AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Exhibit
99.1
AMENDED
AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated
as of August 1, 2007
among
COMMUNICATIONS
& POWER INDUSTRIES, INC.,
as
Borrower,
as
a Guarantor,
THE
OTHER GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO,
THE
LENDERS PARTY HERETO,
and
UBS
SECURITIES LLC and
BEAR,
XXXXXXX & CO. INC.,
as
Joint Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners,
and
UBS
AG, STAMFORD BRANCH,
as
Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Issuing Bank,
and
UBS
LOAN FINANCE LLC,
as
Swingline Lender,
BEAR
XXXXXXX CORPORATE LENDING INC.,
as
Syndication Agent,
THE
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC
as
Documentation Agent,
and
RBS
SECURITIES CORP.
as
Co-Arranger and Bookrunner
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx llp
00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
XX 00000
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
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SECTION
1.01.
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Defined
Terms
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2
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SECTION
1.02.
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Classification
of Loans and Borrowings
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32
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SECTION
1.03.
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Terms
Generally
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32
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SECTION
1.04.
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Accounting
Terms; GAAP
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32
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ARTICLE
II
THE
CREDITS
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SECTION
2.01.
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Commitments
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33
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SECTION
2.02.
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Loans
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33
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SECTION
2.03.
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Borrowing
Procedure
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35
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SECTION
2.04.
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Evidence
of Debt; Repayment of Loans
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35
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SECTION
2.05.
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Fees
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36
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SECTION
2.06.
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Interest
on Loans
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37
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SECTION
2.07.
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Termination
and Reduction of Commitments
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38
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SECTION
2.08.
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Interest
Elections
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38
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SECTION
2.09.
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Amortization
of Term B Borrowings
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39
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SECTION
2.10.
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Optional
and Mandatory Prepayments of Loans
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40
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SECTION
2.11.
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Alternate
Rate of Interest
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42
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SECTION
2.12.
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Increased
Costs
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43
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SECTION
2.13.
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Breakage
Payments
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44
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SECTION
2.14.
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Payments
Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs
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44
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SECTION
2.15.
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Taxes
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46
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SECTION
2.16.
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Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
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47
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SECTION
2.17.
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Swingline
Loans
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48
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SECTION
2.18.
|
Letters
of Credit
|
49
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SECTION
2.19.
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Term
B Loans
|
54
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SECTION
2.20.
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Increase
in Commitments
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54
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ARTICLE
III
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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SECTION
3.01.
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Organization;
Powers
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57
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SECTION
3.02.
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Authorization;
Enforceability
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57
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SECTION
3.03.
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Governmental
Approvals; No Conflicts
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57
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SECTION
3.04.
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Financial
Statements
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57
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SECTION
3.05.
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Properties
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58
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SECTION
3.06.
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Equity
Interests and Subsidiaries
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58
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SECTION
3.07.
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Litigation;
Compliance with Laws
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59
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SECTION
3.08.
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Agreements
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59
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SECTION
3.09.
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Federal
Reserve Regulations
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59
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Page
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SECTION
3.10.
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Investment
Company Act; Public Utility Holding Company Act
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59
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SECTION
3.11.
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Use
of Proceeds
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60
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SECTION
3.12.
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Taxes
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60
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SECTION
3.13.
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No
Material Misstatements
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60
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SECTION
3.14.
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Labor
Matters
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60
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SECTION
3.15.
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Solvency
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61
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SECTION
3.16.
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Employee
Benefit Plans
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61
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SECTION
3.17.
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Environmental
Matters
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61
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SECTION
3.18.
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Insurance
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62
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SECTION
3.19.
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Security
Documents
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62
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SECTION
3.20.
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Acquisition
Documents; Representations and Warranties in
Agreement
|
63
|
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SECTION
3.21.
|
Representations,
Warranties and Agreements of Parent
|
63
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|
SECTION
3.22.
|
Anti-Terrorism
Law
|
64
|
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SECTION
3.23.
|
Bribery
|
64
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ARTICLE
IV
CONDITIONS
OF LENDING
|
SECTION
4.01.
|
All
Credit Events
|
65
|
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SECTION
4.02.
|
First
Credit Event
|
65
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ARTICLE
V
AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
|
SECTION
5.01.
|
Financial
Statements, Reports, etc.
|
69
|
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SECTION
5.02.
|
Litigation
and Other Notices
|
71
|
|
SECTION
5.03.
|
Existence;
Businesses and Properties
|
71
|
|
SECTION
5.04.
|
Insurance
|
72
|
|
SECTION
5.05.
|
Obligations
and Taxes
|
72
|
|
SECTION
5.06.
|
Employee
Benefits
|
73
|
|
SECTION
5.07.
|
Maintaining
Records; Access to Properties and Inspections
|
73
|
|
SECTION
5.08.
|
Use
of Proceeds
|
73
|
|
SECTION
5.09.
|
Compliance
with Environmental Laws; Environmental Reports
|
73
|
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SECTION
5.10.
|
[Reserved]
|
74
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SECTION
5.11.
|
Additional
Collateral; Additional Guarantors
|
74
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SECTION
5.12.
|
Security
Interests; Further Assurances
|
76
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ARTICLE
VI
NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
|
SECTION
6.01.
|
Indebtedness
|
77
|
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SECTION
6.02.
|
Liens
|
78
|
|
SECTION
6.03.
|
Investment,
Loan and Advances
|
80
|
|
SECTION
6.04.
|
Mergers,
Consolidations, Sales of Assets and Acquisitions
|
82
|
|
SECTION
6.05.
|
Dividends
|
83
|
|
SECTION
6.06.
|
Transactions
with Affiliates
|
85
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|
SECTION
6.07.
|
Maximum
Senior Secured Leverage Ratio
|
85
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Page
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SECTION
6.08.
|
Prepayments
of Other Indebtedness; Modifications of Certificate of Incorporation,
Other Constitutive Documents or By-Laws and Certain Other Agreements,
etc.
|
86
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SECTION
6.09.
|
Limitation
on Certain Restrictions on Subsidiaries
|
86
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SECTION
6.10.
|
Limitation
on Issuance of Capital Stock
|
87
|
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SECTION
6.11.
|
Limitation
on Creation of Subsidiaries
|
87
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SECTION
6.12.
|
Business
|
87
|
|
SECTION
6.13.
|
Limitation
on Accounting Changes
|
88
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SECTION
6.14.
|
Fiscal
Year
|
88
|
|
SECTION
6.15.
|
Sale
and Leaseback Transactions
|
88
|
|
SECTION
6.16.
|
Anti-Terrorism
Law; Anti-Money Laundering
|
88
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ARTICLE
VII
GUARANTEE
|
SECTION
7.01.
|
The
Guarantee
|
88
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|
SECTION
7.02.
|
Obligations
Unconditional
|
89
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SECTION
7.03.
|
Reinstatement
|
90
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SECTION
7.04.
|
Subrogation;
Subordination
|
90
|
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SECTION
7.05.
|
Remedies
|
91
|
|
SECTION
7.06.
|
Instrument
for the Payment of Money
|
91
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|
SECTION
7.07.
|
General
Limitation on Guarantee Obligations
|
91
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ARTICLE
VIII
EVENTS OF
DEFAULT
|
SECTION
8.01.
|
Events
of Default
|
91
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ARTICLE
IX
COLLATERAL
ACCOUNT; APPLICATION OF COLLATERAL PROCEEDS
|
SECTION
9.01.
|
Collateral
Account
|
94
|
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SECTION
9.02.
|
Proceeds
of Casualty Events
|
95
|
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SECTION
9.03.
|
Application
of Proceeds
|
95
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ARTICLE
X
THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT
SECTION
10.01.
|
Appointment
|
96
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SECTION
10.02.
|
Agent
in Its Individual Capacity
|
96
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SECTION
10.03.
|
Exculpatory
Provisions
|
96
|
SECTION
10.04.
|
Reliance
by Agent
|
96
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SECTION
10.05.
|
Delegation
of Duties
|
97
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SECTION
10.06.
|
Successor
Agent
|
97
|
SECTION
10.07.
|
Non-Reliance
on Agent and Other Lenders
|
97
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SECTION
10.08
|
No
Other Administrative Agent
|
98
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Page
SECTION
10.09
|
Indemnification
|
98
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ARTICLE
XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION
11.01.
|
Notices
|
98
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SECTION
11.02.
|
Waivers;
Amendment
|
100
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SECTION
11.03.
|
Expenses;
Indemnity
|
102
|
SECTION
11.04.
|
Successors
and Assigns
|
103
|
SECTION
11.05.
|
Survival
of Agreement
|
105
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SECTION
11.06.
|
Counterparts;
Integration; Effectiveness
|
105
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SECTION
11.07.
|
Severability
|
106
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SECTION
11.08.
|
Right
of Setoff
|
106
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SECTION
11.09.
|
Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of
Process
|
106
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SECTION
11.10.
|
WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL
|
107
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SECTION
11.11.
|
Headings
|
107
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SECTION
11.12.
|
Confidentiality
|
107
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SECTION
11.13.
|
Interest
Rate Limitation
|
108
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SCHEDULES
Schedule
1.01(a)
|
Mortgaged
Properties
|
|
Schedule
1.01(c)
|
Subsidiary
Guarantors
|
|
Schedule 3.03
|
Governmental
Approvals; No Conflicts
|
|
Schedule 3.05(c)
|
Intellectual
Property
|
|
Schedule
3.06(a)
|
Subsidiaries
|
|
Schedule
3.08
|
Material
Agreements
|
|
Schedule 3.18
|
Insurance
|
|
Schedule 4.02(l)(vi)
|
Landlord
Access Agreements
|
|
Schedule
5.10
|
Post-Closing
Obligations
|
|
Schedule
6.01
|
Existing
Indebtedness
|
|
Schedule
6.02
|
Existing
Liens
|
|
Schedule
6.04
|
Specified
Acquisitions
|
|
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A
|
Form
of Landlord Access Agreement
|
|
Exhibit B
|
Form
of Administrative Questionnaire
|
|
Exhibit C
|
Form
of Assignment and Assumption
|
|
Exhibit D
|
Form
of Borrowing Request
|
|
Exhibit E
|
Form
of Interest Election
|
|
Exhibit F
|
Form
of Joinder Agreement
|
|
Exhibit G
|
Confidential
Lender Authorization
|
|
Exhibit H
|
Form
of Mortgage
|
|
Exhibit I-1
|
Form
of Term Note
|
|
Exhibit I-2
|
Form
of Revolving Note
|
|
Exhibit
I-3
|
Form
of Swingline Note
|
|
Exhibit J-1
|
Form
of Perfection Certificate
|
|
Exhibit J-2
|
Form
of Perfection Certificate Supplement
|
|
Exhibit K
|
Form
of Security Agreement
|
|
Exhibit L
|
Form
of Exemption Certificate
|
|
Exhibit M
|
Form
of Solvency Certificate
|
|
Exhibit N
|
Form
of Intercompany Note
|
|
Exhibit O
|
Form
of Mortgage Amendment
|
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT
AGREEMENT
AMENDED
AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, this “Agreement”) dated as of
August 1, 2007, among COMMUNICATIONS & POWER INDUSTRIES, INC., a
Delaware corporation (“Borrower”), CPI INTERNATIONAL,
INC. (formerly known as CPI Holdco, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), the Subsidiary
Guarantors (such term and each other capitalized term used but not defined
herein having the meaning given it in Article I), the Lenders, UBS
SECURITIES LLC and BEAR, XXXXXXX & CO. INC., as joint lead arrangers and
bookrunners (in such capacity, “Joint Lead Arrangers”), UBS
LOAN FINANCE LLC, as swingline lender (in such capacity, “Swingline Lender”), UBS AG,
STAMFORD BRANCH, as administrative agent (in such capacity, “Administrative Agent”) for the
Lenders, and collateral agent (in such capacity, “Collateral Agent”) for the
Secured Parties and as issuing bank (in such capacity, “Issuing Bank”), BEAR XXXXXXX
CORPORATE LENDING INC., as Syndication Agent (in such capacity, “Syndication Agent”), THE ROYAL
BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC, as Documentation Agent (in such capacity, “Documentation Agent”) and RBS
SECURITIES CORP., as co-arranger and bookrunner (in such capacity, “Co-Arranger”).
W I T N E S S E T H
:
WHEREAS,
the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement as
herein set forth;
WHEREAS,
this Agreement was originally entered into on January 23, 2004 (as amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time through the date
hereof, the “Original Credit
Agreement”);
WHEREAS,
under the Original Credit Agreement, $37.5 million of Term B Loans and $40.0
million of revolving commitments are outstanding;
WHEREAS,
Borrower desires to (a) create a new Class of Term Loans under this
Agreement in an aggregate principal amount of $100.0 million and (b) increase
the Revolving Commitments to $60.0 million;
WHEREAS,
Borrower requests the Swingline Lender to extend credit, at any time and from
time to time prior to the Revolving Maturity Date, in the form of Swingline
Loans, in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding of up to $5.0
million;
WHEREAS,
Borrower requests the Issuing Bank to issue letters of credit, in an aggregate
face amount at any time outstanding not in excess of $15.0 million;
WHEREAS,
each Original Lender who holds Term B Loans (other than Reduced Lenders (as
defined below)) and who executes and delivers a counterpart of this Agreement
shall be deemed, on the Closing Date, to have exchanged its Term B Loans (which
Term B Loans shall thereafter be deemed paid in full and extinguished) for Term
Loans in equal outstanding principal amounts;
WHEREAS,
each Original Lender who holds outstanding Term B Loans in an amount greater
than its Term Loan Commitment (such Lender, a “Reduced Lender”) and who
executes and delivers a counterpart of this Agreement shall be deemed, on the
Closing Date, upon the funding thereof, to have made Term Loans in amount equal
to its Term Loan Commitment;
WHEREAS,
a portion of the proceeds from the Term Loans shall be used on the Closing Date
to repay the entire aggregate principal amount of the Term B Loans held by
Original Lenders who do not execute and deliver a counterpart of this Agreement
and to the Reduced Lenders in accordance with Section 2.19 of this
Agreement, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Closing
Date;
WHEREAS,
the Lenders expressly intend that the Obligations will be structurally senior to
any Permitted Parent Notes and any other obligations of Parent (other than its
Guarantee of the Obligations);
WHEREAS,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary, all parties expressly agree and intend
that the liens securing the Term Loans shall be continuously effective from the
Original Closing Date;
NOW,
THEREFORE, the Lenders are willing to extend such credit to Borrower and the
Issuing Bank is willing to issue letters of credit for the account of Borrower
on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
herein. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION
1.01. Defined
Terms
As used
in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings specified
below:
“ABR”, when used in reference
to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising
such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the
Alternate Base Rate.
“ABR Borrowing” shall mean a
Borrowing comprised of ABR Loans.
“ABR Loan” shall mean any ABR
Term Loan or ABR Revolving Loan.
“ABR Revolving Loan” shall mean
any Revolving Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the
Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article II.
“ABR Term Loan” shall mean any
Term Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate
Base Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article II.
“Acquired Indebtedness” shall
mean (1) with respect to any person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing
Date as a result of a Permitted Acquisition, Indebtedness of such person and its
subsidiaries existing at the time such person becomes a Subsidiary that was not
incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Permitted Acquisition
and (2) with respect to Borrower or any Subsidiary, any Indebtedness of a person
(other than Borrower or a Subsidiary) existing at the time such person is merged
with or into Borrower or a Subsidiary in connection with a Permitted
Acquisition, or Indebtedness expressly assumed by Borrower or any Subsidiary in
connection with a Permitted Acquisition, which Indebtedness was not, in any
case, incurred by such other person in connection with, or in contemplation of,
such Permitted Acquisition.
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“Acquisition Consideration”
shall mean the purchase consideration for any Permitted Acquisition and all
other payments by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in exchange for or as part
of any Permitted Acquisition, whether paid in cash, by assumption of
Indebtedness, or by exchange of assets other than Qualified Capital Stock of
Parent and whether payable at or prior to the consummation of such Permitted
Acquisition or deferred for payment at any future time, and includes Borrower’s
reasonable estimate of any and all payments that will be required to be made and
that represent the purchase price and any assumptions of Indebtedness,
“earn-outs” and other agreements to make any payment the amount of which is, or
the terms of payment of which are, in any respect subject to or contingent upon
the revenues, income, cash flow or profits (or the like) of any person or
business.
“Adjusted LIBOR Rate” shall
mean, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period,
(a) an interest rate per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next
1/100 of 1%) determined by the Administrative Agent to be equal to the LIBOR
Rate for such Eurodollar Borrowing in effect for such Interest Period divided by
(b) 1 minus the
Statutory Reserves (if any) for such Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest
Period.
“Administrative Agent” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Administrative Agent Fees”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(b).
“Administrative Questionnaire”
shall mean an Administrative Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit B, or
such other form as may be supplied from time to time by the Administrative
Agent.
“Advisors” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.03(a).
“Affiliate” shall mean, when
used with respect to a specified person, another person that directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or
is under common Control with the person specified; provided, however, that, for purposes of
Section 6.06,
the term “Affiliate” shall also include any person that directly or indirectly
owns more than 10% of the aggregate voting Equity Interests of the person
specified or that is an executive officer or director of the person
specified.
“Agents” shall mean the
Arrangers, Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent, Administrative Agent and
Collateral Agent.
“Agreement” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Anti-Terrorism Laws” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.22.
“Alternate Base Rate” shall
mean, for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next
1/100 of 1%) equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such
day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 0.50%. If 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 of the definition thereof, the Alternate Base Rate shall be determined
without regard to clause (b) of the preceding sentence until the
circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any
change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the
Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective on the effective date of such
change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate,
respectively.
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“Applicable Margin” shall mean,
for any day, (a) (i) with respect to any Eurodollar Term Loan, 2.0% and (ii)
with respect to any ABR Term Loan, 1.0%; (b) with respect to the Revolving
Loans, the basis points set forth below:
Borrower’s
|
Revolving
Loans
|
|||||||
Leverage
Ratio
|
Eurodollar
|
ABR
|
||||||
Level I
>3.0: 1.0
|
200 | 100 | ||||||
Level II
<3.0:1.0
and >2.5:1.0
|
175 | 75 | ||||||
Level III
<2.5:1.0
and >2.0:1.0
|
150 | 50 | ||||||
Level IV
<2.0:1.0
|
125 | 25 |
Each
change in the Applicable Margin resulting from a change in the Borrower’s
Leverage Ratio shall be effective with respect to all Loans and Letters of
Credit outstanding on and after the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent
of the financial statements and certificates required by Section 5.01(a)
or (b) and
Section 5.01(c),
respectively, indicating such change until the date immediately preceding the
next date of delivery of such financial statements and certificates indicating
another such change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) from the
Closing Date to the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the
financial statements and certificates required by Section 5.01(a)
or (b) and
5.01(c) for the
fiscal quarter ended June 29, 2007, the Borrower’s Leverage Ratio shall be
deemed to be in Level I for purposes of determining the Applicable Margin
and (b) at any time during which Borrower has failed to deliver the
financial statements and certificates required by Section 5.01(a)
or (b) and
Section 5.01(c),
the Borrower’s Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Level I for purposes
of determining the Applicable Margin.
“Arrangers” shall mean the
Joint Lead Arrangers and the Co-Arranger.
“Asset Sale” shall mean
(a) any conveyance, sale, lease, assignment, transfer or other disposition
(including by way of merger or consolidation and including any sale and
leaseback transaction) of any property (including stock of subsidiaries by the
holder thereof) by any of the Group Companies to any person other than any Loan
Party and (b) any issuance or sale by any Subsidiary of its Equity
Interests to any person (other than to a Loan Party).
“Assignment and Acceptance”
shall mean an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an
assignee, and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit C, or
such other form as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Available Basket Amount” shall
mean, at any time of calculation, (A) the sum of (i) the Net Cash Proceeds
received by Parent after the Closing Date from any issuance of Qualified Capital
Stock of Parent, which are contributed in cash to Borrower to its common equity
capital plus (ii) 50% of Consolidated Net Income of Borrower for the period
(taken as one accounting period) commencing on the first day of the fiscal
quarter in which the Closing Date occurs to and including the last day of the
fiscal quarter ended immediately prior to the date of such calculation for which
consolidated financial statements are available (or, if such Consolidated Net
Income shall be a deficit, minus 100% of such aggregate deficit) plus Five
Million Dollars ($5,000,000) minus (B) the aggregate amount of Investments,
Permitted Acquisitions, Dividends and prepayments, repurchases or redemptions of
Senior Subordinated Notes to the extent made after the Closing Date (in whole or
in part) in reliance on the Available Basket Amount;
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provided that Investments,
Permitted Acquisitions, Dividends and prepayments, repurchases or redemptions of
Senior Subordinated Notes may be made (in whole or in part) in reliance on the
Available Basket Amount only to the extent that, at the time of such Investment,
Permitted Acquisition, Dividend, prepayment, repurchase or redemption
(i) on a Pro Forma Basis, Borrower shall be in compliance with the
covenants set forth in Section 6.07 and
no Default shall exist and (ii) Borrower could incur an additional $1.00 of
Indebtedness pursuant to Section
6.01(i).
“Bailee Letter” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
“Bankruptcy Code” shall mean
Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter
amended.
“Board” shall mean the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of
America.
“Board of Directors” shall
mean, with respect to any person, the board of directors (or similar governing
body) of such person.
“Borrower” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Borrowing” shall mean
(a) Loans of the same Class and Type, made, converted or continued on the
same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest
Period is in effect, or (b) a Swingline Loan.
“Borrowing Request” shall mean
a request by Borrower in accordance with the terms of Section 2.03 and
substantially in the form of Exhibit D, or
such other form as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Business Day” shall mean any
day other than a Saturday, Sunday or day on which banks in New York City or
Stamford, CT are authorized or required by law to close; provided, however, that when used in
connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude
any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the
London interbank market.
“Capital Expenditures” shall
mean, with respect to any person, for any period, the aggregate cash
expenditures made during that period for property, plant or equipment as
reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of such person and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries, in conformity with GAAP, but excluding expenditures
made in connection with the replacement, substitution or restoration of property
(a) to the extent financed from insurance proceeds paid on account of the
loss of or damage to the property being replaced or restored, (b) with
awards of compensation arising from the taking by eminent domain or condemnation
of the property being replaced or (c) with regard to equipment that is
purchased simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment, fixed assets
or improvements, the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for the
trade-in of such equipment, fixed assets or improvements; provided that Capital
Expenditures shall not in any event include the Acquisition Consideration paid
in connection with Permitted Acquisitions or up to $20.0 million of expenditures
in connection with the sale, remediation or restoration work concerning the San
Xxxxxx Facility.
“Capital Lease Obligations” of
any person shall mean the obligations of such person to pay rent or other
amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use)
real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are
required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet
of such person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the
capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
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“Cash Equivalents” shall mean,
as to any person: (a) securities issued or directly and fully
guaranteed or insured by the United States or any agency or instrumentality
thereof (provided that
the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof)
having maturities of not more than thirteen (13) months from the date of
acquisition by such person; (b) time deposits and certificates of deposit
of any Lender or any commercial bank having, or which is the principal banking
subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United
States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia having, capital and
surplus aggregating in excess of $1.0 billion with maturities of not more than
one year from the date of acquisition by such person; (c) repurchase
obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities of
the types described in clause (a) above entered into with any bank meeting
the qualifications specified in clause (b) above; (d) commercial paper
issued by any person incorporated in the United States rated at least A-1 or the
equivalent thereof by Standard & Poor’s Rating Service or at least P-1 or
the equivalent thereof by Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., and in each case
maturing not more than thirteen (13) months after the date of acquisition by
such person; (e) investments in money market funds substantially all of
whose assets are comprised of securities of the types described in
clauses (a) through (d) above; and (f) demand deposit accounts maintained
in the ordinary course of business.
“Casualty Event” shall mean,
with respect to any property (including Real Property) of any person, any loss
of title with respect to such property or any loss of or damage to or
destruction of, or any condemnation or other taking (including by any
Governmental Authority) of, such property for which such person or any of its
subsidiaries receives insurance proceeds or proceeds of a condemnation award or
other compensation; provided, however, no such event shall
constitute a Casualty Event if such proceeds or other compensation in respect
thereof is less than $500,000. “Casualty Event” shall include but not
be limited to any taking of all or any part of any Real Property of any person
or any part thereof, in or by condemnation or other eminent domain proceedings
pursuant to any law, or by reason of the temporary requisition of the use or
occupancy of all or any part of any Real Property of any person or any part
thereof by any Governmental Authority, civil or military.
“CERCLA” shall have the meaning
assigned thereto in the definition of “Environmental Law”.
A “Change in Control” shall be
deemed to have occurred if: (a) Parent shall at any time cease
to own 100% of the capital stock of Borrower; (b) any “person” or “group”
(as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other
than one or more Permitted Holders, is or becomes the beneficial owner (as
defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that for
purposes of this clause such person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial
ownership” of all securities that any such person or group has the right to
acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage
of time), directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock representing more than 30% of
the voting power of the total outstanding Voting Stock of Parent; or
(c) during any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the
beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors of Parent (together
with any new directors whose election to such Board of Directors or whose
nomination for election by the stockholder of Parent was approved by a vote of
at least 51% of the directors of Parent then still in office who were either
directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for
election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Board of Directors of Parent.
“Change in Law” shall mean
(a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the Closing Date,
(b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or
application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the Closing Date or (c)
compliance by any Lender or Issuing Bank (or for purposes of Section 2.12(b),
by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or Issuing
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Bank’s
holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or
not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after
the Closing Date.
“Charges” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.13.
“Class”, when used in reference
to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising
such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Term Loans, Swingline Loans or a new Class
of Loans created pursuant to Section 2.20 and,
when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a
Revolving Commitment or Swingline Commitment and any Commitment to make Loans of
a new Class extended by any such Lender as provided in Section
2.20.
“Closing Date” shall mean
August 1, 2007, the date of initial borrowings under this
Agreement.
“Co-Arranger” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Collateral” shall mean all of
the Security Agreement Collateral, the Mortgaged Real Property and all other
property of whatever kind and nature pledged as collateral under any Security
Document.
“Collateral Account” shall mean
a collateral account or sub-account in the form of a deposit account established
and maintained by the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.01.
“Collateral Agent” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Collateral Documents” shall
mean the Security Documents, the Perfection Certificate and all UCC or other
financing statements or instruments of perfection required by this Agreement or
any Security Document to be filed with respect to the security interests in
property and fixtures created pursuant to the Security Documents.
“Commercial Letter of Credit”
means any letter of credit issued for the account of Borrower for the benefit of
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, for the purpose of providing the primary
payment mechanism in connection with the purchase of any materials, goods or
services by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Commitment” shall mean, with
respect to any Lender, such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, Term Loan Commitment,
Swingline Commitment and any Commitment to make Loans of a new Class extended by
any such Lender as provided in Section
2.20.
“Commitment Fee” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(a).
“Commitment Fee Percentage”
shall mean the basis points set forth below:
Borrower’s
Leverage
Ratio
|
Commitment
Fee Percentage
|
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Level I
>3.0: 1.0
|
50 | |||
Level II
<3.0:1.0
and >2.0:1.0
|
37.5 | |||
Level III
<2.0:1.0
|
25 |
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Each
change in the Commitment Fee Percentage resulting from a change in Borrower’s
Leverage Ratio shall be effective on and after the date of delivery to the
Administrative Agent of the financial statements and certificates required by
Section 5.01(a)
or (b) and
Section 5.01(c),
respectively, indicating such change until the date immediately preceding the
next date of delivery of such financial statements and certificates indicating
another such change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) from the
Closing Date to the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the
financial statements and certificates required by Section 5.01(a)
or (b) and
5.01(c) for the
fiscal quarter ending June 29, 2007, the Borrower’s Leverage Ratio shall be
deemed to be in Level I for purposes of determining the Commitment Fee
Percentage and (b) at any time during which Borrower has failed to deliver
the financial statements and certificates required by Section 5.01(a)
or (b) and
Section 5.01(c),
the Borrower’s Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Level I for purposes
of determining the Commitment Fee Percentage.
“Companies” shall mean Borrower
and the Subsidiaries; and “Company” shall mean any one of
them.
“Confidential Information
Memorandum” shall mean that certain confidential information memorandum
dated as of July 2007.
“Confidential Lender
Authorization” shall mean a Confidential Lender Authorization in the form
of Exhibit G.
“Consolidated Current Assets”
shall mean, as at any date of determination, the total assets of Borrower and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries which may properly be classified as current assets
on a consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries in
accordance with GAAP, excluding cash and Cash Equivalents.
“Consolidated Current
Liabilities” shall mean, as at any date of determination, the total
liabilities of Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries which may properly be
classified as current liabilities (other than (a) the current portion of
any Loans and Capital Lease Obligations and (b) without duplication of
clause (a) above, all Indebtedness consisting of Revolving Loans to the
extent otherwise included therein) on a consolidated balance sheet of Borrower
and its Consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated EBITDA” shall
mean, for any person, for any period, Consolidated Net Income of such person for
such period, adjusted, without duplication and in each case only to the extent
included in determining Consolidated Net Income (and with respect to the portion
of Consolidated Net Income attributable to any Subsidiary that is not a
Guarantor only if a corresponding amount would be permitted at the date of
determination to be distributed to such person by such Subsidiary without prior
approval (that has not been obtained), pursuant to the terms of its charter and
all agreements, instruments, judgments, decrees, orders, statutes, rules and
governmental regulations applicable to such Subsidiary or its stockholders), by
(x) adding thereto (i) the amount of Consolidated Interest Expense,
(ii) provision for taxes, (iii) amortization, (iv) depreciation,
(v) extraordinary losses, (vi) fees and expenses incurred in
connection with the Transactions, the sale, remediation or relocation work
concerning the San Xxxxxx Facility or any Permitted Acquisition, (vii) all
other non-cash charges reducing Consolidated Net Income (excluding any non-cash
charge that results in an accrual of a reserve for cash charges in any future
period) for such period, including non-cash compensation expense and non-cash
impairment charges, (viii) the portion of the cost of goods sold expense which
is attributable to non-cash step-ups of inventory pursuant to purchase
accounting adjustments associated with Permitted Acquisitions and (ix) the
aggregate amount of all other non-recurring items reducing the Consolidated Net
Income for such period, in each of clauses (i) through (ix), of such person and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries; provided that the aggregate
amount of all non-recurring cash items added back for such period pursuant to
this clause (ix) shall not
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exceed
$10.0 million; provided, further, that an item will not
be considered “non-recurring” if the nature of such item is such that it is
reasonably likely to recur within two years or there was a similar item within
the prior two years, and (y) subtracting (i) dividends paid by such
person pursuant to Section 6.05(c),
(ii) extraordinary gains, (iii) all non-cash items increasing
Consolidated Net Income (other than the accrual of revenue or recording of
receivables in the ordinary course of business) for such period and
(iv) the aggregate amount of all non-recurring cash items increasing the
Consolidated Net Income for such period, in each of clauses (i) through (iv), of
such person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries. To the extent that any
Asset Sale or any Permitted Acquisition (or any similar transaction or
transactions which require a waiver or a consent of the Required Lenders
pursuant to Section 6.04)
or, solely with respect to determining the Consolidated EBITDA of Parent, the
incurrence of the Permitted Parent Notes by Parent has occurred during the
relevant period, Consolidated EBITDA shall be determined for the respective
period on a Pro Forma Basis for such occurrence (other than for the purposes of
calculating Excess Cash Flow).
“Consolidated Indebtedness”
shall mean, for any person, as at any date of determination, the aggregate
stated balance sheet amount of all Indebtedness (but including in any event the
then outstanding principal amount of all Loans, all Capital Lease Obligations
and all drawn letters of credit) of such person and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as determined in accordance with GAAP minus the aggregate stated
balance sheet amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents held by such
person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as determined
in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Interest Coverage
Ratio” shall mean, for any person, for any Test Period, the ratio of
(x) Consolidated EBITDA of such person for such Test Period to
(y) Consolidated Interest Expense of such person for such Test
Period. To the extent that any Asset Sale or any Permitted
Acquisition (or any similar transaction or transactions which require a waiver
or a consent of the Required Lenders pursuant to Section 6.04)
or, solely with respect to determining the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio
of Parent, the incurrence of the Permitted Parent Notes by Parent and the
payment of cash interest thereon has occurred during the relevant Test Period,
the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio shall be determined for the respective
Test Period on a Pro Forma Basis for such occurrence.
“Consolidated Interest Expense”
shall mean, for any person, for any period, the excess of (a) the sum,
without duplication, of (i) the total consolidated cash interest expense of
such person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period determined in
accordance with GAAP, (ii) the portion of Capital Lease Obligations of such
person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries representing the interest factor for
such period, (iii) all interest paid with respect to discontinued
operations, and (iv) all accrued but unpaid interest on any Indebtedness of
any other person guaranteed by such person or any of its Subsidiaries, minus (b) the total
consolidated interest income of such person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries
for such period determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that Consolidated
Interest Expense shall be calculated after giving effect to Hedging Agreements
(including associated costs), but excluding unrealized gains and losses with
respect to Hedging Agreements.
“Consolidated Net Income” shall
mean, for any person, for any period, the consolidated net after tax income of
such person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined in accordance with
GAAP, but (i) excluding in any event net earnings or loss of any other person
(other than a Subsidiary of such person) in which such person or any
Consolidated Subsidiary has an ownership interest, except (in the case of any
such net earnings) to the extent such net earnings shall have actually been
received by such person or such Consolidated Subsidiary in the form of cash
distributions, (ii) in the case of Consolidated Net Income of Borrower, reduced
by Dividends paid to Parent pursuant to Section 6.05(c) and
(iii) excluding, to the extent reducing such consolidated net income, purchase
accounting adjustments attribut
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able to
acquisitions, including write-offs of acquired in-process research and
development, amortization of inventory write-ups and amortization of
acquisition-related intangibles.
“Consolidated Secured
Indebtedness” shall mean, for any person, as at any date of
determination, the aggregate stated balance sheet amount of all Indebtedness
(but including in any event the then outstanding principal amount of all Loans,
all Capital Lease Obligations and all drawn letters of credit) of such person
and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as determined in
accordance with GAAP (but only to the extent such Indebtedness is secured by any
Lien on any asset of such person or any of its subsidiaries) minus the aggregate stated
balance sheet amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents held by such
person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as determined
in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Subsidiaries”
shall mean, as to any person, all subsidiaries of such person which are
consolidated with such person for financial reporting purposes in accordance
with GAAP.
“Contested Collateral Lien
Conditions” shall mean, with respect to any Permitted Lien of the type
described in clauses (a) and (b) of Section 6.02,
the following conditions:
(a) any
proceeding instituted contesting such Lien shall conclusively operate to stay
the sale or forfeiture of any material portion of the Collateral on account of
such Lien;
(b) the
appropriate Credit Party shall maintain, to the extent it deems necessary, cash
reserves in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge such Lien and the
reasonable estimate of all interest and penalties related thereto;
and
(c) such
Lien shall in all respects be subject and subordinate in priority to the Lien
and security interest created and evidenced by the Security Documents, except if
and to the extent that the law or regulation creating, permitting or authorizing
such Lien provides that such Lien is or must be superior to the Lien and
security interest created and evidenced by the Security Documents.
“Contingent Obligation” shall
mean, as to any person, any obligation of such person guaranteeing or intended
to guarantee any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (“primary obligations”) of any
other person (the “primary
obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including
without limitation, any obligation of such person, whether or not contingent,
(a) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting
direct or indirect security therefor; (b) to advance or supply funds
(i) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or
(ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor
or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor;
(c) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose
of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the
primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation; or
(d) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of 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 and any product warranties for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount
of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated
or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such
Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such primary
obligation for which such person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the
instrument evidencing such Contingent Obligation) or, if not stated or
determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof
(assuming such person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such
person in good faith.
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“Control” shall mean the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of a person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, and the terms “Controlling” and “Controlled” shall have
meanings correlative thereto.
“Control Agreement” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
“Credit Event” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.
“Credit Parties” shall mean
Borrower and the Guarantors.
“Debt Issuance” shall mean the
incurrence by Parent, Borrower or any Subsidiary of any Indebtedness after the
Closing Date (other than the issuance of the Permitted Parent Notes, the entry
into any Permitted Parent Hedge and as permitted by Section 6.01).
“Default” shall mean any event
or condition which is, or upon notice, lapse of time or both would constitute,
an Event of Default.
“Disqualified Capital Stock”
shall mean any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any
security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon
the happening of any event, (a) matures (excluding any maturity as the
result of an optional redemption by the issuer thereof) or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable
at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to 90 days
following the Term Loan Maturity Date, (b) is convertible into or
exchangeable (unless at the sole option of the issuer thereof) for (i) debt
securities or (ii) any Equity Interests referred to in (a) above, in each
case at any time on or prior to 90 days following the Term Loan Maturity Date,
or (c) contains any repurchase obligation which comes into effect prior to
payment in full of all amounts hereunder.
“Dividend” with respect to any
person shall mean that such person has declared or paid a dividend or returned
any equity capital to its stockholders or made any other distribution, payment
or delivery of property (other than common stock of such person) or cash to its
stockholders as such, or redeemed, retired, purchased or otherwise acquired,
directly or indirectly, for consideration any shares of any class of its capital
stock outstanding on or after the Closing Date (or any options or warrants
issued by such person with respect to its capital stock), or set aside any funds
for any of the foregoing purposes, or shall have permitted any of its
subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for a consideration any shares of
any class of the capital stock of such person outstanding on or after the
Closing Date (or any options or warrants issued by such person with respect to
its capital stock).
“Documentation Agent” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“dollars” or “$” shall mean lawful money of
the United States of America.
“ECF Optional Prepayments”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.10(f).
“ECF Percentage” shall mean,
with respect to any fiscal year, the applicable percentage set forth below
across from the applicable Leverage Ratio of the Borrower as of the last day of
such fiscal year:
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Borrower’s Leverage
Ratio
|
Applicable
Percentage
|
|||
>
3.5:1.0
|
50 | % | ||
≤
3.5:1.0
|
0 | % |
“environment” shall mean
ambient air, surface water and groundwater (including potable water, navigable
water and wetlands), the land surface or subsurface strata, natural resources
such as flora and fauna or as otherwise defined in any Environmental
Law.
“Environmental Claim” shall
mean any written accusation, allegation, notice of violation, investigation or
potential liability claim, demand, order, directive, cost recovery action or
other cause of action by any Governmental Authority or any person for damages,
injunctive or equitable relief, personal injury (including sickness, disease or
death), Response action costs, property damage, natural resource damages,
nuisance, pollution, any adverse effect on the environment caused by any
Hazardous Material, or for fines, penalties, restrictions or modification of
operations or equipment, resulting from or based upon (a) the existence, or
the continuation of the existence, of a Release (including sudden or non-sudden,
accidental or non-accidental Releases), (b) exposure to any Hazardous
Material, (c) the presence, use, handling, transportation, storage,
treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Material or (d) the violation or
alleged violation of any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit.
“Environmental Law” shall mean
any and all applicable present and future treaties, laws, rules, regulations,
codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding
agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, or
the common law relating in any way to the environment (including, without
limitation preservation or reclamation of natural resources), the management,
Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Material or to public or
occupational health and safety matters to the extent involving exposure to
Hazardous Materials, including, but not limited to, the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601
et seq. (collectively
“CERCLA”), the Solid
Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of
1976 and Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901
et seq., the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977, 33
U.S.C. §§ 1251 et
seq., the Clean Air Act of 1970, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., the Toxic Substances
Control Act of 1976, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq., the Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651 et seq., the Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 11001 et seq., the Safe Drinking
Water Act of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300(f) et seq., the Hazardous
Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. §§ 5101 et seq., and any similar or
implementing state, local or foreign law, and all amendments to or regulations
promulgated under, any of the foregoing.
“Environmental Permit” shall
mean any permit, approval, authorization, certificate, license, variance, filing
or permission required by or from any Governmental Authority pursuant to any
Environmental Law.
“Equity Interest” shall mean,
with respect to any person, any and all shares, interests, participations or
other equivalents, including membership interests (however designated, whether
voting or non-voting), of capital of such person, including, if such person is a
partnership, partnership interests (whether general or limited) and any other
interest or participation that confers on a person the right to receive a share
of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, such partnership,
whether outstanding on the Closing Date or issued after the Closing
Date.
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended from time to
time.
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“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean
any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with
Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of
the Tax Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and
Section 412 of the Tax Code, is treated as a single employer under
Section 414(m) or (o) of the Tax Code.
“ERISA Event” shall mean
(a) any “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the
regulations issued thereunder, with respect to a Plan (other than an event for
which the 30-day notice period is waived by regulation); (b) the existence
with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in
Section 412 of the Tax Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not
waived, the failure to make by its due date a required installment under
Section 412(m) of the Tax Code with respect to any Plan or the failure to
make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (c) the filing
pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Tax Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA
of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to
any Plan; (d) the incurrence by any Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates
of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any
Plan; (e) the receipt by any Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates from
the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to the intention to
terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, or
the occurrence of any event or condition which could reasonably be expected to
constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a
trustee to administer, any Plan; (f) the incurrence by any Company or any
of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal from any
Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) the receipt by any Company or its ERISA
Affiliates of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a
determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or
in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA; (h) the making
of any amendment to any Plan which could result in the imposition of a lien or
the posting of a bond or other security; and (i) the occurrence of a
nonexempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the
Tax Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could result in liability to any
Company.
“Eurodollar Borrowing” shall
mean a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Loans.
“Eurodollar Loan” shall mean
any Eurodollar Revolving Loan or Eurodollar Term Loan.
“Eurodollar Revolving Loan”
shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference
to the Adjusted LIBOR Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article II.
“Eurodollar Term Loan” shall
mean any Term Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the
Adjusted LIBOR Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article II.
“Event of Default” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Article VIII.
“Excess Cash Flow” shall mean,
for any fiscal year of Borrower, the sum, without duplication, of
(a) Borrower’s
Consolidated EBITDA for such fiscal year; provided that, to the extent
otherwise included in such calculation, such calculation shall exclude all
unrealized gains and unrealized losses; plus
(b) the
difference, if positive, of the amount of Net Working Capital at the end of the
prior fiscal year over the amount of Net Working Capital at the end of such
fiscal year; minus
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(c) the
absolute value of the difference, if negative, of the amount of Net Working
Capital at the end of the prior fiscal year over the amount of Net Working
Capital at the end of such fiscal year; minus
(d) the
amount of non-recurring cash items reducing Borrower’s Consolidated Net Income;
minus
(e) without
duplication of any amount that reduced Excess Cash Flow in any preceding year
(including under the Original Credit Agreement), the amount of any cash income
taxes and related interest and penalties paid by Borrower and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries in such fiscal year; minus
(f) cash
interest (excluding any accrued interest included in clause (j) of this
definition in the prior fiscal year), commitment fees, Letter of Credit fees and
other fees associated with or paid pursuant to any Loan Document or any other
Indebtedness paid by Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries during such
fiscal year and fees and expenses incurred in connection with (x) the
Transactions, (y) any Permitted Acquisition or (z) the sale, remediation or
relocation work concerning the San Xxxxxx Facility; minus
(g) Capital
Expenditures made in cash in compliance with Section 6.07(b), cash
payments in respect of Acquisition Consideration and cash Investments made in
accordance with Section 6.03, in each
case, during such fiscal year and to the extent funded by Borrower or any of its
Consolidated Subsidiaries from Internally Generated Funds; minus
(h) permanent
repayments of Indebtedness (other than any optional prepayment of the Loans)
made by Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries during such fiscal year but
only to the extent such repayments do not occur in connection with a refinancing
of all or any portion of the Loans; minus
(i) extraordinary
cash losses from the sale of assets during such fiscal year and not included in
Borrower’s Consolidated EBITDA; minus
(j) interest
associated with or pursuant to any Loan Document or any other Indebtedness owed
by Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries accrued during such fiscal year
but to be paid in the subsequent fiscal year; minus
(k) dividends
made by Borrower to
Parent during such fiscal year in accordance with Section 6.05(c),
(d), (f), (g), (h) and, only to the extent such dividends are used by Parent to
prepay, redeem or repurchase any Parent Floating Rate Notes, (j); plus
(l) any
amount received by Borrower from Parent pursuant to clause (i)(B)(y) of the
proviso in Section
6.05(g);
provided that, to the extent
otherwise included therein, the Net Cash Proceeds of Asset Sales and Casualty
Events shall be excluded from the calculation of Excess Cash Flow.
“Excess Cash Flow Shortfall”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.10(f).
“Exchange Act” shall mean the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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“Excluded Taxes” shall mean,
with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any
other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of
Borrower hereunder, (a) income, branch profits or franchise taxes imposed
on (or measured by) its net income by the jurisdiction under the laws of which
such recipient is organized or in which its principal office or applicable
lending office is located and (b) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other
than an assignee pursuant to a request by Borrower under Section 2.16),
any U.S. withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign
Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or
designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s
failure to comply with Section 2.15(e),
except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was
entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to
receive additional amounts from Borrower with respect to such withholding tax
pursuant to Section 2.15(a)
(it being understood and agreed, for the avoidance of doubt, that any U.S.
withholding tax imposed on a Foreign Lender as a result of a Change in Law or
regulation or interpretation thereof occurring after the time such Foreign
Lender became a party to this Agreement shall not be an Excluded
Tax).
“Executive Order” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.22.
“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 arranged by
federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for
any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day for
such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Fee Letter” shall mean the
confidential Fee Letter, dated July 11, 2007, among the Borrower, Parent,
UBS Loan Finance LLC, UBS Securities LLC, UBS AG, Stamford Branch, Bear Xxxxxxx
Corporate Lending Inc., Bear, Xxxxxxx & Co. Inc., the Royal Bank of Scotland
plc and RBS Securities Corp.
“Fees” shall mean the
Commitment Fees, the Administrative Agent Fees, the LC Participation Fees and
the Fronting Fees.
“Financial Officer” of any
person shall mean the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer,
Treasurer or Controller of such person.
“Foreign Lender” shall mean any
Lender that is not a United States person within the meaning of
Section 7701(a)(30) of the Tax Code.
“Foreign Plan” shall mean any
employee benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or agreement maintained or
contributed to by any Company with respect to employees employed outside the
United States.
“Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean
a Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the
United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Fronting Fee” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).
“GAAP” shall mean generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent
basis.
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“Governmental Authority” shall
mean any federal, state, local or foreign court or governmental agency,
authority, instrumentality or regulatory body.
“Governmental Real Property Disclosure
Requirements” shall mean any Requirement of Law of any Governmental
Authority requiring notification of the buyer, mortgagee or assignee of Real
Property, or notification, registration or filing to or with any Governmental
Authority, prior to the sale, mortgage or assignment of any Real Property or
transfer of control of an establishment, of the actual or threatened presence or
release into the environment, or the use, disposal or handling of Hazardous
Material on, at, under or near the Real Property to be sold, mortgaged or
assigned or the establishment for which control is to be
transferred.
“Gross Excess Cash Flow” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.10(f).
“Group Companies” shall mean
Parent and the Companies; and “Group Company” shall mean any
one of them.
“Guaranteed Obligations” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.01.
“Guarantees” shall mean the
guarantees issued pursuant to Article VII by
the Guarantors.
“Guarantors” shall mean Parent
and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Hazardous Materials” shall
mean all pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, wastes, substances and
constituents including without limitation petroleum or petroleum distillates,
asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”) or PCB-containing
materials or equipment, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes which are
regulated pursuant to, or can give rise to liability under, any Environmental
Law.
“Hedging Agreement” means any
Interest Rate Protection Agreement, foreign currency exchange agreement,
commodity price protection agreement or other interest or currency exchange rate
or commodity price hedging arrangement.
“Increase Effective Date” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20(a).
“Increase Joinder” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.20(c).
“Indebtedness” of any person
shall mean, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such person for
borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such person evidenced by bonds,
debentures, notes or similar instruments; (c) all obligations of such
person upon which interest charges are customarily paid or accrued; (d) all
obligations of such person under conditional sale or other title retention
agreements relating to property purchased by such person; (e) all
obligations of such person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of
property or services (excluding trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary
course of business); (f) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for
which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or
otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such
person in an amount not to exceed the fair market value of such property,
whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed; (g) all
Capital Lease Obligations, Purchase Money Obligations and synthetic lease
obligations of such person; (h) all obligations of such person in respect
of
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Hedging
Agreements; provided
that, for the purpose of the definitions of Consolidated Indebtedness and
Consolidated Secured Indebtedness, the amount of Indebtedness of the type
referred to in this clause (h) of any person shall be zero unless and until
such Indebtedness shall be terminated, in which case the amount of such
Indebtedness shall be the then termination payment due thereunder by such
person; (i) all obligations of such person as an account party in respect
of drawn letters of credit, letters of guaranty and bankers’ acceptances; and
(j) all Contingent Obligations of such person in respect of Indebtedness or
obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (a) through (i)
above. 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 that the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such person is not
liable therefor. For the avoidance of doubt, indemnification,
adjustment of purchase price, earn-out or similar obligations, in each case,
incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any
business or assets of Borrower or any Subsidiary or Equity Interests of a
Subsidiary shall not be deemed Indebtedness, other than (i) guarantees of
Indebtedness incurred by any person acquiring all or any portion of such
business, assets or Equity Interests for the purpose of financing or in
contemplation of any such acquisition, (ii) to the extent of any amount of such
obligations included on the face of the balance sheet of Borrower or any
Subsidiary as a long-term liability and (iii) in the case of a disposition, the
maximum aggregate liability in respect of all such obligations in excess of the
gross proceeds actually received by Borrower and the Subsidiaries in connection
with such disposition.
“Indemnified Taxes” shall mean
Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Indemnitee” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.03(b).
“Intellectual Property” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.05(c).
“Intercompany Note” shall mean
a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit N.
“Interest Election Request”
means a request by Borrower to convert or continue a Revolving Borrowing, Term
Borrowing or any Borrowing of a new Class of Loans created pursuant to Section 2.20 in
accordance with Section 2.08(b),
substantially in the form of Exhibit E.
“Interest Payment Date” shall
mean (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline Loan), the last
day of each March, June, September and December to occur during the period that
such Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) with
respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable
to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar
Loan with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior
to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three
months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period, and (c) with
respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be
repaid.
“Interest Period” shall mean,
with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of
such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar
month that is one, two, three or six months and, if available to all relevant
Lenders, nine or twelve months thereafter, as Borrower may elect; provided that (a) if any
Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest
Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next
succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case
such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day, and
(b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a
calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
correspond
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ing day
in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last
Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For
purposes of this definition, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date
on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of
the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing; provided, however, that an Interest Period
shall be limited to seven days to the extent required under Section 2.03(e)
hereof.
“Interest Rate Protection
Agreement” shall mean any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap
agreement, interest rate collar agreement or similar agreement or arrangement
designed to protect Borrower or the Subsidiaries against fluctuations in
interest rates and not entered into for speculation.
“Internally Generated Funds”
shall mean funds not constituting the proceeds of any Loan (other than Revolving
Loans), Debt Issuance (other than Revolving Loans), issuance of equity
securities, Asset Sale, insurance recovery or Indebtedness (other than Revolving
Loans), in each case without regard to the exclusions from the definition
thereof.
“Investments” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.03.
“Issuing Bank” shall mean, as
the context may require, (a) UBS AG, Stamford Branch, with respect to
Letters of Credit issued by it; (b) any other Lender that may become an
Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.18(i),
with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Lender; or
(c) collectively, all of the foregoing.
“Joinder Agreement” shall mean
that certain joinder agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
“Joint Lead Arrangers” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Landlord Access Agreement”
shall mean a Landlord Access Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, or
such other form as may reasonably be acceptable to the Collateral
Agent.
“LC Commitment” shall mean the
commitment of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.18.
“LC Disbursement” shall mean a
payment or disbursement made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of
Credit.
“LC Exposure” shall mean at any
time the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters
of Credit at such time plus
(b) the aggregate principal amount of all LC Disbursements that have
not yet been reimbursed at such time. The LC Exposure of any
Revolving Lender at any time shall mean its Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate
LC Exposure at such time.
“LC Participation Fee” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).
“LC Sub-Account” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.01(d).
“Lender Affiliate” means with
respect to any Lender that is a fund that invests in bank loans, any other fund
that invests in commercial loans and is managed or advised by (i) the same
investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such advisor or
(ii) any Lender or an Affiliate of any Lender.
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“Lenders” shall mean
(a) the financial institutions that are signatory hereto (pursuant to the
provisions of Section 11.06) and (b) any financial institution that has
become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, in each case,
other than any such financial institution that has ceased to be a party hereto
pursuant to another Assignment and Acceptance. Unless the context
clearly indicates otherwise, the term “Lenders” shall include the Swingline
Lender.
“Letter of Credit” shall means
any (i) Standby Letter of Credit and (ii) Commercial Letter of Credit,
in each case, issued or to be issued by an Issuing Bank for the account of
Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18.
“Leverage Ratio” shall mean,
for any person, at any date of determination, the ratio of Consolidated
Indebtedness on such date to Consolidated EBITDA of such person for the Test
Period then most recently ended.
“LIBOR Rate” shall mean, with
respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period therefor, the rate
per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the arithmetic mean
(rounded to the nearest 1/100th of
1%) of the offered rates for deposits in dollars with a term comparable to such
Interest Period that appears on the Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest
Settlement Rates Page (as defined below) at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
London, England time, on the second full Business Day preceding the first day of
such Interest Period; provided, however, that (i) if no
comparable term for an Interest Period is available, the LIBOR Rate shall be
determined using the weighted average of the offered rates for the two terms
most nearly corresponding to such Interest Period and (ii) if there shall
at any time no longer exist a Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest
Settlement Rates Page, “LIBOR Rate” shall mean, with respect to each day during
each Interest Period pertaining to Eurodollar Borrowings comprising part of the
same Borrowing, the rate per annum equal to the rate at which the Administrative
Agent is offered deposits in dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m., London,
England time, two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period
in the London interbank market for delivery on the first day of such Interest
Period for the number of days comprised therein and in an amount comparable to
the amount of such Eurodollar Borrowing to be outstanding during such Interest
Period. “Telerate
British Bankers Assoc. Interest Settlement Rates Page” shall mean the
display designated as Page 3750 on the Telerate System Incorporated Service
(or such other page as may replace such page on such service for the purpose of
displaying the rates at which dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in
the London interbank deposit market).
“Lien” shall mean, with respect
to any property, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge,
encumbrance, charge, assignment, hypothecation or security interest, in each of
the foregoing cases whether voluntary or imposed by law, and any agreement to
give any of the foregoing; (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under
any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or
any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the
foregoing) relating to such property; and (c) in the case of securities
(other than securities representing an interest in a joint venture), any
purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such
securities.
“Loan Documents” shall mean
this Agreement, the Notes (if any) and the Security Documents.
“Loan Parties” shall mean
Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Loans” shall mean the loans
made (or deemed made pursuant to Section 2.19) by the
Lenders to Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.
“Margin Stock” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U.
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“Material Adverse Effect” shall
mean (a) a material adverse effect on the business, property, results of
operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of Borrower and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (b) material impairment of the ability of
the Loan Parties to perform any of their obligations under any Loan Document; or
(c) material impairment of the rights of or benefits or remedies available
to the Lenders or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document.
“Maturity Extension Event”
shall mean the Senior Subordinated Notes have been repurchased, redeemed and/or
refinanced in full and if such repurchase, redemption or refinancing is funded
with proceeds of Indebtedness such Indebtedness shall have a final maturity not
earlier than the eighth anniversary of the Closing Date.
“Maximum Rate” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.13.
“Mortgage” shall mean an
agreement, including, but not limited to, a mortgage, deed of trust or any other
document, creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Real Property, which
shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit H, with
such schedules and including such provisions as shall be necessary to conform
such document to applicable or local law or as shall be customary under local
law, as the same may at any time be amended in accordance with the terms thereof
and hereof.
“Mortgage Amendment” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section
4.02(o).
“Mortgage Policy” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section
4.02(o).
“Mortgaged Real Property” shall
mean (a) each Real Property identified on Schedule 1.01(a)
hereto and (b) each Real Property, if any, which shall be subject to a
Mortgage delivered after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 5.11(c)
or 4.02.
“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean
a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA
(a) to which any Company or any ERISA Affiliate is then making or has an
obligation to make contributions; (b) to which any Company or any ERISA
Affiliate has within the preceding five plan years made contributions; or (c)
with respect to which any Company could incur liability.
“Net Cash Proceeds” shall
mean:
(a) with
respect to any Asset Sale, the cash proceeds received by any Group Company
(including cash proceeds subsequently received (as and when received by any
Group Company) in respect of noncash consideration initially received) net of
(i) selling expenses (including reasonable brokers’ fees or commissions,
legal, accounting and other professional and transactional fees, transfer and
similar taxes and Borrower’s good faith estimate of other taxes paid or payable
in connection with such sale); (ii) amounts provided as a reserve, in
accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities under any indemnification
obligations associated with such Asset Sale (provided that, to the extent
and at the time any such amounts are released from such reserve, such amounts
shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds); (iii) Borrower’s good faith estimate
of payments required to be made with respect to unassumed liabilities relating
to the assets sold; and (iv) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if
any, interest and other amounts on any Indebtedness for borrowed money which is
secured by a senior Lien on the asset sold in such Asset Sale and which is
repaid with such proceeds (other than any such Indebtedness assumed by the
purchaser of such asset);
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(b) with
respect to any Debt Issuance or issuance of equity securities, the cash proceeds
thereof, net of customary fees, commissions, costs and other expenses incurred
in connection therewith; and
(c) with
respect to any Casualty Event, the cash insurance proceeds, condemnation awards
and other compensation received in respect thereof, net of all reasonable costs
and expenses incurred in connection with the collection of such proceeds, awards
or other compensation in respect of such Casualty Event.
“Net
Working Capital” shall mean, at any time,
Consolidated Current Assets at such time minus Consolidated Current Liabilities
at such time; provided that the following items, to the extent they are
otherwise included in Consolidated Current Assets or Consolidated Current
Liabilities, shall be excluded: (a) advances and prepaid expenses in connection
with the sale, remediation or relocation concerning the San Xxxxxx Facility, (b)
assets or liabilities in connection with forward hedge accounting in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles that represent unrealized gains or
unrealized losses, (c) non-cash step-ups of inventory pursuant to purchase
accounting adjustments associated with Permitted Acquisitions, (d) deferred tax
assets or liabilities and (e) accrued and unpaid “earn-outs” in connection with
any Permitted Acquisition hereunder.
“Non-Guarantor Subsidiary”
shall mean each Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Notes” shall mean any notes
evidencing the Term Loans, Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans issued pursuant to
this Agreement, if any, substantially in the form of Exhibit I-1,
I-2 or I-3.
“Obligations” shall mean
(a) obligations of the Credit Parties from time to time arising under or in
respect of the due and punctual payment of (i) the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency
of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding,
regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on Loans, when
and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for
prepayment or otherwise, (ii) each payment required to be made by the
Credit Parties under this Agreement in respect of any Letter of Credit, when and
as due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of disbursements,
interest thereon and obligations to provide cash collateral and (iii) all
other monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities,
whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including
monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or
allowable in such proceeding), of the Credit Parties under this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents, (b) the due and punctual payment of all
obligations of the Credit Parties under each Hedging Agreement in respect of the
Loans entered into with any counterparty that was a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender at the time such Hedging Agreement was entered into and (c) the due
and punctual payment of all obligations in respect of overdrafts and related
liabilities owed to any Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender, the Administrative
Agent or the Collateral Agent arising from treasury, depositary and cash
management services or in connection with any automated clearinghouse transfer
of funds.
“Officers’ Certificate” shall
mean, as applied to any corporation, a certificate executed on behalf of such
corporation by its Chairman of the Board of Directors (if an officer), its Chief
Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents (or an equivalent
officer) or by its Chief Financial Officer, Vice President-Finance or its
Treasurer (or an equivalent officer) or any Assistant Treasurer, each in his or
her official (and not individual) capacity.
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“Original Closing Date” shall
mean the date of initial funding under the Original Credit Agreement, January
23, 2004.
“Original Credit Agreement”
shall mean the Credit Agreement dated as of January 23, 2004, as amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date
hereof, among Borrower, Parent, UBS AG, Stamford Branch, as administrative agent
and collateral agent, and the lenders and other agents party
thereto.
“Original Lenders” shall mean
the lenders under the Original Credit Agreement.
“Other Taxes” shall mean any
and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or
property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made under
any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or
otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document.
“Overdraft Obligations” shall
mean the Obligations described in clause (c) of the definition of
“Obligations.”
“Parent” shall have the meaning
assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Parent Floating Rate Notes”
shall mean (i) Parent’s Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2015 issued in
February 2005 and any registered notes issued by Parent in exchange for, and as
contemplated by, such notes with substantially identical terms as Parent’s
Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2015 and (ii) any securities issued as
payment of interest on securities described in clause (i) and any
registered notes issued by Parent in exchange for, and as contemplated by, such
notes, provided that all such notes shall have substantially identical terms as
Parent’s Floating Rate Notes due 2015.
“Participant” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.04(e).
“PBGC” shall mean the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA.
“Perfection Certificate” shall
mean a certificate in the form of Exhibit J-1 or
any other form approved by the Collateral Agent, as the same shall be
supplemented from time to time by a Perfection Certificate Supplement or
otherwise.
“Perfection Certificate
Supplement” shall mean a certificate supplement in the form of Exhibit J-2 or
any other form approved by the Collateral Agent.
“Permitted Acquisition” shall
mean, with respect to Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, any transaction or
series of related transactions for the direct or indirect (a) acquisition
of all or a portion of the property of any other person, or of any business
segment or division of any other person; (b) acquisition of any brand,
patent, trademark or trade name; (c) acquisition of a majority of the
Equity Interests of any other person (to the extent such acquisition causes such
person to become a subsidiary of the acquiror), or otherwise causing any other
person to become a subsidiary of such person; or (d) merger or
consolidation or any other combination with any other person, if each of the
following conditions are met:
(i)no Default then exists or would
result therefrom;
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(ii) on
a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such acquisition, Borrower and Parent
shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 6.07 as
of the most recent Test Period (assuming, for purposes of Section 6.07,
that such acquisition, and all other Permitted Acquisitions consummated since
the first day of the relevant Test Period for the financial covenants set forth
in Section 6.07
ending on or prior to the date of such acquisition, had occurred on the first
day of such relevant Test Period);
(iii)the acquired person shall be engaged
in a business in which Borrower and the Subsidiaries are permitted to engage and
the property acquired in connection with any such acquisition shall be made
subject to the Lien of the Security Documents to the extent required under the
Loan Documents and shall be free and clear of any Liens, other than Permitted
Liens;
(iv)the Board of Directors or other
similar governing body of the acquired person shall not have indicated publicly
its opposition to the consummation of such acquisition;
(v)with respect to any acquisition
involving Acquisition Consideration of more than $10.0 million, Borrower shall
have provided the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with (A) historical
financial statements for the last three fiscal years of the person or business
to be acquired (audited if available, and if such Acquisition Consideration is
more than $40.0 million, audited if available without undue cost or delay) and
unaudited financial statements thereof for the most recent interim period which
are available; provided
that with respect to any acquisition involving Acquisition Consideration of more
than $60.0 million, Borrower shall have provided to the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders either (i) the audited historical financial statements for the last
fiscal year of the person or business to be acquired or (ii) a “quality of
earnings report” prepared by a firm reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent with respect to the historical financial statements for the
last fiscal year of the person or business to be acquired, (B) reasonably
detailed projections for the succeeding five years pertaining to the person or
business to be acquired, (C) copies of all material documentation
pertaining to such acquisition, and (D) all such other information and data
relating to such acquisition or the person or business to be acquired as may be
reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Required
Lenders;
(vi)Borrower shall have delivered to the
Agents and the Lenders an Officers’ Certificate certifying that (A) such
acquisition complies with this definition (which shall have attached thereto
reasonably detailed backup data and calculations showing such compliance), and
(B) such acquisition could not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect;
(vii)the aggregate amount of the
Acquisition Consideration for all Permitted Acquisitions since the Closing Date
(excluding the Specified Acquisitions and any Permitted Acquisitions to the
extent made in reliance on the Available Basket Amount) shall not exceed $150.0
million; and
(viii)the fees and expenses in connection
with such acquisition shall be reasonable; provided that in the case of
any acquisition involving Acquisition Consideration of more than $10.0 million,
the fees and expenses in connection with such acquisition shall be reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“Permitted Holders” shall mean,
collectively, The Cypress Group L.L.C., Cypress Merchant Banking Partners II
L.P., Cypress Merchant Banking II C.V., 55th
Street Partners II L.P., Cypress Side-by-Side L.L.C. (or any vehicle formed
pursuant to the governing agreements of such vehicles to invest with or in lieu
of such vehicles) (together “CMBP II”), any new investment
funds sponsored or managed by Cypress Advisors Inc. or an affiliate thereof and
any new partnership or other vehicle created
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to
co-invest with CMBP II or such new investment fund sponsored or managed by
Cypress Advisors Inc. or an affiliate thereof; provided that with respect
to any such new investment fund, partnership or other vehicle, The Cypress Group
L.L.C., Cypress Associates II LLC or another entity Controlled by employees of
Cypress Advisors Inc. is the general partner or similar managing entity of such
new investment fund, partnership or other vehicle.
“Permitted Liens” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.
“Permitted Collateral Lien”
shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the applicable Mortgage.
“Permitted Parent Hedge” shall
mean an interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate
collar agreement or similar agreement or arrangement hedging Parent’s exposure
with respect to the floating interest rate component of the Permitted Parent
Notes and not entered into for speculation, all on terms and conditions and with
a counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time that
such agreement is entered into and otherwise reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent (it being understood that a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender that is a commercial bank having, or which is the principal banking
subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United
States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia having, at the time the
transaction is entered into, capital and surplus aggregating in excess of $500
million and a rating of “A” (or such other similar equivalent rating) or higher
by at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization (as
defined in Rule 436 under the Securities Act) is satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent).
“Permitted Parent Notes” shall
mean (a) the Parent Floating Rate Notes, (b) debt securities issued by
Parent from time to time; provided that (i) the
proceeds of such issuance may be used to pay a dividend and to pay reasonable
fees and expenses in connection with such issuance; (ii) the final
scheduled maturity of the principal of such debt shall not be prior to the
91st day
after the Term Loan Maturity Date; (iii) such debt securities shall not be
secured by any collateral and shall not be guaranteed by Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries; (iv) at the time of issuance of such debt securities and after
giving effect thereto, Borrower’s corporate credit rating shall be no less than
B+ by Standard & Poor’s Rating Service and Borrower’s senior implied rating
shall be no less than B2 by Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.; and (v) the
covenants and events of default applicable to such debt securities shall not be
more restrictive in any material respect to Parent and its subsidiaries than the
Senior Subordinated Note Documents are to Borrower and the Subsidiaries, and
(c) debt securities issued semiannually as payment of interest on debt
securities described in clause (b), with the same terms and
conditions.
“person” shall mean any natural
person, corporation, business trust, joint venture, association, company,
limited liability company, partnership or government, or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
“Plan” shall mean any employee
pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions
of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Tax Code or
Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which Borrower or any of its ERISA
Affiliates is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069
of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of
ERISA.
“Post-Amendment Revolving
Lenders” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.19(e).
“Pre-Amendment Revolving
Lenders” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.19(e).
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“Preferred Stock” means, with
respect to any person, any and all preferred or preference Equity Interests
(however designated) of such person whether now outstanding or issued after the
Closing Date.
“Preferred Stock Issuance”
shall mean any issuance or sale by any Group Company after the Closing Date of
Preferred Stock (other than Qualified Capital Stock of Parent).
“Prime Rate” shall mean, for
any day, a rate per annum that is equal to the corporate base rate of interest
established by the Administrative Agent from time to time; each change in the
Prime Rate shall be effective on the date such change is publicly announced as
being effective. The corporate base rate is not necessarily the
lowest rate charged by the Administrative Agent to its customers.
“Pro Forma Basis” shall mean, as to any
person, for any events as described in clauses (ii) and (iii) below which
occur subsequent to the commencement of a period for which the financial effect
of such events is being calculated, and giving effect to the events for which
such calculation is being made, such calculation as will give pro forma effect to such
events as if same had occurred at the beginning of such period of calculation,
and
(i)for purposes of the foregoing
calculation, each transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the pro forma effect to any of
the following events shall be assumed to have occurred on the first day of the
four consecutive fiscal quarter period most recently ended for which financial
statements are required by Section 5.01 to
have been delivered (the “Reference
Period”);
(ii)in making any determination of
Consolidated EBITDA, pro forma
effect shall be given to any Asset Sale or any Permitted Acquisition (or
any similar transaction or transactions which require a waiver or consent of the
Required Lenders pursuant to Section 6.04),
in each case which occurred during the Reference Period (or, in the case of
determinations made pursuant to the definition of Permitted Acquisition or Section 6.07,
occurring during the Reference Period or thereafter and through and including
the date upon which the respective Permitted Acquisition is consummated or
incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness had occurred) as if such Asset
Disposition, such Permitted Acquisition or other transaction, as the case may
be, occurred on the first day of the Reference Period; and
(iii)in making any determination on a Pro
Forma Basis, (x) all Indebtedness (including Indebtedness incurred or
assumed and for which the financial effect is being calculated, whether incurred
under this Agreement or otherwise, but excluding normal fluctuations in
revolving Indebtedness incurred for working capital purposes and not to finance
any acquisition) incurred or permanently repaid during the Reference Period (or,
in the case of determinations made pursuant to the definition of Permitted
Acquisition or Section
6.07, occurring during the Reference Period or thereafter and through and
including the date upon which the respective Permitted Acquisition is
consummated or incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness had occurred) shall be
deemed to have been incurred or repaid at the beginning of such period and
(y) Consolidated Interest Expense of such person attributable to interest
on any Indebtedness, for which pro forma effect is being
given as provided in preceding clause (x), bearing floating interest rates
shall be computed on a pro
forma basis as if the rates which would have been in effect during the
period for which pro forma
effect is being given had been actually in effect during such
periods.
Pro forma calculations made
pursuant to this definition of “Pro Forma Basis” shall be made on a basis
consistent with Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act or on another basis
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
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“Pro Rata Percentage” of any Revolving
Lender at any time shall mean the percentage of the total Revolving Commitment
represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitment.
“property” shall mean any
right, title or interest in or to property or assets of any kind whatsoever,
whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible and including
Equity Interests or other ownership interests of any person and whether now in
existence or owned or hereafter entered into or acquired.
“Purchase Money Obligation”
shall mean, for any person, the obligations of such person in respect of
Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the
purchase price of any property (including Equity Interests of any person) or the
cost of installation, construction or improvement of any property or assets and
any refinancing thereof; provided, however, that such Indebtedness
is incurred within 90 days after such acquisition of such property by such
person.
“Qualified Capital Stock” of
any person shall mean any Equity Interest of such person that is not
Disqualified Capital Stock.
“Real Property” shall mean,
collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold estate) in
and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned, leased or
operated by any person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with,
in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto,
all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles
and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership,
lease or operation thereof.
“Reduced Lender” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.
“Refinancing” shall mean the
transactions described in Section
4.02(d).
“Refinancing Indebtedness”
shall mean Indebtedness of Borrower or a Subsidiary incurred in exchange for, or
the proceeds of which are used to redeem or refinance in whole or in part, any
Indebtedness of Borrower or any Subsidiary (the “Refinanced Indebtedness”);
provided
that:
(a) the
stated principal amount (and accreted value, in the case of Indebtedness issued
at a discount) of the Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the stated
principal amount (and accreted value, as the case may be) of the Refinanced
Indebtedness immediately prior to the refinancing plus the amount of accrued and
unpaid interest on the Refinanced Indebtedness, any reasonable premium paid to
the holders of the Refinanced Indebtedness (it being understood that if the
Refinanced Indebtedness was issued at a discount, the difference between the
amount of principal paid thereon and the then accreted value at the date of
prepayment thereof shall be deemed reasonable premium if the principal is the
originally required prepayment price, without prejudice to any additional amount
also constituting a reasonable premium) and reasonable expenses incurred in
connection with the incurrence of the Refinancing Indebtedness;
(b) the
obligor of Refinancing Indebtedness does not include any person (other than
Borrower or any Guarantor) that is not an obligor of the Refinanced
Indebtedness;
(c) if
the Refinanced Indebtedness was subordinated in right of payment to Obligations,
then such Refinancing Indebtedness, by its terms, is subordinate in right of
payment to the Obligations at least to the same extent as the Refinanced
Indebtedness;
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(d) the
Refinancing Indebtedness has a final stated maturity no earlier than the
Refinanced Indebtedness being repaid or amended; and
(e) the
Refinancing Indebtedness has a weighted average life to maturity that is equal
to or greater than the weighted average life to maturity of the Refinanced
Indebtedness.
“Register” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.04(c).
“Regulation D” shall mean
Regulation D of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official
rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Regulation T” shall mean
Regulation T of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official
rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Regulation U” shall mean
Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official
rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Regulation X” shall mean
Regulation X of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official
rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Related Hedging Obligations”
shall mean the obligations described in clause (b) of the definition of
“Obligations”
“Release” shall mean any
spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting,
escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing, depositing, dispersing or emanating of
any Hazardous Material in, into, onto or through the environment.
“Required Lenders” shall mean,
at any time, Lenders having Loans, LC Exposure and unused Revolving and Term
Loan Commitments representing at least a majority of the sum of all Loans
outstanding, LC Exposure and unused Revolving and Term Loan Commitments at such
time.
“Requirements of Law” shall
mean, collectively, any and all requirements of any Governmental Authority
including any and all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations or similar statutes
or case law.
“Response” shall mean
(a) ”response” as such term is defined in CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. § 9601(25), and (b) all other actions required
by any Governmental Authority or voluntarily undertaken
to: (i) clean up, remove, treat, xxxxx or in any other way
address any Hazardous Material in the environment; (ii) prevent the Release
or threat of Release, or minimize the further Release, of any Hazardous
Material; or (iii) perform studies and investigations in connection with,
or as a precondition to, clause (i) or (ii) above.
“Responsible Officer” of any
corporation shall mean any executive officer or Financial Officer of such
corporation and any other officer or similar official thereof with
responsibility for the administration of the obligations of such corporation in
respect of this Agreement and, except with respect to Section 5.06 hereto,
“Responsible Officer” shall include any “Treasury Manager,” “Treasury Analyst”
or similar employee or official of such corporation.
“Revolving Availability Period”
shall mean the period following the Closing Date to but excluding the earlier of
the Business Day preceding the Revolving Maturity Date and the date of
termination of the Revolving Commitments.
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“Revolving Borrowing” shall
mean a Borrowing comprised of Revolving Loans.
“Revolving Commitment” shall
mean, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make
Revolving Loans hereunder as set forth on Schedule I to the Confidential
Lender Authorization executed and delivered by such Lender, or in the Assignment
and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender assumed its Revolving Commitment,
as applicable, as the same may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to
Section 2.07 and
(b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to
such Lender pursuant to Section 11.04. The
aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments on the Closing Date is
$60.0 million.
“Revolving Exposure” shall
mean, with respect to any Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at
such time of all outstanding Revolving Loans of such Lender, plus the aggregate amount at
such time of such Lender’s LC Exposure, plus the aggregate amount at
such time of such Lender’s Swingline Exposure.
“Revolving Lender” shall mean a
Lender with a Revolving Commitment.
“Revolving Loans” shall mean
the Revolving Loans made by the Lenders to Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Revolving Maturity Date” shall
mean the sixth anniversary of the Closing Date; provided that if the Maturity
Extension Event has not occurred on or prior to July 31, 2011, the Revolving
Maturity Date shall be August 1, 2011.
“San Xxxxxx Facility” means the
Borrower’s San Carlos, California facility located at 000 Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxx.
“Secured Parties” shall mean,
collectively, the Agents, each Lender, each person holding Related Hedging
Obligations (in its capacity as such) and each person holding Overdraft
Obligations.
“Secured Permitted Parent
Hedge” shall mean any Permitted Parent Hedge designated as a Secured
Permitted Parent Hedge by the Borrower; provided that (i) only
one Permitted Parent Hedge in effect at any time shall be a Secured Permitted
Parent Hedge (with the result that, if a Secured Permitted Parent Hedge remains
outstanding, the Borrower may not designate another Permitted Parent Hedge to be
a Secured Permitted Parent Hedge and (ii) the Borrower shall deliver a
notice to the Collateral Agent that a Permitted Parent Hedge is the Secured
Permitted Parent Hedge no more than 90 days after entering into the Secured
Permitted Parent Hedge.
“Securities Act” shall mean the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Security Agreement” shall mean
a Security Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit K among
the Credit Parties and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, as the same may be amended in accordance with the terms thereof and
hereof, or such other agreements reasonably acceptable to Collateral Agent as
shall be necessary to comply with applicable Requirements of Law and effective
to grant to Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties) a perfected
first priority security interest in the Security Agreement Collateral covered
thereby, subject only to Permitted Liens.
“Security Agreement Collateral”
shall have the meaning set forth in any Security Agreement delivered on the
Closing Date or thereafter pursuant to Section 5.11.
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“Security Documents” shall mean
the Security Agreement, the Mortgages and each other security document or pledge
agreement required by applicable local law to grant a valid, perfected security
interest in any property acquired or developed and any other document or
instrument utilized to pledge as collateral for the Obligations any property of
whatever kind or nature.
“Senior Secured Leverage Ratio”
shall mean, for any person, at any date of determination, the ratio of
Consolidated Secured Indebtedness on such date to Consolidated EBITDA of such
person for the Test Period then most recently ended.
“Senior Subordinated Note
Agreement” shall mean any indenture, note purchase agreement or other
agreement pursuant to which the Senior Subordinated Notes are issued as in
effect on the Closing Date and thereafter amended from time to time subject to
the requirements of this Agreement.
“Senior Subordinated Note
Documents” shall mean the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Senior
Subordinated Note Agreement, the Senior Subordinated Note Guarantees and all
other documents executed and delivered with respect to the Senior Subordinated
Notes or the Senior Subordinated Note Agreement.
“Senior Subordinated Note
Guarantees” shall mean the guarantees of Parent and the Subsidiary
Guarantors pursuant to the Senior Subordinated Note Agreement.
“Senior Subordinated Notes”
shall mean Borrower’s 8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012 issued pursuant to
the Senior Subordinated Note Agreement and any registered notes issued by
Borrower in exchange for, and as contemplated by, such notes with substantially
identical terms as the notes.
“Specified Acquisitions” shall
mean the acquisitions listed on Schedule
6.04.
“Sponsor” shall mean The
Cypress Group L.L.C.
“Standby Letter of Credit”
means any standby letter of credit or similar instrument issued for the purpose
of supporting (a) workers’ compensation liabilities of Borrower or any
Subsidiary, (b) the obligations of third-party insurers of Borrower or any
Subsidiary arising by virtue of the laws of any jurisdiction requiring
third-party insurers to obtain such letters of credit, or (c) performance,
payment, deposit or surety obligations of Borrower or any Subsidiary if required
by law or governmental rule or regulation or in accordance with custom and
practice in the industry.
“Statutory Reserves” shall
mean, for any Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, the average maximum
rate at which reserves (including any marginal, supplemental or emergency
reserves) are required to be maintained during such Interest Period under
Regulation D by member banks of the United States Federal Reserve System in
New York City with deposits exceeding one billion dollars against
“Eurodollar liabilities” (as such term is used in
Regulation D). Eurodollar Borrowings shall be deemed to
constitute Eurodollar liabilities and to be subject to such reserve requirements
without benefit of or credit for proration, exceptions or offsets which may be
available from time to time to any Lender under Regulation D.
“Subordinated Indebtedness”
shall mean any Indebtedness of a Group Company that is subordinated in right of
payment to any other Indebtedness of such Group Company, including the Senior
Subordinated Notes and the Senior Subordinated Note Guarantees.
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“subsidiary” shall mean, with
respect to any person (the “parent”) at any date, any
corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity
the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the
parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were
prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other
corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity
of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of
the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the
general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by
(x) the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or (y) by the
parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.
“Subsidiary” means any
subsidiary of Borrower.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” shall
mean each Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.01(c),
and each other Subsidiary that is or becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant
to Section 5.11,
other than a Foreign Subsidiary.
“Survey” shall mean a survey of
any Mortgaged Real Property (and all improvements thereon) which is
(a) (i) prepared by a surveyor or engineer licensed to perform surveys
in the state where such Mortgaged Real Property is located, (ii) dated (or
redated) not earlier than six months prior to the date of delivery thereof
unless there shall have occurred within six months prior to such date of
delivery any exterior construction on the site of such Mortgaged Real Property
or any easement, right of way or other interest in the Mortgaged Real Property
has been granted or become effective through operation of law or otherwise with
respect to such Mortgaged Real Property which, in either case, can be depicted
on a survey, in which events, as applicable, such survey shall be dated (or
redated) after the completion of such construction or if such construction shall
not have been completed as of such date of delivery, not earlier than 20 days
prior to such date of delivery, or after the grant or effectiveness of any such
easement, right of way or other interest in the Mortgaged Real Property,
(iii) certified by the surveyor (in a manner reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent) to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the
Title Company, (iv) complying in all respects with the minimum detail
requirements of the American Land Title Association as such requirements are in
effect on the date of preparation of such survey and (v) sufficient for the
Title Company to remove all standard survey exceptions from the title insurance
policy (or commitment) relating to such Mortgaged Real Property and issue the
endorsements requested by the Collateral Agent under Section 4.02(o) or
5.11(c) or
(b) otherwise acceptable to the Collateral Agent.
“Swingline Commitment” shall
mean the commitment of the Swingline Lender to make loans pursuant to Section 2.17, as
the same may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07 or
Section 2.17.
“Swingline Exposure” shall mean
at any time the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding
Swingline Loans. The Swingline Exposure of any Revolving Lender at
any time shall equal its Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate Swingline Exposure
at such time.
“Swingline Lender” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
“Swingline Loan” shall mean any
loan made by the Swingline Lender pursuant to Section 2.17.
“Syndication Agent” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.
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“Tax Code” shall mean the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Tax Return” shall mean all
returns, statements, filings, attachments and other documents or certifications
required to be filed in respect of Taxes.
“Tax Sharing Agreements” shall
mean all tax sharing, tax allocation and other similar agreements entered into
by Parent or any subsidiary of Parent.
“Taxes” shall mean any and all
present or future taxes, duties, levies, fees, imposts, deductions, charges or
withholdings, whether computed on a separate, consolidated, unitary, combined or
other basis and any and all liabilities (including interest, fines, penalties or
additions to tax) with respect to the foregoing.
“Term Borrowing” shall mean a
Borrowing comprised of Term Loans.
“Term B Loans” shall mean the
term loans outstanding under the Original Credit Agreement.
“Term Loan Commitment” shall
mean with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make
a Term Loan hereunder on the Closing Date in the amount set forth on Schedule I
to the Confidential Lender Authorization executed and delivered by such Lender,
or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender shall have
assumed its Term Loan Commitment, as applicable, as such commitment may be
(a) terminated or reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07 and
(b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to
such Lender pursuant to Section 11.04. The
initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Term Loan Commitments is $100.0
million.
“Term Loan Maturity Date” shall
mean the seventh anniversary of the Closing Date; provided that if the Maturity
Extension Event has not occurred on or prior to July 31, 2011, the Term Loan
Maturity Date shall be August 1, 2011.
“Term Loan Repayment Date”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.09(a).
“Term Loans” shall mean the
term loans made by the Lenders to Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b) or by an
Increase Joinder.
“Test Period” shall mean, at
any time, the four consecutive fiscal quarters of Borrower then last ended (in
each case taken as one accounting period) for which financial statements have
been or are required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 5.01(a)
or (b).
“Title Company” shall mean any
title insurance company as shall be retained by Borrower and reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“Title Policy” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.11(c).
“Transactions” shall mean
(a) the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the initial
borrowings hereunder; (b) the Refinancing; and (c) the payment of all
fees and expenses to be paid in connection with the foregoing.
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“Type”, when used in reference
to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan,
or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the
Adjusted LIBOR Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.
“UCC” shall mean the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the applicable state or
jurisdiction.
“Voting Stock” shall mean any
class or classes of capital stock of Parent pursuant to which the holders
thereof have the general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at
least a majority of the Board of Directors of Parent.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” shall
mean, as to any person, (a) any corporation 100% of whose capital stock
(other than directors’ qualifying shares) is at the time owned by such person
and/or one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such person and (b) any
partnership, association, joint venture, limited liability company or other
entity in which such person and/or one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such
person have a 100% equity interest at such time.
“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.
SECTION
1.02. Classification
of Loans and Borrowings
For
purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class
(e.g., a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type
(e.g., a “Eurodollar Loan”) or by Class
and Type (e.g., a
“Eurodollar Revolving
Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by
Class (e.g., a “Revolving Borrowing” or “Term Borrowing”) or by Type
(e.g., a “Eurodollar Borrowing”) or by
Class and Type (e.g., a
“Eurodollar Revolving
Borrowing”).
SECTION
1.03. Terms
Generally
The
definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms
of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter
forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to
be followed by the phrase “without
limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to
have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the
context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any
agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring
to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such
amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any
reference herein to any person shall be construed to include such person’s
successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein”, “hereof’ and “hereunder”, and words of
similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety
and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to
Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to
Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, and
(f) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed
to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and
intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and
contract rights.
SECTION
1.04. Accounting
Terms; GAAP
Except as
otherwise expressly provided herein, all financial statements to be delivered
pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP as in
effect from time to time and
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all terms
of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP
as in effect on the date hereof, subject to the following
sentence. If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the
computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan
Document, and Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders shall
so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and Borrower shall negotiate
in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent
thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to approval of Required
Lenders); provided
that, until so amended, such ratio or requirement shall continue to be
computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein.
ARTICLE
II
THE
CREDITS
SECTION
2.01. Commitments
Subject
to the terms and conditions and relying upon the representations and warranties
herein set forth, each Lender agrees, severally and not jointly:
(a) to make
Revolving Loans to Borrower, at any time and from time to time on or after the
Closing Date, and until the earlier of the second Business Day preceding the
Revolving Maturity Date and the termination of the Commitment of such Lender in
accordance with the terms hereof, in an aggregate principal amount at any time
outstanding that will not result in such Lender’s Revolving Exposure exceeding
such Lender’s Revolving Commitment; and
(b) to make a
Term Loan to Borrower on the Closing Date in a principal amount equal to its
Term Loan Commitment.
Amounts
paid or prepaid in respect of Term Loans may not be
reborrowed. Within the limits set forth in clause (b) above and
subject to the terms, conditions and limitations set forth herein, Borrower may
borrow, pay or prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans.
SECTION
2.02. Loans
(a) Each Loan
(other than Swingline Loans) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of
Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their applicable
Commitments; provided, however, that the failure of any
Lender to make any Loan shall not in itself relieve any other Lender of its
obligation to lend hereunder (it being understood, however, that no Lender shall
be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make any Loan required to
be made by such other Lender). Except for Loans deemed made pursuant
to Section 2.02(f),
Loans comprising any Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is
(i) an integral multiple of $250,000 and not less than $1.0 million or
(ii) equal to the remaining available balance of the applicable
Commitments.
(b) Subject
to Sections
2.11 and 2.12, each Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as Borrower may
request pursuant to Section 2.03. Each
Lender may at its option make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or
foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan, so long as such
option does not result in increased costs to Borrower; provided that any exercise of
such option shall not affect the obligation of Borrower to repay such Loan in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Borrowings of more than
one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided, however, that Borrower shall
not be entitled to request any Borrowing that, if made, would result in more
than ten Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding hereunder at any time. For
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the foregoing, Borrowings having different Interest Periods, regardless of
whether they commence on the same date, shall be considered separate
Borrowings.
(c) Except
with respect to Loans made pursuant to Section 2.02(f),
each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date
thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account in
New York City as the Administrative Agent may designate not later than
11:00 a.m., New York City time, and the Administrative Agent shall
promptly credit the amounts so received to an account as directed by Borrower in
the applicable Borrowing Request maintained with the Administrative Agent or, if
a Borrowing shall not occur on such date because any condition precedent herein
specified shall not have been met, return the amounts so received to the
respective Lenders.
(d) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the
date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the
Administrative Agent such Lender’s portion of such Borrowing, the Administrative
Agent may assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the
Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with
paragraph (c) above, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon
such assumption, make available to Borrower on such date a corresponding
amount. If the Administrative Agent shall have so made funds
available, then, to the extent that such Lender shall not have made such portion
available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and Borrower severally agree
to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding
amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is
made available to Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the
Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of Borrower, the interest rate
applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in
the case of such Lender, a rate determined by the Administrative Agent to
represent its cost of overnight or short-term funds (which determination shall
be conclusive absent manifest error). If such Lender shall repay to
the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount shall constitute
such Lender’s Loan as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this
Agreement.
(e) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, Borrower shall not be entitled to
request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing constituting
Revolving Loans or Term Loans if the Interest Period requested with respect
thereto would end after the Revolving Maturity Date or the Term Loan Maturity
Date, as the case may be.
(f) If the
Issuing Bank shall not have received from Borrower the payment required to be
made by Section 2.18(e)
within the time specified in such Section, the Issuing Bank will promptly notify
the Administrative Agent of the LC Disbursement and the Administrative Agent
will promptly notify each Revolving Lender of such LC Disbursement and its Pro
Rata Percentage thereof. Each Revolving Lender shall pay by wire
transfer of immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent on such date
(or, if such Revolving Lender shall have received such notice later than 12:00
(noon), New York City time, on any day, not later than 11:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on the immediately following Business Day), an amount
equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Percentage of such LC Disbursement (it being
understood that such amount shall be deemed to constitute an ABR Revolving Loan
of such Lender, and such payment shall be deemed to have reduced the LC
Exposure), and the Administrative Agent will promptly pay to the Issuing Bank
amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. The
Administrative Agent will promptly pay to the Issuing Bank any amounts received
by it from Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18(e)
prior to the time that any Revolving Lender makes any payment pursuant to this
paragraph (f); any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent
thereafter will be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the
Revolving Lenders that shall have made such payments and to the Issuing Bank, as
their interests may appear. If any Revolving Lender shall not have
made its Pro Rata Percentage of such LC Disbursement available to the
Administrative Agent as provided above, such Lender and Borrower severally agree
to pay interest on such amount, for each day from and including the date such
amount is required to be paid in accordance with this paragraph (f) to but
excluding the date such amount
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to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Bank at (i) in
the case of Borrower, a rate per annum equal to the interest rate applicable to
Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.06(a),
and (ii) in the case of such Lender, for the first such day, the Federal
Funds Effective Rate, and for each day thereafter, the Alternate Base
Rate.
SECTION
2.03. Borrowing
Procedure
To
request a Revolving Borrowing or a Term Loan Borrowing, Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (promptly confirmed by
telecopy) (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than
1:00 p.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of
the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later
than 1:00 p.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date
of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice
of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement
as contemplated by Section 2.18(e)
may be given not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing
Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or
telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in a form
approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by Borrower. Each
such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(a) whether
the requested Borrowing is to be a Revolving Borrowing or a Term Loan
Borrowing;
(b) the
aggregate amount of such Borrowing;
(c) the date
of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(d) whether
such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
(e) in the
case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable
thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term
“Interest Period”; provided that until the earlier of (i) the date which is
30 days after the Closing Date and (ii) the date on which a successful
syndication of the Loans and Commitments shall have been declared by the Joint
Lead Arrangers, Borrower shall only be permitted to request an Interest Period
of seven days; and
(f) the
location and number of Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed,
which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.02.
If no
election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing
shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with
respect to any requested Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, then Borrower shall be
deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration (subject to
the proviso of clause (e) above). Promptly following receipt of
a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent
shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such
Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
SECTION
2.04. Evidence
of Debt; Repayment of Loans
(a) Borrower
hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the
account of each Lender holding Term Loans, the principal amount of each Term
Loan of such Lender as provided in Section 2.09,
(ii) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender, the
then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan of such Lender on the
Revolving Ma
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turity
Date and (iii) to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each
Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date and the first date
after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or
last day of a calendar month and is at least five Business Days after such
Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each date
that a Revolving Borrowing is made, Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans
that were outstanding on the date such Borrowing was requested.
(b) Each
Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or
accounts evidencing the indebtedness of Borrower to such Lender resulting from
each Loan made by such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of
principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time under
this Agreement.
(c) The
Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it will record (i) the
amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type and Class thereof and the Interest
Period applicable thereto; (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and
payable or to become due and payable from Borrower to each Lender hereunder; and
(iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for
the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.
(d) The
entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) above
shall be prima facie
evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of
any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error
therein shall not in any manner affect the obligations of Borrower to repay the
Loans in accordance with their terms.
(e) Any
Lender may request that Loans of any Class made by it be evidenced by a
Note. In such event, Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to
such Lender a Note payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such
Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns).
SECTION
2.05. Fees
(a) Commitment
Fee. Borrower agrees to pay to each Lender, through the
Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day of March, June, September and
December in each year and on each date on which any Commitment of such Lender
shall expire or be terminated as provided herein, a commitment fee (a “Commitment Fee”) based on an
annual rate equal to the Commitment Fee Percentage applied to the average daily
unused amount of the Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the preceding
quarter (or other period commencing with the Closing Date or ending with the
Revolving Maturity Date or the date on which the Revolving Commitment of such
Lender shall expire or be terminated). All Commitment Fees shall be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and shall be computed
on the basis of a year of 360 days. The Commitment Fee due to each
Lender shall commence to accrue on the Closing Date and shall cease to accrue on
the date on which the Revolving Commitment of such Lender shall expire or be
terminated as provided herein.
(b) Administrative
Agent Fees. Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent, for its own account, the agency fees set forth in the Fee Letter or such
other fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon
between Borrower and the Administrative Agent (the “Administrative Agent Fees”).
(c) LC and
Fronting Fees. Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender a participation
fee (“LC Participation
Fee”) with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which
shall accrue at a rate equal to the Applicable Margin from time to time used to
determine the interest rate on Eurodollar Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.06 on
the average daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion
thereof attributable to unre
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LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Closing Date to but
excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Revolving Commitment
terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and
(ii) to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee (“Fronting Fee”), which shall
accrue at the rate of 0.25% per annum on the average daily amount of the LC
Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC
Disbursements) during the period from and including the Closing Date to but
excluding the later of the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments and
the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as the Issuing
Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or
extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings
thereunder. LC Participation Fees and Fronting Fees accrued through
and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year
shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing
on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date; provided that all such fees
shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate and
any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Commitments
terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the
Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after
demand. All LC Participation Fees and Fronting Fees shall be computed
on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of
days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
All Fees
shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the
Administrative Agent for distribution, if and as appropriate, among the Lenders,
except that the Fronting Fees shall be paid directly to the Issuing
Bank. Once paid, none of the Fees shall be refundable under any
circumstances (absent manifest error).
SECTION
2.06. Interest
on Loans
(a) Subject
to the provisions of Section 2.06(c),
the Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing, including each Swingline Loan, shall
bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin in
effect from time to time.
(b) Subject
to the provisions of Section 2.06(c),
the Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at a rate per
annum equal to the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for the Interest Period in effect for
such Borrowing plus the
Applicable Margin in effect from time to time.
(c) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other
amount payable by Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated
maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear
interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in
the case of any overdue principal of or interest on any Loan, 2% plus the rate otherwise
applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section
or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus the rate applicable to
ABR Revolving Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this
Section.
(d) Accrued
interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date
for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the
Revolving Commitments; provided that
(i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall
be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of
any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of
the Revolving Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount
repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment
and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Loan prior to
the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan
shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.
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(e) All
interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except
that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate shall be computed
on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each
case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first
day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate
or Adjusted LIBOR Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and such determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION
2.07. Termination
and Reduction of Commitments
(a) The Term
Loan Commitments existing on or before the Closing Date shall automatically
terminate on the Closing Date. The Revolving Commitments, the
Swingline Commitment and the LC Commitment shall automatically terminate on the
Revolving Maturity Date.
(b) Borrower
may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments of any
Class; provided that
(i) each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be in an amount
that is an integral multiple of $250,000 and not less than $1.0 million and
(ii) the Revolving Commitments shall not be terminated or reduced if, after
giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance
with Section 2.10 or
Section 2.01,
as applicable, the sum of the Revolving Exposures would exceed the aggregate
amount of Revolving Commitments.
(c) Borrower
shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the
Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business
Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying
such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following
receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the
contents thereof. Each notice delivered by Borrower pursuant to this
Section shall be irrevocable. Any termination or reduction of the
Commitments of any Class shall be permanent. Each reduction of the
Commitments of any Class shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance
with their respective Commitments of such Class.
SECTION
2.08. Interest
Elections
(a) Each
Revolving Borrowing and Term Loan Borrowing shall initially be of the Type
specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar
Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing
Request. Thereafter, Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to
a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar
Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this
Section. Borrower may elect different options with respect to
different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion
shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such
Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a
separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline
Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued.
(b) To make
an election pursuant to this Section, Borrower shall notify the Administrative
Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would
be required under Section 2.03 if
Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing of the
Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such
election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be
irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the
Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request substantially in the
form of Exhibit E.
(c) Each
telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.02:
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(i) the
Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different
options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the
portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the
information to be specified pursuant to
(ii) clauses (iii)
and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(iii) the
effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request,
which shall be a Business Day;
(iv) whether
the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
and
(v) if the
resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be
applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period
contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; provided that until the
earlier of (i) the date which is 30 days after the Closing Date and (ii) the
date on which a successful syndication of the Loans and Commitments shall have
been declared by the Joint Lead Arrangers, Borrower shall be permitted to
request an Interest Period of seven days only.
If any
such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not
specify an Interest Period, then Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an
Interest Period of one month’s duration (subject to the proviso in
clause (iv) above).
(d) Promptly
following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent
shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of
each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If an
Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing is not timely
delivered prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then,
unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest
Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR
Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the
request of the Required Lenders, so notifies Borrower, then, after the
occurrence and during the continuance of such Event of Default, (i) no
outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing
and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR
Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION
2.09. Amortization
of Term Borrowings
(a) Borrower
shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, on the
dates set forth on Annex I, or if
any such date is not a Business Day, on the next preceding Business Day (each
such date being a “Term Loan
Repayment Date”),
a principal amount of the Term Loans (as adjusted from time to time pursuant to
Sections
2.09(b) and 2.10) equal to the
amount set forth on Annex I for such
date, together in each case with accrued and unpaid interest on the principal
amount to be paid to but excluding the date of such payment.
(b) To the
extent not previously paid, all Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Term
Loan Maturity Date.
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SECTION
2.10. Optional
and Mandatory Prepayments of Loans
(a) Optional
Prepayments. Borrower shall have the right at any time and
from time to time to prepay any Borrowing, in whole or in part, subject to the
requirements of this Section; provided, however, that each partial
prepayment shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and
not less than $1.0 million.
(b) Revolving
Loan Prepayments. In the event of any termination of all the
Revolving Commitments, Borrower shall, on the date of such termination, repay or
prepay all its outstanding Revolving Borrowings and all outstanding Swingline
Loans and replace all outstanding Letters of Credit and/or deposit an amount
equal to the LC Exposure in the LC Sub-Account. In the event of any
partial reduction of the Revolving Commitments, then (i) at or prior to the
effective date of such reduction, the Administrative Agent shall notify Borrower
and the Revolving Lenders of the sum of the Revolving Exposures after giving
effect thereto and (ii) if the sum of the Revolving Exposures would exceed
the aggregate amount of Revolving Commitments after giving effect to such
reduction or termination, then Borrower shall, on the date of such reduction or
termination, repay or prepay Revolving Borrowings or Swingline Loans (or a
combination thereof) and/or replace or cash collateralize outstanding Letters of
Credit in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess.
(c) Asset
Sales. Not later than five Business Days following the receipt
of any Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale, Borrower shall apply 100% of the Net
Cash Proceeds received with respect thereto to make prepayments in accordance
with Sections 2.10(g)
and (h); provided that:
(i) no such
prepayment shall be required with respect to (A) any Asset Sale permitted
by Section 6.04(b)(ii),
(b)(iii), (d), (e), (h), (i) or (j), (B) the
disposition of assets subject to a condemnation or eminent domain proceeding or
insurance settlement to the extent it does not constitute a Casualty Event, or
(C) Asset Sales for fair market value resulting in no more than $1.0
million in Net Cash Proceeds per Asset Sale (or series of related Asset Sales)
and less than $3.0 million in Net Cash Proceeds in any fiscal year;
and
(ii) so long
as no Default shall then exist or would arise therefrom and the aggregate of
such Net Cash Proceeds of Asset Sales shall not exceed $20.0 million in any
fiscal year of Borrower, such proceeds shall not be required to be so applied on
such date to the extent that Borrower shall have delivered a certificate to the
Administrative Agent on or prior to such date stating that such Net Cash
Proceeds shall be used (x) to purchase replacement assets or fixed or
capital assets used or usable in the business of Borrower and the Subsidiaries,
(y) to repair such assets or (z) to acquire 100% of the Equity Interests of
any person that owns such replacement or other such assets no later than 360
days following the date of such Asset Sale (which certificate shall set forth
the estimates of the proceeds to be so expended); provided, however, that if all or any
portion of such Net Cash Proceeds not required to be applied to make prepayments
as a result of this clause (ii) shall not be so reinvested as set forth in
clauses (x), (y) and (z) within such 360-day period, such unused portion shall
be applied on the last day of such period as a mandatory prepayment as provided
in this Section 2.10(c).
(d) Debt or
Preferred Stock Issuance. Upon any Debt Issuance or any
Preferred Stock Issuance after the Closing Date, Borrower shall make prepayments
in accordance with Sections 2.10(g)
and (h) in an
aggregate principal amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Debt
Issuance or Preferred Stock Issuance.
(e) Casualty
Events. Not later than five Business Days following the
receipt of any Net Cash Proceeds from a Casualty Event, Borrower shall apply an
amount equal to 100% of such Net
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Cash
Proceeds to make prepayments in accordance with Sections 2.10(g)
and (h); provided, however, that:
(i) so long
as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would arise therefrom, the Net
Cash Proceeds thereof shall not be required to be so applied on such date to the
extent that Borrower has delivered an Officers’ Certificate to the Collateral
Agent on or prior to such date stating that such proceeds shall be used
(A) to fund the acquisition or repair of property or the acquisition of
100% of the Equity Interests of any person that owns property used or usable in
the business of Borrower and the Subsidiaries or (B) to repair, replace or
restore the property in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the
applicable Security Document in respect of which such Casualty Event has
occurred; provided
that, in each case, the actions described in clauses (A) and (B)
above are commenced by Borrower within 360 days following the date of the
receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds and are diligently pursued to satisfactory
completion to the extent practicable in the good faith estimate of
Borrower,
(ii) to the
extent such Casualty Event affects any of the Collateral, all property acquired
to effect any repair, replacement or restoration of such Collateral shall be
made subject to the Lien of the Security Documents in accordance with the
provisions of Section 5.11,
(iii) all such
Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $10.0 million in the aggregate for all such
Casualty Events shall be held in the Collateral Account and released therefrom
only in accordance with the terms of Article IX,
and
(iv) if all or
any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds shall not be so applied within such
360-day period, such unused portion shall be applied on the last day of such
period as a mandatory prepayment as provided in this Section 2.10(e).
(f) Excess
Cash Flow. No later than the earlier of (i) 90 days after
the end of each fiscal year of Borrower, commencing with the fiscal year ending
September 28, 2007, and (ii) the date on which the financial statements
with respect to such period are delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a),
Borrower shall make prepayments in accordance with Sections 2.10(g)
and (h) in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the ECF Percentage of Excess Cash Flow for
the fiscal year then ended; provided that if the Borrower
makes any optional prepayment of Loans during any fiscal year with funds which
would otherwise constitute “Excess Cash Flow” for such fiscal year (all such
payments, the “ECF Optional
Prepayments”), no deduction for such ECF Optional Prepayments shall be
made in calculating Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year (Excess Cash Flow
without such deduction is herein referred to as “Gross Excess Cash
Flow”). If the ECF Optional Prepayments for such fiscal year
equal or exceed the ECF Percentage of Gross Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal
year, no prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.10(f)
for such fiscal year. To the extent that the ECF Optional Prepayments
for such fiscal year are less than the ECF Percentage of Gross Excess Cash Flow
for such fiscal year (such difference, the “Excess Cash Flow Shortfall”),
subject to the proviso of the first sentence of this Section 2.10(f),
the Borrower shall be required only to prepay an amount equal to such Excess
Cash Flow Shortfall in respect of such fiscal year pursuant to this Section 2.10(f).
(g) Application
of Prepayments.
(i) Optional
prepayments in respect of Term Loans under this Agreement shall be applied to
reduce remaining scheduled installments of principal due in respect of Term
Loans under Section
2.09 in direct order of maturity. Mandatory prepayments
pursuant to Section 2.10(d)
shall be applied first to reduce remaining scheduled installments of principal
due in respect of outstanding Term Loans under Section 2.09 in
direct order of maturity up to but not including the
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scheduled installment due after the date that is 12 months following the date of
such prepayment. After application of prepayments pursuant to the
second sentence of this paragraph (g)(i) and to the extent there are
mandatory prepayment amounts remaining after such application, such excess
prepayments shall be applied (x) first, to reduce outstanding Term Loans pro rata against the
remaining scheduled installments of principal due in respect of the Term Loans
under Section 2.09 up
to but not including the final scheduled installment and (y) second, to the
final scheduled installment. Mandatory prepayments pursuant to Section 2.10(c),
(e) or (f) shall be applied
(x) first, to reduce outstanding Term Loans pro rata against the
remaining scheduled installments of principal due in respect of the Term Loans
under Section 2.09, up
to but not including the final scheduled installment and (y) second, to the
final scheduled installment.
(ii) Amounts
to be applied pursuant to this Section 2.10 to
the prepayment of Term Loans and Revolving Loans shall be applied, as
applicable, first to reduce outstanding ABR Term Loans and ABR Revolving Loans,
respectively. Any amounts remaining after each such application shall
be applied to prepay Eurodollar Term Loans or Eurodollar Revolving Loans, as
applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the amount of any
prepayment of Loans required under this Section 2.10
shall be in excess of the amount of the ABR Loans at the time outstanding, only
the portion of the amount of such prepayment as is equal to the amount of such
outstanding ABR Loans shall be immediately prepaid and, at the election of
Borrower, the balance of such required prepayment shall be either
(i) deposited in the Collateral Account and applied to the prepayment of
Eurodollar Loans on the last day of the then next-expiring Interest Period for
Eurodollar Loans (with all interest accruing thereon for the account of
Borrower) or (ii) prepaid immediately, together with any amounts owing to
the Lenders under Section 2.13. Notwithstanding
any such deposit in the Collateral Account, interest shall continue to accrue on
such Loans until prepayment.
(h) Notice of
Prepayment. Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent
(and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by
telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the
case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m.,
New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment,
(ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than
11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date of
prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not
later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of
prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify
the prepayment date, the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof
to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory prepayment, a reasonably detailed
calculation of the amount of such prepayment. Promptly following
receipt of any such notice (other than a notice relating solely to Swingline
Loans), the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents
thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an
amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the
same Type as provided in Section 2.02,
except as necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory
prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably
to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be
accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.06.
SECTION
2.11. Alternate
Rate of Interest
If prior
to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar
Borrowing:
(a) the
Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent
manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining
the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period; or
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(b) the
Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBOR
Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to
such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for
such Interest Period;
then the
Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to Borrower and the Lenders by
telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the
Administrative Agent notifies Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances
giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election
Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any
Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and (ii) if any
Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made
as an ABR Borrowing.
SECTION
2.12. Increased
Costs
(a) If any
Change in Law shall:
(i) impose,
modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement
against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by,
any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBOR
Rate) or the Issuing Bank; or
(ii) impose on
any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other
condition affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender or
any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the
result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of
making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to
make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or the Issuing Bank
of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce
the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the Issuing Bank
hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then Borrower will pay
to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount
or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may
be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any
Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital
requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such
Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the
Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or
the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender,
or the Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which
such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding
company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into
consideration such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of
such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital
adequacy), then from time to time Borrower will pay to such Lender or the
Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing
Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) A
certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth the basis for its
claim and the calculation of the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such
Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as
specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to
Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Borrower
shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown
as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt
thereof.
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(d) Failure
or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation
pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the
Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that Borrower shall
not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to this
Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior
to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies
Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions
and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation
therefor; provided, further, that if the Change in
Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the
180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of
retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION
2.13. Breakage
Payments
In the
event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than
on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result
of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other
than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the
failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Revolving Loan or Term Loan
on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto or (d) the
assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest
Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16,
then, in any such event, Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss,
cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a
Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to
include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of
(i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount
of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBOR Rate that would
have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to
the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a
failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the
Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of
interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the
interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of
such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other
banks in the Eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting
forth the basis for its claim and the calculation of any amount or amounts that
such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered
to Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Borrower
shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10
days after receipt thereof.
SECTION
2.14. Payments
Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs
(a) Borrower
shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other
Loan Document (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC
Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.12,
2.13 or 2.15, or otherwise)
on or before the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan
Document for such payment (or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to
2:00 p.m., New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately
available funds, without setoff or counterclaim. Any amounts received
after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent,
be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes
of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to
the Administrative Agent at its offices at 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxx, except payments to be made directly to the Issuing Bank or
Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant
to Sections 2.12,
2.13, 2.15 and 11.03 shall be made
directly to the persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan
Documents shall be made to the persons specified therein. The
Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the
account of any other person to the appropriate recipient promptly following
receipt thereof. If any payment under any Loan Document shall be due
on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to
the next succeeding
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Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall
be payable for the period of such extension. All payments under each
Loan Document shall be made in dollars.
(b) If at any
time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative
Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements,
interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first towards payment of
interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto
in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties,
and (ii) second
towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due
hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the
amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such
parties.
(c) If any
Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise,
obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its
Revolving Loans, Term Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline
Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the
aggregate amount of its Revolving Loans, Term Loans and participations in LC
Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the
proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater
proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the
Revolving Loans, Term Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline
Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such
payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate
amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Revolving Loans,
Term Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any
such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving
rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the
purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and
(ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to
any payment made by Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express
terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for
the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or
participations in LC Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to
Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of
this paragraph shall apply). Borrower consents to the foregoing and
agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any
Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may
exercise against Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such
participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of Borrower in
the amount of such participation.
(d) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from Borrower prior to the
date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of
the Lenders or the Issuing Bank hereunder that Borrower will not make such
payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that Borrower has made such payment
on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption,
distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount
due. In such event, if Borrower has not in fact made such payment,
then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally
agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so
distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day
from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding
the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal
Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in
accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(e) If any
Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to
Section 2.02(f),
2.14(d), 2.17(d), 2.18(d) or 11.03(d), then the
Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary
provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative
Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under
such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully
paid.
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SECTION
2.15. Taxes
(a) Any and
all payments by or on account of any obligation of Borrower hereunder or under
any other Loan Document shall be made without setoff, counterclaim or other
defense and free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for any and
all Indemnified Taxes; provided that if Borrower
shall be required by law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes from such payments,
then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after
making all required deductions or withholdings (including deductions or
withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the
Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives an
amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or
withholdings been made, (ii) Borrower shall make such deductions or
withholdings and (iii) Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted or
withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable
law.
(b) In
addition, Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental
Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Borrower
shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank,
within 10 Business Days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of
any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent, such
Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, on or with respect to any
payment by or on account of any obligation of Borrower hereunder or under any
other Loan Document (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or
asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any
penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or
legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A
certificate as to the basis for its claim and the calculation of the amount of
such payment or liability delivered to Borrower by a Lender or the Issuing Bank,
or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the
Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) As soon
as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by Borrower
to a Governmental Authority, Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent
the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental
Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment
or other evidence of such payment.
(e) Any
Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding
tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which Borrower is located, or any
treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under
this Agreement shall deliver to Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent), on or before the date it becomes a party to this Agreement (or in the
case of any Participant, on or before such Participant purchases the related
participation), such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by
applicable law or reasonably requested by Borrower as will permit such payments
to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. Each Foreign
Lender either (1) (i) agrees to furnish either U.S. Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8ECI or U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN (or successor
form) and (ii) agrees (for the benefit of Borrower and the Administrative
Agent), to the extent it may lawfully do so at such times, upon reasonable
request by Borrower or the Administrative Agent, to provide a new Form W-8ECI or
Form W-8BEN (or successor form) upon the expiration or obsolescence of any
previously delivered form to reconfirm any complete exemption from, or any
entitlement to a reduction in, U.S. federal withholding tax with respect to any
interest payment hereunder or (2) in the case of any such Foreign Lender
that is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Tax
Code, (i) agrees to furnish either (a) an exemption certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit L and
two accurate and complete original signed copies of Internal Revenue Service
Form W-8BEN (or successor form) or (b) an Internal Revenue Form W-8ECI (or
successor form), certifying (in each case) to such Foreign Lender’s legal
entitlement to an exemption or re
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from U.S. federal withholding tax with respect to all interest payments
hereunder and (ii) agrees (for the benefit of Borrower and the
Administrative Agent) to the extent it may lawfully do so at such times, upon
reasonable request by Borrower or the Administrative Agent, to provide a new
Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI (or successor form) upon the expiration or obsolescence of
any previously delivered form to reconfirm any complete exemption from, or any
entitlement to a reduction in, U.S. federal withholding tax with respect to any
interest payment hereunder.
(f) If the
Administrative Agent or a Lender (or an assignee) receives a refund of any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by Borrower
or with respect to which Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this
Section 2.15, it
shall pay over such refund to Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity
payments made, or additional amounts paid, by Borrower under this Section 2.15
with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or the Other Taxes giving rise to such
refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, any
Taxes imposed on such refund to the extent in excess of any tax benefit actually
realized in connection with the payments of the tax giving rise to such refund)
of the Administrative Agent or such Lender (or assignee) and without interest
(other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with
respect to such refund); provided, however, that Borrower, upon the
request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender (or assignee), agrees to
repay the amount paid over to Borrower (plus any penalties, interest
or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender (or assignee) in the event the
Administrative Agent or such Lender (or assignee) is required to repay such
refund to such Governmental Authority. Nothing contained in this
Section 2.15(f)
shall require the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or assignee) to make
available its Tax Returns or any other information which it deems confidential
to Borrower or any other person.
SECTION
2.16. Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
(a) Mitigation
of Obligations. If any Lender requests compensation under
Section 2.12, or
if Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any
Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.15,
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 reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment
(i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable in the future pursuant to
Section 2.12 or
2.15, as the
case may be, and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed
cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous in any material
respect to such Lender. Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable
out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any
such designation or assignment.
(b) Replacement
of Lenders. If (1) any Lender requests compensation under
Section 2.12,
(2) Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any
Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.15,
(3) any Lender defaults in its obligation to fund Loans hereunder or
(4) Borrower elects to replace a Lender in accordance with Section 11.02(c),
then Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender
and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate,
without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained
in Section 11.04),
all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee
selected by Borrower that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be
another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that
(i) Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the
Administrative Agent (and, if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned, the
Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender) if the assignee is not another Lender, which
consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have
received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans
and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest
thereon, accrued fees, prepayment premiums and all other amounts payable to it
hereunder, from the as
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signee
(to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or
Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any
such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.12 or
payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.15,
such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments
(other than a de
minimis amount). A Lender shall not be required to make any
such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by
such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling Borrower to require such
assignment and delegation cease to apply.
SECTION
2.17. Swingline
Loans
(a) Swingline
Commitment. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to Borrower from
time to time during the Revolving Availability Period, in an aggregate principal
amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate
principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $5.0 million or
(ii) the sum of the total Revolving Exposures exceeding the total Revolving
Commitments; provided
that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline Loan
to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing
limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, Borrower may
borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.
(b) Swingline
Loans. To request a Swingline Loan, Borrower shall notify the
Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by telecopy), not
later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the day of a proposed
Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall
specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of the
requested Swingline Loan. The Administrative Agent will promptly
advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from
Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan
available to Borrower by means of a credit to the general deposit account of
Borrower with the Swingline Lender (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to
finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.18(e),
by remittance to the Issuing Bank) by 5:00 p.m., New York City time,
on the requested date of such Swingline Loan. Borrower shall not
request a Swingline Loan if at the time of and immediately after giving effect
to such request a Default has occurred and is continuing. Swingline
Loans shall be made in minimum amounts of $250,000 and integral multiples of
$50,000 above such amount.
(c) Prepayment. Borrower
shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Swingline
Loan, in whole or in part, upon giving written or telecopy notice (or telephone
notice promptly confirmed by written or telecopy notice) to the Swingline Lender
and to the Administrative Agent before 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the date of prepayment at the Swingline Lender’s address for notices specified
in the Swingline Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, and such prepayments
shall be made to the Swingline Lender by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
date of prepayment. All principal payments of Swingline Loans shall
be accompanied by accrued interest on the principal amount being repaid to the
date of payment.
(d) Participations. The
Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not
later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on any Business Day require the
Revolving Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a
portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify
the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Revolving Lenders will
participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative
Agent will give notice thereof to each Revolving Lender, specifying in such
notice such Lender’s Pro Rata Percentage of such Swingline Loan or
Loans. Each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally
agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Pro Rata
Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Lender
acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in
Swingline Loans pursuant to this
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is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance
whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction
or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made
without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever (provided that such payment
shall not cause such Lender’s Revolving Exposure to exceed such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment). Each Revolving Lender shall comply with its
obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds,
in the same manner as provided in Section 2.02(f)
with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.02
shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, to the payment
obligations of the Revolving Lenders) and the Administrative Agent shall
promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the
Revolving Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify Borrower of
any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph,
and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the
Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts
received by the Swingline Lender from Borrower (or other party on behalf of
Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender
of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted
to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative
Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving
Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to
the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear. The purchase of
participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve
Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.
SECTION
2.18. Letters
of Credit
(a) General. Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, Borrower may request the issuance
of Letters of Credit for its own account or the account of a Subsidiary in a
form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, at
any time and from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period (provided that Borrower shall
be a co-applicant, and shall be jointly and severally liable, with respect to
each Letter of Credit issued for the account of or in favor of a
Subsidiary). In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter
of credit application or other agreement submitted by Borrower to, or entered
into by Borrower with, the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the
terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.
(b) Notice of
Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain
Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or
the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit),
Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication
if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Bank) to the
Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (at least three Business Days in
advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, or
such shorter period as is acceptable to such respective Issuing Bank) a notice
requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of
Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), whether such
Letter of Credit shall have a fixed final expiration date (not subject to
renewal) or whether such Letter of Credit shall have an expiration date that
automatically extends for successive periods (in either case which shall comply
with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit,
the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as
shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of
Credit. If requested by the Issuing Bank, Borrower also shall submit
a letter of credit application on the Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection
with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be
issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment,
renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit, Borrower shall be deemed to
represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment,
renewal or extension, (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed $15.0 million
and (ii) the total Revolving Exposures shall not exceed the total Revolving
Commitments.
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(c) Expiration
Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the
close of business on the earlier of (1) in the case of a Standby Letter of
Credit, unless otherwise consented to by the Issuing Bank in its sole
discretion, (x) (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such
Standby Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof,
one year after such renewal or extension) or (ii) such later date as requested
by Borrower in the relevant application and (y) the date that is five days prior
to the Revolving Maturity Date and (2) in the case of a Commercial Letter of
Credit, (x) the date that is 180 days after the date of issuance of such
Commercial Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension
thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (y) the date that is five
days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date. If Borrower so requests in
any Letter of Credit Request, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole and absolute
discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic renewal
provisions (each, an “Auto-Renewal Letter of
Credit”); provided that (i) any such
Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit must permit the Issuing Bank to prevent any such
renewal at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of
issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary
thereof not later than a day in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon
at the time such Letter of Credit is issued and (ii) the Issuing Bank will not
permit the renewal of any Letter of Credit that would result in the expiration
date of such Letter of Credit being later than the date that is five days prior
to the Revolving Maturity Date. Unless otherwise directed by the
Issuing Bank, Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the
Issuing Bank for any such renewal. Once an Auto-Renewal Letter of
Credit has been issued, the Revolving Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized
(but may not require) the Issuing Bank to permit the renewal of such Letter of
Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the earlier of (i) one
year from the date of such renewal and (ii) the date that is five days
prior to the Revolving Maturity Date; provided that the Issuing
Bank shall not permit any such renewal if (x) the Issuing Bank has
determined that it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of
Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions
of Section 2.18(l)
or otherwise), or (y) it has received notice on or before the day that is
two Business Days before the date which has been agreed upon pursuant to the
proviso of the first sentence of this paragraph, (1) from the
Administrative Agent that any Revolving Lender directly affected thereby has
elected not to permit such renewal or (2) from the Administrative Agent,
any Lender or Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified
in Section 4.01 are
not then satisfied.
(d) Participations. By
the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit
increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the
Issuing Bank or the Lenders, the Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Revolving
Lender, and each Revolving Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Bank, a
participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata
Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each
Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Bank, such Lender’s Pro
Rata Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and not
reimbursed by Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this
Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to Borrower for
any reason. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation
to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of
Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any
Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or
termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without
any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.
(e) Reimbursement. If
the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of
Credit, Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Issuing
Bank an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 2:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if
Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to
11:00 a.m., New York City time on such date, or, if such notice has
not been received by Bor
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prior to such time on such date, then not later than 2:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on (i) the Business Day that Borrower receives such
notice, if such notice is received prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City
time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the
day that Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to
such time on the day of receipt; provided that Borrower may,
subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance
with Section 2.03 or
2.17 that such
payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Loan or Swingline Loan in an
equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, Borrower’s obligation to make
such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving
Loan or Swingline Loan. If Borrower fails to make such payment when
due, the Issuing Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent and the
Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender of the applicable LC
Disbursement, the payment then due from Borrower in respect thereof and such
Lender’s Pro Rata Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of
such notice, each Revolving Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Pro
Rata Percentage of the unreimbursed LC Disbursement in the same manner as
provided in Section 2.02(f),
with respect to Loans made by such Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall
promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the
Revolving Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative
Agent of any payment from Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the
Administrative Agent shall, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made
payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank, distribute
such payment to such Lenders and the Issuing Bank as their interests may
appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Lender pursuant to this
paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the
funding of ABR Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall
not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve Borrower of its obligation to
reimburse such LC Disbursement.
(f) Obligations
Absolute. The obligation of Borrower to reimburse LC
Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section shall be
absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances
whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability
of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein,
(ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving
to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein
being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the Issuing
Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document
that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any
other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a
legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the
obligations of Borrower hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent,
the Lenders nor the Issuing Bank, nor any of their Affiliates, shall have any
liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or
transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment
thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the
preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in
transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or
relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a
drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any
consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing
shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Bank from liability to Borrower to
the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in
respect of which are hereby waived by Borrower to the extent permitted by
applicable law) suffered by Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Bank’s
failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents
presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The
parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or
willful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Bank, any other issuing bank or
any of their respective correspondent banks (as finally determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised 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 which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance
with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole
discretion, either accept
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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.
(g) Disbursement
Procedures. The Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its
receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for
payment under a Letter of Credit. The Issuing Bank shall promptly
notify the Administrative Agent and Borrower by telephone (confirmed by
telecopy) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made or
will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to
give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve Borrower of its obligation
to reimburse the Issuing Bank and the Revolving Lenders with respect to any such
LC Disbursement (other than with respect to the timing of such reimbursement
obligation set forth in Section 2.18(e)).
(h) Interim
Interest. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement,
then, unless Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date
such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for
each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but
excluding the date that Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate
per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that if Borrower
fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e)
of this Section, then Section 2.06(c)
shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for
the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the
date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this
Section to reimburse the Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to
the extent of such payment.
(i) Resignation
or Removal of the Issuing Bank. The Issuing Bank may resign as
Issuing Bank hereunder at any time upon at least 30 days’ prior notice to the
Lenders, the Administrative Agent and Borrower. The Issuing Bank may
be replaced at any time by written agreement among Borrower, the Administrative
Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. One
or more Lenders may be appointed as additional Issuing Banks by written
agreement among Borrower, the Administrative Agent (whose consent will not be
unreasonably withheld) and the Lender that is to be so appointed. The
Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such resignation or
replacement of the Issuing Bank or any such additional Issuing
Bank. At the time any such resignation or replacement shall become
effective, Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the
replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.05(c). From
and after the effective date of any such resignation, replacement or addition,
as applicable, (i) the successor or additional Issuing Bank shall have all
the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect
to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to
the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or such
addition or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor or such addition
and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After
the resignation or replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced
Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the
rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to
Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such resignation or replacement, but
shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit. If at
any time there is more than one Issuing Bank hereunder, Borrower may, in its
discretion, select which Issuing Bank is to issue any particular Letter of
Credit.
(j) Cash
Collateralization. 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 (or, if the maturity of the Loans
has been accelerated, Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater
than 50% of the total LC Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash collateral
pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in the LC Sub-Account, in
the name of the Collateral Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount
in cash equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any
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and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation
to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such
deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice
of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to
Borrower described in clause (g) or (h) of
Article VIII. Upon the Business Day Borrower receives such
notice, Borrower shall deposit such cash collateral in the LC Sub-Account, to be
held by the Collateral Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of
the obligations of Borrower under this Agreement. The Collateral
Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right
of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on
the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option
and sole discretion of the Collateral Agent and at the risk and expense of
Borrower, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits,
if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys
in such account shall be applied by the Collateral Agent to reimburse the
Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to
the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the
reimbursement obligations of Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if
the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of
Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of the total LC
Exposure), be applied to satisfy other Obligations of Borrower under this
Agreement. If Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash
collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such
amount plus any accrued
interest or realized profits or such amounts (to the extent not applied as
aforesaid) shall be returned to Borrower within three Business Days after all
Events of Default have been cured or waived.
(k) Additional
Issuing Banks. Borrower may, at any time and from time to time
with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld) and such Lender, designate one or more additional Lenders
to act as an issuing bank under the terms of this Agreement. Any
Lender designated as an issuing bank pursuant to this paragraph (k) shall
be deemed (in addition to being a Lender) to be the Issuing Bank with respect to
Letters of Credit issued or to be issued by such Lender, and all references
herein and in the other Loan Documents to the term “Issuing Bank” shall, with
respect to such Letters of Credit, be deemed to refer to such Lender in its
capacity as Issuing Bank, as the context shall require.
(l) Other. The
Issuing Bank shall be under no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit
if:
(i) any
order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by
its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the Issuing Bank from issuing such
Letter of Credit, or any law applicable to the Issuing Bank or any request or
directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental
Authority with jurisdiction over the Issuing Bank shall prohibit, or request
that the Issuing Bank refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally
or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the Issuing Bank
with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital
requirement (for which the Issuing Bank is not otherwise compensated hereunder)
not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon the Issuing Bank any
unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date
and which the Issuing Bank in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it; or
(ii) the
issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the
Issuing Bank.
The
Issuing Bank shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if
(A) the Issuing Bank would have no obligation at such time to issue such
Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the
beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to
such Letter of Credit.
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SECTION
2.19. Exchange
or Prepayment of Term B Loans
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, each Original Lender with a Term B Loan
(other than a Reduced Lender) who executes and delivers a counterpart of this
Agreement severally agrees to exchange its Term B Loans for a like outstanding
principal amount of Term Loans on the Closing Date, which exchange shall be
deemed to be the making of a Term Loan by such Lender for such
amount.
(b) The
Borrower shall prepay all Term B Loans of Original Lenders that do not
execute and deliver a counterpart of this Agreement on the Closing
Date. The Borrower shall prepay each Reduced Lender that portion of
its Term B Loans which exceeds the amount of its Term Loan
Commitment. By its signature below, each Lender not exchanging its
Term B Loan for a Term Loan and each Reduced Lender consents to such
prepayment. Any such prepayment may be effected on the Closing Date
without regard to any notice requirement, minimum principal amount or pro rata
allocation provision otherwise applicable thereto under this
Agreement.
(c) The
Borrower shall pay all accrued and unpaid interest under the Original Credit
Agreement on the Term B Loans to the Original Lenders holding Term B Loans
on the Closing Date and any breakage loss or expense under Section 2.13 of
the Original Credit Agreement. On the Closing Date, the Term B Loans
shall be deemed paid in full and discharged.
(d) The
holders of the Term Loans shall be entitled to the same guarantees and security
interests pursuant to the Security Agreement and the other Security Documents
from and after the Closing Date as the benefits which the holders of the Term B
Loans had been entitled immediately prior to the Closing Date.
(e) Each of
the Original Lenders having a Revolving Commitment (as defined in the Original
Credit Agreement) prior to the Closing Date (i) which Original Lender’s
Revolving Commitment is greater than the amount of its Revolving Commitment as
set forth in its Confidential Lender Authorization or (ii) which does not
execute a Confidential Lender Authorization (the “Pre-Amendment Revolving
Lenders”) shall be deemed to have sold, to any Revolving Lender which is
acquiring a new or additional Revolving Commitment on the Closing Date (the
“Post-Amendment Revolving
Lenders”), and such Post-Amendment Revolving Lenders shall be deemed to
have purchased, as the case may be, from each Pre-Amendment Revolving Lender, at
the principal amount thereof, interests in the participation interests in LC
Exposures and Swingline Loans outstanding on the Closing Date to the extent set
forth below. Each Pre-Amendment Revolving Lender shall be deemed to
exchange Revolving Loans outstanding prior to the Closing Date for Revolving
Loans to be outstanding immediately after the Amendment Effectiveness Date to
the extent set forth below. The foregoing assignments and exchanges
shall be deemed to occur as shall be necessary in order that, after giving
effect to all such assignments, purchases and exchanges, such Revolving Loans
and participation interests in LC Exposures and Swingline Loans will be held by
Revolving Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Commitments on the
Closing Date after giving effect to the Confidential Lender
Authorizations.
SECTION
2.20. Increase
in Commitments
(a) Borrower
Request. Borrower may, from time to time, by written notice to
the Administrative Agent elect to request (x) prior to the Revolving Maturity
Date, an increase to the existing Revolving Commitments and/or (y) the
establishment of one or more new Term Loan Commitments (each, an “Incremental Term Loan
Commitment”) by an amount not in excess of $125.0 million in the
aggregate and not less than $25.0 million individually. Each such
notice shall specify (i) the date (each, an “Increase Effective Date”) on
which Borrower proposes that the increased or new Commitments shall
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be
effective, which shall be a date not less than 10 Business Days after the date
on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent and (ii) the
identity of each institution (provided that such institution would be able to be
assigned an interest in a Loan under Section 11.04(b)) to
whom Borrower proposes any portion of such increased or new Commitments be
allocated and the amounts of such allocations; provided that any existing
Lender approached to provide all or a portion of the increased or new
Commitments may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide such
increased or new Commitment.
(b) Conditions. The
increased or new Commitments shall become effective, as of such Increase
Effective Date; provided that:
(i) each of
the conditions set forth in Section 4.01 shall be
satisfied;
(ii) no
Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the
borrowings to be made on the Increase Effective Date;
(iii) after
giving effect pro forma to the borrowings to be made on the Increase Effective
Date and to any change in Consolidated EBITDA and any increase in Indebtedness
resulting from the consummation of any Permitted Acquisition concurrently with
such borrowings as of the date of the most recent financial statements delivered
pursuant to Section
5.01(a) or (b), Borrower’s
Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall not be greater than 3.75:1.0;
(iv) Borrower
shall deliver or cause to be delivered any legal opinions or other documents
reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in connection with any such
transaction; and
(v) Borrower
shall make any payments required pursuant to Section 2.13 in
connection with any adjustment of Revolving Loans pursuant to Section
2.20(d).
(c) Terms of
New Loans and Commitments. The terms and provisions of Loans
made pursuant to the new Commitments shall be as follows:
(i) terms and
provisions of Term Loans made pursuant to Incremental Term Loan Commitments
(“Incremental Term
Loans”) shall be, except as otherwise set forth herein or in the Increase
Joinder, identical to the Term Loans (it being understood that Incremental Term
Loans may be a part of a new or existing tranche of Term Loans);
(ii) the terms
and provisions of Revolving Loans made pursuant to new Commitments shall be
identical to the Revolving Loans;
(iii) the
weighted average life to maturity of any Incremental Term Loans shall be no
shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of the Revolving Loans and
the existing Term Loans;
(iv) the
maturity date of Incremental Term Loans (the “Incremental Term Loan Maturity
Date”) shall not be earlier than the Term Loan Maturity
Date;
(v) the
Applicable Margins for the Incremental Term Loans shall be determined by
Borrower and the Lenders of the Incremental Term Loans; provided that in the event
that the Applicable Margins for any Incremental Term Loans are greater than the
Applicable Margins for the Term Loans, then the Applicable Margins for the Term
Loans shall be increased to the extent necessary so that the Applicable Margins
for the Incremental Term Loans are equal to the Appli
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Margins for the Term Loans; provided, further, that in determining
the Applicable Margins applicable to the Term Loans and the Incremental Term
Loans, (x) original issue discount (“OID”) or upfront fees (which
shall be deemed to constitute like amounts of OID) payable by Borrower to the
Lenders of the Term Loans or the Incremental Term Loans in the primary
syndication thereof shall be included (with OID being equated to interest based
on an assumed four-year life to maturity) and (y) customary arrangement or
commitment fees payable to the Arranger (or its affiliates) in connection with
the Term Loans or to one or more arrangers (or their affiliates) of the
Incremental Term Loans shall be excluded; and
(vi) to the
extent that the terms and provisions of Incremental Term Loans are not identical
to the Term Loans (except to the extent permitted by clause (iv) or (v) above)
they shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
The
increased or new Commitments shall be effected by a joinder agreement (the
“Increase Joinder”)
executed by Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender making such
increased or new Commitment, in form and substance satisfactory to each of
them. The Increase Joinder may, without the consent of any other
Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent,
to effect the provisions of this Section
2.20. In addition, unless otherwise specifically provided
herein or in an Increase Joinder, all references in Loan Documents to Revolving
Loans or Term Loans shall be deemed, unless the context otherwise requires, to
include references to Revolving Loans made pursuant to new Commitments and
Incremental Term Loans that are Term Loans, respectively, made pursuant to this
Agreement.
(d) Adjustment
of Revolving Loans. To the extent the Commitments being
increased on the relevant Increase Effective Date are Revolving Commitments,
then each of the Revolving Lenders having a Revolving Commitment prior to such
Increase Effective Date (the “Pre-Increase Revolving
Lenders”) shall
assign to any Revolving Lender which is acquiring a new or additional Revolving
Commitment on the Increase Effective Date (the “Post-Increase Revolving
Lenders”), and such Post-Increase Revolving Lenders shall purchase from
each Pre-Increase Revolving Lender, at the principal amount thereof, such
interests in the Revolving Loans and participation interests in LC Exposure and
Swingline Loans outstanding on such Increase Effective Date as shall be
necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and
purchases, such Revolving Loans and participation interests in LC Exposure and
Swingline Loans will be held by Pre-Increase Revolving Lenders and Post-Increase
Revolving Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Commitments after
giving effect to such increased Revolving Commitments.
(e) Making of
New Term Loans. On any Increase Effective Date on which new
Commitments for Term Loans are effective, subject to the satisfaction of the
foregoing terms and conditions, each Lender of such new Commitment shall make a
Term Loan to Borrower in an amount equal to its new Commitment.
(f) Equal and
Ratable Benefit. The Loans and Commitments established
pursuant to this paragraph shall constitute Loans and Commitments under, and
shall be entitled to all the benefits afforded by, this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, and shall, without limiting the foregoing, benefit equally and
ratably from the Guarantees and security interests created by the Security
Documents, except that the new Loans may be subordinated in right of payment or
the Liens securing the new Loans may be subordinated, in each case, as set forth
in the Increase Joinder. The Loan Parties shall take any and all
actions reasonably required by the Administrative Agent to ensure and/or
demonstrate that the Lien and security interests granted by the Security
Documents continue to be valid and perfected under the UCC or other applicable
law after giving effect to the establishment of any such Class of Term Loans or
any such new Commitments.
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