THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF APRIL 6, 2021 AMONG CARGO AIRCRAFT MANAGEMENT, INC., AS BORROWER, AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES GROUP, INC., THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO, TRUIST BANK, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, BANK OF...
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THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF APRIL 6, 2021
AMONG
CARGO AIRCRAFT MANAGEMENT, INC.,
AS BORROWER,
THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
TRUIST BANK,
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
AND
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AS CO-SYNDICATION AGENTS
AND
REGIONS BANK
AS DOCUMENTATION AGENT
TRUIST SECURITIES, INC.,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
REGIONS CAPITAL MARKETS, a Division of Regions Bank,
BOFA SECURITIES, INC.
and
PNC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
LEGAL02/40487275v11
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 1 Definitions and Rules of Interpretation. | ||||||||
Section 1.1 Definitions | ||||||||
Section 1.2 Rules of Interpretation | ||||||||
Section 2 Amount and Terms of Credit. | ||||||||
Section 2.1 Commitment | ||||||||
Section 2.2 Minimum Borrowing Amounts, etc. | ||||||||
Section 2.3 Notice of Borrowing | ||||||||
Section 2.4 Disbursement of Funds | ||||||||
Section 2.5 Evidence of Indebtedness | ||||||||
Section 2.6 Conversions/Continuations | ||||||||
Section 2.7 Pro Rata Borrowings | ||||||||
Section 2.8 Interest | ||||||||
Section 2.9 Interest Periods | ||||||||
Section 2.10 [Reserved] | ||||||||
Section 2.11 Compensation | ||||||||
Section 2.12 Mitigation of Obligations | ||||||||
Section 2.13 Replacement of Lenders | ||||||||
Section 2.14 Incremental Facility | ||||||||
Section 2.15 Defaulting Lenders | ||||||||
Section 2.16 Extension of Final Maturity Date | ||||||||
Section 2.17 Inability to Determine Interest Rates. | ||||||||
Section 2.18 Illegality. | ||||||||
Section 2.19 Increased Costs. | ||||||||
Section 3 Letters of Credit. | ||||||||
Section 3.1 Letters of Credit | ||||||||
Section 3.2 Notices of Issuance | ||||||||
Section 3.3 Issuance of Letters of Credit | ||||||||
Section 3.4 Letter of Credit Disbursement/Reimbursement Obligation | ||||||||
Section 3.5 Lenders’ Participation Obligations | ||||||||
Section 3.6 Obligation to Pay Interest | ||||||||
Section 3.7 Cash Collateral | ||||||||
Section 3.8 Letter of Credit Reporting | ||||||||
Section 3.9 Unconditional Obligation to Reimburse | ||||||||
Section 3.10 Law Governing Letters of Credit | ||||||||
Section 3.11 Resignation of Letter of Credit Issuer | ||||||||
Section 4 Fees; Commitments. | ||||||||
Section 4.1 Fees | ||||||||
Section 4.2 Voluntary Reduction of Commitments | ||||||||
Section 4.3 Commitment Terminations | ||||||||
Section 5 Payments. | ||||||||
Section 5.1 Voluntary Prepayments |
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Section 5.2 Mandatory Prepayments. | ||||||||
Section 5.3 Method and Place of Payment | ||||||||
Section 5.4 Taxes. | ||||||||
Section 6 Conditions Precedent. | ||||||||
Section 6.1 Conditions Precedent to Closing Date | ||||||||
Section 6.2 Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events | ||||||||
Section 6.3 Effect of Amendment and Restatement. | ||||||||
Section 7 Representations and Warranties. | ||||||||
Section 7.1 Corporate Status; Compliance with Law | ||||||||
Section 7.2 Power and Authority | ||||||||
Section 7.3 No Violation | ||||||||
Section 7.4 Litigation | ||||||||
Section 7.5 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations | ||||||||
Section 7.6 Governmental Approvals | ||||||||
Section 7.7 Investment Company Act | ||||||||
Section 7.8 True and Complete Disclosure/Beneficial Ownership Certification | ||||||||
Section 7.9 Financial Condition; Financial Statements | ||||||||
Section 7.10 Security Interests | ||||||||
Section 7.11 Tax Returns and Payments | ||||||||
Section 7.12 Compliance with ERISA | ||||||||
Section 7.13 Subsidiaries | ||||||||
Section 7.14 Intellectual Property | ||||||||
Section 7.15 Pollution and Other Regulations | ||||||||
Section 7.16 Properties | ||||||||
Section 7.17 Labor Matters | ||||||||
Section 7.18 No Default | ||||||||
Section 7.19 No Material Adverse Change | 87 | |||||||
Section 7.20 Insurance | ||||||||
Section 7.21 Accounts | ||||||||
Section 7.22 Material Contracts | ||||||||
Section 7.23 Indebtedness | ||||||||
Section 7.24 [Reserved] | ||||||||
Section 7.25 Patriot Act | ||||||||
Section 7.26 Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions. | ||||||||
Section 7.27 Aircraft | ||||||||
Section 7.28 Affected Financial Institutions | ||||||||
Section 8 Affirmative Covenants | ||||||||
Section 8.1 Information Covenants | ||||||||
Section 8.2 Books, Records and Inspections | ||||||||
Section 8.3 Maintenance of Insurance | ||||||||
Section 8.4 Payment of Taxes | ||||||||
Section 8.5 Franchises | ||||||||
Section 8.6 Compliance with Contractual Obligations and Laws, Statutes, etc. | ||||||||
Section 8.7 Maintain Property |
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Section 8.8 Environmental Laws | ||||||||
Section 8.9 Use of Proceeds | ||||||||
Section 8.10 Collateral Pool; Release of Aircraft; Additional Guarantees | ||||||||
Section 8.11 [reserved] | ||||||||
Section 8.12 Aircraft Appraisals | ||||||||
Section 8.13 Post Closing Covenant | ||||||||
Section 8.14 Compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws; Beneficial Ownership Regulation, Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions | ||||||||
Section 8.15 Further Assurances | ||||||||
Section 9 Negative Covenants | ||||||||
Section 9.1 Changes in Business | ||||||||
Section 9.2 Consolidation, Merger, Sale of Assets, etc. | ||||||||
Section 9.3 Liens | ||||||||
Section 9.4 Indebtedness | ||||||||
Section 9.5 Advances, Investments and Loans | ||||||||
Section 9.6 Amendments to Documents, etc. | ||||||||
Section 9.7 Dividends, Restrictive Agreements. | ||||||||
Section 9.8 Transactions with Affiliates | ||||||||
Section 9.9 Sales and Leasebacks | ||||||||
Section 9.10 Changes in Fiscal Periods | ||||||||
Section 9.11 Activities of Holdings | ||||||||
Section 9.12 Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio | ||||||||
Section 9.13 Leverage Ratios | ||||||||
Section 9.14 Collateral Ratio | ||||||||
Section 9.15 [reserved]. | ||||||||
Section 9.16 Government Regulation. | ||||||||
Section 10 Events of Default. | ||||||||
Section 10.1 Payments | ||||||||
Section 10.2 Representations etc. | ||||||||
Section 10.3 Covenants | ||||||||
Section 10.4 Default Under Other Agreements | ||||||||
Section 10.5 Bankruptcy, etc. | ||||||||
Section 10.6 ERISA | ||||||||
Section 10.7 Credit Documents | ||||||||
Section 10.8 Restraint of Business | ||||||||
Section 10.9 Loss of Authority | ||||||||
Section 10.10 Hedging Obligations | ||||||||
Section 10.11 Judgments | ||||||||
Section 10.12 Certified Air Carrier Status | ||||||||
Section 10.13 Change in Control | ||||||||
Section 10.14 Application of Proceeds from Collateral | ||||||||
Section 11 The Administrative Agent. | ||||||||
Section 11.1 Appointment | ||||||||
Section 11.2 Delegation of Duties | ||||||||
Section 11.3 Exculpatory Provisions |
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Section 11.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent | ||||||||
Section 11.5 Notice of Default | ||||||||
Section 11.6 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders | ||||||||
Section 11.7 Indemnification | ||||||||
Section 11.8 The Administrative Agent and Joint Lead Arrangers in their Individual Capacity | ||||||||
Section 11.9 Successor Administrative Agent | ||||||||
Section 11.10 Withholding Tax | ||||||||
Section 11.11 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim | ||||||||
Section 11.12 Authorization to Execute Other Credit Documents | ||||||||
Section 11.13 Collateral and Guaranty Matters | ||||||||
Section 11.14 Right to Realize on Collateral and Enforce Guarantee | ||||||||
Section 11.15 Secured Bank Product Obligations and Hedging Obligations | ||||||||
Section 11.16 Erroneous Payments | ||||||||
Section 12 Miscellaneous. | ||||||||
Section 12.1 Payment of Expenses, etc. | ||||||||
Section 12.2 Right of Setoff | ||||||||
Section 12.3 Notices. | ||||||||
Section 12.4 Successors and Assigns. | ||||||||
Section 12.5 No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative | ||||||||
Section 12.6 Payments Pro Rata | ||||||||
Section 12.7 Calculations; Computations | ||||||||
Section 12.8 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial | ||||||||
Section 12.9 Counterparts | ||||||||
Section 12.10 Effectiveness | ||||||||
Section 12.11 Headings | ||||||||
Section 12.12 Amendment or Waiver | ||||||||
Section 12.13 Survival | ||||||||
Section 12.14 Domicile of Loans | ||||||||
Section 12.15 USA Patriot Act | ||||||||
Section 12.16 Confidentiality | ||||||||
Section 12.17 Release of Liens and Guarantees | ||||||||
Section 12.18 Integration | ||||||||
Section 12.19 Acknowledgments | ||||||||
Section 12.20 Interest Rate Limitation | ||||||||
Section 12.21 Independence of Covenants | ||||||||
Section 12.22 No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship | ||||||||
Section 12.23 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions. | ||||||||
Section 12.24 Certain ERISA Matters | ||||||||
Section 12.25 Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs | ||||||||
Section 12.26 Electronic Signatures |
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ANNEXES:
1.1 Revolving Commitments
3.1 Existing Letters of Credit
7.3 No Violation
7.11 Taxes
7.13 Subsidiaries
7.15 Environmental Matters
7.20 Insurance
8.10 Closing Date Collateral Pool
9.4(c) Existing Indebtedness
9.5(d) Existing Investments
9.8 Affiliate Transactions
EXHIBITS:
A Form of Notice of Borrowing
B Form of Revolving Note
C Form of Assignment and Acceptance
D 1-4 Form of Tax Certificates
E-1 Form of Opinion of Vorys, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx LLP, counsel to Holdings and its
Subsidiaries
E-2 Form of Opinion of W. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Esq., Chief Legal Officer of Holdings and General Counsel to the Borrower and all Subsidiaries
E-3 Form of Opinion of Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, P.A., special Florida counsel to the Borrower and certain of the Guarantors
E-4 Form of Opinion of Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, P.C., special Nevada counsel to Air Transport International Limited Liability Company
F Form of Closing Certificate
G Form of Compliance Certificate
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of April 6, 2021, among CARGO AIRCRAFT MANAGEMENT, INC., a Florida corporation (“Borrower”), AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), the lending and other financial institutions from time to time a party hereto (each a “Lender” and, collectively, the “Lenders”) and TRUIST BANK, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein, all capitalized terms used herein and defined in Section 1 are used herein as so defined.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Borrower, Holdings, certain of the Lenders and Truist Bank (successor by merger to SunTrust Bank) as Administrative Agent are parties to that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2018 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time immediately prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement to (i) permit the addition of Incremental Revolving Commitments (as defined below) in an aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000 and (ii) amend and modify certain other terms and conditions of the Existing Credit Agreement on the terms and conditions herein; and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Administrative Agent, the Required Lenders, the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Swingline Lender, are willing to do so; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto waive any applicable requirements under Section 2.14 with respect to the addition of Incremental Revolving Commitments in an aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000 to be added on the Closing Date.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1 DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF INTERPRETATION.
Section 1.1 Definitions. As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings herein specified unless the context otherwise requires.
“2020 Notes” means the $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.750% Senior Notes due 2028 issued by the Borrower under the Notes Indenture on January 28, 2020.
“2021 Add-On Notes” means up to $200,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of 4.750% Senior Notes due 2028 to be issued by the Borrower under the Notes Indenture on or after the Closing Date.
“Adjustment Date” shall be as defined in the Applicable Margin.
“Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor to the Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Section 11.9.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” shall mean, as to any Person, (a) any other Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person or (b) any Person who is a director, officer, shareholder, member or partner (i) of such Person, (ii) of any Subsidiary of such Person or (iii) of any Person described in the preceding clause (a). For purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person shall mean the power, directly or indirectly, either to (i) vote 10% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or (ii) direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise.
“Agreement” shall mean this Credit Agreement.
“Aircraft” shall mean all aircraft of the Borrower and/or its Affiliates now or hereafter owned, leased or used in their business for the transportation of passengers and/or cargo and all related components, parts and property used in the operation of the aircraft which are attached to, connected with or located on such aircraft (including, without limitation, all Engines installed on an Aircraft, all Records related to such Aircraft, and all galleys, seats, instruments, avionics, electronics, equipment, parts, attachments, APUs and accessories).
“Aircraft Appraisal” shall mean an appraisal of Holdings’ and its Subsidiaries fleet of Boeing 757, 767 and 777 Aircraft, as well as any other type of Aircraft that the Borrower determines to include in the Collateral Pool, conducted by an independent, third party appraiser acceptable to the Administrative Agent and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Except as otherwise agreed between the Borrower and Administrative Agent from time to time, the form and substance of all Aircraft Appraisals shall be consistent with the Aircraft Appraisal prepared and delivered to the Administrative Agent immediately prior to the Closing Date pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement.
“Amazon Investment Agreements” shall mean, collectively, (i) that certain Investment Agreement dated as of March 8, 2016, by and between Holdings and Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc. (“Amazon”) and (ii) that certain Investment Agreement dated as of December 20, 2018, by and between Holdings and Amazon, each as in effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date.
“Anniversary Date" shall mean (i) April __ of each year, commencing with April __, 2022, until the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date and (ii) with respect to the Term Facility Final Maturity Date, the date (if any) set forth in the Incremental Facility Amendment with respect to the applicable Incremental Term Loans to be made pursuant thereto.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to Holdings or its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.
“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means any and all laws, statutes, regulations or obligatory government orders, decrees, ordinances or rules applicable to a Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or Affiliates related to terrorism financing or money laundering, including any applicable provision of the Patriot Act and The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act
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(also known as the “Bank Secrecy Act,” 31 U.S.C. §§ 5311-5330 and 12U.S.C. §§ 1818(s), 1820(b) and 1951-1959).
“Applicable Margin” shall mean, for each Type and Class of Loan, the rate per annum set forth under the relevant column heading and opposite the relevant category below:
Level | Secured Leverage Ratio | Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Loans | Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans | Commitment Fee for Revolver | ||||||||||
I | Greater than or equal to 2.50x | 1.875% | 0.875% | 0.30% | ||||||||||
II | Less than 2.50x but greater than or equal to 2.00x | 1.75% | 0.75% | 0.25% | ||||||||||
III | Less than 2.00x but greater than or equal to 1.50x | 1.50% | 0.50% | 0.225% | ||||||||||
IV | Less than 1.50x but greater than or equal to 1.00x | 1.25% | 0.25% | 0.20% | ||||||||||
V | Less than 1.00x | 1.00% | 0.00% | 0.175% |
For the purposes hereof, changes in the Applicable Margin resulting from changes in the Secured Leverage Ratio shall become effective on the date (the “Adjustment Date”) that is three Business Days after the date on which financial statements are delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 and shall remain in effect until the next change to be effected pursuant to this paragraph; provided, that the foregoing is subject in all events to the last paragraph of Section 8.1(c). If any financial statements referred to above are not delivered within the time periods specified in Section 8.1, then, until the date that is three Business Days after the date on which such financial statements are delivered, the highest rate set forth in each column of the table above shall apply. Each determination of the Secured Leverage Ratio pursuant to the above table shall be made in a manner consistent with the determination thereof pursuant to Section 9.13. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Applicable Margin from the Closing Date until the third Business Day after the Borrower delivers the required financial statements under Section 8.1 for the Fiscal Quarter ending March 31, 2021 shall be at Level IV.
“Approved Fund” shall mean any Person (other than a natural Person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender or (iii) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
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“APU” shall mean any auxiliary power unit currently installed on any Aircraft, together with any and all parts incorporated in or installed on or attached to any such auxiliary power unit and any and all parts removed therefrom so long as title thereto shall remain vested in Holdings or its Subsidiaries after removal from any such auxiliary power unit.
“Assignment and Acceptance” shall mean an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 12.4(b)) and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit C or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Authorized Officer” shall mean, as applied to any Person, any individual holding the position of chairman of the board (if an officer), chief executive officer, president or one of its vice presidents (or the equivalent thereof), and such Person’s chief financial officer, treasurer or director of treasury.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to clause (f) of Section 2.17.
“Aviation Authority” shall mean, with respect to any Aircraft or Engine, the FAA or (if the jurisdiction of registration of such Aircraft or Engine ceases to be the United States of America) the authority and/or Governmental Authority which, under the laws of the jurisdiction of registration, from time to time (i) has control or supervision of civil aviation, or (ii) has jurisdiction over registration, airworthiness or operation of such Aircraft or Engine.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank Product Obligations” shall mean, collectively, all obligations and other liabilities of any Credit Party to any Lender-Related Bank Product Provider arising with respect to any Bank Products.
“Bank Products” shall mean any of the following services provided to any Credit Party by any Lender-Related Bank Product Provider: (a) any treasury or other cash management services, including deposit accounts, automated clearing house (ACH) origination and other funds transfer, depository (including cash vault and check deposit), zero balance accounts and sweeps, return items processing, controlled disbursement accounts, positive pay, lockboxes and lockbox
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accounts, account reconciliation and information reporting, payables outsourcing, payroll processing, trade finance services, investment accounts and securities accounts, (b) card services, including credit cards (including purchasing cards and commercial cards), prepaid cards, including payroll, stored value and gift cards, merchant services processing, and debit card services and (c) one or more letters of credit issued by a Lender-Related Bank Product Provider for the account of Holdings or one of its Subsidiaries to the extent any such letters of credit are then permitted pursuant to Section 9.4(g).
“Bankruptcy Code” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.5.
“Base Rate” shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1% per annum, (c) the Eurodollar Rate determined on a daily basis for an Interest Period of 1 month plus 1.00% and (d) zero percent (0%). For purposes hereof: “Prime Rate” shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in Charlotte, North Carolina (it being understood that such prime rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer), and “Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall mean, for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day of such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. If for any reason the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate, for any reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative Agent to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms hereof, the Base Rate shall be determined without regard to clause (b) of the first sentence of this definition, as appropriate, until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“Base Rate Loans” shall mean Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the Base Rate.
“Benchmark” means, initially, the Eurodollar Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to Eurodollar Rate or the then- current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (b) or clause (c) of Section 2.17.
“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:
(1) the sum of: (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(2) the sum of: (a) Daily Simple SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
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(3) the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a
replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
provided that, in the case of clause (1), such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other Credit Document, upon the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event, and the delivery of a Term SOFR Notice, on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date the “Benchmark Replacement” shall revert to and shall be deemed to be the sum of (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, as set forth in clause (1) of this definition (subject to the first proviso above). If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1), (2) or (3) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Interest Period and Available Tenor for any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:
(1) for purposes of clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:
(a) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for the applicable Corresponding Tenor;
(b) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon an index cessation event with respect to such Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; and
(2) for purposes of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with
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the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar- denominated syndicated credit facilities;
provided that, in the case of clause (1) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides in its reasonable discretion may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents).
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of
(a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein; and
(b) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein; or
(3) in the case of a Term SOFR Transition Event, the date that is thirty (30) days after the date a Term SOFR Notice is provided to the Lenders and the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.17(c); or
(4) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date
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notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.
For the avoidance of doubt, (i) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(1) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(2) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(3) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer representative.
For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in accordance with Section 2.17 and (y)
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ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in accordance with Section 2.17.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 CFR § 1010.230.
“Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“Borrowing” shall mean the incurrence of one Type of Loan pursuant to a single Facility by the Borrower from all of the Lenders having Commitments with respect to such Facility on a pro rata basis on a given date (or resulting from conversions on a given date), having in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans the same Interest Period; provided that Base Rate Loans incurred pursuant to Section 2.17 and/or Section 2.18 shall be considered part of any related Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans.
“Business Day” shall mean (i) for all purposes other than as covered by clause (ii) below, any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be in Charlotte, North Carolina or the City of New York a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized by law or other governmental actions to close and (ii) with respect to all notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest on, Eurodollar Rate Loans, any day which is a Business Day described in clause (i) and which is also a day for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the interbank Eurodollar market.
“CMI Service Agreement” shall mean the Amended and Restated Air Transportation Services Agreement, dated January 14, 2015, between DHL Network Operations (USA), Inc., ABX Air, Inc. and Borrower.
“Cape Town Convention” shall mean the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, and its Protocol on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment.
“Capital Lease” as applied to any Person shall mean any lease of (or arrangement conveying the right to use) any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee which, in conformity with GAAP (subject to changes in GAAP as provided in Section 12.7), is classified and accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Capital Stock” of any Person shall mean any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participation or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any preferred stock, any limited or general partnership interest and any limited liability company membership interest.
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“Capitalized Lease Obligations” shall mean all obligations under Capital Leases of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, in each case, taken at the amount thereof accounted for as liabilities in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Collateralize” shall mean, in respect of any obligations, to provide and pledge (as a first priority perfected security interest) cash collateral for such obligations in Dollars (in amounts, unless otherwise specified herein, equal to 100% of such obligations), with a depository institution,
and pursuant to documentation in form and substance, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (and “Cash Collateralization” has a corresponding meaning). “Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the cash proceeds of such cash collateral.
“Cash Equivalents” shall mean (i) direct obligations of the United States or any agency thereof with the full faith and credit of the United States government, or obligations guaranteed by the United States government or any agency thereof with the full faith and credit of the United States government, and for Foreign Subsidiaries, direct obligations of the government of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary is located or any agency thereof with the full faith and credit of the United States government, or obligations guaranteed by such foreign government or any agency thereof with the full faith and credit of the United States government, (ii) time deposits, including certificates of deposit, repurchase agreements, bankers acceptances and Eurodollar time deposits issued by any office of any bank or trust company, provided in each case that such investment matures within one year from the date of acquisition thereof, (iii) demand deposits made in the Ordinary Course of Business, (iv) commercial paper rated in either of the two highest grades by a nationally recognized credit rating agency, (v) money market funds whose investments consist substantially of the foregoing, and (vi) any security rated at least A3 by Moody’s or A- by Standard & Poor’s with a maximum maturity of 18 months and an average maturity for all such securities of not more than 12 months.
“Certified Air Carrier” shall mean, as to any Person, an air carrier holding a certificate issued by the FAA pursuant to Section 44705 of Title 49 of the United States Code or any other Federal aviation laws.
“Change in Control” shall mean, at any time, (i) any Person or “group” (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”)) (a) shall have acquired, directly or indirectly, beneficial or record ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the 0000 Xxx) of 30% or more on a fully diluted basis of the total voting power represented by the Capital Stock of Holdings or (b) shall have obtained the power (whether or not exercised) to elect a majority of the members of the board of directors (or similar governing body) of Holdings (other than pursuant to proxies solicited by the board of directors of Holdings in connection with an election of directors); (ii) Holdings shall cease to beneficially own (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 0000 Xxx) 100% on a fully diluted basis of the Capital Stock of the Borrower; or (iii) during any period of 24 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors of Holdings cease to be composed of individuals who are Continuing Directors (as defined below); provided, however, that (x) an underwriter, initial purchaser, investor or holder of any Permitted Convertible Indebtedness or Permitted Warrant Transaction shall be deemed to not directly or indirectly acquire or own the shares of Capital Stock of Holdings issuable upon conversion or exercise, as applicable, thereof for the purposes of clause (i)(a) above unless and until such shares of Capital Stock are “beneficially owned” by such person within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and (y) for purposes of
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determining whether a “Change of Control” has occurred under clause (i)(a) above, any Capital Stock of Holdings acquired and owned beneficially and of record by Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc., or one or more of its direct or indirect wholly owned domestic subsidiaries, pursuant to exercise of any or all of the Warrants (as defined in the Amazon Investment Agreements) issued pursuant to (and in accordance with) the Amazon Investment Agreements shall be disregarded. For purposes of this definition, “Continuing Director” shall mean, with respect to any period, any individuals (A) who were members of the board of directors of Holdings on the first day of such period, (B) whose election or nomination to that board was approved by individuals referred to in clause (A) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board, or (C) whose election or nomination to that board was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (A) and (B) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board.
“Change in Law” shall mean (i) the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (ii) any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change in the interpretation, implementation or application thereof, by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement, or (iii) compliance by any Lender (or its applicable lending office) or the Letter of Credit Issuer (or, for purposes of Section 2.19(b), by the Parent Company of such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer, if applicable) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement; provided that for purposes of this Agreement, (x) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
“Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans or Incremental Term Loans and when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Commitment, a Swingline Commitment or an Incremental Term Commitment.
“Closing Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 12.10.
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder. Section references to the Code are to the Code, as in effect at the Closing Date and any subsequent provisions of the Code, amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.
“Collateral” shall mean the Aircraft of the Credit Parties included in the Collateral Pool, upon which a Lien is purported to be created by any Security Document.
“Collateral Pool” shall consist of each Qualified Aircraft admitted to the Collateral Pool pursuant to Section 8.10(a) or (b). An Aircraft shall be excluded from the determinations of the Collateral Pool (a) at any time such Aircraft ceases to be a Qualified Aircraft or (b) the Administrative Agent shall cease to hold a valid, perfected and first priority Lien in such Aircraft.
“Collateral to Outstanding Loan Ratio” shall mean, at any time of determination, the ratio of (a) the aggregate appraised value of the Qualified Aircraft included in the Collateral Pool, as
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reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent by reference to the most recent Aircraft Appraisal delivered to the Administrative Agent (provided, for purposes of this clause (a), the value of any Qualified Aircraft added to the Collateral Pool pursuant to Section 8.10 and not otherwise included in the most recent Aircraft Appraisal delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms hereof shall be based on the fair market value of such Aircraft (as reasonably determined in good faith by the Borrower)) to (b) the sum of (i) the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of all Lenders at the time of determination plus (ii) the outstanding principal amount of the Incremental Term Loans (if any) at the time of determination.
“Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, such Lender’s Revolving Commitment or Incremental Commitment, as the context requires.
“Commitment Fee for Revolver” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.1(a).
“Commitment Fee Rate for Revolver” shall mean 0.20 % per annum; provided that commencing with the date of delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 8.1(b) for the Fiscal Quarter of Holdings ended March 31, 2021, the Commitment Fee Rate for Revolver shall be calculated in accordance with the Applicable Margin.
“Commodity Exchange Act” shall mean the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended and in effect from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Compliance Certificate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.1(c).
“Convertible Notes” shall mean the 1.125% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024, issued pursuant to that certain Indenture dated as of September 29, 2017 between Holdings and U.S. Bank National Association.
“Consolidated EBITDA” shall mean, for any period, Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus, without duplication and to the extent reflected as a deduction in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of (i) total income tax expense during such period, plus (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense during such period, plus (iii) depreciation and amortization expense, plus (iv) amortization of intangibles (including, but not limited to, goodwill), plus (v) any non-recurring expenses paid during the 12 month period before or after the Closing Date in connection with the Related Transactions in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000, plus (vi) any unrealized or realized loss due to fluctuations in value of warrants issued to customers, plus (vii) any non-cash amortization or impairment of customer incentives, plus (viii) any extraordinary expenses or losses, and minus (ix) any extraordinary income or gains (including, whether or not otherwise includable as a separate item in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, gains or losses on the sales of assets outside of the Ordinary Course of Business) minus (x) any unrealized or realized gain due to fluctuations in value of warrants issued to customers; provided, that, for purposes of calculating compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 9.12 and Section 9.13, to the extent that during such period any Credit Party shall have made an Investment of the type described in clause (i) or (ii) of such definition that is permitted under the Credit Agreement, or any sale, transfer or other disposition of any Person, business, property or assets, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis with respect to such Person, business, property or assets so acquired or disposed of.
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“Consolidated Fixed Charges” shall mean, for any period, the sum, without duplication, of the amounts determined for Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis equal to (i) Consolidated Interest Expense to the extent paid in cash during such period, (ii) scheduled payments of principal on Consolidated Total Debt during such period (excluding any voluntary prepayment made pursuant to Section 5.1) and (iii) Dividends paid during such period (excluding, solely for purposes of determining Consolidated Fixed Charges, repurchases of Capital Stock of Holdings that are effected pursuant to Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended).
“Consolidated Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, total interest expense determined in accordance with GAAP (including that attributable to Capital Leases in accordance with GAAP) of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing.
“Consolidated Net Income” shall mean for any period, the net income (or loss) of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for such period taken as a single accounting period determined in conformity with GAAP, provided that there shall be excluded (i) the income (or loss) of any Person in which any other Person has a joint interest, in each case except to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually received by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries from such Person during such period, (ii) the income of any Subsidiary of Holdings (other than a Credit Party) to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary and (iii) the income statement effect of FASB 52 foreign currency gains and losses.
“Consolidated Secured Debt” shall mean, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness of Holdings and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP that is secured by a Lien on any asset or property of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Total Debt” shall mean, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness of Holdings and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Contingent Obligations” shall mean as to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”), any obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including, without limitation, any bank under any letter of credit) to induce the creation of which the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability
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of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Contingent Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the Ordinary Course of Business; provided, however, that any obligations under any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or any Permitted Warrant Transaction, in each case, shall not constitute Contingent Obligations. The amount of any Contingent Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Contingent Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Contingent Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
“Contractual Obligation” shall mean, as to any Person, any provision of any Capital Stock issued by such Person or of any agreement, lease, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
“Credit Documents” shall mean this Agreement, the Notes, the Security Documents and all applications, agreements and instruments relating to the Letters of Credit but excluding the Letters of Credit.
“Credit Event” shall mean and include the making of a Loan or the issuance of a Letter of Credit.
“Credit Party” shall mean the Borrower, Holdings and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.
“Debtor Relief Laws” shall mean the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.
“Default” shall mean any event, act or condition which with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
“Defaulting Lender” shall mean, subject to Section 2.15(c), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two (2) Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the
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Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans) within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit Issuer or Swingline Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity, or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-in Action (as defined in Section 12.23); provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.15(b)) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower, the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Swingline Lender and each Lender.
“Disqualified Institution” means any Person identified by name in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time after the Closing Date in accordance with the terms hereof, to the extent such Person is a competitor or is an Affiliate of a competitor of Holdings or its Subsidiaries, which designation shall not apply retroactively to disqualify any Persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation interest in the Loans or Commitments.
“Dividends” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.7.
“Dollars” and “$” shall mean dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
“Domestic Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary of Holdings other than a Foreign Subsidiary.
“DOT” shall mean the United States Department of Transportation, and any successor or replacement Governmental Authority having the same or similar authority and responsibilities.
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“Early Opt-in Election” means, if the then-current Benchmark is the Eurodollar Rate, the occurrence of:
(1) a notification by the Administrative Agent to (or the request by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and
(2) the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from the Eurodollar Rate and the provision by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Lenders.
“EEA Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clause (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” shall mean any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” shall mean any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Electronic System” shall mean any electronic system, including e-mail, e-fax, Intralinks®, ClearPar®, Debt Domain, SyndTrak and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by the Administrative Agent and any Letter of Credit Issuer and any of its respective Related Parties or any other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.
“Engines” shall mean goods of Holdings or its Subsidiaries consisting of aircraft engines having 1750 pounds of thrust or 550 or more rated takeoff horsepower which are owned by Holdings or its Subsidiaries and used in connection with the operation of their Aircraft, whether now owned or hereafter acquired and wherever located, and all related components, parts and other property used in the operation of the aircraft engines which are incorporated into such aircraft engines.
“Environmental Claims” shall mean any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigations or proceedings relating in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued, or any written approval given, under any such Environmental Law (hereafter, “Claims”), including, without limitation, (a) any and all Claims by Governmental Authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any Environmental Law, and (b) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief arising from alleged injury or threat of injury to health, safety or the environment, in each case in this clause (b) resulting from Hazardous Materials.
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“Environmental Law” shall mean any applicable Federal, state, foreign or local statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code and rule of common law in each case as amended, including any judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment, relating to the environment, or the use, generation, release or disposal of, or exposure to, Hazardous Materials, including, without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §6901 et. seq.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.; the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300f et seq.; the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq. and any applicable state and local or foreign counterparts or equivalents.
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. Section references to ERISA are to ERISA, as in effect at the Closing Date and any subsequent provisions of ERISA, amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.
“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean any person that for purposes of Title I or Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code would be deemed at any relevant time to be a “single employer” or otherwise aggregated with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA.
“ERISA Event” shall mean (i) any “reportable event” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA with respect to a Plan (other than an event as to which the PBGC has waived under subsection .22, .23, .25, .27 or .28 of PBGC Regulation Section 4043 the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified of such event); (ii) any failure to make a required contribution to any Plan that would result in the imposition of a lien or other encumbrance or the provision of security under Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 or 4068 of ERISA, or the arising of such a lien or encumbrance, there being or arising any “unpaid minimum required contribution” or “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined or otherwise set forth in Section 4971 of the Code or Part 3 of Subtitle B of Title 1 of ERISA), whether or not waived, or any filing of any request for or receipt of a minimum funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, or that such filing may be made, or any determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in at-risk status under Title IV of ERISA; (iii) any incurrence by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan (other than for premiums due and not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA); (iv) any institution of proceedings, or the occurrence of an event or condition which would reasonably be expected to constitute grounds for the institution of proceedings by the PBGC, under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan; (v) any incurrence by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, or the receipt by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of any notice that a Multiemployer Plan is in endangered or critical status under Section 305 of ERISA; (vi) any receipt by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of any notice, or any receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA; (vii) engaging in a non-exempt prohibited transaction
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within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA; or (viii) any filing of a notice of intent to terminate any Plan if such termination would require material additional contributions in order to be considered a standard termination within the meaning of Section 4041(b) of ERISA, any filing under Section 4041(c) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate any Plan, or the termination of any Plan under Section 4041(c) of ERISA.
“Erroneous Payment” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 11.16(a).
“Erroneous Payment Notice” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 11.16(b).
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time to time.
“Eurodollar Rate” shall mean, with respect to each Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan, (i) the rate per annum equal to the London interbank offered rate for deposits in Dollars appearing on Reuters screen page LIBOR 01 (or on any successor or substitute page of such service or any successor to such service, or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period, divided by (ii) a percentage equal to 100% minus the then stated maximum rate of all reserve requirements (including any marginal, emergency, supplemental, special or other reserves and without benefit of credits for proration, exceptions or offsets that may be available from time to time) expressed as a decimal (rounded upward to the next 1/100th of 1%) applicable to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System in respect of Eurocurrency liabilities as defined in Regulation D (or any successor category of liabilities under Regulation D); provided, that (x) if the rate referred to in clause (i) is less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement and (y) if the rate referred to in clause (i) above is not available at any such time for any reason, then the rate referred to in clause (i) shall instead be the interest rate per annum, as determined by the Administrative Agent, to be the arithmetic average of the rates per annum at which deposits in Dollars in an amount equal to the amount of such Eurodollar Rate Loan are offered by major banks in the London interbank market to the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time), two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period (and if such offered rate referred to in this clause (y) is less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement).
“Eurodollar Rate Loan” shall mean a Loan that bears interest at a rate determined by reference to the Eurodollar Rate.
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranty thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act at the time the Guaranty of such Guarantor becomes effective with respect to such related Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such
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Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranty or security interest is or becomes illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” shall mean any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 2.13) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.4, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender's assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 5.4 and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Existing Credit Agreement” shall having the meaning given such term in the first WHEREAS clause hereof.
“Existing Letters of Credit” shall mean the letters of credit issued and outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement as set forth on Annex 3.1.
“FAA” shall mean the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States Department of Transportation, and any successor or replacement Governmental Authority having the same or similar authority and responsibilities.
“Facility” shall mean any of the credit facilities established under this Agreement, i.e., the Revolving Facility, the Swingline Facility or the Incremental Facility.
“Fair Market Value” shall mean the value that would be paid by a willing buyer to an unaffiliated willing seller in a transaction not involving distress or necessity of either party, determined in good faith by the chief financial officer or board of directors (or similar governing body) of the Person required to make such determination.
“FARs” shall mean the Federal Aviation Regulations and any Special Federal Aviation Regulations (Title 14 C.F.R. Part 1 et seq.), together with all successor regulations thereto.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future Treasury regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.
“Fees” shall mean all amounts payable pursuant to, or referred to in, Section 4.1.
“Final Maturity Date” shall mean the collective reference to the Term Facility Final Maturity Date and the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date.
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“Financial Covenant Step-Up” shall mean the election by Borrower to increase the Secured Leverage Ratio or Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable, in accordance with, and as provided in, Sections 9.13 (a) and (b).
“Fiscal Quarter” shall mean a fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year.
“Fiscal Year” shall mean the fiscal year of Holdings and its Subsidiaries ending on December 31 of each calendar year.
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean the ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter of (a) (i) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the Test Period of determination minus (ii) Maintenance Capital Expenditures of Holdings and its Subsidiaries made during such Test Period minus (iii) income taxes paid by Holdings and its Subsidiaries in cash during such period to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Test Period.
“Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to the Eurodollar Rate.
“Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary of Holdings (other than the Borrower) incorporated or organized in a jurisdiction other than the United States, the District of Columbia or any state or territory thereof.
“Fronting Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.1(c).
“GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (or agencies with similar functions of comparable stature and authority within the accounting profession), or in such other statements by such other entity as may be in general use by significant segments of the accounting profession, as in effect from time to time; it being understood and agreed that determinations in accordance with GAAP for purposes of Section 9, including defined terms as used therein, are subject (to the extent provided therein) to Section 12.7.
“Governmental Authority” shall mean any nation or government (whether foreign or domestic), any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government.
“Guarantee and Collateral Agreement” shall mean that certain that certain Second Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of November 9, 2018 executed by the Credit Parties in favor of the Administrative Agent.
“Guaranties” shall mean the guaranties provided by Holdings and the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, and “Guaranty” shall mean the guaranty provided by any one of the Guarantors pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
“Guarantor” shall mean each of Holdings and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Hazardous Materials” shall mean (a) any petroleum or petroleum products, radioactive materials, asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam
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insulation, transformers or other equipment containing polychlorinated biphenyls, and radon gas and (b) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous waste,” “hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous waste,” “restricted hazardous waste,” “toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants,” or “pollutants,” or words of similar import, under any Environmental Law.
“Hedge Termination Value” shall mean, in respect of any one or more Hedging Transactions, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Hedging Transactions, (a) for any date on or after the date such Hedging Transactions have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s) and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the xxxx-to-market value(s) for such Hedging Transactions, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Hedging Transactions (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Hedging Obligations” of any Person shall mean any and all obligations of such Person, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired under (i) any and all Hedging Transactions, (ii) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Hedging Transactions and (iii) any and all renewals, extensions and modifications of any Hedging Transactions and any and all substitutions for any Hedging Transactions.
“Hedging Transaction” of any Person shall mean (a) any transaction (including an agreement with respect to any such transaction) now existing or hereafter entered into by such Person that is a rate swap transaction, swap option, basis swap, forward rate transaction, commodity swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap or option, bond option, interest rate option, foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, currency swap transaction, cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option, spot transaction, credit protection transaction, credit swap, credit default swap, credit default option, total return swap, credit spread transaction, repurchase transaction, reverse repurchase transaction, buy/sell-back transaction, securities lending transaction, or any other similar transaction (including any option with respect to any of these transactions) or any combination thereof, whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Holdings” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“ICA” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.7.
“Incremental Commitments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Commitments Effective Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(d).
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“Incremental Facility” shall mean the Facility evidenced by the Incremental Commitments, if any.
“Incremental Facility Amendment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(c).
“Incremental Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(c).
“Incremental Revolving Commitment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Revolving Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(e).
“Incremental Term Commitment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Term Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“Indebtedness” of any Person shall mean without duplication (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade payables incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of such Person; provided, that trade payables overdue by more than 120 days shall be included in this definition) and all obligations of such Person under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement(s) relating to property acquired by such Person, (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person, (e) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party to reimburse any bank or other Person under acceptance, letter of credit or similar facilities, (f) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire for value any Capital Stock of such Person other than such repurchases from present or former directors, officers or employees made pursuant to stock option agreements, (g) all Contingent Obligations of such Person, (h) off-balance sheet liability retained in connection with asset securitization programs, “synthetic leases” (meaning any lease of goods or other property, whether real or personal, which is treated as an operating lease under GAAP and as a loan or financing for U.S. income tax purposes), sale and leaseback transactions or other similar obligations arising with respect to any other transaction but which does not constitute a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries, (i) every obligation of any other third Person secured by (or for which the holder of such obligation has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property or other assets (including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) of such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment or performance of such obligation and (j) all obligations of such Person in respect of Hedging Obligations (after giving effect to any applicable netting provisions under the applicable Hedging Transaction); for the avoidance of doubt, clause (j) shall not include any underlying notional amounts. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness expressly provide that such Person is not liable therefor. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction and any Permitted Warrant Transaction, in each case, shall not constitute Indebtedness of the Borrower.
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The “amount” or “principal amount” of any Indebtedness at any time of determination represented by (1) any obligation under clause (i) shall be the lesser of (a) the amount of the applicable obligation and (b) the Fair Market Value of the property to which such obligation relates, (2) any Indebtedness, issued at a price that is less than the principal amount at maturity thereof, shall be the accreted value at such time of determination, (3) any Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be the amount that is required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP, (4) any “synthetic lease” under clause (h) shall be the stipulated loss value, termination value or other equivalent amount, (5) any Hedging Obligation shall be the Hedge Termination Value of such Hedging Obligation, whether or not an event of default or an early termination event has in fact occurred, and (6) any Contingent Obligation shall be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such guaranty or other contingent obligation is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder).
“Indemnified Taxes” shall mean (a) Taxes other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Credit Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.
“Initial Trigger Quarter” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.13(a).
“Interest Period” with respect to any Loan shall mean the interest period applicable thereto, as determined pursuant to Section 2.9.
“Investment” shall mean (i) any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition of, or of a beneficial interest in, any Capital Stock of any other Person; (ii) any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) of all or substantially all the assets or property of another Person or assets consisting of a business unit, line of business or division of such Person; (iii) any direct or indirect loan, advance or capital contribution to any other Person, including all indebtedness and accounts receivable from that other Person that are not current assets or did not arise from sales to that other Person in the Ordinary Course of Business; and (iv) any direct or indirect guaranty of Indebtedness of any other Person. The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or writeups, writedowns or writeoffs with respect to such Investment.
“IRS” shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.
“Joint Lead Arrangers” shall mean each of Truist Securities, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Regions Capital Markets, a division of Regions Bank, BofA Securities, Inc. and PNC Capital Markets LLC, each in their capacities as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.
“LCT Test Date” shall mean (x) in the case of any action in clause (i) or (ii) of the definition of Limited Condition Transaction, at the time of the execution of the definitive agreement with respect to such acquisition or asset sale and (y) in the case of any action in clause (iii) of the
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definition of Limited Condition Transaction, at the time that the Borrower provides the irrevocable notice of such Dividend. For the avoidance of doubt, the then most recently delivered financial statements (pursuant to Section 8.1(a) or Section 8.1(b) for the most recently ended Test Period) shall be used for purposes of calculating any pro forma financial ratio or test required as of any LCT Test Date.
“Leasehold” of any Person shall mean all of the right, title and interest of such Person as lessee or licensee in, to and under leases or licenses of ground or land.
“Lender” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“Lender Affiliate” shall mean (a) any Affiliate of any Lender, (b) any Person that is administered or managed by any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender and that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and (c) with respect to any Lender which is a fund that invests in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such Lender or investment advisor.
“Lender-Related Bank Product Provider” shall mean any Person that, at the time it provides any Bank Product to any Credit Party, (i) is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and (ii) except when the Lender-Related Bank Product Provider is Truist Bank and its Affiliates, has provided prior written notice to the Administrative Agent which has been acknowledged by the Borrower of (x) the existence of such Bank Product and (y) the maximum dollar amount of obligations arising thereunder (the “Bank Product Amount”); provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the notice and acknowledgment requirement set forth in clause (ii) above shall not be required after the Closing Date for any Bank Product provided to a Credit Party prior to the Closing Date so long as the requirements of this definition (including such notice and acknowledgment) with respect to such Bank Product were satisfied prior to the Closing Date. In no event shall any Lender-Related Bank Product Provider acting in such capacity be deemed a Lender for purposes hereof to the extent of and as to Bank Products except that each reference to the term “Lender” in Section 11 and Section 12.1(iv) shall be deemed to include such Lender-Related Bank Product Provider and in no event shall the approval of any such Person in its capacity as Lender-Related Bank Product Provider be required in connection with the release or termination of any security interest or Lien of the Administrative Agent. The Bank Product Amount may be changed from time to time upon written notice to the Administrative Agent by the applicable Lender-Related Bank Product Provider. No Bank Product Amount may be established at any time that a Default or Event of Default exists. For the avoidance of doubt, any such Person shall not constitute a Lender-Related Bank Product Provider with respect to any Bank Products entered into after the time such Person ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of Lender.
“Lender-Related Hedge Provider” shall mean, with respect to any Hedging Transaction, any Person that, at the time it enters into such Hedging Transaction with any Credit Party, (i) is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and (ii) except when the Lender-Related Hedge Provider is Truist Bank or any of its Affiliates, has provided prior written notice to the Administrative Agent which has been acknowledged by the Borrower of the existence of such Hedging Transaction; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, (x) any such Person shall not constitute a Lender-Related Hedge Provider with respect to any Hedging Transaction entered into
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after the time that such Person ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and (y) the notice and acknowledgment requirement set forth in clause (ii) above shall not be required for any Hedging Transaction entered into prior to the Closing Date so long as the other requirements of this definition with respect to such Hedging Transaction are satisfied; provided, however, that any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or any Permitted Warrant Transaction, in each case, shall not constitute transactions with a Lender-Related Hedge Provider. In no event shall any Lender-Related Hedge Provider acting in such capacity be deemed a Lender for purposes hereof to the extent of and as to Hedging Obligations except that each reference to the term “Lender” in Section 11 and Section 12.1(iv) shall be deemed to include such Lender-Related Hedge Provider. In no event shall the approval of any such Person in its capacity as Lender-Related Hedge Provider be required in connection with the release or termination of any security interest or Lien of the Administrative Agent.
“Letter of Credit” shall mean any stand-by letter of credit issued pursuant to Section 3 by the Letter of Credit Issuer for the account of the Borrower pursuant to the Letter of Credit Commitment and any Existing Letter of Credit.
“Letter of Credit Commitment” shall mean that portion of the Total Revolving Commitments that may be used by the Borrower for the issuance of Letters of Credit in an aggregate face amount not to exceed $75,000,000.
“Letter of Credit Disbursement” shall mean a payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“Letter of Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of all Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time.
“Letter of Credit Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.1(b).
“Letter of Credit Issuer” shall mean and include Truist Bank.
“Letter of Credit Outstandings” shall mean, at any time, the sum of, without duplication, (i) the aggregate Stated Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit and (ii) the aggregate amount of all Unpaid Drawings in respect of all Letters of Credit.
“Lien” shall mean any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any agreement to give any of the foregoing, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or any lease in the nature thereof).
“Limited Condition Acquisition” shall mean any Investment of the type described in clause (i) or (ii) of such definition, the consummation of which is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing, and that is designated as such by the Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which the definitive agreements for such transaction are entered into; provided that in the event the consummation of any such Investment shall not have occurred on or prior to the date that is 5 days after the scheduled expiration or termination date set forth in the applicable acquisition agreement (without giving effect to any extension, amendment or modification of such date), such Investment shall no longer constitute a Limited Condition Acquisition for any purpose hereunder, unless the Borrower provides written notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to such expiration or termination date describing that
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an extension to the expiration or termination date in the applicable acquisition agreement was agreed to so long as (x) the Borrower certifies in such notice that the Limited Condition Acquisition would be permitted assuming that the LCT Test Date was the date that such notice was provided (after giving pro forma effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition based on the then most recently delivered financial statements pursuant to Section 8.1(a) or Section 8.1(b) for the most recently ended Test Period) and (y) the period between such notice and the updated expiration and/or termination date is no longer than the original scheduled period provided between signing and the expiration and/or termination date.
“Limited Condition Transaction” shall mean any (i) Limited Condition Acquisition, (ii) sale of Aircraft (other than Aircraft that is included in the Collateral Pool), other assets or the Capital Stock of a Subsidiary of Holding, in each case pursuant to Section 9.2(c), and (iii) Dividend to the extent that (x) irrevocable notice to the shareholders was provided in advance thereof and, on or prior to the provision of such notice, the Borrower designated the action as a “Limited Condition Transaction” in a written notice to the Administrative Agent and (y) the making of any such Dividend is not conditioned on (A) the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing, or (B) any other conditions, consents or approvals.
“Liquidity” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash on hand of Holdings and its Subsidiaries plus (ii) the Total Revolving Commitment minus the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit.
“Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1 and shall in any event include each Revolving Loan, Swingline Loan and Incremental Term Loan.
“Maintenance Capital Expenditures” shall mean, for any period, expenditures incurred by any Person to repair or maintain fixed assets, plant and equipment during such period, which would be required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP.
“Maintenance Requirements” shall mean, with respect to any Aircraft, Engine or APU, all compliance requirements set forth in or under (i) all mandatory service bulletins issued, supplied, or available by or through the manufacturer thereof, (ii) all applicable airworthiness directives issued by the Aviation Authority with respect thereto and (iii) the Aviation Authority approved maintenance program with respect thereto.
“Mandatory Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1(c).
“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean a material adverse effect on and/or material adverse developments (including, without limitation, any adverse determination in any litigation, arbitration or governmental investigation or proceeding) with respect to (i) the business operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of Holdings and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) a significant portion of the industry or business segment in which Holdings and/or its Subsidiaries operate or rely upon if such effect or development is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Holdings and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (iii) the ability of any Credit Party to fully and timely perform its Obligations; (iv) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against a Credit Party of a Credit Document to which it is a party; or (v) the rights, remedies and benefits available to, or conferred upon, the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Secured Party under any Credit Document.
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“Material Agreement Default” shall mean, any event or condition that, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time, the occurrence of any event or condition or the failure to meet any standard or condition, or any of the foregoing together, could be or become a default or event of default under any Material Contract (including, without limitation, the CMI Service Agreement).
“Material Contract” shall mean, as of any date of determination, each contract, agreement or arrangement (other than the Credit Documents) referenced in the list of Material Contracts under the “Exhibits” section in Holdings’ most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Holdings’ most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, in each case as filed with the SEC.
“Maximum Rate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 12.20.
“Minimum Borrowing Amount” shall mean (i) for Base Rate Loans, $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and (ii) for Eurodollar Rate Loans, $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof.
“Moody’s” shall mean Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., and its successors.
“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean any “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, which is contributed to by (or to which there is or may be an obligation to contribute of) the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or an ERISA Affiliate, and each such plan for the
five-year period immediately following the latest date on which the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or an ERISA Affiliate contributed to or had an obligation to contribute to such plan.
“Negative Pledge” means, with respect to a given asset, any provision of a document, instrument or agreement (other than any Credit Document) which prohibits or purports to prohibit the creation or assumption of any Lien on such asset as security for Indebtedness of the Person owning or having an ownership interest in, such asset.
“Non-Consenting Lender” shall mean any Lender which has not consented to any proposed amendment, modification, waiver or termination of the Credit Documents pursuant to Section 12.12 requiring the consent of all affected Lenders in respect of which the consent of the Required Lenders is obtained.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” shall mean each Lender other than a Defaulting Lender.
“Non-Extending Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(b).
“Non-U.S. Lender”: a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.
“Non-U.S. Plan” shall mean any plan, fund (including, without limitation, any superannuation fund) or other similar program established, contributed to (regardless of whether through direct contributions or through employee withholding) or maintained outside the United States by the Borrower or one or more of its Subsidiaries primarily for the benefit of employees of the Borrower or such Subsidiaries residing outside the United States, which plan, fund or other similar program provides, or results in, retirement income, a deferral of income in contemplation of retirement, or payments to be made upon termination of employment, and which plan is not subject to ERISA or the Code.
“Notes” shall be a collective reference to any promissory notes evidencing the Loans.
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“Notes Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of January 28, 2020, among the Borrower, the guarantors party thereto, and Regions Bank, as trustee.
“Notice of Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.3.
“Notice of Conversion/Continuation” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.6.
“Notice Office” shall mean the office of the Administrative Agent at 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, Attn: Agency Services or such other office as the Administrative Agent may designate to the Borrower from time to time.
“Obligations” shall mean (a) all amounts owing by the Credit Parties to the Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender (including the Swingline Lender) or the Joint Lead Arrangers pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit including, without limitation, all principal, interest (including any interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding relating to the Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), reimbursement obligations, fees, expenses, indemnification and reimbursement payments, costs and expenses (including all fees and expenses of counsel to the Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Issuer and
any Lender (including the Swingline Lender) incurred pursuant to this Agreement or any other Credit Document), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, now existing or hereafter arising hereunder or thereunder, (b) all Hedging Obligations owed by any Credit Party to any Lender-Related Hedge Provider, and (c) all Bank Product Obligations, together with all renewals, extensions, modifications or refinancings of any of the foregoing; provided, however, that with respect to any Guarantor, the Obligations shall not include any Excluded Swap Obligations; provided, however, that any obligations under any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or any Permitted Warrant Transaction, in each case, shall not constitute Obligations.
“OFAC” shall mean U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and any successor Governmental Authority.
“Operational Control” shall mean the exercise of authority over initiating, conducting or terminating a particular flight of an Aircraft.
“Ordinary Course of Business” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices of such Person.
“Other Connection Taxes” shall mean, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Credit Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Credit Document).
“Other Taxes” shall mean all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Credit Document, except any such Taxes
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that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.13).
“Parent Company” shall mean, with respect to a Lender, the bank holding company (as defined in Federal Reserve Board Regulation Y), if any, of such Lender, and/or any Person owning, beneficially or of record, directly or indirectly, a majority of the shares of such Lender.
“Participant” shall have the meaning provided in Section 12.4(d).
“Participant Register” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 12.4(e).
“Patriot Act” means the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)).
“Payment Office” shall mean the office of the Administrative Agent at Truist Bank, 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X., Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, or such other office as the Administrative Agent may designate to the Borrower from time to time.
“Permitted Acquisition” shall mean any acquisition, directly or indirectly, by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the assets of, all of the Capital Stock of, or a business line or unit or a division of, any Person; provided that any such Person, business unit, line of business or division acquired shall be in the lines of business described in Section 9.1.
“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Section 4002 of ERISA, or any successor thereto.
“Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction” means any call or capped call option (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) relating to Holdings’ common stock (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock of Holdings) purchased by Holdings in connection with the issuance of any Permitted Convertible Indebtedness; provided that the purchase price for such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction, less the proceeds received by Holdings from the sale of any related Permitted Warrant Transaction, does not exceed the net proceeds received by Holdings from the issuance of such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness in connection with such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction.
“Permitted Convertible Indebtedness” means indebtedness of Holdings permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 9.4(c) and/or Section 9.4(i) that is convertible into common stock of Holdings (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock of Holdings) and/or cash (in an amount determined by reference to the price of such common stock). For the avoidance of doubt, the amounts outstanding under any Permitted Convertible Indebtedness will be determined for purposes of the Credit Documents without giving effect to any treatment in respect of convertible debt instruments under Accounting Standards Codification Subtopics 470-20 or 815-40 (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness in a reduced or bifurcated manner as described therein, and such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof.
“Permitted Liens” shall mean all Liens permitted pursuant to Section 9.3.
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“Permitted Warrant Transaction” means any call option, warrant or right to purchase (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) relating to Holdings’ common stock (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock of Holdings) and/or cash (in an amount determined by reference to the price of such common stock) sold by Holdings substantially concurrently with any purchase by Holdings of a related Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction.
“Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation, association, trust or other enterprise or any government or political subdivision or any agency, department or instrumentality thereof.
“Plan” shall mean any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3 of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan) maintained or contributed to by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate has or may have an obligation to contribute, and each such plan that is subject to Title IV of ERISA for the five-year period immediately following the latest date on which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate maintained, contributed to or had an obligation to contribute to (or is deemed under Section 4069 of ERISA to have maintained or contributed to or to have had an obligation to contribute to, or otherwise to have liability with respect to) such plan.
“Pro Forma Basis” shall mean, (i) with respect to any Person, business, property or asset acquired under clause (i) or (ii) of the definition of “Investment”, to the extent that such Investment is permitted under the Credit Agreement, the inclusion as “Consolidated EBITDA” of the EBITDA (i.e. net income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) for such Person, business, property or asset as if such Investment had been made on the first day of the applicable period, based on historical results accounted for in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) with respect to any Person, business, property or asset sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, the exclusion from “Consolidated EBITDA” of the EBITDA (i.e. net income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) for such Person, business, property or asset so disposed of during such period as if such disposition had been consummated on the first day of the applicable period, in accordance with GAAP.
“Pro Rata Share” shall mean (i) with respect to any Class of Commitment or Loan of any Lender at any time, a percentage, the numerator of which shall be such Lender’s Commitment of such Class (or if such Commitment has been terminated or expired or the Loans have been declared to be due and payable, such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure or Incremental Term Loan, as applicable), and the denominator of which shall be the sum of all Commitments of such Class of all Lenders (or if such Commitments have been terminated or expired or the Loans have been declared to be due and payable, all Revolving Credit Exposure or Incremental Term Loans, as applicable, of all Lenders) and (ii) with respect to all Classes of Commitments and Loans of any Lender at any time, the numerator of which shall be the sum of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment (or if such Revolving Commitment has been terminated or expired or the Loans have been declared to be due and payable, such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure) and Incremental Term Loans and the denominator of which shall be the sum of all Lenders’ Revolving Commitments (or if such Revolving Commitments have been terminated or expired or the Loans have been declared to be due and payable, all Revolving Credit Exposure of all Lenders funded under such Commitments) and Incremental Term Loans.
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“Purchase Price” shall mean the total consideration and other amounts payable in connection with any acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder, including, without limitation, any portion of the consideration payable in cash, all Indebtedness, liabilities and contingent obligations incurred (including earn-out obligations) or assumed in connection with such acquisition or other Investment and all transaction costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith.
“Qualified Aircraft” means an Aircraft which satisfies all of the following requirements: (a) such Aircraft is 100% owned by the Borrower and/or a Guarantor; (b) such Aircraft is in compliance with all applicable Requirements of Law; (c) such Aircraft is duly registered with the FAA or applicable Aviation Authority; (d) the Borrower or the applicable Guarantor has obtained all licenses, permits, authorizations, approvals and authority from the FAA, the DOT, the TSA and each other applicable Governmental Authority necessary to conduct its business as presently conducted, including, without limitation, a certificate of airworthiness issued by the FAA or other Aviation Authority covering such Aircraft; (e) the Borrower or the applicable Guarantor operates and maintains, or causes to be operated and maintained, such Aircraft, in all material respects, in a safe, skilled and competent manner and in accordance with all applicable Requirements of Law, including, without limitation, noise, environmental and emission standards and requirements, and including those of the FAA, the DOT, the TSA and the airports served, and, except for Aircraft and flights that are the subject of a dry lease or interchange arrangement, has Operational Control of such Aircraft and provides qualified flight crews for each flight made by such Aircraft in accordance with all applicable Requirements of Law; and (f) such Aircraft is not subject to (i) any Lien that is prior to the Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (other than (x) leases with respect to the Aircraft that are subject to an effective collateral assignment or a subordination agreement, in each case, for the benefit of the Secured Parties (each of which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and (y) Liens with respect to Aircraft so long as such Liens on or with respect to such Aircraft are consented to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion (which consent may be conditioned upon the entering into of such subordination and/or intercreditor arrangements as may be required by the Administrative Agent)) or (ii) a Negative Pledge.
“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“Real Property” of any Person shall mean all of the right, title and interest of such Person in and to land, improvements and fixtures, including Leaseholds.
“Recipient” means (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) any Lender or (c) the Letter of Credit Issuer, as applicable.
“Records” shall mean any and all logs, manuals, certificates and data and inspection, modification, maintenance, engineering, technical, and overhaul records (whether in written or electronic form) with respect to any Aircraft required to be maintained by the Aviation Authority.
“Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is the Eurodollar Rate, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two London banking days preceding the date of such setting, and (2) if such Benchmark is not the Eurodollar Rate, the time determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
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“Register” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 12.4(c).
“Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing reserve requirements.
“Reimbursement Obligation” shall mean the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.4 for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.
“Related Parties” shall mean, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective managers, administrators, trustees, partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors or other representatives of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.
“Related Transaction Documents” shall mean the Credit Documents, Notes Indenture, the 2021 Add-On Notes and all other agreements or instruments executed in connection with the Related Transactions.
“Related Transactions” shall mean, collectively, the making of each Revolving Loan on the Closing Date, the issuance of the 2021 Add-On Notes, the payment of all fees, costs and expenses associated with all of the foregoing and the execution and delivery of all Related Transaction Documents.
“Relief Fund” shall mean ABX Air Employee Catastrophic Relief Fund, an Ohio non-profit corporation.
“Replaced Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.13.
“Replacement Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.13.
“Required Lenders” shall mean Non-Defaulting Lenders whose outstanding Incremental Term Loans (if any) and Revolving Commitments (or, if after the Total Revolving Commitment has been terminated, Total Revolving Extensions of Credit) constitute at least a majority of the sum of (i) the total outstanding Incremental Term Loans (if any) of Non-Defaulting Lenders and (ii) the Total Revolving Commitment less the aggregate Revolving Commitments of Defaulting Lenders (or, if after the Total Revolving Commitment has been terminated, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit of Non-Defaulting Lenders).
“Requirement of Law” shall mean, as to any Person or Aircraft, the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and 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, including, with respect to any Aircraft, the airworthiness certificate issued with respect to such Aircraft, the Cape Town Convention, all FARs and special FARs, or the equivalent issued by an applicable Aviation Authority other than the FAA, and airworthiness directives applicable to such Aircraft.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
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“Revolving Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, (x) the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name in Annex 1.1 hereto directly below the column entitled “Revolving Commitment”, as the same may (i) be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 4.2, Section 4.3 and/or Section 10 or (ii) increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.14 or (y) adjusted from time to time as a result of assignments to or from such Lender pursuant to Section 12.4.
“Revolving Commitment Increase” has the meaning given such term in Section 2.14.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans, Letter of Credit Exposure and Swingline Exposure.
“Revolving Extensions of Credit” shall mean as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans held by such Lender then outstanding, (b) such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the Letter of Credit Outstandings then outstanding and (c) such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding.
“Revolving Facility” shall mean the Facility evidenced by the Total Revolving Commitment.
“Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date” shall mean ___________, 2026, or such later date to which the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date may be extended pursuant to the terms hereof or, if earlier, the date on which the Revolving Commitments are terminated pursuant to Section 10; provided that if (i) on July 12, 2024, more than $75,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes remain outstanding and (ii) on such date, Holdings and its Subsidiaries have less than $375,000,000 of Liquidity, the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date shall be July 12, 2024.
“Revolving Lender” shall mean each Lender that has a Revolving Commitment or that holds Revolving Loans.
“Revolving Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1(b).
“Revolving Percentage” shall mean at any time for each Lender with a Revolving Commitment, the percentage obtained by dividing such Lender’s Revolving Commitment by the Total Revolving Commitment or, at any time after the Revolving Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate amount of the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
“Sanctioned Country” shall mean, at any time, a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject or target of any Sanctions.
“Sanctioned Person” shall mean, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC (including, without limitation, OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List and OFAC’s Consolidated Non-SDN List),
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the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any EU member state, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority, (b) any Person located, operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person described in clauses (a) and (b), including a Person that is deemed by OFAC to be a Sanctions target based on the ownership of such legal entity by Sanctioned Person(s).
“Sanctions” shall mean any and all economic or financial sanctions, sectoral sanctions, secondary sanctions, trade embargoes and anti-terrorism laws, including but not limited to those imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by the U.S. government (including those administered by OFAC or the U.S. Department of State), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority with jurisdiction over any Lender, Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiaries or Affiliates.
“Screen Rate” shall mean the rate specified in clause (i) of the definition of Eurodollar Rate.
“SEC” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.1(j).
“Second Amendment Effective Date” shall mean May 24, 2019.
“Secured Leverage Ratio” shall mean at any date the ratio of Consolidated Secured Debt of Holdings and its Subsidiaries at such date to Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the Test Period ending on or immediately preceding such date.
“Secured Parties” shall mean the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Lender-Related Hedge Providers and the Lender-Related Bank Product Providers.
“Security Documents” shall mean the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and all other security documents (including, for the avoidance of doubt, security agreements filed with the FAA) hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent granting a Lien on any property of any Person to secure the obligations and liabilities of any Credit Party under any Credit Document.
“SOFR” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website at approximately 8:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the immediately succeeding Business Day.
“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
“SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.
“Specified Representations” means the representations and warranties set forth in Sections 7.1(i) (with respect to Credit Parties), 7.2, 7.3, 7.5(b), 7.7, 7.9(a), 7.10, 7.25 and 7.26.
“Standard & Poor’s” shall mean S&P Global Ratings, a business unit of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, and any successor thereto.
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“Stated Amount” of each Letter of Credit shall mean the maximum available to be drawn thereunder (regardless of whether any conditions for drawing could then be met).
“Subsidiary” of any Person shall mean and include (i) any corporation more than 50% of whose stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries and (ii) any partnership, association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries, has more than a 50% equity interest at the time. Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references herein to “Subsidiary” shall mean a Subsidiary of Holdings.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean any Domestic Subsidiary of Holdings (other than the Borrower) which is a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement; provided that the Relief Fund shall not be a Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Swingline Commitment” shall mean $15,000,000.
“Swingline Expiry Date” shall mean the date which is one Business Day prior to the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date.
“Swingline Exposure” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the principal amount of the Swingline Loans in which such Lender is legally obligated either to make a Mandatory Borrowing or to purchase a participation in accordance with Section 2.1(c), which shall equal such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of all outstanding Swingline Loans.
“Swingline Facility” shall mean the Facility evidenced by the Swingline Commitment.
“Swingline Lender” shall mean Truist Bank.
“Swingline Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1(c).
“Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees, or charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Term Facility” shall mean the Facility evidenced by the Incremental Term Loans (if any).
“Term Facility Final Maturity Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the Incremental Facility Amendment with respect to the applicable Incremental Term Loans (if any) to be made pursuant thereto.
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“Term Lender” shall mean, at any time, any Lender that holds an Incremental Term Loan.
“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.
“Term SOFR Notice” means a notification by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders and the Borrower of the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event.
“Term SOFR Transition Event” means the determination by the Administrative Agent that (a) Term SOFR has been recommended for use by the Relevant Governmental Body, (b) the administration of Term SOFR is administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent and (c) a Benchmark Transition Event has previously occurred resulting in a Benchmark Replacement in accordance with Section 2.17 that is not Term SOFR.
“Test Period” shall mean, at any time of determination, the four consecutive Fiscal Quarters of Holdings (taken as one accounting period) then last ended.
“Total Leverage Ratio” shall mean at any date the ratio of Consolidated Total Debt of Holdings and its Subsidiaries at such date to Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the Test Period ending on or immediately preceding such date.
“Total Revolving Commitment” shall mean the sum of the Revolving Commitments of each of the Lenders.
“Total Revolving Commitment Excess Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.2(a)(i).
“Total Revolving Extensions of Credit” shall mean at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of the Revolving Lenders outstanding at such time.
“Total Unutilized Revolving Commitment” shall mean, at any time, (i) the Total Revolving Commitment at such time less (ii) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans at such time plus the Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time.
“Trigger Quarter” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.13(a).
“TSA” shall mean the United States Transportation Security Administration, and any successor or replacement Governmental Authority having the same or similar authority and responsibilities.
“Type” shall mean any type of Loan determined with respect to the interest option applicable thereto, i.e., a Base Rate Loan or Eurodollar Rate Loan.
“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code.
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as
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amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“Unfunded Pension Liability” of any Plan shall mean the amount, if any, by which the value of the accumulated plan benefits under the Plan, determined on a plan termination basis in accordance with actuarial assumptions at such time consistent with those prescribed by the PBGC for purposes of Section 4044 of ERISA, exceeds the fair market value of all Plan assets allocable to such liabilities under Title IV of ERISA (excluding any accrued but unpaid contributions).
“Unpaid Drawing” shall mean any unreimbursed Letter of Credit Disbursement.
“Unutilized Commitment” for any Lender at any time shall mean the excess of (i) the Revolving Commitment of such Lender over (ii) the sum of (x) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans made by such Lender plus (y) an amount equal to such Lender’s Revolving Percentage, if any, of the Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time; provided that solely for purposes of calculating the Commitment Fee pursuant to Section 4.1(a), Swingline Loans shall be deemed not to be outstanding.
“U.S. Person” shall mean any Person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(g)(ii)(B)(iii).
“Wholly-Owned” means, with respect to a Subsidiary, that all of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary are, directly or indirectly, owned or controlled by Holdings and/or one or more of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries (except for directors’ qualifying shares or other shares required by applicable law to be owned by a Person other than Holdings and/or one or more of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries).
“Withdrawal Liability” shall mean liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
“Withholding Agent” shall mean the Borrower, any other Credit Party or the Administrative Agent, as applicable.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution
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or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
“Written” or “in writing” shall mean any form of written communication or a communication by facsimile transmission or electronic mail.
Section 1.2 Rules of Interpretation
. Any definition of or reference to any document, instrument or agreement (including this Agreement) shall include such document, instrument or agreement as amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms and the terms of this Agreement.
(a) The singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.
(b) A reference to any law includes any amendment or modification to such law.
(c) A reference to any Person includes its permitted successors and permitted assigns.
(d) Accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them by GAAP applied on a consistent basis by the accounting entity to which they refer.
(e) The words “include”, “includes” and “including” are not limiting. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Reference to a particular “Section”, “Exhibit” or “Schedule” refers to that section, exhibit or schedule of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated. The words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder” and words of like import shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular section or subdivision of this Agreement. 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.”
(f) All terms not specifically defined herein or by GAAP, which terms are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code, have the meanings assigned to them in the Uniform Commercial Code of the relevant jurisdiction, with the term “instrument” being that defined under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction.
(g) This Agreement and the other Credit Documents 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.
(h) To the extent that any of the representations and warranties contained in Section 7 under this Agreement or in any of the other Credit Documents is qualified by “Material Adverse Effect”, the qualifier “in all material respects” contained in Section 6.2 and the qualifier “in any material respect” contained in Section 10.2 shall not apply.
(i) Whenever the phrase “to the knowledge of” or words of similar import relating to the knowledge of a Person are used herein, such phrase shall mean and refer to (x) the
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actual knowledge of the Authorized Officers of such Person, or (y) the knowledge that such officers would have obtained if they had engaged in good faith in the diligent performance of their duties, including the making of such reasonable specific inquiries as may be necessary in the reasonable credit judgment of such officers to ascertain the accuracy of the matter to which such phrase relates.
(j) This Agreement and the other Credit Documents are the result of negotiation among, and have been reviewed by counsel to, among others, the Administrative Agent and the Credit Parties, and are the product of discussions and negotiations among all parties. Accordingly, this Agreement and the other Credit Documents are not intended to be construed against the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders merely on account of the Administrative Agent's or any Lender's involvement in the preparation of such documents.
(k) Unless otherwise indicated, all references to a specific time shall be construed to Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as the case may be. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all references to dollar amounts shall mean Dollars.
(l) References in this Agreement to any document, instrument or agreement (a) shall include all exhibits, schedules and other attachments thereto, (b) shall include all documents, instruments or agreements issued or executed in replacement thereof, to the extent permitted hereby and (c) shall mean such document, instrument or agreement, or replacement or predecessor thereto, as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified as of the date of this Agreement and from time to time thereafter to the extent not prohibited hereby and in effect at any given time.
(m) The London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”) is intended to represent the rate at which contributing banks could obtain short-term borrowings from one another in the London interbank market. On March 5, 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), the regulatory supervisor of LIBOR's administrator, announced in a public statement the future cessation of the 35 LIBOR benchmark settings currently published by ICE Benchmark administration. This public statement constitutes a Benchmark Transition Event. To the extent the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date goes beyond the cessation dates indicated in the FCA’s announcement, an alternate rate of interest will be determined at the appropriate time in accordance with Section 2.17(b) for any applicable tenors of USD LIBOR. Upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, Section 2.17(b) and (c) provide the mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, pursuant to Section 2.17(e), of any change to the reference rates upon which the interest rates on Eurodollar Rate Loans are based. However, the Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission or any other matter related to LIBOR or other rates in the definition of “Eurodollar Rate” or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof (including, without limitation, (i) any such alternative, successor or replacement rate implemented pursuant to Section 2.17(b) or (c), whether upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, and (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes pursuant to Section 2.17(d)), including without limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, the Eurodollar Rate or have the same volume or liquidity as did LIBOR prior to its discontinuance or unavailability.
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(n) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any Credit Document to the contrary, with respect to any Limited Condition Transaction (and any transactions to be entered into in connection therewith, including the assumption or incurrence of any Indebtedness in connection therewith, the “Related LCT Actions”), for purposes of:
(i) determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires the calculation of any financial ratio or test, including the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio, the Total Leverage Ratio or the Collateral to Outstanding Loan Ratio, as applicable;
(ii) testing availability under any basket provided for in this Agreement;
(iii) determining whether a Default or Event of Default (other than any Event of Default pursuant to Sections 10.1 or 10.5) exists or would be caused thereby; and
(iv) determining the accuracy of any representation or warranty (other than a “bring down” of the Specified Representations and certain customary “specified acquisition agreement representations” in connection with any such Limited Condition Transaction);
the Borrower may elect to cause the date of determination as to whether any such Limited Condition Transaction (and Related LCT Actions) is permitted hereunder to be the LCT Test Date (an “LCT Election”). If the Borrower has made an LCT Election and the applicable Limited Condition Transaction (and Related LCT Actions) would have been permitted on the relevant LCT Test Date after giving pro forma effect to such Limited Condition Transaction and the Related LCT Actions, such ratios, tests, baskets and other provisions shall be deemed to have been complied with on the date that the Limited Condition Transaction (and Related LCT Actions) is actually taken or consummated, as applicable; provided that notwithstanding foregoing, the conditions set forth in Section 6.2 shall remain in effect without modification by this clause 1.2(n) in the case of any Limited Condition Transaction that is not a Limited Condition Acquisition.
If the Borrower has made an LCT Election for any Limited Condition Transaction, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio, test or basket availability with respect to any other transaction (each, a “Subsequent Transaction”) on or following the relevant LCT Test Date and prior to the earlier of (i) the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is taken or consummated and (ii) the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated or expires without consummation, any such ratio, test or basket shall be calculated (and tested) on a pro forma basis assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and all Related LCT Actions have been taken or consummated, as applicable; provided that solely in the case a Subsequent Transaction consisting of a Dividend, such calculation shall also be calculated (and tested) on a pro forma basis assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and Related LCT Actions have not been consummated and, in such case, satisfy both of the pro forma tests described in this paragraph.
(o) In the case of an item or event that is incurred pursuant to Section 2.14 or a clause or subclause of a negative covenant herein that relies on a fixed dollar basket and does not rely on criteria based on the Secured Leverage Ratio or the Total Leverage Ratio (any such item or event,
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a “Fixed Basket Item or Event” and any such clause or subclause, a “Fixed Basket”) substantially concurrently with such item or event that is incurred pursuant to a clause or subclause of such negative covenant that relies on criteria based on such financial ratios (any such item or event, a “Ratio Basket Item or Event” and any such clause or subclause, a “Ratio Basket”), such Ratio Basket Item or Event shall be treated as having been incurred pursuant only to such Ratio Basket without giving pro forma effect to any such Fixed Basket Item or Event incurred pursuant to or otherwise included in a Fixed Basket substantially concurrently with such Ratio Basket Item or Event when calculating the amount that may be incurred or existing pursuant to any such Ratio Basket.
SECTION 2 AMOUNT AND TERMS OF CREDIT.
Section 2.1 Commitment. Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, each Lender severally agrees to make a loan or loans (each a “Loan” and, collectively, the “Loans”) to the Borrower, which Loans shall be drawn, to the extent such Lender has a Commitment under the applicable Facility, as set forth below:
(a) [reserved]
(b) Loans under the Revolving Facility (each a “Revolving Loan” and, collectively, the “Revolving Loans”) (i) were made pursuant to “Revolving Commitments” under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement prior to the Closing Date and such Revolving Loans shall be subject to Section 6.3, (ii) on and after the Closing Date shall, subject to the terms and conditions herein, be made at any time and from time to time prior to the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date, (iii) except as hereinafter provided, may, at the option of the Borrower, be incurred and maintained as, and/or converted into, Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, provided that all Revolving Loans made as part of the same Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, consist of Revolving Loans of the same Type, (iv) may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof, (v) shall not exceed for any Lender at any time outstanding that aggregate principal amount which, when added to the product of (x) such Lender’s Revolving Percentage and (y) the sum of (I) the aggregate amount of Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time and (II) the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans then outstanding, equals the Revolving Commitment of such Lender at such time and (vi) shall not exceed in aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding, when added to the sum of (x) the aggregate amount of Letters of Credit Outstandings at such time and (y) the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans then outstanding, the Total Revolving Commitment. The Borrower shall repay all outstanding Revolving Loans on the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date.
(c) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Swingline Lender, in its individual capacity, agrees, at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date and prior to the Swingline Expiry Date, to make a loan or loans (each a “Swingline Loan” and, collectively, the “Swingline Loans”) to the Borrower, which Swingline Loans (i) shall be made and maintained as Base Rate Loans, (ii) shall not exceed at any time outstanding the Swingline Commitment, (iii) shall not exceed in aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding, when combined with (x) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans then outstanding and (y) all Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time, the Total Revolving Commitment then in effect, and (iv) may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Borrower shall repay in full each Swingline Loan on the earlier to occur of (1) the date five (5) Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made and (2) the Swingline Expiry Date; provided, that the Borrower shall not request, and the Swingline Lender shall not make, any Swingline Loan to refinance another
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outstanding Swingline Loan. The Swingline Lender shall not make any Swingline Loan after receiving a written notice from the Borrower or any Lender stating that a Default or an Event of Default exists and is continuing until such time as the Swingline Lender shall have received written notice of (i) rescission of all such notices from the party or parties originally delivering such notice (which notice of rescission such Person or Persons shall give to the Swingline Lender promptly upon the discontinuance of such Default or Event of Default) or (ii) the waiver of such Default or Event of Default in accordance with this Agreement. Also, the Swingline Lender shall not have any obligation to make any Swingline Loan in the event there is a Defaulting Lender (unless the Swingline Exposure of such Defaulting Lender has been reallocated or Cash Collateralized in accordance with Section 2.15). On any Business Day, the Swingline Lender may in its sole discretion, give notice to the Lenders that all then outstanding Swingline Loans shall be funded with a Borrowing of Revolving Loans (provided that such notice shall be deemed to have been automatically given upon the occurrence of an Event of Default), in which case a Borrowing of Revolving Loans constituting Base Rate Loans (each such Borrowing, a “Mandatory Borrowing”) shall be made on the immediately succeeding Business Day by all Lenders with a Revolving Commitment pro rata based on such Lender’s Revolving Percentages and the proceeds thereof shall be applied directly to the Swingline Lender to repay such outstanding Swingline Loans. Each Lender with a Revolving Loan Commitment hereby irrevocably agrees to make such Revolving Loans upon one Business Day’s notice pursuant to each Mandatory Borrowing in the amount and in the manner specified in the preceding sentence and on the date specified to it in writing by the Swingline Lender notwithstanding (i) that the amount of the Mandatory Borrowing may not comply with the minimum amount for a Borrowing specified in Section 2.2, (ii) whether any conditions specified in Section 6.2 are then satisfied, (iii) the date of such Mandatory Borrowing and (iv) any reduction in the Total Revolving Commitment after such Swingline Loans were made. In the event that any Mandatory Borrowing cannot for any reason be made on the date otherwise required above (including, without limitation, as a result of the commencement of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code in respect of the Borrower), each Lender with a Revolving Commitment hereby agrees that it shall forthwith purchase from the Swingline Lender (without recourse or warranty), by assignment, such outstanding Swingline Loans as shall be necessary to cause such Lenders to share in such Swingline Loans ratably based upon their respective Revolving Percentages, provided that all interest payable on such Swingline Loans shall be for the account of the Swingline Lender until the date the respective purchase is made and, to the extent attributable to such purchase, shall be payable to such Lender purchasing same from and after such date of purchase. Each Lender’s obligations pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be absolute and unconditional.
(d) In addition to the foregoing, Incremental Revolving Commitments and/or Incremental Term Loans may be provided under this Agreement as described in Section 2.14.
(e) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Borrower and the Swingline Lender may enter into a separate agreement providing for the operation of the Swingline Facility, including without limitation, the integration of the Swingline Facility into the Borrower’s operating accounts. The terms of any such separate agreement shall control over any contrary provision of this Agreement, provided that such separate agreement may not alter (i) the rates of interest applicable to Swingline Loans, (ii) the amount of the Swingline Commitment, (iii) the amount of the Revolving Commitment, (iv) the Swingline Expiry Date or the date on which any Swingline Loan is required to be paid, or (v) increase or otherwise change the Lenders’ respective obligations to fund Mandatory Borrowings or purchase Swingline Loans as set forth herein.
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Section 2.2 Minimum Borrowing Amounts, etc. The aggregate principal amount of each Borrowing under a Facility shall be the Minimum Borrowing Amount for such Facility (except that Mandatory Borrowings shall be made in the amounts required by Section 2.1(c)). More than one Borrowing may be incurred on any day, provided that at no time shall there be outstanding more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) Borrowings of Eurodollar Rate Loans.
Section 2.3 Notice of Borrowing. (a) Whenever the Borrower desires to incur Loans under any Facility (other than the Swingline Facility, any Mandatory Borrowings and Incremental Term Loans), it shall give the Administrative Agent at its Notice Office, prior to 11:00 a.m., at least three Business Days’ prior written notice of each Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans and at least one Business Day’s prior written notice of each Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be made hereunder. Each such notice (each a “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be in the form of Exhibit A, shall be irrevocable once given, and shall specify (i) the Facility pursuant to which such Borrowing is being made, (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Loans to be made pursuant to such Borrowing, (iii) the date of Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and (iv) whether the respective Borrowing shall consist of Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, and in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, the Interest Period to be initially applicable thereto. The Administrative Agent shall promptly give each applicable Lender written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of each proposed Borrowing, of such Lender’s proportionate share thereof and of the other matters covered by the Notice of Borrowing.
(b) Whenever the Borrower desires to incur Swingline Loans hereunder, it shall give the Swingline Lender no later than 11:00 a.m. on the day such Swingline Loan is to be made, written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of such incurrence. Each such notice shall specify in each case (i) the date of Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Swingline Loans to be made pursuant to such Borrowing. Without in any way limiting the obligation of the Borrower to confirm in writing any telephonic notice permitted to be given hereunder with respect to Swingline Loans, the Administrative Agent may act prior to receipt of written confirmation without liability upon the basis of such telephonic notice believed by the Administrative Agent in good faith to be from an Authorized Officer of the Borrower as a person entitled to give telephonic notices under this Agreement on behalf of the Borrower. In each such case, the Administrative Agent’s record of the terms of such telephonic notice shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(c) Mandatory Borrowings shall be made upon the notice specified in Section 2.1(c), with the Borrower irrevocably agreeing, by its incurrence of any Swingline Loans, to the making of Mandatory Borrowings as set forth in such Section.
Section 2.4 Disbursement of Funds (a) No later than 11:00 a.m. on the date specified in each Notice of Borrowing, each Lender with a Commitment under the respective Facility will make available its pro rata share of each Borrowing requested to be made on such date in the manner provided below. All amounts shall be made available to the Administrative Agent in Dollars and immediately available funds at the Payment Office, and the Administrative Agent promptly will make available to the Borrower by depositing to its account at the Payment Office the aggregate of the amounts so made available in the type of funds received. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the date of Borrowing that such Lender does not intend to make available to the Administrative Agent its portion of the Borrowing or Borrowings to be made on such date, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to the Administrative Agent on such date of Borrowing, and the Administrative Agent, in
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reliance upon such assumption, may (in its sole discretion and without any obligation to do so) make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender and the Administrative Agent has made available same to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount from such Lender. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower, and the Borrower shall immediately pay such corresponding amount to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover from such Lender or the Borrower, as the case may be, interest on such corresponding amount in respect of each day from the date such corresponding amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower to the date such corresponding amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent, at a rate per annum equal to (x) if paid by such Lender, the overnight Federal Funds Effective Rate or (y) if paid by the Borrower, the then applicable rate of interest, calculated in accordance with Section 2.8, for the respective Loans.
(b) Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights which the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
Section 2.5 Evidence of Indebtedness (a) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan of such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time under this Agreement.
(b) The Administrative Agent, solely as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain the Register pursuant to Section 12.4(c), and a subaccount therein for each Lender, in which shall be recorded (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder and any Note evidencing such Loan, the Type thereof and each Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) both the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder from the Borrower and each Lender’s share thereof.
(c) The accounts of each Lender and the entries made in the Register maintained pursuant to Section 2.5(a) and (b), respectively, shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of the Borrower therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain the Register or any such account, or any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay (with applicable interest) the Loans made to the Borrower by such Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(d) The Borrower agrees that it will execute and deliver to each Lender upon such Lender’s request therefor a promissory note of the Borrower evidencing (i) any Revolving Loans of such Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit B, with appropriate insertions as to date and principal amount and (ii) any Incremental Term Loans of such Lender in such form and substance as may be mutually agreed by such Lender, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
Section 2.6 Conversions/Continuations. So long as no Default or Event of Default is in existence, the Borrower shall have the option to convert on any Business Day all or a portion at least equal to the applicable Minimum Borrowing Amount of the outstanding principal
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amount of the Loans owing pursuant to a single Facility (other than under the Swingline Facility, with all Swingline Loans to at all times be maintained as Base Rate Loans) into a Borrowing or Borrowings pursuant to such Facility of another Type of Loan, provided that (i) except as otherwise provided in Section 2.17 or Section 2.18, Eurodollar Rate Loans may be converted into Base Rate Loans only on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto and no partial conversion of a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall reduce the outstanding principal amount of the Eurodollar Rate Loans made pursuant to such Borrowing to less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto, (ii) Base Rate Loans may only be converted into Eurodollar Rate Loans if no Default or Event of Default is in existence on the date of the conversion, and (iii) Borrowings of Eurodollar Rate Loans resulting from this Section 2.6 shall be limited in numbers as provided in Section 2.2. So long as no Default or Event of Default shall be in existence, the Borrower shall have the option to continue any Eurodollar Rate Loan as a Eurodollar Rate Loan by selecting a new Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan. Each new Interest Period selected under this Section shall commence on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period. If the Borrower shall fail to select in a timely manner a new Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Loan in accordance with this Section, such Loan will automatically, on the last day of the current Interest Period therefor, be continued as provided in Section 2.9(b). Each such conversion or continuation shall be effected by the Borrower giving the Administrative Agent at its Notice Office, prior to 11:00 a.m., at least three Business Days’ (or one Business Day’s, in the case of a conversion into Base Rate Loans) prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) (each a “Notice of Conversion/Continuation”) specifying the Loans to be so converted, the Type of Loans to be converted into and, if to be converted into a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans, the Interest Period to be initially applicable thereto or, as the case may be, specifying the Loans to be so continued and the Interest Period applicable to such continuation. The Administrative Agent shall give each Lender prompt notice of any such proposed conversion or continuation affecting any of its Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing or the provisions of Section 2.9, if a Default or an Event of Default is in existence at the time any Interest Period in respect of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans is to expire and the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders have determined that a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans as such is not appropriate, such Loans may not be continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans but instead shall be automatically converted on the last day of such Interest Period into Base Rate Loans.
Section 2.7 Pro Rata Borrowings. All Borrowings of Revolving Loans under this Agreement shall be made by the Lenders pro rata on the basis of their Revolving Commitments. It is understood that the obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several (and not joint), that no Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other Lender in its obligation to make Loans hereunder and that each Lender shall be obligated to make the Loans provided to be made by it hereunder, regardless of the failure of any other Lender to fulfill its commitments hereunder.
Section 2.8 Interest (a) The unpaid principal amount of each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest from the date of the Borrowing thereof until maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate per annum which shall at all times be the Applicable Margin plus the Base Rate in effect from time to time.
(b) The unpaid principal amount of each Eurodollar Rate Loan shall bear interest from the date of the Borrowing thereof until maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate per annum which shall at all times be the Applicable Margin plus the relevant Eurodollar Rate.
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(c) After the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, and after acceleration, all Loans and all other Obligations (including, without limitation, the Letter of Credit Fee) shall bear interest until paid in full at a rate per annum that is two percent (2.0%) in excess of the rate otherwise applicable thereto and such interest shall be payable on demand; provided, however, that, Eurodollar Rate Loans outstanding at the end of an Interest Period therefor shall thereafter bear interest until paid in full at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate then in effect plus the Applicable Margin plus two percent (2.0%). If this Agreement or the other Credit Documents do not specify an interest rate for a particular Obligation, such Obligation shall, for purposes of this Section 2.8, be deemed to be a Base Rate Loan.
(d) Interest shall accrue from and including the date of any Borrowing to but excluding the date of any repayment thereof and shall be payable (i) in respect of each Base Rate Loan, quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing June 30, 2021, (ii) in respect of each Eurodollar Rate Loan, on the last day of each Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of an Interest Period of six months, on the date occurring every three months after the first day of such Interest Period during such Interest Period and (iii) in respect of each Loan (x) other than a Revolving Loan that is an Base Rate Loan, on any prepayment, conversion or continuation (on the amount so prepaid, converted or continued) and (y) at maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) and, after such maturity, on demand.
(e) All computations of interest hereunder shall be made in accordance with Section 12.7.
(f) The Administrative Agent, upon determining the interest rate for any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans for any Interest Period, shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders thereof.
Section 2.9 Interest Periods. (a) At the time the Borrower gives a Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion in respect of the making of, or conversion into, a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans (in the case of the initial Interest Period applicable thereto) or prior to 11:00 a.m. on the third Business Day prior to the expiration of an Interest Period applicable to a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans, the Borrower shall have the right to elect by giving the Administrative Agent written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing, which Interest Period shall, at the option of the Borrower, be a one, three or six month period. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above:
(i) the initial Interest Period for any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall commence on the date of such Borrowing (including the date of any conversion from a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans), and each Interest Period occurring thereafter in respect of such Borrowing shall commence on the day on which the next preceding Interest Period expires;
(ii) if any Interest Period begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such calendar month;
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(iii) if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day, provided that if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business Day but is a day of the month after which no further Business Day occurs in such month, such Interest Period shall expire on the next preceding Business Day;
(iv) no Interest Period in respect of a Loan related to an applicable Facility shall extend beyond the applicable Final Maturity Date with respect to such Facility; and
(v) no Interest Period may be elected at any time when a Default or an Event of Default is then in existence.
(b) If upon the expiration of any Interest Period, the Borrower has failed to (or may not) elect a new Interest Period to be applicable to the respective Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans as provided above, the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to continue such Borrowing for a new Interest Period of the same duration as the current Interest Period, effective as of the expiration date of such current Interest Period.
Section 2.10 [Reserved]
Section 2.11 Compensation. The Borrower shall compensate each Lender, upon its written request (which request shall set forth the basis for requesting and the method of calculating such compensation), for all reasonable losses, expenses and liabilities (including, without limitation, any loss, expense or liability incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds required by such Lender to fund its Eurodollar Rate Loans) which such Lender may sustain: (i) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender or the Administrative Agent) a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans does not occur on a date specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion (whether or not withdrawn by the Borrower or attempted to be withdrawn by the Borrower); (ii) if any repayment or conversion of any of its Eurodollar Rate Loans occurs on a date which is not the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto; (iii) if any prepayment of any of its Eurodollar Rate Loans is not made on any date specified in a notice of prepayment given by the Borrower; or (iv) as a consequence of (x) any other default by the Borrower to repay its Eurodollar Rate Loans when required by the terms of this Agreement or (y) an election made pursuant to Section 2.17 or Section 2.18.
Section 2.12 Mitigation of Obligations. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.19, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 5.4, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the sole judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable under Section 2.19 or 5.4, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
Section 2.13 Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender is owed increased costs or additional amounts, or the Borrower receives notice from any Lender or the Administrative Agent,
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under Section 2.17, Section 2.18, Section 2.19, Section 5.4, or any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower shall have the right, unless such Lender has theretofore removed or cured the conditions which resulted in the obligation to pay such increased costs or additional amounts or which caused it to be a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, to replace (at its sole cost and expense) in its entirety such Lender (the “Replaced Lender”), on ten Business Days’ (or three Business Days’, in the case of the replacement of a Non-Consenting Lender) prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and such Replaced Lender, with one or more other Persons (collectively, the “Replacement Lender”) reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld); provided, that: (i) at the time of any replacement pursuant to this Section 2.13, the Replaced Lender and the Replacement Lender shall enter into one or more Assignment and Acceptances (appropriately completed), pursuant to which the Replacement Lender shall acquire all of the Commitments (including all participation interests in Letters of Credit) and outstanding Loans of the Replaced Lender and, in connection therewith, shall pay to the Replaced Lender in respect thereof an amount equal to the sum of (a) an amount equal to the principal of, and all accrued but unpaid interest on, all outstanding Loans of the Replaced Lender and (b) an amount equal to all accrued, but theretofore unpaid, Fees owing to the Replaced Lender pursuant to Section 4.1 and (c) any other amounts payable to the Replaced Lender under this Agreement (including, without limitation, amounts payable under Section 2.11) and (ii) a Defaulting Lender shall be a Replaced Lender only to the extent not prohibited by law. Upon the execution of the respective assignment documentation, the payment of amounts referred to in the preceding sentence and, if so requested by the Replacement Lender, delivery to the Replacement Lender of appropriate Notes executed by the Borrower, the Replacement Lender shall become a Lender hereunder, and the Replaced Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder, except with respect to indemnification provisions arising under this Agreement, which shall survive as to such Replaced Lender.
Section 2.14 Incremental Facility. (a) Upon notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders), at any time after the Closing Date, the Borrower may from time to time request (i) commitments to provide term loans under this Agreement (each an “Incremental Term Commitment” and all of them, collectively, the “Incremental Term Commitments”; the loans made under the Incremental Term Commitments, the “Incremental Term Loans”)) and/or (ii) increases in the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments (each such increase, an “Incremental Revolving Commitment” and, together with the Incremental Term Commitments, the “Incremental Commitments”); provided that (x) after giving effect to any such addition(s), the aggregate amount of Incremental Commitments that have been added pursuant to this Section 2.14 after the Closing Date (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, the Incremental Revolving Commitments provided on the Closing Date) shall not exceed the Incremental Cap (as defined below), (y) any such addition or increase shall be in an amount of not less than $10,000,000 and (z) there shall be not more than three (3) such increases after the Closing Date. For purposes hereof, the “Incremental Cap” shall mean the sum of (i) $400,000,000 (the “Dollar Basket”) plus (ii) the maximum principal amount of Indebtedness that may be incurred at such time that would not cause the Secured Leverage Ratio on a pro forma basis to exceed 3.25 to 1.00 (with the Secured Leverage Ratio computed as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended prior to the date of the Incremental Facility Amendment, for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.1(a) or (b), provided that the foregoing determination shall be subject to the terms of Section 1.2(n) in the case of a Limited Condition Transaction); provided that in calculating the Secured Leverage Ratio for purposes of this definition only, all Incremental Revolving Commitments shall be assumed to be fully drawn (this clause (ii), the “Incremental Ratio Basket”). The Borrower may allocate use of the Incremental Cap between the Dollar Basket and the
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Incremental Ratio Basket in such amounts as it determines, including those provided for in Section 1.2(o) (which shall be specified in the Incremental Facility Amendment related to the Incremental Commitments).
(b) Any Loans made in respect of any Incremental Revolving Commitments shall be made by increasing the Total Revolving Commitment with the same terms (including pricing) as the existing Revolving Loans (each, a “Revolving Commitment Increase”). Any Incremental Term Loans (i) shall not have a final maturity earlier than the then existing Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date; provided, that the requirements set forth in this clause (b)(i) shall not apply to any Incremental Term Loans consisting of a customary bridge facility, so long as the long-term Indebtedness into which such customary bridge facility is to be converted otherwise satisfies the requirements of this clause (b)(i), (ii) shall rank pari passu or junior in right of payment and of security (including Guaranties) with the Revolving Loans or may be unsecured (and if subordinated shall be subject to an intercreditor agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), (iii) shall not be the obligation of, or subject to any guarantee by any Person who is not also a Credit Party, (iv) shall not be secured by (x) a Lien on any property or asset in which the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) does not have a Lien or (y) a perfected Lien on any property or asset in which the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) does not have a perfected Lien, (v) shall have a maturity date (subject to clause (i) immediately above), an amortization schedule, and interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including prepayment premiums) as determined by the Borrowers and the lenders of the Incremental Term Loans and (vi) shall have such other terms and provisions, to the extent not consistent with the Revolving Loans, as the case may be, as are reasonably satisfactory to the Joint Lead Arrangers.
(c) Each notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the Incremental Commitments. Incremental Term Loans (or any portion thereof) may be made, and Revolving Commitment Increases may be provided, by any existing Lender or by any other bank, financial institution or other investing entity (any such bank, financial institution or other investing entity, an “Incremental Lender”), in each case on terms permitted in this Section 2.14 and otherwise on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, provided that the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of a Revolving Commitment Increase, the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Swingline Lender) shall have consented (not to be unreasonably withheld) to such Lender's or Incremental Lender's, as the case may be, making such Incremental Term Loans or providing such Revolving Commitment Increase if such consent would be required under Section 12.4 for an assignment of Loans or Revolving Commitments, as applicable, to such Lender or Incremental Lender, as the case may be. No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Commitment Increases, unless it so agrees. Any Incremental Commitments shall become Commitments (or in the case of any Revolving Commitment Increase to be provided by an existing Revolving Lender, an increase in such Revolving Lender's Revolving Commitment) under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Facility Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Credit Documents, executed by the Borrower, each Lender agreeing to provide such Commitment, if any, each Incremental Lender, if any, and the Administrative Agent. An Incremental Facility Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to any Credit Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.14. At the time of the sending of such notice, the Borrower (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time period within which each Lender is requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten Business Days from the date of delivery of such
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notice to the Lenders). Each Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to provide an Incremental Commitment and, if so, whether by an amount equal to, greater than, or less than its pro rata share of such requested increase (which shall be calculated on the basis of the amount of the funded and unfunded exposure under all the Facilities held by each Lender). Any Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have declined to provide an Incremental Commitment. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of the Lenders' responses to each request made hereunder. To achieve the full amount of a requested increase, the Borrower may, after first offering such increase to the existing Lenders as provided above, invite Incremental Lenders to become Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
(d) If any Incremental Commitments are added in accordance with this Section 2.14, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall determine the effective date (the “Incremental Commitments Effective Date”) and the final allocation of such addition; provided, that any existing Lender electing to participate in the proposed Incremental Commitments shall have the right to participate in the proposed increase or addition on a pro rata basis in accordance with such Lender’s Commitment as of the Business Day prior to the Incremental Commitments Effective Date. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the final allocation of such addition and the Incremental Commitments Effective Date. As a condition precedent to such addition, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) a pro forma Compliance Certificate after giving effect to such addition and (ii) a certificate of the Borrower dated as of the Incremental Commitments Effective Date signed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower certifying that, before and after giving effect to such increase, (A) subject to the terms of Section 1.2(n) in the case of any Incremental Facility incurred to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, the representations and warranties contained in Section 7 and the other Credit Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Incremental Commitments Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date (it being understood and agreed that only the Specified Representations shall be required as of the Incremental Commitments Effective Date in the case of any Incremental Facility incurred to finance a Limited Condition Transaction), (B) subject to the terms of Section 1.2(n) in the case of any Incremental Facility incurred to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists before or after giving effect to such Incremental Facility (it being understood and agreed that, for the avoidance of doubt, no Event of Default under Sections 10.1 or 10.5 shall exist in any case) and (C) subject to the terms of Section 1.2(n) in the case of any Incremental Facility incurred to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, all conditions set forth in Section 6.2 are satisfied as of such date. On each Incremental Commitments Effective Date, each Lender or Incremental Lender which is providing an Incremental Commitment (x) shall become a “Lender” for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, (y) shall have, as applicable, an Incremental Term Commitment and/or an Incremental Revolving Commitment which shall become “Commitments” hereunder and (z) in the case of an Incremental Term Commitment, shall make an Incremental Term Loan to the Borrower in a principal amount equal to such Incremental Term Commitment, and such Incremental Term Loan shall be a “Loan” for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.
(e) Upon each Revolving Commitment Increase pursuant to this Section 2.14, (i) each Revolving Lender immediately prior to such increase will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each existing Revolving Lender, if any, and each Incremental Lender, if any, in each case providing a portion of such Revolving Commitment Increase (each an
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“Incremental Revolving Lender”), and each such Incremental Revolving Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Revolving Lender's risk participation hereunder in outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans such that, after giving effect to such Revolving Commitment Increase and each such deemed assignment and assumption of such risk participations, the percentage of the aggregate outstanding (A) risk participations hereunder in Letters of Credit and (B) risk participations in Swingline Loans, in each case, held by each Revolving Lender (including each such Incremental Revolving Lender) will equal such Revolving Lender's pro rata share of the outstanding Revolving Loans based on each such Revolving Lender's Revolving Percentage immediately after giving effect to such Revolving Commitment Increase and (ii) if, on the date of such Revolving Commitment Increase, there are any Revolving Loans outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall take those steps which it deems, in its sole discretion, necessary and appropriate to result in each Revolving Lender (including each Incremental Revolving Lender) having a pro rata share of the outstanding Revolving Loans based on each such Revolving Lender's Revolving Percentage immediately after giving effect to such Revolving Commitment Increase, provided that any prepayment made in connection with the taking of any such steps shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the Revolving Loans being prepaid and any costs incurred by any Lender in accordance with Section 2.11. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro-rata borrowing and pro-rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to any transaction that may be effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.
(f) This Section 2.14 shall supersede any provisions in Section 12.12 to the contrary.
Section 2.15 Defaulting Lenders
(a) Cash Collateral.
(i) At any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, within one Business Day following the written request of the Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize the Letter of Credit Issuer’s Letter of Credit Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in an amount not less than 100% of the Letter of Credit Issuer’s Letter of Credit Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender; provided, that, the Borrower shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the Letter of Credit Exposure of such Defaulting Lender to the extent (x) such Letter of Credit Exposure has been reallocated to Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with Section 2.15(b)(iv) and/or Cash Collateralized provided by such Defaulting Lender or (y) at the time such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender is replaced by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.13.
(ii) The Borrower, and to the extent provided by any Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender, hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Letter of Credit Issuer, and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such Cash Collateral as security for the Defaulting Lenders’ obligation to fund participations in respect of Letters of Credit, to be applied pursuant to clause (iii) below. If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Issuer as herein provided, or that the total amount of such Cash
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Collateral is less than the minimum amount required pursuant to clause (i) above, the Borrower will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency (after giving effect to any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender).
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under this Section 2.15(a) or 2.15(b) in respect of Letters of Credit shall be applied to the satisfaction of the Defaulting Lender’s obligation to fund participations in respect of Letters of Credit or Letter of Credit Disbursements (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) for which the Cash Collateral was so provided, prior to any other application of such property as may otherwise be provided for herein.
(iv) Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce the Letter of Credit Issuer’s Letter of Credit Exposure shall no longer be required to be held as Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.15(a) following (A) the elimination of the applicable Letter of Credit Exposure (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender), or (B) the determination by the Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Issuer that there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided that, subject to Sections 2.15(b) through 2.15(d), the Person providing Cash Collateral and the Letter of Credit Issuer may agree that Cash Collateral shall be held to support future anticipated Letter of Credit Exposure or other obligations and provided further that to the extent that such Cash Collateral was provided by the Borrower, such Cash Collateral shall remain subject to the security interest granted pursuant to the Credit Documents.
(b) Defaulting Lender Adjustments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as such Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable law:
(i) Such Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definition of Required Lenders and in Section 12.12.
(ii) Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Section 10 or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 12.2 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Letter of Credit Issuer or Swingline Lender hereunder; third, to Cash Collateralize the Letter of Credit Issuer’s Letter of Credit Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 2.15(a); fourth, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as
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determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a deposit account and released pro rata in order to (x) satisfy such Defaulting Lender’s potential future funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement and (y) Cash Collateralize the Letter of Credit Issuers’ future Letter of Credit Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, in accordance with Section 2.15(a); sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the Letter of Credit Issuer or Swingline Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the Letter of Credit Issuer or Swingline Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender's breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or Letter of Credit Disbursements in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Loans were made or the related Letters of Credit were issued at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 6.2 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and Letter of Credit Disbursements owed to, all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or Letter of Credit Disbursements owed to, such Defaulting Lender until such time as all Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letter of Credit Disbursements and Swingline Loans are held by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the Revolving Commitments and outstanding Incremental Term Loans without giving effect to clause (iv) below. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.15(b)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii) (A) No Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive any Commitment Fee for Revolver for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).
(B) Each Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive a Letter of Credit Fee for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to the extent allocable to that portion of its Letter of Credit Exposure for which it has provided Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 2.15(a).
(C) With respect to any Letter of Credit Fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (B) above, the Borrower shall (x) pay to each Non-Defaulting Lender that portion of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s participation in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (iv) below, (y) pay to the Letter of Credit Issuer and Swingline Lender, as applicable, the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to
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such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to the Letter of Credit Issuer’s Letter of Credit Exposure or Swingline Lender’s Swingline Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender, and (z) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.
(iv) All or any part of such Defaulting Lender’s participation in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares of the Revolving Commitments (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment) but only to the extent that (x) the conditions set forth in Section 6.2 are satisfied at the time of such reallocation (and, unless the Borrower shall have otherwise notified the Administrative Agent at such time, the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such conditions are satisfied at such time), and (y) such reallocation does not cause the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of any Non-Defaulting Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment. Subject to Section 12.23, no reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.
(v) If the reallocation described in clause (iv) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall, without prejudice to any right or remedy available to it hereunder or under law, (x) first, prepay Swingline Loans in an amount equal to the Swingline Lender’s Swingline Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender and (y) second, Cash Collateralize the Letter of Credit Issuers’ Letter of Credit Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.15(a).
(c) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, Swingline Lender and Letter of Credit Issuer agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans to be held pro rata by the Lenders in accordance with the applicable Commitments (without giving effect to Section 2.15(b)(iv)), whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.
(d) New Swingline Loans/Letters of Credit. So long as any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, (i) the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loans and (ii) no Letter of Credit Issuer shall be required to issue, extend, renew or increase any Letter of Credit; provided, that, at such time as the Swingline Lender is satisfied that it will have no Swingline
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Exposure after giving effect to such Swingline Loan and the Letter of Credit Issuer is satisfied that it will have no Letter of Credit Exposure after giving effect to the issuance, extension, renewal or increase of any Letter of Credit, then the Swing Line Lender will make the requested Swingline Loans and the Letter of Credit Issuer will issue, extend, renew or increase Letters of Credit, in each case, so long as the other terms and conditions applicable for such Credit Events have been satisfied in accordance with this Agreement.
Section 2.16 Extension of Final Maturity Date
(a) At least 45 days but not more than 65 days prior to the first, second, third, fourth and fifth Anniversary Date, provided that all of the conditions set forth in Section 6.2(a), (b) and (c) have been met in each case, the Borrower, by written notice to the Administrative Agent, may request an extension of the Term Facility Final Maturity Date and/or the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date in effect at such time by one calendar year from the then scheduled applicable Final Maturity Date. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender holding the applicable Class of Loans and Commitments of such request (including the amount of any fees to be paid such Lenders for such proposed extension, the amortization of the Incremental Term Loans following the Extension Date and any other terms applicable to such proposed extension not otherwise in contravention of the express terms and provisions this Agreement), and each such Lender shall in turn, in its sole discretion, at least 20 days but not more than 30 days prior to the applicable Anniversary Date, notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing as to whether such Lender will consent to such extension. If any Lender holding the applicable Class of Loans and Commitments shall fail to notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing of its consent to any such request for extension of the applicable Final Maturity Date by the 20th day prior to the applicable Anniversary Date, such Lender shall be deemed to be a Non-Extending Lender (as defined below) with respect to such request. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower not later than the 20th day prior to the applicable Anniversary Date of the decision of the Lenders holding the applicable Class of Loans and Commitments regarding the Borrower’s request for an extension of the applicable Final Maturity Date.
(b) If all of the Lenders holding the applicable Class of Loans and Commitments consent in writing to any such request in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.16, the applicable Final Maturity Date shall, effective as at such next Anniversary Date (the “Extension Date”), be extended for one calendar year from the then scheduled applicable Final Maturity Date; provided that on the Extension Date, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, or shall occur as a consequence thereof. If Lenders holding more than 50% in interest of the Incremental Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (as applicable) at such time consent in writing to any such request in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.16, the applicable Final Maturity Date in effect at such time shall, effective as at the applicable Extension Date, be extended as to those Lenders that so have consented (each a “Consenting Lender”) but shall not be extended as to any other Lender (each a “Non-Extending Lender”). To the extent that the applicable Final Maturity Date is not extended as to any Lender holding the applicable Class of Loans and Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.16 and the applicable Class of Commitments and Loans of such Lender is not assumed in accordance with subsection (c) of this Section 2.16 on or prior to the applicable Extension Date, (i) the applicable Class of Commitments and/or Loans of such Non-Extending Lender shall automatically terminate in whole on such unextended applicable Final Maturity Date (such unextended Final Maturity Date, the “Termination Date”) without any further notice or other action by the Borrower, such Lender or any other Person, and in the case of a Non-Extending Lender holding a Revolving Commitment that is not extended, the Letter of Credit
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Exposure and Swingline Exposure of such Non-Extending Lender will automatically be reallocated (effective on the Termination Date) among the Consenting Lenders pro rata in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitments that are extended; provided that the sum of each such Consenting Lender’s total Revolving Credit Exposure may not in any event exceed the Revolving Commitment of such Consenting Lender as in effect at the time of such reallocation; provided, further, that, to the extent that any portion (the “unreallocated portion”) of the Letter of Credit Exposure and Swingline Exposure of any Non-Extending Lender cannot be so reallocated for any reason, the Borrower will, not later than two (2) Business Days after demand by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Letter of Credit Issuer and/or the Swingline Lender), (x) Cash Collateralize the obligations of the Borrower to the Letter of Credit Issuer or Swingline Lender in respect of such Letter of Credit Exposure or Swingline Exposure, as the case may be, in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the unreallocated portion of the Letter of Credit Exposure and Swingline Exposure of such Non-Extending Lender, or (y) in the case of such Swingline Exposure, prepay and/or Cash Collateralize in full the unreallocated portion thereof, or (z) make other arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Swingline Lender in their sole discretion to protect them against the risk of non-payment by such Non-Extending Lender; (ii) notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, including Section 5.3 and 12.6, such Non-Extending Lender shall have received from the Borrower the aggregate principal amount of, and any interest accrued and unpaid to the unextended applicable Final Maturity Date, the outstanding applicable Class of Loans, if any, of such Non-Extending Lender plus any accrued but unpaid commitment fees owing to such Non-Extending Lender as of such date and all other amounts payable hereunder to such Non-Extending Lender; and (iii) such Non-Extending Lender's rights under Sections 2.11 and 12.1 and its obligations under Section 12.8, shall survive the applicable Final Maturity Date for such Lender as to matters occurring prior to such date. It is understood and agreed that no Lender shall have any obligation whatsoever to agree to any request made by the Borrower for any requested extension of any Final Maturity Date.
(c) If Lenders holding more than 50% of the Incremental Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (as applicable) at any time consent to any such request pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 2.16, the Borrower may arrange for one or more Consenting Lenders or, to the extent that the Consenting Lenders decline to assume any Non-Extending Lender's Commitment and/or Loans, Incremental Lenders reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (each such Incremental Lender that accepts an offer to assume a Non-Extending Lender's Commitment and/or Loan as of the applicable Extension Date being an “Assuming Lender”) to assume, effective as of the Extension Date, any Non-Extending Lender's Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Commitments (as applicable) and all of the obligations of such Non-Extending Lender under this Agreement thereafter arising, without recourse to or warranty by, or expense to, such Non-Extending Lender; provided, however, that if the Borrower makes an offer to any Consenting Lender to assume any Non-Extending Lender's Loans or Revolving Commitments (as applicable), the Borrower shall make such offer to all Consenting Lenders on a pro rata basis based on their respective Incremental Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (as applicable) and such Non-Extending Lender's Incremental Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (as applicable) shall be allocated among those Consenting Lenders which accept such offer on a pro rata basis based on their respective Incremental Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (as applicable); provided further that:
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(i) any such Consenting Lender or Assuming Lender shall have paid to such Non-Extending Lender (A) the aggregate principal amount of, and any interest accrued and unpaid to the effective date of the assignment on, the outstanding assumed Loans, if any, of such Non-Extending Lender plus (B) any accrued but unpaid commitment fees owing to such Non-Extending Lender as of the effective date of such assignment;
(ii) all additional cost reimbursements, expense reimbursements and indemnities payable to such Non-Extending Lender, and all other accrued and unpaid amounts owing to such Non-Extending Lender hereunder, as of the effective date of such assignment shall have been paid to such Non-Extending Lender; and
(iii) with respect to any such Assuming Lender, the applicable processing and recordation fee required under Section 12.4 for such assignment shall have been paid;
provided further that such Non-Extending Lender's rights under Sections 2.11 and 12.1 and its obligations under Section 12.8, shall survive such substitution as to matters occurring prior to the date of substitution. At least three Business Days prior to any Extension Date, (A) each such Assuming Lender, if any, shall have delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent an assumption agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (an “Assumption Agreement”), duly executed by such Assuming Lender, such Non-Extending Lender, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (B) any such Consenting Lender shall have delivered confirmation in writing satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent as to the increase in the amount of its Commitment and (C) each Non-Extending Lender being replaced pursuant to this Section 2.16 shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent any note or notes held by such Non-Extending Lender. Upon the payment or prepayment of all amounts referred to in clauses (A), (B) and (C) of the immediately preceding sentence, each such Consenting Lender or Assuming Lender, as of the Extension Date, will be substituted for such Non-Extending Lender under this Agreement and shall be a Lender for all purposes of this Agreement, without any further acknowledgment by or the consent of the other Lenders, and the obligations of each such Non-Extending Lender hereunder shall, by the provisions hereof, be released and discharged.
(d) If all of the Lenders holding the applicable Class of Commitments and/or Loans (as applicable) (after giving effect to any assignments pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section 2.16) consent in writing to the requested extension (whether by execution or delivery of an Assumption Agreement or otherwise) not later than one Business Day prior to such Extension Date, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Borrower, and, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of such Extension Date, or shall occur as a consequence thereof, the applicable Final Maturity Date then in effect shall be extended for the additional one year period described in subsection (a) of this Section 2.16, and all references in this Agreement and in the other Credit Documents, if any, to the “Term Facility Final Maturity Date” or the “Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date”, as applicable, shall, with respect to each Consenting Lender and each Assuming Lender for such Extension Date, refer to the Term Facility Final Maturity Date or the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date, as applicable, as so extended. Promptly following each Extension Date, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders (including, without limitation, each Assuming Lender) of the extension of the scheduled applicable Final Maturity Date in effect immediately prior thereto.
(e) Any extended Loans and/or Revolving Commitments under this Section shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which
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notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 12.12, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Consenting Lenders and the Assuming Lenders with respect to the extended Loans and/or Revolving Commitments established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Consenting Lenders and the Assuming Lenders. In connection with any Extension Amendment, the Borrower shall deliver an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as to the enforceability of such Extension Amendment, this Agreement as amended thereby and such other customary matters as reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, and such of the other Credit Documents (if any) as may be amended or replaced thereby. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 12.12, the Administrative Agent is expressly permitted to amend the Credit Documents through the Extension Amendment to the extent necessary to give effect to any extension pursuant to this Section and mechanical changes necessary or advisable in connection therewith.
(f) This Section 2.16 shall supersede any provisions in Section 12.12 to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, any of the provisions of this Section 2.16 may be amended with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such amendment shall require any Lender to provide any requested extension of any Final Maturity Date without its prior written consent.
Section 2.17 Inability to Determine Interest Rates.
(a) If, prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans:
(i) the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant interbank market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate (including, without limitation, because the Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis) for such Interest Period, provided that no Early Opt-In Election shall have occurred at such time or for such Interest Period, or
(ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Required Lenders that the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their Eurodollar Rate Loans for such Interest Period,
then the Administrative Agent shall give written notice thereof (or telephonic notice, promptly confirmed in writing) to the Borrower and to the Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter. Until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) the obligations of the Lenders to make Eurodollar Revolving Loans or to continue or convert outstanding Loans as or into Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended and (ii) all such affected Loans shall be converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto unless the Borrower prepays such Loans in accordance with this Agreement. Unless the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent at least one (1) Business Day before the date of any Eurodollar Borrowing for which a Notice of Revolving Borrowing has previously been given that it elects not to borrow, continue or convert to a Eurodollar Borrowing on such date, then such Revolving Borrowing shall be made as, continued as or converted into a Base Rate Borrowing.
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(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document, if a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Credit Document and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Credit Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document and subject to the proviso below in this paragraph, if a Term SOFR Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then the applicable Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder or under any Credit Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings, without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Credit Document; provided that this clause (c) shall not be effective unless the Administrative Agent has delivered to the Lenders and the Borrower a Term SOFR Notice.
(d) In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Credit Document.
(e) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, (iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (iv) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to clause (f) below and (v) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 2.17, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to
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this Agreement or any other Credit Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.17.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Term SOFR or the Eurodollar Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is or will be no longer representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is or will no longer be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(g) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a Eurodollar Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans. During any Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of Base Rate based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of Base Rate.
Section 2.18 Illegality. If any Change in Law shall make it unlawful or impossible for any Lender to perform any of its obligations hereunder or to make, maintain or fund any Eurodollar Rate Loan and such Lender shall so notify the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to the Borrower and the other Lenders, whereupon until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligation of such Lender to make Eurodollar Revolving Loans, or to continue or convert outstanding Loans as or into Eurodollar Rate Loans, shall be suspended. In the case of the making of a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans, such Lender’s Revolving Loan shall be made as a Base Rate Loan as part of the same Borrowing of Revolving Loans for the same Interest Period and, if the affected Eurodollar Rate Loan is then outstanding, such Loan shall be converted to a Base Rate Loan either (i) on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Rate Loan if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Loan to such date or (ii) immediately if such Lender shall determine that it may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loan to such date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the affected Lender shall, prior to giving such notice to the Administrative Agent, use reasonable efforts to designate a different applicable lending office if such designation would avoid the need for giving such notice and if such designation would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender in the good faith exercise of its discretion.
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Section 2.19 Increased Costs.
(a) If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement that is not otherwise included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate hereunder against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Eurodollar Rate) or the Letter of Credit Issuer; or
(ii) impose on any Lender, the Letter of Credit Issuer or the eurodollar interbank market any other condition affecting this Agreement or any Eurodollar Rate Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or any participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining a Eurodollar Rate Loan or to increase the cost to such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer of participating in or issuing any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount received or receivable by such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount),
then, from time to time, such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer may provide the Borrower (with a copy thereof to the Administrative Agent) with written notice and demand with respect to such increased costs or reduced amounts, and within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice and demand the Borrower shall pay to such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer for any such increased costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer shall have determined that on or after the Closing Date any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the Letter of Credit Issuer’s capital (or on the capital of the Parent Company of such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer) as a consequence of its obligations hereunder or under or in respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that which such Lender, the Letter of Credit Issuer or such Parent Company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the Letter of Credit Issuer’s policies or the policies of such Parent Company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then, from time to time, such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer may provide the Borrower (with a copy thereof to the Administrative Agent) with written notice and demand with respect to such reduced amounts, and within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice and demand the Borrower shall pay to such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender, the Letter of Credit Issuer or such Parent Company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) A certificate of such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender, the Letter of Credit Issuer or the Parent Company of such Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer, as the case may be, specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) and shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
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(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Letter of Credit Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Letter of Credit Issuer’s right to demand such compensation.
SECTION 3 LETTERS OF CREDIT.
Section 3.1 Letters of Credit. On any Business Day prior to the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date, the Letter of Credit Issuer, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Lenders pursuant to Section 3.4 and Section 3.5, may, in its sole discretion, issue, at the request of the Borrower, Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (as specified by the Borrower in the request for such Letter of Credit) on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth; provided that (i) each Letter of Credit shall expire on the earlier of (A) 18 months after the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (B) the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date; (ii) the Borrower may not request any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, (A) the aggregate Letter of Credit Exposure would exceed the Letter of Credit Commitment or (B) the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of all Lenders would exceed the amount of the Total Revolving Commitment and (iii) the Borrower shall not request, and the Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation to issue, any Letter of Credit the proceeds of which would be made available to any Person (I) to fund any activity or business of or with any Sanctioned Person or in any Sanctioned Countries, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of any Sanctions or (II) in any manner that would result in a violation of any Sanctions by any party to this Agreement. Each Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Letter of Credit Issuer without recourse a participation in each Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (x) on the Closing Date with respect to all Existing Letters of Credit and (y) on the date of issuance with respect to all other Letters of Credit. Each issuance of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to utilize the Revolving Commitment of each Lender by an amount equal to the amount of such participation.
Section 3.2 Notices of Issuance . To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or any amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall give the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Administrative Agent irrevocable written notice at least three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of such issuance specifying the date (which shall be a Business Day) such Letter of Credit is to be issued (or amended, renewed or extended, as the case may be), the expiration date of such Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof, whether such Letter of Credit will be issued for the account of the Borrower or a Subsidiary, and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. In addition to the satisfaction of the conditions in Section 6, the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or any amendment which increases the amount of such Letter of Credit) will be subject to the further conditions that such Letter of Credit shall be in such form and contain such terms as the Letter of Credit Issuer shall approve and that the Borrower and/or the applicable Subsidiary shall have executed and delivered any additional applications, agreements and instruments relating to such Letter of Credit as the Letter of Credit Issuer shall reasonably require; provided that in the event of any conflict between such applications, agreements or instruments and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall control.
Section 3.3 Issuance of Letters of Credit. At least two (2) Business Days prior to the issuance of any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Issuer will confirm with the Administrative
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Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received such notice, and, if not, the Letter of Credit Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Unless the Letter of Credit Issuer has received notice from the Administrative Agent, on or before the Business Day immediately preceding the date the Letter of Credit Issuer is to issue the requested Letter of Credit, directing the Letter of Credit Issuer not to issue the Letter of Credit because such issuance is not then permitted hereunder because of the limitations set forth in Section 3.1 or that one or more conditions specified in Section 6 are not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Letter of Credit Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue such Letter of Credit in accordance with the Letter of Credit Issuer’s usual and customary business practices.
Section 3.4 Letter of Credit Disbursement/Reimbursement Obligation. The Letter of Credit Issuer shall examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit promptly following its receipt thereof. The Letter of Credit Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of such demand for payment and whether the Letter of Credit Issuer has made or will make a Letter of Credit Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Lenders with respect to such Letter of Credit Disbursement. The Borrower shall be irrevocably and unconditionally obligated to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for any Letter of Credit Disbursements paid by the Letter of Credit Issuer in respect of such drawing, without presentment, demand or other formalities of any kind. Unless the Borrower shall have notified the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Administrative Agent prior to 11:00 a.m. on the Business Day immediately prior to the date on which such drawing is honored that the Borrower intends to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for the amount of such drawing in funds other than from the proceeds of Revolving Loans, the Borrower shall be deemed to have timely given a Notice of Borrowing to the Administrative Agent requesting the Lenders to make a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans on the date on which such drawing is honored in an exact amount due to the Letter of Credit Issuer; provided that for purposes solely of such Borrowing, the conditions precedent set forth in Section 6.2 hereof shall not be applicable. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of such Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.3, and each Lender shall make the proceeds of its Base Rate Loan included in such Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer in accordance with Section 2.4. The proceeds of such Borrowing shall be applied directly by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for such Letter of Credit Disbursement.
Section 3.5 Lenders’ Participation Obligations. If for any reason a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans may not be (as determined in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent), or is not, made in accordance with the foregoing provisions, then each Lender (other than the Letter of Credit Issuer) shall be obligated to fund the participation that such Lender purchased pursuant to Section 3.1 in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of such Letter of Credit Disbursement on and as of the date which such Borrowing should have occurred. Each Lender’s obligation to fund its participation shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, (i) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such Lender or any other Person may have against the Letter of Credit Issuer or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the existence of a Default or an Event of Default or the termination of the Revolving Commitments, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) any breach of this Agreement by the Borrower or any other Lender, (v) any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or (vi) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing. On the date that such participation is required to be funded, each Lender shall promptly transfer, in
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immediately available funds, the amount of its participation to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer. Whenever, at any time after the Letter of Credit Issuer has received from any such Lender the funds for its participation in a Letter of Credit Disbursement, the Letter of Credit Issuer (or the Administrative Agent on its behalf) receives any payment on account thereof, the Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit Issuer, as the case may be, will distribute to such Lender its Pro Rata Share of such payment; provided that if such payment is required to be returned for any reason to the Borrower or to a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or similar official in any bankruptcy proceeding, such Lender will return to the Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit Issuer any portion thereof previously distributed by the Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit Issuer to it.
Section 3.6 Obligation to Pay Interest . To the extent that any Lender shall fail to pay any amount required to be paid pursuant to Section 3.4 and Section 3.5 on the due date therefor, such Lender shall pay interest to the Letter of Credit Issuer (through the Administrative Agent) on such amount from such due date to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate; provided that if such Lender shall fail to make such payment to the Letter of Credit Issuer within three (3) Business Days of such due date, then, retroactively to the due date, such Lender shall be obligated to pay interest on such amount at the rate set forth in Section 2.8(c).
Section 3.7 Cash Collateral. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders demanding that its reimbursement obligations with respect to the Letters of Credit be Cash Collateralized pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to 103% of the aggregate Letter of Credit Exposure of all Lenders as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid fees thereon; provided that such obligation to Cash Collateralize the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower with respect to the Letters of Credit shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in Section 10.5. Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. The Borrower agrees to execute any documents and/or certificates to effectuate the intent of this Section. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent (acting in good faith) and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest and profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for Letter of Credit Disbursements for which it had not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the Letter of Credit Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, with the consent of the Required Lenders, be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents. If the Borrower is required to Cash Collateralize its reimbursement obligations with respect to the Letters of Credit as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such Cash Collateral so posted (to the extent not so applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three (3) Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived.
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Section 3.8 Letter of Credit Reporting. Upon the request of any Lender, but no more frequently than quarterly, the Letter of Credit Issuer shall deliver (through the Administrative Agent) to each Lender and the Borrower a report describing the aggregate Letters of Credit then outstanding. Upon the request of any Lender from time to time, the Letter of Credit Issuer shall deliver to such Lender any other information reasonably requested by such Lender with respect to each Letter of Credit then outstanding.
Section 3.9 Unconditional Obligation to Reimburse. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse Letter of Credit Disbursements hereunder shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right which the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Borrower may have at any time against a beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Persons or entities for whom any such beneficiary or transferee may be acting), any Lender (including the Letter of Credit Issuer) or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement or the Letter of Credit or any document related hereto or thereto or any unrelated transaction;
(iii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) payment by the Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document to the Letter of Credit Issuer that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit;
(v) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of set-off against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder; or
(vi) the existence of a Default or an Event of Default.
Neither the Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender nor any Related Parties of any of the foregoing shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to above), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Letter of Credit Issuer; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Letter of Credit Issuer from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any actual direct damages (as opposed to special, indirect (including claims for lost profits or other consequential damages), or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the
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extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Letter of Credit Issuer’s failure to exercise due care when determining whether drafts or other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have exercised due care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Issuer may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.
Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the applicable Letter of Credit Issuer hereunder for all LC Disbursements and to otherwise perform all obligations hereunder in respect of such Letter of Credit as if it has been issued for the account of the Borrower. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the Borrower, and that the Borrower’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Subsidiaries.
Section 3.10 Law Governing Letters of Credit. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued and subject to applicable laws, (i) each standby Letter of Credit shall be governed by the “International Standby Practices 1998” (ISP98) (or such later revision as may be published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice on any date any Letter of Credit may be issued), (ii) each documentary Letter of Credit shall be governed by the Uniform Customs and Practices for Documentary Credits (2007 Revision), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 600 (or such later revision as may be published by the International Chamber of Commerce on any date any Letter of Credit may be issued) and (iii) the Borrower shall specify the foregoing in each letter of credit application submitted for the issuance of a Letter of Credit (it being understood that government agencies and authorities require certain letters of credit to be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the applicable state without regard to its conflict of laws principles, and such governing law provisions may be agreed to by the Letter of Credit Issuer in its discretion (the consent to which shall not be unreasonably withheld)).
Section 3.11 Resignation of Letter of Credit Issuer. Any Letter of Credit Issuer may resign as an “Letter of Credit Issuer” hereunder upon 30 days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower; provided that on or prior to the expiration of such 30-day period with respect to such resignation, the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer shall have identified a successor Letter of Credit Issuer reasonably acceptable to the Borrower willing to accept its appointment as successor Letter of Credit Issuer, and the effectiveness of such resignation shall be conditioned upon such successor assuming the rights and duties of the resigning Letter of Credit Issuer. In the event of any such resignation as Letter of Credit Issuer, the Borrower shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders a successor Letter of Credit Issuer hereunder; provided, however, that no failure by the Borrower to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of the resigning Letter of Credit Issuer except as expressly provided above. The Borrower may terminate the appointment of any Letter of Credit Issuer as a “Letter of Credit Issuer” hereunder by providing a written notice thereof to such Letter of Credit Issuer, with a copy to the Administrative Agent. Any
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such termination shall become effective upon the earlier of (i) such Letter of Credit Issuer acknowledging receipt of such notice and (ii) the third Business Day following the date of the delivery thereof; provided that no such termination shall become effective until and unless the Letter of Credit Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by such Letter of Credit Issuer (or its Affiliates) shall have been reduced to zero. At the time any such resignation or termination shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the resigning or terminated Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 4.1. Notwithstanding the effectiveness of any such resignation or termination, the resigning or terminated Letter of Credit Issuer shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of a Letter of Credit Issuer under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such resignation or termination, but shall not be required to issue any additional Letters of Credit or renew or extend any existing Letters of Credit. To the extent that there are, at the time of any resignation or replacement as set forth in this Section 3.11, any outstanding Letters of Credit, such Letters of Credit shall continue to remain outstanding hereunder and nothing herein shall be deemed to impact or impair any rights and obligations of any of the parties thereto.
SECTION 4 FEES; COMMITMENTS.
Section 4.1 Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent a commitment fee (“Commitment Fee for Revolver”) for the account of each Revolving Lender for the period from and including the Closing Date to but not including the date the Total Revolving Commitment has been terminated, in an amount equal to the Commitment Fee Rate for Revolver then in effect multiplied by the average daily Unutilized Commitment of each Lender. Such Commitment Fee for Revolver shall be due and payable in arrears on the second Business Day immediately following March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on April 2, 2021, and on the first date upon which the Total Revolving Commitments shall have been terminated.
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender pro rata on the basis of its Revolving Percentage, a fee in respect of each outstanding Letter of Credit (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for each day computed at the rate equal to the Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans for such day on the Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit on such day. Accrued Letter of Credit Fees shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the second Business Day immediately following March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on April 2, 2021, and on the date upon which the Total Revolving Commitment is terminated.
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer a fee in respect of each Letter of Credit (the “Fronting Fee”) computed at the rate of 0.125% per annum on the average daily Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit. Accrued Fronting Fees shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the second Business Day immediately following March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on April 2, 2021, and on the date upon which the Total Revolving Commitment is terminated.
(d) The Borrower agrees to pay directly to the Letter of Credit Issuer upon each issuance of, drawing under, and/or amendment or transfer by a beneficiary of, a Letter of Credit such amount as shall at the time of such issuance, drawing, transfer or amendment be the administrative charge which the Letter of Credit Issuer is customarily charging for issuances of, drawings under or amendments or transfers of, letters of credit issued by it.
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(e) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (x) on the Closing Date for its own account and/or for distribution to the Lenders such fees as have heretofore been agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and (y) for its own account such other fees as may be agreed to from time to time between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, when and as due.
(f) All computations of Fees shall be made in accordance with Section 12.7.
Section 4.2 Voluntary Reduction of Commitments. Upon at least three Business Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice confirmed in writing) to the Administrative Agent at its Notice Office (which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders), the Borrower shall have the right, without premium or penalty, to terminate or partially reduce the Total Unutilized Revolving Commitment, provided that (x) any such termination shall apply to proportionately and permanently reduce the Revolving Commitment of each of the Lenders with such a Commitment and (y) any partial reduction pursuant to this clause Section 4.2 shall be in the amount of at least $5,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof.
Section 4.3 Commitment Terminations. Unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of the Agreement:
(a) The Total Revolving Commitment (and the Revolving Commitment of each Lender) shall terminate on the Revolving Facility Final Maturity Date.
(b) The Swingline Commitment shall terminate on the Swingline Expiry Date.
SECTION 5 PAYMENTS.
Section 5.1 Voluntary Prepayments. (a) The Borrower shall have the right to prepay Revolving Loans and/or Swingline Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, from time to time on the following terms and conditions: (i) the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent at the Payment Office written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of its intent to prepay the Loans, whether such Loans are Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans, the amount of such prepayment and (in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans) the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made, which notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent by 11:00 a.m. (x) one Business Day prior to the date of such prepayment in the case of Base Rate Loans, (y) three Business Days’ prior written notice in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans and (z) 11:00 a.m. on the date of prepayment, in the case of Swingline Loans, which notice shall promptly be transmitted by the Administrative Agent to each of the Lenders; (ii) each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal amount of at least $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof; provided that no partial prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall reduce the aggregate principal amount of the Loans outstanding pursuant to such Borrowing to an amount less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto; and (iii) each prepayment in respect of any Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall be applied pro rata among such Loans. Voluntary prepayments with respect to any Incremental Term Loans shall be subject to the terms and conditions applicable to such Incremental Term Loans as set forth in the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment. Any prepayment made pursuant to this Section shall be subject to Section 2.11.
Section 5.2 Mandatory Prepayments.
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If on any date (after giving effect to any other repayments or prepayments on such date) the sum of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans plus (ii) the aggregate amount of Letter of Credit Outstandings exceeds the Total Revolving Commitment as then in effect, the Borrower shall repay on such date that principal amount of Swingline Loans and, after Swingline Loans have been paid in full, Unpaid Drawings and, after Unpaid Drawings have been paid in full, Revolving Loans, in an aggregate amount equal to such excess. If, after giving effect to the prepayment of all outstanding Swingline Loans, Unpaid Drawings and Revolving Loans, the aggregate amount of Letter of Credit Outstandings exceeds the Total Revolving Commitment as then in effect (any such excess, a “Total Revolving Commitment Excess Amount”), the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent an amount in cash and/or Cash Equivalents equal to such Total Revolving Commitment Excess Amount, and the Administrative Agent shall hold such payment as security for the obligations of the Borrower hereunder pursuant to a cash collateral agreement to be entered into in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower which shall permit certain investments in Cash Equivalents satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, until the proceeds are applied to the Obligations, and which shall provide that a portion of the balance, if any, held in a cash collateral account established under such cash collateral agreement equal to the amount by which such balance exceeds the Total Revolving Commitment Excess Amount from time to time, shall be released to the Borrower, provided that (x) as a result of such release, a mandatory prepayment shall not be required under the first sentence of this paragraph (a)(i) unless such prepayment is made concurrently with such release, and (y) immediately after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing or would result from such release.
Section 5.3 Method and Place of Payment. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all payments under this Agreement shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the ratable (based on its pro rata share) account of the Lenders entitled thereto, not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date when due and shall be made in immediately available funds and in lawful money of the United States of America at the Payment Office, it being understood that prior written notice by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to make a payment from the funds in the Borrower’s account at the Payment Office shall constitute the making of such payment to the extent of such funds held in such account. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. Any payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement which are made later than 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed to have been made by the Borrower on the next succeeding Business Day. Whenever any payment to be made hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day which is not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, with respect to payments of principal, interest shall be payable during such extension at the applicable rate in effect immediately prior to such extension.
Section 5.4 Taxes.
(a) Defined Terms. For purposes of this Section 5.4, the term “Lender” includes Letter of Credit Issuer and the term “applicable law” includes FATCA.
(b) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Credit Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable
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Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Credit Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
(c) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower. The Borrower shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.
(d) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Borrower shall indemnify each Recipient, within 10 Business Days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 12.4(d) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Credit Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Credit Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).
(f) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by the Borrower or any other Credit Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 5.4, the Borrower or other Credit Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g) Status of Lenders.
(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Credit Document shall
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deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Sections 5.4(g)(ii)(A), 5.4(g)(ii)(B) and 5.4(g)(ii)(D)) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
(A) Any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), two (2) executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;
(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of executed original copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
i. in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Credit Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Credit Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;
ii. executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;
iii. in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of
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Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E; or
iv. to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner (including a Foreign Lender that is a partnership), executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN-E or W-8BEN, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2 or Exhibit D-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents that would be required from each beneficial owner (including a partner of Foreign Lender that is a partnership) pursuant to clauses (ii)(B)(i)-(iii) above if such beneficial owner (or partner) were a Lender, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of executed original copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Credit Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.
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Each Lender agrees that if any form, certification or other supplementing documentation prescribed by applicable law that it previously delivered pursuant to this Section 5.4(g) expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(h) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 5.4 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.4), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (h) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (h), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (h) to the extent that the payment would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
(i) Survival. Each party’s obligations under this Section 5.4 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Credit Document.
SECTION 6 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Section 6.1 Conditions Precedent to Closing Date. The obligation of the Lenders to make each Loan hereunder, and the obligation of the Letter of Credit Issuer to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, in each case, on the Closing Date are subject to the satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of each of the following conditions:
(a) Execution of Agreement. On or prior to the Closing Date, (i) this Agreement shall have been executed and delivered as provided in Section 12.10 and (ii) there shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Lender that has requested Notes pursuant to Section 2.5(d), Notes conforming to the requirements hereof and executed by a duly Authorized Officer of the Borrower.
(b) Opinions of Counsel. On the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received opinions, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders from:
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(i) Vorys, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx LLP, counsel to Holdings and its Subsidiaries, which opinion shall be dated the Closing Date and shall be in the form of Exhibit E-1;
(ii) W. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Esq., General Counsel to Holdings, the Borrower and all of the Subsidiaries, which opinion shall be dated the Closing Date and shall be in the form of Exhibit E-2;
(iii) Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, P.A., special Florida counsel to the Borrower and certain Guarantors, which opinion shall be dated the Closing Date and shall be in the form of Exhibit E-3; and
(iv) Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, P.C., special Nevada counsel to Air Transport International Limited Liability Company, a Nevada limited liability company, which opinion shall be dated the Closing Date and shall be in the form of Exhibit E-4.
(c) Proceedings.
(i) On the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received from each Credit Party a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed by the Secretary of such Credit Party in the form of Exhibit F (together with certifications as to incumbency and signatures of such officers) with appropriate insertions and deletions, together with (x) copies of the articles or certificate of incorporation, the limited liability company agreement, the partnership agreement, any certificate of designation, the by-laws, or other organizational documents of each such Credit Party, (y) the resolutions, or such other administrative approval, of each such Credit Party referred to in such certificate to be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (z) in the case of the certificate delivered by the Borrower, a statement that all of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 6 have been satisfied as of such date.
(ii) On the Closing Date, all corporate, limited liability company, partnership and legal proceedings and all instruments and agreements in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Credit Documents shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent shall have received all information and copies of all certificates, documents and papers, including long-form good standing certificates and any other records of corporate, partnership or limited liability company proceedings and governmental approvals, if any, which the Administrative Agent may have reasonably requested in connection therewith, such documents and papers, where appropriate, to be certified by proper corporate or Governmental Authority.
(iii) A Notice of Borrowing for the Revolving Loans to be made on the Closing Date, together with a Funds Disbursement Agreement, in each case executed by the Borrower.
(d) Closing Date Bring-Down Certificate. A certificate from an Authorized Officer of the Borrower dated the Closing Date to the effect that (A) all representations and
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warranties of the Credit Parties contained in this Agreement and the other Credit Documents are true, correct and complete in all material respects (except to the extent any such representation and warranty specifically refers to an earlier date, in which case the same were true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date); (B) after giving effect to any Related Transactions, as applicable, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; (C) since December 31, 2020, there has not been any change, effect, event, occurrence, state of facts or development that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (D) each of the Credit Parties, as applicable, has satisfied each of the conditions set forth in Section 6.1 and Section 6.2.
(e) Reaffirmation. A Reaffirmation of Obligations Under Credit Documents dated the Closing Date duly executed by each Credit Party, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
(f) Affidavit. An Affidavit of Out-Of-State Execution and Delivery regarding the execution of the Credit Documents to be executed on the Closing Date, duly executed by the Borrower and notarized.
(g) Lien Searches/Security Documents. On the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received copies of favorable UCC, tax, and judgment search reports in all necessary or appropriate jurisdictions, as requested by the Administrative Agent, indicating that there are no prior Liens on any of the Collateral or on the Capital Stock of the Subsidiaries of Holdings, in each case, other than Permitted Liens. On the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received copies of duly executed FAA form “Aircraft Security Agreements” and/or “Amended and Restated Aircraft Security Agreements” to be filed on the Closing Date with the FAA, the substance of which shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, covering the Aircraft and Engines included in the Collateral Pool and registrations satisfactory to the Administrative Agent shall have been made with the “International Registry” (as defined under the Cape Town Convention) relating to the airframes with respect to the Aircraft and Engines in the Collateral Pool on the Closing Date.
(h) Governmental Approvals and Consents; No Injunction. Each Credit Party shall have obtained all permits, registrations, filings, licenses, authorizations, consents, orders or approvals of or from any Governmental Authority and other Persons, in each case that are necessary or advisable in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents and the Related Transaction Documents, and each of the foregoing shall be in full force and effect and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent. All applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken or threatened by any competent authority which would restrain, prevent or otherwise impose adverse conditions on the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents and the Related Transaction Documents and no action, request for stay, petition for review or rehearing, reconsideration, or appeal with respect to any of the foregoing shall be pending, and the time for any applicable agency to take action to set aside its consent on its own motion shall have expired. No action, proceeding or investigation shall have been instituted, threatened or proposed before any Governmental Authority to enjoin, restrain, or prohibit, or to obtain substantial damages in respect of, or which is related to or arises out of this Agreement or the other Related Transaction Documents or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or which, in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, would make it inadvisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Related Transaction Documents or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
(i) [Reserved].
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(j) Fees. On the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses required to be paid, on or before the Closing Date, including, without limitation, all Fees accrued to and including the Closing Date under the Existing Credit Agreement.
(k) Evidence of Insurance. The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate from the Borrower’s insurance broker or other evidence satisfactory to it that all insurance required to be maintained pursuant to Section 8.3 is in full force and effect, together with endorsements naming the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, as additional insured and lender’s loss payee thereunder to the extent required under Section 8.3.
(l) No Litigation. There shall not exist any action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding or other legal or regulatory developments, pending or threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that, in the reasonable opinion of Administrative Agent, singly or in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on the business operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(m) Compliance Certificate. A pro forma Compliance Certificate dated the Closing Date, after giving effect to any Related Transactions, as applicable.
(n) Patriot Act, Etc. At least five (5) days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender under or in respect of applicable “know your customer” requirements and Anti-Money Laundering Laws including the Patriot Act and, if the Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to Borrower.
Section 6.2 Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events. The obligation of the Lenders to make each Loan hereunder, and the obligation of the Letter of Credit Issuer to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, is subject, at the time of each such Credit Event, to the satisfaction of the conditions that at the time of each Credit Event and also after giving effect thereto, (a) there shall exist no Default or Event of Default, (b) all representations and warranties contained herein or in the other Credit Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of such Credit Event (except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall have been true and correct in all material respect as of such earlier date) and (c) the Borrower shall have certified compliance on a pro forma basis (after giving effect to (i) the proposed Credit Event and (ii) the addition of Aircraft to, and/or the removal of Aircraft from, the Collateral Pool in accordance with Section 8.10 occurring after the end of the immediately preceding Test Period) with covenant set forth in Section 9.14 (without giving effect to the cure periods in such Sections), and, for purposes of this clause (c), the value of any Aircraft added to the Collateral Pool pursuant to Section 8.10 and not otherwise included in the most recent Aircraft Appraisal delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms hereof shall be based on the fair market value of such Aircraft (as reasonably determined in good faith by the Borrower. For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation of the Lenders to make each Loan hereunder, and the obligation of the Letter of Credit Issuer to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, shall be subject to satisfaction of each of the foregoing conditions under this Section 6.2 in all circumstances other than (i) as expressly provided in Section 1.2(n) in the case of any Loans made to finance a Limited
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Condition Acquisition and (ii) Section 2.14(d) with respect to any Limited Condition Transaction funded with the proceeds of Incremental Commitments.
The acceptance of the benefits of each Credit Event shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower to each of the Lenders that all of the applicable conditions specified in Section 6.1, and/or Section 6.2, as the case may be, exist as of that time. All of the certificates, legal opinions and other documents and papers referred to in this Section 6, unless otherwise specified, shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent at its Notice Office for the benefit of each of the Lenders.
Section 6.3 Effect of Amendment and Restatement.
(a) Upon this Agreement becoming effective pursuant to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, from and after the Closing Date: (i)(A) all outstanding “Revolving Loans” (as such term is defined in the Existing Credit Agreement), if any, shall be deemed to be Revolving Loans outstanding hereunder, (B) all outstanding “Swingline Loans” (as such term is defined in the Existing Credit Agreement), if any, shall be deemed to be Swingline Loans outstanding hereunder, (C) each outstanding “Letter of Credit” (as such term is defined in the Existing Credit Agreement), if any, shall be deemed to be a Letter of Credit issued and outstanding hereunder and (D) all outstanding “Term Loans” (as such term is defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) shall be repaid in full; (ii) all terms and conditions of the Existing Credit Agreement and any other “Credit Document” as defined therein, as amended and restated by this Agreement and the other Credit Documents being executed and delivered on the Closing Date, shall be and remain in full force and effect, as so amended, and shall constitute the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Credit Parties to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent; (iii) the terms and conditions of the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended as set forth herein and, as so amended and restated, shall be restated in their entirety, but shall be amended only with respect to the rights, duties and obligations among the Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent accruing from and after the Closing Date; (iv) this Agreement shall not in any way release or impair the rights, duties, Obligations or Liens created pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement or any other “Credit Document” as defined therein or affect the relative priorities thereof, in each case to the extent in force and effect thereunder as of the Closing Date, except as modified hereby or by documents, instruments and agreements executed and delivered in connection herewith, and all of such rights, duties, Obligations and Liens are assumed, ratified and affirmed by the Borrower; (v) all indemnification obligations of the Credit Parties under the Existing Credit Agreement and any other “Credit Document” as defined therein shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, and any other Person indemnified under the Existing Credit Agreement or such other Credit Document at any time prior to the Closing Date; (vi) the Obligations incurred under the Existing Credit Agreement shall, to the extent outstanding on the Closing Date (other than the Term Loans to be repaid in full on the Closing Date), continue to be outstanding under this Agreement and shall not be deemed to be paid, released, discharged or otherwise satisfied by the execution of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall not constitute a substitution or novation of such Obligations or any of the other rights, duties and obligations of the parties hereunder; (vii) the execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under the Existing Credit Agreement, nor constitute a waiver of any covenant, agreement or obligation under the Existing Credit Agreement, except to the extent that any such covenant, agreement or obligation is no longer set forth herein or is modified hereby; and (viii) any and all references in the Credit Documents to the Existing Credit Agreement shall, without further action of the parties, be deemed a
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reference to the Existing Credit Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, and as this Agreement shall be further amended, modified, supplemented or amended and restated from time to time hereafter in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(b) The Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower agree that the Total Revolving Commitment (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) of each of the Revolving Lenders immediately prior to the effectiveness of this Agreement shall be reallocated among the Revolving Lenders such that, immediately after the effectiveness of this Agreement in accordance with its terms, the Revolving Commitment of each Revolving Lender shall be as set forth on Annex 1.1. In order to effect such reallocations, assignments shall be deemed to be made among the Revolving Lenders in such amounts as may be necessary, and with the same force and effect as if such assignments were evidenced by the applicable Assignment and Acceptance (but without the payment of any related assignment fee), and no other documents or instruments shall be required to be executed in connection with such assignments (all of which such requirements are hereby waived). Further, to effect the foregoing, each Revolving Lender agrees to make cash settlements in respect of any outstanding Revolving Loans, either directly or through the Administrative Agent, as the Administrative Agent may direct or approve, such that after giving effect to this Agreement, each Revolving Lender holds Revolving Loans equal to its Pro Rata Share (based on the Revolving Commitment of each Revolving Lender as set forth on Annex 1.1).
SECTION 7 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
To induce the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans and issue and/or participate in Letters of Credit provided for herein, Holdings and the Borrower make the following representations and warranties to, and agreements with, the Lenders, both immediately before and after giving effect to the Related Transactions, all of which shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Loans (with the making of each Credit Event thereafter being deemed to constitute a representation and warranty that the matters specified in this Section 7 are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of each such Credit Event unless such representation and warranty expressly indicates that it is being made as of any specific date (in which case such representation and warranty shall have been true and correct in all material respect as of such specific date); provided, however, that with respect to any Loan incurred to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, the provisions in this paragraph are subject to Section 1.2(n)):
Section 7.1 Corporate Status; Compliance with Law. Each of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (i) is a duly organized and validly existing corporation or limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and has the corporate or limited liability company power and authority to own its property and assets and to transact the business in which it is engaged and presently proposes to engage on the date hereof, (ii) has duly qualified and is authorized to do business and is in good standing in all jurisdictions where it is required to be so qualified and where the failure to be so qualified would have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and (iii) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law and all Contractual Obligations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, except where the failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 7.2 Power and Authority. Each Credit Party has the corporate or limited liability company power and authority to execute, deliver and carry out the terms and provisions of the Credit Documents and the other Related Transactions Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary corporate or limited liability company action to authorize the execution, delivery
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and performance of the Credit Documents and the other Related Transactions Documents to which it is a party. Each Credit Party has duly executed and delivered each Credit Document to which it is a party, and each such Credit Document constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Person enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).
Section 7.3 No Violation. Neither the execution, delivery and performance by any Credit Party of the Credit Documents and the other Related Transactions Documents to which it is a party nor compliance with the terms and provisions thereof, nor the consummation of any of transactions contemplated herein or therein (i) will contravene any applicable provision of any law, statute, rule, regulation, order, writ, injunction or decree of any Governmental Authority, (ii) will, except as set forth on Annex 7.3, conflict or be inconsistent with or result in any breach of, any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or (other than pursuant to the Security Documents) result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien upon any of the property or assets of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, debt instrument or agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, agreement or other instrument to which Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of its property or assets are bound or to which it may be subject (including, without limitation, the CMI Service Agreement), (iii) will violate any provision of the charter or by-laws or limited liability company agreement of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or (iv) except as set forth on Annex 7.3, require any approval of stockholders, members or partners or any approval or consent of any Person under any Contractual Obligation of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, other than, in the case of clause (i), any contravention which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 7.4 Litigation. There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or threatened with respect to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (i) that are likely to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), operations, financial condition or prospects of any such Person, or (ii) that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the validity or enforceability of any of the Credit Documents or the other Related Transactions Documents or the rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or thereunder.
Section 7.5 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations. (a) On the Closing Date, the Borrower will use the proceeds of the Revolving Loans funded on the Closing Date to prepay and refinance certain Loans under the Existing Credit Agreement. After the Closing Date, the proceeds of all Revolving Loans shall be utilized for working capital needs and other general corporate purposes of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, including the making of Permitted Acquisitions.
(b) No part of the proceeds of any Loans will be used for any purpose which violates the provisions of the Regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any successor thereto. None of Holdings, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of buying or carrying “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Section 7.6 Governmental Approvals. Except for any filings required under the Security Documents, no order, consent, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing,
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recording or registration with, or exemption by, any Governmental Authority is required to authorize or is required in connection with (i) the execution, delivery and performance of any Credit Document or (ii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any Credit Document.
Section 7.7 Investment Company Act. None of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries is (i) an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “ICA”) or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the ICA or (ii) subject to any regulation under any other federal or state statute or regulation which may limit its ability to incur Indebtedness or which may otherwise render all or any party of the Obligations unenforceable or voidable.
Section 7.8 True and Complete Disclosure/Beneficial Ownership Certification. (a) All information and data (excluding projections) concerning Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries and the transactions contemplated herein which have been prepared by or on behalf of the Credit Parties and that have been made available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of the Credit Parties prior to the Closing Date in connection with the transactions contemplated herein do not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading.
(b) All other factual information furnished on or after the Closing Date by or on behalf of the Credit Parties or any of their Subsidiaries in writing to the Administrative Agent or any Lender (including, without limitation, all information contained in the Credit Documents) for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated herein is, and will be, true and accurate in all material respects on the date as of which such information is dated or certified and not incomplete by omitting to state any material fact necessary to make such information not misleading at such time in light of the circumstances under which such information was provided. The projections and pro forma financial information contained in such materials are based on good faith estimates and assumptions believed by such Persons to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the Lenders that such projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected results. There is no fact known to any Credit Party which materially and adversely affects the business, operations, property, assets, liabilities or condition (financial or otherwise) of any such Credit Party and its respective Subsidiaries which has not been disclosed herein or in such other documents, certificates and statements furnished to the Lenders for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
(c) As of the Closing Date, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification is true, correct and complete in all respects.
Section 7.9 Financial Condition; Financial Statements. (a) On and as of the Closing Date, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to any Related Transactions, as applicable, (x) the sum of the assets, at a fair market valuation, of each Credit Party and its respective Subsidiaries will exceed its debts, (y) no such Credit Party or its Subsidiaries will have incurred or intended to, or believes that it will, incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as such debts mature and (z) each such Credit Party and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole will have sufficient capital with which to conduct its business. For purposes of this Section 7.9, “debt” means any liability on a claim, and “claim” means (i) right to payment whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed,
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legal, equitable, secured or unsecured; or (ii) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured.
(b) The audited financial statements of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the 2020 Fiscal Year consisting of balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year, were prepared in conformity with GAAP and fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position, on a consolidated basis, of the Persons described in such financial statements as at the respective dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows, on a consolidated basis, of the Persons described therein for each of the periods then ended. As of the Closing Date, none of Holdings, the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries has any contingent liability or liability for taxes, long-term lease or unusual forward or long-term commitment that is not reflected in the foregoing financial statements or the notes thereto and which in any such case is material in relation to the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of Holdings, the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries. Since December 31, 2020, no event, circumstance or change has occurred that has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 7.10 Security Interests. On and after the Closing Date, each of the Security Documents creates, as security for the Obligations purported to be secured thereby, a valid and enforceable (and, to the extent perfection thereof can be accomplished pursuant to the filings or other actions required by the Security Documents and such filings or other actions are required to have been made or taken, perfected) security interest in and Lien on all of the Qualified Aircraft included in the Collateral Pool, superior to and prior to the rights of all third Persons and subject to no other Liens (except that the Qualified Aircraft included in the Collateral Pool may be subject to Permitted Liens relating thereto), in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders. No filings or recordings are required in order to perfect the security interests created under any Security Document that are required by the Security Documents to be perfected except for filings or recordings which shall have been made upon or prior to the execution and delivery thereof.
Section 7.11 Tax Returns and Payments. Except as set forth on Annex 7.11, Holdings and its Subsidiaries have filed all federal and state income tax returns and all other material tax returns, domestic and foreign, required to be filed by them and have paid Federal and state income taxes and all other all material taxes and assessments payable by them which have become due, other than those not yet delinquent and except for those contested in good faith, and Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries has paid, or has provided adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP (in the good faith judgment of the management of Holdings) for the payment of, all federal, state and foreign income taxes applicable for all prior Fiscal Years and for the current Fiscal Year to the date hereof.
Section 7.12 Compliance with ERISA. Each Plan is in substantial compliance in form and operation with its terms and with ERISA and the Code (including, without limitation, the Code provisions compliance with which is necessary for any intended favorable tax treatment) and all other applicable laws and regulations, except for such non-compliance which, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Plan (and each related trust, if any) which is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the IRS to the effect that it meets the requirements of Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code covering all applicable tax law changes, or is comprised of a master or prototype plan that has received a favorable opinion letter from the IRS, and nothing has
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occurred since the date of such determination that would adversely affect such determination (or, in the case of a Plan with no determination, nothing has occurred that would adversely affect the issuance of a favorable determination letter or otherwise adversely affect such qualification). No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, except the occurrence of an ERISA Event that individually or in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There exists no Unfunded Pension Liability with respect to any Plan that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or has, within any of the five calendar years immediately preceding the date this assurance is given or deemed given, made or accrued an obligation to make, contributions to any Multiemployer Plan. There are no actions, suits or claims pending against or involving a Plan (other than routine claims for benefits) or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate, threatened, which would reasonably be expected to be asserted successfully against any Plan and, if so asserted successfully, would reasonably be expected either singly or in the aggregate to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower, each of its Subsidiaries and each ERISA Affiliate have made all contributions to or under each Plan and Multiemployer Plan required by law within the applicable time limits prescribed thereby, by the terms of such Plan or Multiemployer Plan, respectively, or by any contract or agreement requiring contributions to a Plan or Multiemployer Plan. No Plan which is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA has applied for or received an extension of any amortization period within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 303 or 304 of ERISA. None of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate have ceased operations at a facility so as to become subject to the provisions of Section 4068(a) of ERISA, withdrawn as a substantial employer so as to become subject to the provisions of Section 4063 of ERISA or ceased making contributions to any Plan subject to Section 4064(a) of ERISA to which it made contributions, except where such failure would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Non-U.S. Plan has been maintained in compliance with its terms and with the requirements of any and all applicable laws, statutes, rules, regulations and orders and has been maintained, where required, in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities, except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. All contributions required to be made with respect to a Non-U.S. Plan have been timely made. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any obligation in connection with the termination of, or withdrawal from, any Non-U.S. Plan. The present value of the accrued benefit liabilities (whether or not vested) under each Non-U.S. Plan, determined as of the end of the Borrower’s most recently ended fiscal year on the basis of reasonable actuarial assumptions, did not in any material respect exceed the current value of the assets of such Non-U.S. Plan allocable to such benefit liabilities. The Borrower represents and warrants as of the Closing Date that the Borrower is not and will not be using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA or otherwise) of one or more Benefit Plans with respect to the Borrower’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments or this Agreement.
Section 7.13 Subsidiaries. (a) The Capital Stock of each direct and indirect Subsidiary of Holdings has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable. Annex 7.13 hereto correctly sets forth the ownership interest of Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries in their respective Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date. Holdings will at all times own directly or indirectly the percentages specified in said Annex 7.13 of the outstanding Capital Stock of all of said entities except to the extent otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 9.2 or Section 9.5. Except as set forth on Annex 7.13, as of the Closing Date, there is no existing option, warrant, call, right, commitment or other agreement to which any Subsidiary of Holdings is a party requiring, and there is no membership interest or other Capital Stock of any Subsidiary of Holdings
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outstanding which upon conversion or exchange would require, the issuance by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of any additional membership interests or other Capital Stock of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or other securities convertible into, exchangeable for or evidencing the right to subscribe for or purchase, a membership interest or other Capital Stock of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries. None of the Capital Stock of the direct or indirect Subsidiaries of Holdings is subject to any Lien.
(b) There are no restrictions on Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries which prohibit or otherwise restrict the transfer of cash or other assets from any Subsidiary of Holdings to the Borrower, other than prohibitions or restrictions permitted by Section 9.7(b), and there are no restrictions on Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries which prohibit such Person from granting Liens to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Capital Stock of any of the direct or indirect Subsidiaries of Holdings.
Section 7.14 Intellectual Property. Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all material trademarks, trade names, copyrights, technology, know-how, patents, servicemarks, licenses and processes and other rights free from burdensome restrictions that are necessary for the conduct of their business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted.
Section 7.15 Pollution and Other Regulations. Except as set forth on Annex 7.15, (a) each of Holdings and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all Environmental Laws governing or relating to its business, and to the knowledge of Holdings and the Borrower, there is no condition or circumstance that would be likely to prevent or interfere with such compliance in the future, except in each case, individually or in the aggregate, as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) all licenses, permits, registrations or approvals required for the business of Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries, as conducted as of the Closing Date, under any Environmental Law have been secured, and Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance therewith, except, in each case, either individually or in the aggregate, as could not be reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (c) neither Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written communication from any Person alleging that it is in noncompliance with, breach of or default under, any applicable writ, order, judgment, injunction, or decree, in each case arising under or relating to Environmental Law, to which Holdings or such Subsidiary is a party or which would affect the ability of Holdings or such Subsidiary to operate its business or any Real Property, except in each such case, such noncompliance, breaches or defaults that individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (d) there are no facts, circumstances, conditions or occurrences relating to the business of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or on or relating to any Real Property that could reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 7.16 Properties. Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries have good and valid title to all Qualified Aircraft included in the Collateral Pool, free and clear of all Liens, other than as permitted by Section 9.3.
Section 7.17 Labor Matters. (a) There are no strikes or other material labor disputes against any Credit Party pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Borrower, threatened; (b) hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Credit Parties have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Requirement of Law dealing
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with such matters; and (c) all payments due from the Credit Parties on account of employee health and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the Credit Parties.
Section 7.18 No Default. Neither Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any of its Contractual Obligations in any respect that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
Section 7.19 [Reserved].
Section 7.20 Insurance. Set forth on Annex 7.20 is a true, complete and correct description of all material insurance maintained by or on behalf of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date. As of such date, such insurance is in full force and effect and complies with Section 8.3.
Section 7.21 Accounts. None of the “accounts” (as such term is defined in the UCC) of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any Lien, other than Permitted Liens, and no restrictions exist that prohibit Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries from granting Liens to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in its accounts.
Section 7.22 Material Contracts. As of the Closing Date, all Material Contracts are in full force and effect and no defaults currently exist thereunder.
Section 7.23 Indebtedness . All Indebtedness of Holdings and its Subsidiaries outstanding immediately prior to the Closing Date is permitted pursuant to Section 9.4.
Section 7.24 Solvency. On the Closing Date, after giving effect to all Indebtedness incurred, and to be incurred, and Liens created, and to be created, by each Credit Party and its respective Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and consummation of any Related Transactions, (x) the sum of the assets, at a fair market valuation, of Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will exceed the debts of Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, (y) Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will not have incurred or intended to, or believes they will, incur debts beyond the ability of Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis to pay the debts as such debts mature and (z) Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis taken as a whole will have sufficient capital with which to conduct their business. For purposes of this Section 7.24, “debt” means any liability on a claim, and “claim” means (i) right to payment whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured; or (ii) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured.