action, suit, proceeding or investigation brought or threatened with respect to
any Hazardous Substances (including, but not limited to, claims with respect to
wrongful death, personal injury or damage to property), in each case including,
without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel and
allocated costs of internal counsel incurred in connection with any such
investigation, litigation or other proceeding. The Company shall have control of
any such litigation and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses
of one counsel to be selected jointly by the Administrative Agent and the Banks,
which counsel shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. If, and to the
extent that the obligations of the Company under this subsection are
unenforceable for any reason, the Company hereby agrees to make the maximum
contribution to the payment in satisfaction of such obligations which is
permissible under applicable law. The agreements in this subsection shall
survive repayment of the Notes and all other amounts payable hereunder.
12.7. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. This Agreement shall be binding upon
and inure to the benefit of the Company, the Administrative Agent, the Banks,
all future holders of the Notes and their respective successors and assigns,
except that the Company may not assign or transfer any of its rights under this
Agreement without the prior written consent of each of the Banks.
12.8. SET-OFF. In addition to any rights or remedies of the Banks
provided by law, each Bank shall have the right, without prior notice to the
Company, any such notice being expressly waived by the Company to the extent
permitted by applicable law, upon the acceleration of obligations under and in
respect of this Agreement and the Notes pursuant to Section 10, the filing of a
petition under any of the provisions of the federal bankruptcy act or amendments
thereto, by or against the Company, the making of an assignment for the benefit
of creditors by the Company, the application for the appointment, or the actual
appointment, of any receiver of the Company, or of any of the property of the
Company, the issuance of any execution against any of the property of the
Company, the issuance of a subpoena or order, in supplementary proceedings,
against or with respect to any of the property of the Company, or the issuance
of a warrant of attachment against any of the property of the Company, to
set-off and apply against any indebtedness, whether matured or unmatured of the
Company to such Bank, any amount owing from such Bank to the Company at, or at
any time after, the happening of any of the above mentioned events, and the
aforesaid right of set-off may be exercised by such Bank against the Company or
against any trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the
benefit of creditors, receiver or execution, judgment or attachment creditor of
the Company, the Company or such trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession,
assignee for the benefit of creditors, receiver or execution, judgment or
attachment creditor, notwithstanding the fact that such right of set-off shall
not have been exercised by such Bank prior to the making, filing or issuance, or
service upon such Bank (either directly or through the Administrative Agent) of,
or of notice of, any such petition; assignment for the benefit of creditors;
appointment or application for the appointment of a receiver; or issuance of
execution, subpoena, order or warrant. Such Bank agrees promptly to notify the
Company and the Administrative Agent after any such set-off and application made
by the Bank, provided, that, the failure to give such notice shall not affect
the validity of such set-off and application. Each Bank agrees with the other
Banks that (i) if an amount to be set off is to be applied to Indebtedness of
the Company to a Bank, other than Indebtedness evidenced by the then outstanding
Notes held by all of the Banks, such amount shall be applied ratably to such
other Indebtedness and to the Indebtedness evidenced by all such Notes, and (ii)
if a Bank shall receive from the Company, whether by voluntary payment, exercise
of the right of set-off, counterclaim, cross action, enforcement of the claim
evidenced by the Notes held by a Bank by proceeding against the Company at law
or in equity or by proof thereof in bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation,
receivership or similar proceedings, or otherwise, and shall retain and apply to
the payment of the Note or Notes held by a Bank any amount in excess of its
ratable portion of the payments received by all of the Banks, such Bank will
make such disposition and arrangements with the other Banks with respect to such
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excess, either by way of distribution, pro tanto assignment of claims,
subrogation or otherwise as shall result in each Bank receiving in respect of
the Notes held by it its proportionate payment as contemplated by this
Agreement; provided, however, that if all or any part of such excess payment is
thereafter recovered from such Bank, such disposition and arrangements shall be
rescinded and the amount restored to the extent of such recovery, but without
interest.
12.9. TERMINATION. This Agreement shall terminate in the event (I)
Xxx Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx cease to own, directly or indirectly, 32% or
more of the Voting Stock of the Company, provided, that Messrs. Cumming and/or
Xxxxxxxxx may cease to own, directly or indirectly, 32% or more of the Voting
Stock of the Company if: (a) in the aggregate, they own, directly or indirectly,
at least 23% of the outstanding Voting Stock, and (b)(i) if during the lifetime
of Xx. Xxxxxxx or Xx. Xxxxxxxxx, the aggregate Market Value of the Voting Stock
owned by them, directly or indirectly, is at least $200,000,000 or (ii) if upon
the death of either Xx. Xxxxxxx or Xx. Xxxxxxxxx, the aggregate Market Value of
the Voting Stock owned, directly or indirectly, by the survivor would be at
least $100,000,000 or (II) either Xx. Xxxxxxx or Xx. Xxxxxxxxx ceases to be a
principal executive officer (which shall include the office of Chairman of the
Board of Directors) of the Company. For purposes hereof, the term "owned,
directly or indirectly" shall be deemed to include all Voting Stock received
from Xx. Xxxxxxx or Xx. Xxxxxxxxx by any member of their respective immediate
families or by any trust for the benefit of either of them or any member of
their respective immediate families (a "Recipient"), which Voting Stock is held
by a Recipient during the lifetime of Xx. Xxxxxxx or Xx. Xxxxxxxxx. In
determining the number of outstanding Common Shares then held by Messrs. Cumming
and Xxxxxxxxx and the total number of outstanding Common Shares, there shall be
excluded Common Shares issued by the Company after December 31, 1991, or the
conversion into or exchange for, after December 31, 1991, Common Shares or
securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Shares. Such termination
shall be immediate if it arises from any event other than the death or
incapacity of either or both of Xxx Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx. If such
termination shall arise from the death or incapacity of either or both of Xxx
Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx such termination shall take effect 130 days after
such event. Upon any such termination, the Company shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the accounts of the Banks all amounts owing under this
Agreement and the Notes. No such termination shall affect any rights acquired by
the Banks under this Agreement prior to or as a result of such termination.
12.10. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of
the parties to this Agreement in any number of separate counterparts and all of
said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instrument.
12.11. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement and the Notes and the rights and
obligations of the parties under this Agreement and the Notes shall be governed
by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws (excluding the
laws applicable to conflicts or choice of law) of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
12.12. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Agreement shall become effective only
upon the occurrence of the following events (the earliest date upon which all
such events have occurred being the "Effective Date"):
(a) satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in Section
6.1; and
(b) payment by the Company to each Bank of the aggregate principal
amount (if any) outstanding in respect of Loans by such Bank under the Prior
Agreement in excess of the such Bank's Commitment under this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as
of the day and year first above written.
LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
FLEET NATIONAL BANK,
individually and as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
individually and as Syndication Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:
------------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
HSBC BANK USA
By:
------------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:
------------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA
By:
------------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
ISRAEL DISCOUNT BANK OF NEW YORK
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE 1
Amount of Commitment
Bank Commitment Percentage
---- ---------- ----------
FLEET NATIONAL BANK $40,000,000 26.2%
Domestic Lending Office:
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Eurocurrency Lending Office:
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK $30,000,000 19.7%
Domestic Lending Office:
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Eurocurrency Lending Office:
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION $25,000,000 16.4%
Domestic Lending Office:
First Bank Place
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Eurocurrency Lending Office:
First Bank Place
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
HSBC BANK USA $22,500,000 14.7%
Domestic Lending Office:
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Eurocurrency Lending Office:
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
$15,000,000 9.8%
Domestic Lending Office:
000 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Eurocurrency Lending Office:
000 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA $10,000,000 6.6%
Domestic Lending Office:
000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Eurocurrency Lending Office:
000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
ISRAEL DISCOUNT BANK OF NEW $10,000,000 6.6%
YORK
Domestic Lending Office:
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Eurocurrency Lending Office:
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
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$152,500,000 100%
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