CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of June 9, 2009 among BIOVAIL CORPORATION, The Lenders Party Hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., TORONTO BRANCH as Administrative Agent
Exhibit
99.2
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dated as
of
June 9,
2009
among
BIOVAIL
CORPORATION,
The
Lenders Party Hereto
and
JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A., TORONTO BRANCH
as
Administrative Agent
X.X.
XXXXXX SECURITIES INC. and SCOTIA CAPITAL INC.,
as Joint
Bookrunners and Joint Lead Arrangers
THE BANK
OF NOVA SCOTIA and NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA,
as
Syndication Agents
HSBC BANK
CANADA and THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK,
as
Documentation Agents
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
Definitions
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Section
1.01
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Defined
Terms.
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1
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Section
1.02
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Classification
of Loans and Borrowings.
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24
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Section
1.03
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Terms
Generally.
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24
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Section
1.04
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Accounting
Terms; GAAP.
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24
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Section
1.05
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Changes
in Accounting Principles.
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25
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Section
1.06
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Currency
Matters.
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25
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Section
1.07
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Conflict.
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25
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Section
1.08
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Successor
Legislation.
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25
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ARTICLE II
The Credits
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Section
2.01
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Commitments.
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26
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Section
2.02
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Loans
and Borrowings.
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26
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Section
2.03
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Requests
for Revolving Borrowings.
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27
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Section
2.04
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Bankers'
Acceptances.
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28
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Section
2.05
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Swingline
Loans.
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33
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Section
2.06
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Letters
of Credit.
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35
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Section
2.07
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Funding
of Borrowings.
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39
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Section
2.08
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Interest
Elections.
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39
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Section
2.09
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Termination
and Reduction of Commitments.
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41
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Section
2.10
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Repayment
of Loans; Evidence of Debt.
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41
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Section
2.11
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Prepayment
of Loans.
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42
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Section
2.12
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Fees.
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43
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Section
2.13
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Interest.
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44
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Section
2.14
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Alternate
Rate of Interest.
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46
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Section
2.15
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Increased
Costs.
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47
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Section
2.16
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Illegality.
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48
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Section
2.17
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Break
Funding Payments.
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48
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Section
2.18
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Taxes.
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49
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Section
2.19
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Payments
Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs.
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51
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Section
2.20
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Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
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53
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Section
2.21
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Returned
Payments.
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54
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Section
2.22
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Defaulting
Lenders.
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54
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Section
2.23
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Expansion
Option.
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55
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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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56
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Section
3.02
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Authorization;
Enforceability.
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56
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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
Condition; No Material Adverse Change.
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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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Litigation
and Environmental Matters.
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58
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Section
3.07
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Compliance
with Laws and Agreements.
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60
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Section
3.08
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Investment
Company Status.
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60
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Section
3.09
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Taxes.
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60
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Section
3.10
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ERISA.
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60
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Section
3.11
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Withholdings.
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60
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Section
3.12
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Canadian
Pension Plan and Benefit Plans.
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60
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Section
3.13
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Disclosure.
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61
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Section
3.14
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Material
Agreements.
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61
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Section
3.15
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Solvency.
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62
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Section
3.16
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Insurance.
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62
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Section
3.17
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Capitalization
and Subsidiaries.
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62
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Section
3.18
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Security
Interest in Collateral.
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62
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Section
3.19
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Employment
Matters.
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Section
3.20
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Affiliate
Transactions.
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63
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Section
3.21
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Common
Enterprise.
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63
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Section
3.22
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Canadian
Anti Money Laundering Legislation.
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63
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Section
3.23
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Financial
Statements.
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63
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Section
3.24
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Regulation
U or X.
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Section
3.25
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Default.
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Section
3.26
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Restrictions.
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Section
3.27
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Intellectual
Property.
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ARTICLE IV
Conditions
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Section
4.01
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Effective
Date.
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64
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Section
4.02
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Each
Credit Event.
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67
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ARTICLE V
Affirmative Covenants
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Section
5.01
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Financial
Statements; Other Information.
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68
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Section
5.02
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Notices
of Material Events.
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69
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Section
5.03
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Existence;
Conduct of Business.
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70
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Section
5.04
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Payment
of Obligations.
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71
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Section
5.05
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Maintenance
of Properties.
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71
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Section
5.06
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Books
and Records; Inspection Rights.
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71
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Section
5.07
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Compliance
with Laws; Agreements.
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71
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Section
5.08
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Use
of Proceeds.
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72
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Section
5.09
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Insurance.
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Section
5.10
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Depository
Banks; Control Agreements.
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73
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Section
5.11
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Intellectual
Property.
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Section
5.12
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Loan
Party Assets and Revenues.
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74
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Section
5.13
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Additional
Barbados Security.
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Section
5.14
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Additional
Mortgages
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Section
5.15
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Additional
Collateral; Further Assurances.
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Section
5.16
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Post
Closing Items.
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ARTICLE VI
Negative Covenants
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Section
6.01
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Indebtedness.
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Section
6.02
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Liens.
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Section
6.03
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Fundamental
Changes.
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Section
6.04
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Investments,
Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions.
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78
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Section
6.05
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Asset
Sales.
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Section
6.06
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Sale
and Leaseback Transactions.
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Section
6.07
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Swap
Agreements.
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Section
6.08
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Restricted
Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness.
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81
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Section
6.09
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Transactions
with Affiliates.
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82
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Section
6.10
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Restrictive
Agreements.
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82
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Section
6.11
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Amendment
of Material Documents.
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83
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Section
6.12
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Changes
in Fiscal Periods.
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Section
6.13
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Capital
of Loan Parties.
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Section
6.14
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Securities
to be Pledged with Agent upon Request.
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Section
6.15
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Regulation
U or X.
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Section
6.16
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Material
Contracts.
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Section
6.17
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Acquisitions.
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Section
6.18
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Change
in Control.
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Section
6.19
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Excluded
Subsidiaries.
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84
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Section
6.20
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Biovail
Insurance.
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Section
6.21
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Pharma
Pass SA.
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Section
6.22
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Biovail
SA., Biovail Lux and Biovail UK. and Biovail SA
Indebtedness
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Section
6.23
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Minimum
Interest Coverage Ratio.
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84
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Section
6.24
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Maximum
Total Debt to EBITDA Ratio.
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85
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Section
6.25
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Minimum
Equity.
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ARTICLE VII
Events of Default
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Section
7.01
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ARTICLE VIII
The Administrative Agent
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ARTICLE IX
Miscellaneous
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Section
9.01
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Notices.
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Section
9.02
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Waivers;
Amendments.
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93
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Section
9.03
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Expenses;
Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
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Section
9.04
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Successors
and Assigns.
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Section
9.05
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Survival.
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100
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Section
9.06
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Counterparts;
Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic Execution.
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100
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Section
9.07
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Severability.
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101
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Section
9.08
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Right
of Setoff.
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101
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Section
9.09
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Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.
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101
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Section
9.10
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WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL.
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102
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Section
9.11
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Headings.
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102
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Section
9.12
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Confidentiality.
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103
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Section
9.13
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Several
Obligations; Non-reliance; Violation of Law.
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104
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Section
9.14
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Disclosure.
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104
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Section
9.15
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Currency
of Payment.
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104
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Section
9.16
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Canadian
Anti-Money Laundering Legislation.
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105
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Section
9.17
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USA
PATRIOT ACT.
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SCHEDULES:
Schedule
1.01 -- Significant Subsidiaries
Schedule
2.01 -- Commitments
Schedule
3.05 -- Properties
Schedule
3.06 -- Disclosed Matters
Schedule
3.12 -- Canadian Pension Plan and Benefit Plans
Schedule
3.14 – Material Contracts
Schedule
3.16 -- Insurance
Schedule
3.17 -- Capitalization and Subsidiaries
Schedule
3.20 -- Affiliate Transactions
Schedule
3.27 -- Intellectual Property
Schedule
5.16 – Post Closing Items
Schedule
6.01 -- Existing Indebtedness
Schedule
6.02 -- Existing Liens
Schedule
6.04 -- Investments
Schedule
6.10 -- Restrictive Agreements
Schedule
6.21 – Pharma Pass SA Contracts
EXHIBITS:
Exhibit A
-- Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit B
-- Form of Borrowing Request
Exhibit C
-- Form of BA Equivalent Note
Exhibit D
-- Form of Increasing Lender Agreement
Exhibit E
-- Form of Augmenting Lender Agreement
Exhibit F
-- Form of Compliance Certificate
CREDIT
AGREEMENT dated as of June 9, 2009 (as it may be amended or modified from time
to time, this “Agreement”), between
Biovail Corporation, the LENDERS party hereto, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
TORONTO BRANCH, as Administrative Agent.
The
parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I
Definitions
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SECTION
1.01
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Defined
Terms.
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As used
in this Agreement, the following terms 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.
“Acquisition” means
any acquisition (whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) or
series of related acquisitions by any Loan Party of (a) all or substantially all
or any significant portion of the assets of a Person or division or line of
business or a business unit of a Person, or (b) all or substantially all of the
Equity Interests of a Person.
“Additional Guarantor”
means any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than the
Significant Subsidiaries in existence as of the Effective Date), which has
become a Guarantor by delivering a Loan Guarantee in favour of the
Administrative Agent.
“Adjusted Equity”
means, as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower,
Equity of the Borrower (on a consolidated basis) on such date, plus the sum of
all amounts added back to EBITDA in respect of acquired In-Process Research and
Development Expenditures (as defined under GAAP) pursuant to clause (a)(iv) of
the definition of EBITDA during such fiscal quarter and the previous 7 fiscal
quarters of the Borrower, all as determined in accordance with
GAAP.
“Adjusted LIBO Rate”
means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, an
interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%)
equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the
Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Administrative Agent”
means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, in its capacity as
administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder.
“Administrative
Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied
by the Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means,
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.
“Aggregate
Consideration” means, in relation to an Acquisition, the total value of
the consideration paid or liability assumed by the purchaser making such
Acquisition, less the value of equity issued by the Borrower, (x) which is
issued as part of the purchase price for such Acquisition; or (y) the proceeds
of which are invested in the Borrower specifically to provide all or part of the
purchase price for such Acquisition.
“Alternate Base Rate”
means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the U.S. Base
Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on
such day plus ½ of 1%, and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one (1) month
Interest Period on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the
immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1%, provided that, for the avoidance of
doubt, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the rate appearing
on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or on any successor or substitute page) at
approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day. Any change in the
Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the U.S. Base Rate, the Federal Funds
Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including
the effective date of such change in the U.S. Base Rate, the Federal Funds
Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively.
“Applicable Law” means
(a) any domestic or foreign statute, law (including common and civil law),
treaty, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, restriction or by-law (zoning or
otherwise); (b) any judgement, order, writ, injunction, decision, ruling, decree
or award; (c) any regulatory policy, practice, guideline or directive; or (d)
any franchise, licence, qualification, authorization, consent, exemption,
waiver, right, permit or other approval of any Governmental Authority, binding
on or affecting the Person referred to in the context in which the term is used
or binding on or affecting the property of such Person, in each case whether or
not having the force of law.
“Applicable
Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the
total Commitments represented by such Lender's Commitment; provided that in the
case of Section 2.19 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Applicable
Percentage” shall mean the percentage of the total Commitments
(disregarding any Defaulting Lender's Commitment) represented by such Lender's
Commitment. If the Commitments have terminated or expired, the
Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most
recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments and to any Lender's status
as a Defaulting Lender at the time of determination.
“Applicable Rate”
means, for any day, with respect to any Borrowing, or with respect to the
facility fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the applicable rate per
annum set forth in the table below with respect to the applicable Type of
Borrowing applicable at such time or for such period as determined by reference
to the Total Debt to EBITDA Ratio most recently certified to the Agent and the
Lenders pursuant to Section 5.01(c):
Level
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Total
Debt to EBITDA Ratio
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Prime
Rate/
Alternate
Base Rate
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Adjusted
LIBO Rate/
BA
stamping fee/
Letters
of Credit
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Facility
Fee Rate
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I
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Less
than or equal to 0.50 to 1.00
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2.50%
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3.50%
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0.50%
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II
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Greater
than 0.50 to 1.00 but less than or equal to 1.25 to 1.00
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3.00%
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4.00%
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0.50%
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III
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Greater
than 1.25 to 1.00 but less than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00
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3.50%
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4.50%
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0.75%
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IV
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Greater
than 2.00 to 1.00
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4.00%
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5.00%
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0.75%
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2.
Adjustments,
if any, to the Applicable Rate shall be effective five Business Days after the
Administrative Agent has received the applicable Compliance Certificate;
provided that if a Default has occurred and is continuing, the Applicable Rate
shall not be reduced until such time as such Default has been cured or
waived. If the Borrower fails to deliver the Compliance Certificate
to the Administrative Agent at the time required hereunder, then the Applicable
Rate shall be the highest Applicable Rate set forth in the foregoing table until
five days after such Compliance Certificate is so delivered. Subject
to the previous sentence, as of the Effective Date and until receipt by the
Administrative Agent of the Borrower's financial statements for its fiscal
quarter ending September 30, 2009, the Applicable Rate shall be at Level II
Status. In the event that any BA Loan or BA Equivalent Loan is
outstanding on the effective date of a change in the Applicable Rate, there
shall be a readjustment to the stamping fee initially paid upon the issuance
thereof, as follows: the stamping fee relating to the period from the date of
issuance to but excluding the effective date shall be based upon the Applicable
Rate in effect during such period; and the stamping fee relating to the period
from and including the effective date to but excluding the date of maturity of
such BA Loan or BA Equivalent Loan shall be based upon the Applicable Rate in
effect from and after the effective date; and the Lenders and the Borrower agree
to promptly make all such payments as the Administrative Agent may advise are
required in order to effect such adjustments.
“Approved Fund” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04.
“Assignment and
Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender
and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by
Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit
A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Availability Period”
means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the
earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of the
Commitments.
“Available Revolving
Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the Commitment
of such Lender then in effect minus the sum of the outstanding principal amount
of such Lender's Revolving Loans and the LC Exposure of such Lender at such
time. For greater certainty, a Lender's Swingline Exposure shall not be deducted
from such Lender's Commitment in calculating “Available Revolving
Commitment”.
“BA Equivalent Loan”
means a Loan in Canadian dollars made by a Non-BA Lender to the Borrower in
respect of which the Borrower has issued a BA Equivalent Note.
“BA Equivalent Note”
means a promissory note payable by the Borrower to a Non-BA Lender in the form
of Exhibit C
attached hereto.
“BA Lender” means any
Lender who accepts and purchases Bankers' Acceptances.
“Bankers’
Acceptance” or “BA” means a xxxx of
exchange or a blank non-interest bearing depository xxxx as defined in the Depository Bills and Notes
Act (Canada) drawn by the Borrower and accepted by a BA Lender in respect
of which the Borrower becomes obligated to pay the face amount thereof to the
holder (which may be a third party or such BA Lender) upon
maturity.
“Banking Services”
means each and any of the following bank services provided to any Loan Party by
any Finance Party or any Affiliate of any Finance Party: (a) credit
cards for commercial customers (including, without limitation, “commercial
credit cards”, purchasing cards and cardless e-payable services), (b) stored
value cards and (c) treasury management services (including, without limitation,
controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items,
overdrafts and interstate depository network services).
3.
“Banking Services
Obligations” of the Loan Parties means any and all obligations of the
Loan Parties to any one or more of the Finance Parties, whether absolute or
contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired
(including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions
therefor) in connection with Banking Services.
“Bankruptcy Code”
means the provisions of title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§101 et
seq.
“Barbados Property”
means the property located at Xxx X, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx,
XX.
“Biovail Insurance”
means Biovail Insurance Incorporated, a corporation incorporated pursuant to the
laws of Barbados.
“Biovail Insurance Trust
Indenture” means the trust indenture dated as of June 25, 2003 entered
into between Biovail Insurance, Zurich Insurance Company and
others.
“Biovail Lux” means
Biovail International S.a.r.l., a corporation incorporated pursuant to the laws
of Luxembourg.
“Biovail SA” means
Biovail S.A., a corporation incorporated pursuant to the laws of
Switzerland.
“Biovail SA
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness existing as of the date hereof owing by
the Borrower and Biovail Laboratories International SRL to Biovail SA in the
maximum aggregate principal amount of $6,100,000.
“Biovail UK” means
Biovail U.K. Ltd., a corporation incorporated pursuant to the laws of the United
Kingdom.
“Board” means the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of
America.
“Borrower” means
Biovail Corporation, a corporation continued under the federal laws of
Canada.
“Borrowing” means (a)
Revolving Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date
and, in the case of BA Loans, BA Equivalent Loans or Eurodollar Loans, as to
which a single Interest Period is in effect, (b) a Swingline Loan or (c) the
issuance of a Letter of Credit.
“Borrowing Request”
means a request by the Borrower for a Revolving Borrowing in accordance with
Section 2.03.
“Business Day” means
any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in
Toronto, Ontario are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided
that, when used in connection with an ABR Loan, the term “Business Day” shall
also exclude any day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized
or required by law to remain closed; provided further that, when used in
connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude
any day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by
law to remain closed or on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar
deposits in the London interbank market.
4.
“CDOR Rate” means on
any day the annual rate of interest which is the rate determined as being the
arithmetic average (rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of one percent
(with 0.000005 being rounded up)) of the quotations of all institutions listed
in respect of the rate for Canadian dollar denominated bankers’ acceptances for
the relevant period displayed and identified as such on the “Reuters Screen CDOR
Page” (as defined in the International Swap Dealer Association, Inc.
definitions, as modified and amended from time to time) as of 10:00 A.M.
Toronto, Ontario local time on such day and, if such day is not a Business Day,
then on the immediately preceding Business Day (as adjusted by the
Administrative Agent after 10:00 A.M. Toronto, Ontario local time to reflect any
error in a posted rate of interest or in the posted average annual rate of
interest). If such rates are not available on the Reuters Screen CDOR
Page on any particular day, then the CDOR Rate on that day shall be calculated
as the arithmetic mean (rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of one
percent (with 0.000005 being rounded up)) of the rates applicable to Canadian
dollar denominated bankers’ acceptances for the relevant period publicly quoted
for customers in Canada by those Lenders which are banks listed in Schedule I of
the Bank Act (Canada)
as of 10:00 A.M. Toronto, Ontario local time on such day; or if such day is not
a Business Day, then on the immediately preceding Business Day.
“Canada Pension Plan”
means the pension benefit plan maintained by the Government of
Canada.
“Canadian Benefit
Plans” means any plan, fund, program, policy or agreement, whether oral
or written, formal or informal, funded or unfunded, insured or uninsured,
providing employee benefits, including medical, hospital care, dental, sickness,
accident, disability or life insurance, maintained by any Loan Party or any
Subsidiary of any Loan Party or under which any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of
any Loan Party has any actual or potential liability with respect to any
employee or former employee, but shall not include any Canadian Pension Plans or
statutory plans with which any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries is required to
comply, including the Canada Pension Plan, the Quebec Pension Plan, or plans
administered pursuant to applicable provincial health tax, workers’
compensation, workers’ safety and insurance and unemployment insurance
legislation.
“Canadian dollars” and
“C$” means
dollars in the lawful currency of Canada.
“Canadian Pension
Plan” means any pension plan, supplemental pension, retirement savings,
deferred profit sharing or other retirement income plan or arrangement of any
kind, registered or unregistered, established, maintained or contributed to by a
Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party for its employees or former
employees, but does not include the Canada Pension Plan or the Quebec Pension
Plan.
“Capital Lease
Obligations” of any Person means 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.
“Change in Control”
means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or
of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in
effect on the date hereof), of Equity Interests representing more than 25% of
the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding
Equity Interests of the Borrower; (b) occupation of a majority of the seats
(other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons
who were neither (i) nominated by the board of directors of the Borrower nor
(ii) appointed by directors so nominated; or (c) the acquisition of direct or
indirect Control of the Borrower by any Person or group.
5.
“Change in Law” means
the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a)
the adoption or taking effect of any Applicable Law, (b) any change in any
Applicable Law or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof
by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any Applicable
Law by any Governmental Authority.
“Class”, when used in
reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans
comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans.
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Collateral” means any
and all property or rights owned, leased or operated by a Person covered by the
Collateral Documents and any and all other property or rights owned, leased or
operated by any Loan Party, now existing or hereafter acquired, that may at any
time be or become subject to a security interest or Lien in favour of the
Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lenders, and the Issuing Bank) pursuant
to the Collateral Documents in order to secure the Secured
Obligations.
“Collateral Documents”
means each Security Document (including mortgages), each Control Agreement and each other document
granting a Lien upon any of the Collateral as security for payment of the
Secured Obligations and “Collateral Document”
means any one of them.
“Commitment” means,
with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Revolving
Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans
hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of
such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a)
reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09 and (b) reduced or
increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender
pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender’s
Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in
the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed
its Commitment, as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the
Lenders’ Commitments is $410,000,000.
“Compliance
Certificate” means a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower
furnished to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(c).
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“Contracts” means
licences of Intellectual Property, manufacturing agreements, joint ventures,
marketing contacts, clinical trial contracts, research and development contracts
and all other agreements, franchises, leases, easements, servitudes, privileges
and other rights acquired from other Persons, as the same may be amended,
supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time and when used in relation
to a Person, the term “Contracts” shall mean and refer to the Contracts to which
such Person is a party or by which it is bound or to which such Person may
hereafter become a party or be bound and “Contract” means any one
thereof.
6.
“Control” means 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 ability
to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and
“Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Control Agreement”
means an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, among (a) the applicable Loan Party, (b) a financial
institution, securities broker or securities intermediary at which such Loan
Party maintains a Deposit Account or a Securities Account, and (c) the
Administrative Agent, providing for the Administrative Agent to have control
over the funds held in such Deposit Account or Securities Account.
“Convertible
Notes” means
the 5.375% Convertible Senior Unsecured Debentures due August 1, 2014 issued by
the Borrower pursuant to the Convertible Notes Indenture and any notes,
debentures or similar instruments issued to refinance or otherwise replace such
debentures.
“Convertible Notes
Indenture” means that certain Indenture to be dated as of June
10, 2009 between
the Borrower, as issuer and The Bank of New York Mellon and BNY Trust Company of
Canada, as trustees, as the same shall be amended from time to
time.
“Cover” shall be
effected by paying to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders
immediately available and freely transferable funds in Canadian dollars in the
full amount of outstanding BA Loans and BA Equivalent Loans, which funds shall
be held by the Administrative Agent in a collateral account maintained by the
Administrative Agent to provide for the payment of such outstanding
Loans.
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“Default” means any
event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice,
lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of
Default.
“Defaulting Lender”
means any Lender, as determined by the Administrative Agent, that has (a) failed
to fund any portion of its Loans or participations in Letters of Credit or
Swingline Loans within three Business Days of the date required to be funded by
it hereunder, (b) notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing
Bank, the Swingline Lender or any other Finance Party in writing that it does
not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement or
has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with
its funding obligations under this Agreement, other Loan Documents or under
other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) failed, within three
Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm that it will
comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligations to fund
prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and
Swingline Loans, (d) otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or
any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within
three Business Days of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith
dispute, or (e) (i) become or is insolvent or has a parent company that has
become or is insolvent or (ii) become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee
for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or
liquidation of its business or custodian, appointed for it, or has taken any
action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or
acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or has a parent company that
has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a
receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of
creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its
business or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance
of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such
proceeding or appointment.
7.
“Deposit Account” has
the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Disclosed
Matters” means the actions, suits and proceedings and the environmental
matters disclosed in Schedule
3.06.
“dollars”, “$”, “United States
dollars” or “U.S.$” refers to
lawful money of the United States of America.
“Dublin Property”
means the property located at Xxxx 0000, Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx 00, Xxxxxxx.
“EBITDA” means, for
any period, Net Income for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the
extent deducted in determining Net Income for such period, the sum of
(i)
Interest Expense for such period,
(ii)
income tax expense for such period,
(iii) all
amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization expense for such period,
and
(iv) any
extraordinary non-cash and non-recurring charges for such period (including
acquired in process research and development write offs but excluding any loss
or charge from any sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of assets during
such period),
minus (b)
without duplication and to the extent included in Net Income,
(v) any
extraordinary non-cash and non-recurring gains, and
(vi) any
non-cash items of income for such period,
all
calculated for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if during any
period for which EBITDA is being determined, the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries shall have consummated any acquisition permitted under Section 6.04
or any sale, transfer, lease or other disposition permitted under Section
6.05(f) of any business or operating unit or group of assets, then, for all
purposes of this Agreement, EBITDA shall be determined on a pro forma basis,
taking into account the positive historical EBITDA generated by such business or
operating unit or group of assets as if such acquisition, sale, transfer, lease
or other disposition had been consummated on the first day of such period (for
the avoidance of doubt, the determination of EBITDA on a pro forma basis in
connection with any acquisition, sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of
any business or operating unit or group of assets, shall be computed using the
actual positive historical EBITDA generated by such business or operating unit
or group of assets, without any adjustment, and shall not be reduced by any
negative historical EBITDA of such business or operating unit or group of
assets).
“Effective Date” means
the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are satisfied (or
waived in accordance with Section 9.02).
“Environmental Laws”
means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, guidelines, bulletins, ordinances,
orders, orders-in-council, rulings, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or
binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental
Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation
of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any
Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters.
8.
“Environmental
Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any
liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or
indemnities), of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting
from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation,
use, handling, holding, collection, processing, transportation, storage,
deposit, abandonment, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c)
exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release, leakage or spoilage or
threatened release, leakage or spoilage of any Hazardous Materials into the
environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement
pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the
foregoing.
“Environmental Order”
means any order, judgment, ruling, variance, decree, publication or declaration
of or by any Governmental Authority pursuant to any Environmental
Law.
“Environmental Permit”
means any authorization, consent, approval, license, permit, concession,
certification, exemption or filing by or with any Governmental Authority
pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“Equity” means, at any
particular time, the amount which would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified
upon the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower at such time as
shareholders’ equity of the Borrower.
“Equity Interests”
means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a
limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity
ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights
entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity
interest.
“Equivalent Amount”
means, on any date of determination, with respect to obligations or valuations
denominated in one currency (the “first currency”), the amount of another
currency (the “second currency”) which would result from the conversion of the
relevant amount of the first currency into the second currency at the 12:00 noon
rate quoted by Bloomberg on xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxx.xxxx (Page
BOFC or such other page as may replace such page for the purpose of displaying
such exchange rates) on such date or, if such date is not a Business Day, on the
Business Day immediately preceding such date of determination, or at such other
rate as may have been agreed in writing between the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
“ERISA” means the
Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
“ERISA Affiliate”
means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with
the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the
Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the
Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the
Code.
“ERISA Event” means
(a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the
regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for
which the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) the existence with respect to any
Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the
Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to
Section 412(d) of the 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 the Borrower 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 the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of
any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint
a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of
its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial
withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any
Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate 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.
9.
“Eurodollar”, 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 Adjusted LIBO Rate.
“Event of Default” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.
“Excluded Account”
means any Deposit Account or Securities Account which is inactive.
“Excluded Taxes”
means, with respect to the Administrative Agent or any other Finance Party or
any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation
of a Loan Party hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its net income,
and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the
jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such
recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the
case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, (b) any
branch profits taxes or any similar tax imposed by any jurisdiction in which the
Lender is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than (i) an
assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.20(b), (ii) an
assignee pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption made when an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing or (iii) any other assignee to the extent that
the Borrower has expressly agreed that any withholding tax shall be an
Indemnified Tax), any withholding tax that (A) is not imposed or assessed in
respect of a Loan that was made on the premise that an exemption from such
withholding tax would be available where the exemption is subsequently
determined, or alleged by a taxing authority, not to be available and (B) is
required by Applicable Law to be withheld or paid in respect of any amount
payable hereunder or under any Loan Document to such Foreign Lender at the time
such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new lending office)
or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as
a result of a Change in Law) to comply with Section 2.18(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 a Loan Party with respect to such withholding tax
pursuant to Section 2.18(a). For greater certainty, for purposes of
item (c) above, a withholding tax includes any Tax that a Foreign Lender is
required to pay pursuant to Part XIII of the ITA.
“Face Amount” means,
in respect of a BA or BA Equivalent Note, the amount stated therein to be
payable to the holder thereof on its maturity.
“Federal Funds Effective
Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal
funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that
is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100
of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the
Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing
selected by it.
10.
“Finance Parties”
means the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Swingline Lender and the
Issuing Bank and “Finance Party” means any one of the Finance
Parties.
“Financial Covenants”
means the covenants set out in Section 6.23, Section 6.24 and Section 6.25
hereof.
“Financial Officer”
means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or
controller of the Borrower.
“Foreign Lender” means
any Lender that is not organized under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
Borrower is resident for tax purposes and that is not otherwise considered or
deemed in respect of any amount payable to it hereunder or under any Loan
Document to be resident for income tax or withholding tax purposes in the
jurisdiction in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes by application
of the laws of that jurisdiction. For purposes of this definition Canada and
each Province and Territory thereof shall be deemed to constitute a single
jurisdiction and the United States of America, each State thereof and the
District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single
jurisdiction.
“GAAP” means generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
“Governmental
Authority” means the government of Canada or any other nation, or of any
political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency,
authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government, including any
supranational bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank and
including a Minister of the Crown, Superintendent of Financial Institutions or
other comparable authority or agency.
“Guarantee” of or by
any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of
the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any
Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in
any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the
guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply
funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or
to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for
the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services
for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation
of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any
other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to
enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d)
as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty
issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided, that the term
Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the
ordinary course of business.
“Guarantors” means
Biovail Americas Corp., BTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Biovail Technologies Ltd.,
Biovail Distribution Corporation, Prestwick Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Biovail
Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hythe Property Incorporated, Biovail Holdings International
SRL and Biovail Laboratories International SRL and each Additional Guarantor and
“Guarantor”
means any one of the Guarantors.
“Hazardous
Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or
wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants,
including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing
materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes
and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any
Environmental Law.
11.
“Hostile Acquisition”
means (a) the acquisition of the Equity Interests of a Person through a tender
offer or similar solicitation of the owners of Equity Interests of such Person
which has not been approved (prior to such acquisition) by the board of
directors (or any other applicable governing body) of such Person or by similar
action if such Person is not a corporation and (b) any such acquisition as to
which such approval has been withdrawn.
“Indebtedness” of any
Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for
borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (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, (d) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or
other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person,
(e) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of
property or services (excluding current 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, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (g)
all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (h) all Capital Lease
Obligations of such Person, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of
such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of
guaranty, (j) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in
respect of bankers’ acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes and (k) any other
Off-Balance Sheet Liability. The Indebtedness of any Person shall
include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which
such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor
as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with
such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that
such Person is not liable therefor.
“Indemnified Taxes”
means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Information
Memorandum” means the Offering Memorandum dated June 3,
2009 relating to the Borrower and the Convertible Notes.
“Insolvency Laws”
means each of the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
(Canada), the Companies’
Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act
(Canada) and any other applicable state, provincial, territorial or
federal bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership laws, each as now and hereafter
in effect, any successors to such statutes and any other applicable similar law
of any jurisdiction, including any law of any jurisdiction permitting a debtor
to obtain a stay or a compromise of the claims of its creditors against it and
including any rules and regulations pursuant thereto.
“Intellectual
Property” means, individually and collectively, trademarks, trademark
rights, service marks, service xxxx rights, business names, business name
rights, trade styles, other business identifiers, trade names, trade name
rights, copyrights, patents, patent rights, trade secrets, industrial designs,
technology, inventions, know how, internet domain names, licenses, franchises,
permits and other intellectual property, including any applications and
registrations pertaining thereto and with respect to trademarks, service marks
and tradenames, the goodwill of the business symbolized thereby and connected
with the use thereof.
“Interest Election
Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a
Revolving Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.08.
“Interest Expense”
means, with reference to any period, total interest expense (including that
attributable to Capital Lease Obligations) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
for such period with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries (including all commissions, discounts and other fees and
charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing
and net costs under Swap Agreements in respect of interest rates to the extent
such net costs are allocable to such period in accordance with GAAP), calculated
on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period in
accordance with GAAP.
12.
“Interest Payment
Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan or Prime Rate Loan (other
than a Swingline Loan), the last day of each of March, June, September and
December, (b) with respect to any BA Loan, BA Equivalent Loan or 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 Borrowing by way of BAs, BA Equivalent
Loans or Eurodollars with an Interest Period of more than three (3) months’
duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at
intervals of three (3) 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”
means (a) 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 thereafter, as the Borrower
may elect, and (b) with respect to any Borrowing by way of BAs or BA Equivalent
Loans, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending 30, 60, 90
or 180 days thereafter, subject to availability, as the Borrower may elect;
provided, that (i) 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, in the case of Eurodollar Borrowings only, 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 (ii) any
Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Borrowing that commences on the last
Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
corresponding 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 hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall
be the date on which such Borrowing is made and, in the case of a Revolving
Borrowing, thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion
or continuation of such Borrowing.
“Issuing Bank” means
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch in its capacity as the issuer of
Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in
Section 2.06(i). The Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for
one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Issuing Bank, in
which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect
to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.
“ITA” means the Income Tax Act (Canada), as
amended.
“Judgment Currency”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.15(a).
“Judgment Currency Conversion
Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
9.15(a).
“LC Disbursement”
means a payment made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of
Credit.
“LC Exposure” means,
at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding
Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC
Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower
at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its
Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.
13.
“Leased Properties”
means each of the properties listed on Schedule 3.05 and “Leased Property”
means any one of them.
“Legal Requirement”
means with respect to any Person any law, statute, ordinance, decree,
requirement, directive, order, judgment, treaty, rule, guideline, bulletin,
license, permit, code or regulation having the force of law, or with which it is
customary or prudent for a Lender or the Administrative Agent to comply, and any
applicable determination, interpretation, ruling, order or decree, of any
Governmental Authority or arbitrator, which is legally binding upon the
Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Borrower or any Guarantor, whether
presently existing or arising in the future, including all Environmental
Laws.
“Lenders” means the
Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any
other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and
Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant
to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context otherwise
requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lender.
“Letter of Credit”
means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.
“LIBO Rate” means,
with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, the rate
appearing on Page 3750 of the Dow Xxxxx Market Service (or on any successor or
substitute page of such Service, or any successor to or substitute for such
Service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on
such page of such Service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time
to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to
dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest
Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such
Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such
time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurodollar
Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of
$5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by
the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available
funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time,
two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest
Period.
“Lien” means, with
respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge,
hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset,
(b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement,
capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such
asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar
right of a third party with respect to such securities.
“Loans” means the
loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Loan Documents” means
this Agreement, any promissory notes issued pursuant to the Agreement, any
Letter of Credit applications, the Collateral Documents, the Loan Guarantees and
all other agreements, instruments, security, documents and certificates
identified in Section 4.01 executed by or on behalf of any Loan Party and
delivered to, or in favour of, the Administrative Agent or any other Finance
Party and including all other pledges, powers of attorney, consents,
assignments, contracts, notices, letter of credit agreements and all other
written matter whether heretofore, now or hereafter executed by or on behalf of
any Loan Party, and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in
connection with the Agreement or the transactions contemplated
thereby. Any reference in the Agreement or any other Loan Document to
a Loan Document shall include all appendices, exhibits or schedules thereto, and
all amendments, restatements, supplements or other modifications thereto, and
shall refer to the Agreement or such Loan Document as the same may be in effect
at any and all times such reference becomes operative.
14.
“Loan Guarantees”
means the one or more guarantees to be entered into from time to time by the
Guarantors in favour of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Finance
Parties, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as
the same may be amended, modified, supplemented or replaced from time to time,
and pursuant to which the Guarantors shall guarantee the Secured Obligations of
the Borrower on a full recourse basis.
“Loan Parties” means
(i) the Borrower, (ii) the Guarantors, (iii) any other Significant Subsidiaries
in existence as of the Effective Date, (iv) any additional Significant
Subsidiary or other Person (including, without limitation, any Subsidiary
existing as of the Effective Date), in each case, that becomes a Guarantor, and
(v) the successors and assigns of any of the Persons described in clause (i)
through (iv) of this definition and “Loan Party” means any
one of the Loan Parties.
“Material Adverse
Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets,
operations, prospects or financial condition of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower to perform any of
its obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or (c) the
rights of or benefits available to the Lenders under this Agreement or any other
Loan Document.
“Material Contracts”
means at any particular time, with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries,
any third party Contract (i) existing as of the date hereof producing revenues
on an annual basis in an amount which is in excess of 10% of the total revenues
of the Borrower on a consolidated basis (based on historical revenues for the
previous fiscal year), or (ii) entered into after the date hereof producing
revenues on an annual basis in an amount which is in excess of 5% of the total
revenues of the Borrower on a consolidated basis (based on historical revenues
for the previous fiscal year), or any Contract the breach or default of which
would result in a Material Adverse Effect, all such Material Contracts of the
Borrower and the Guarantors as of the date hereof being listed on Schedule 3.14, all as
may be amended, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time; and, when
used in relation to any Person, the term “Material Contracts” shall mean and
refer to Material Contracts to which such Person is a party or by which it is
bound or may hereafter become a party or be bound and “Material Contract” means
any one thereof.
“Material
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of
Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or
more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount
exceeding $25,000,000. For purposes of determining Material
Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum
aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Borrower or
such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated
at such time.
“Maturity Date” means
June 9, 2012.
“Mississauga Property”
means the property located at 7100 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X0X
0X0.
“Moody’s” means
Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.
“Mortgaged Property”
means 100 XxxxXxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx.
15.
“Multiemployer Plan”
means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA.
“Net Income” means,
for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries from continuing operations, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or
deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is
merged into or consolidated with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (b)
the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to the
extent that any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such
Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions and (c) the
undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or
payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is not at the
time permitted by the terms of any contractual obligation (other than under any
Loan Document) or Requirement of Law applicable to such
Subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, the determination of Net
Income will exclude any non-cash write-off or write down of goodwill or other
intangible assets in connection with any impairment charge for such period as
required by GAAP.
“Non-BA Lender” means
a Lender that is not permitted by Applicable Law or by customary market practice
to stamp, for purposes of subsequent sale, or accept, a Bankers’ Acceptance or
which does not stamp or accept Bankers’ Acceptances from time to
time.
“Obligations” means
all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans, all LC
Exposure, all accrued and unpaid fees and all expenses, reimbursements,
indemnities and other obligations of the Loan Parties to each of the Finance
Parties or to any indemnified party arising under the Loan Documents, in each
case, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due,
or now existing or hereafter incurred.
“Off-Balance Sheet
Liability” of a Person means (a) any repurchase obligation or liability
of such Person with respect to accounts or notes receivable sold by such Person,
(b) any indebtedness, liability or obligation under any so-called “synthetic
lease” transaction entered into by such Person, or (c) any indebtedness,
liability or obligation arising with respect to any other transaction which is
the functional equivalent of or takes the place of borrowing but which does not
constitute a liability on the balance sheets of such Person (other than
operating leases).
“Other Taxes” means
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
hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or
enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
“Participant” has the
meaning set forth in Section 9.04.
“Patriot Act” has the
meaning set forth in Section 9.17.
“PBGC” means the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any
successor entity performing similar functions.
“Permitted
Acquisition” means any Acquisition which meets each of the following
criteria:
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(a)
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at
the time of and after giving effect to such Acquisition, no Default has
occurred and is continuing;
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(b)
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such
Acquisition is not a Hostile
Acquisition;
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(c)
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the
Person being acquired or whose assets, division, line of business or
business unit is being acquired, is engaged in a line of business in which
the Loan Parties are engaged as of, or immediately prior to, the Effective
Date, or any similar or related or complementary business, or that is a
reasonable extension or expansion thereof, or any business which provides
a service and/or supplies products in connection with a line of business
in which the Loan Parties are engaged as of, or immediately prior to, the
Effective Date;
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(d)
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the
Aggregate Consideration paid by the Loan Parties for such Acquisition
(including for this purpose all transaction costs and all Indebtedness
(including all fixed deferred payments, but for greater certainty
excluding any variable earn out payments or similar obligations) incurred
or assumed in connection with such Acquisition) shall not exceed
$250,000,000, except with the prior written consent of the Required
Lenders acting reasonably;
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(e)
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as
soon as available, but no later than concurrently with the closing of such
Acquisition, the Loan Parties shall submit to the Administrative Agent (A)
notice of such Acquisition, (B) copies of all business and financial
information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, (C) pro
forma financial statements which demonstrate, on a pro forma basis,
compliance with the Financial Covenants; and (D) a certificate of a
Financial Officer certifying that such pro forma financial statements
present fairly in all material respects the financial condition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the date
thereof after giving effect to such Acquisition and setting forth
reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with the
Financial Covenants set forth in clause (C) above, and which shall include
a representation and warranty as to compliance with each of the other
criteria for a “Permitted
Acquisition”;
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(f)
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if
such Acquisition is structured as a merger involving a Loan Party or any
Subsidiary and a Person that is not a Subsidiary, such Loan Party or such
Subsidiary will be the surviving entity, or otherwise, the surviving
entity shall become a Loan Party;
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(g)
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no
Loan Party shall, as a result of or in connection with any such
Acquisition, assume or incur any direct or contingent liabilities (whether
relating to environmental, tax, litigation, or other matters) that would
be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;
and
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(h)
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if,
as a result of such Acquisition or investment, a Significant Subsidiary is
formed or acquired, or any material assets (including any real property)
having a value in excess of $25,000,000 are acquired, the Loan Parties
shall comply with all applicable provisions of Section
5.15.
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“Permitted
Encumbrances” means:
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(a)
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Liens
imposed by law for taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in
compliance with Section 5.04;
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(b)
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landlords’,
carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and
other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of
business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 30
days or are being contested in compliance with Section
5.04;
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(c)
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pledges
and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with
workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security
laws or regulations;
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(d)
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deposits
to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory
obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other
obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of
business;
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(e)
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judgment
liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default
under clause (k) of Article VII;
and
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(f)
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easements,
zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real
property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that
do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from
the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct
of business of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary.
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“Permitted
Investments” means:
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(a)
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direct
obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are
unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America or Canada (or
by any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States of America or Canada, as
applicable), in each case maturing within one (1) year from the date of
acquisition thereof;
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(b)
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investments
in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition
thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit rating
obtainable from S&P or from
Xxxxx’x;
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(c)
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investments
in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time deposits
maturing within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof issued or
guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or
offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the
laws of the United States of America or Canada or any State or Province
thereof which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of
not less than $500,000,000;
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(d)
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fully
collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days
for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a
financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c)
above; and
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(e)
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money
market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in Securities and
Exchange Commission Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Xxxxx’x and (iii) have
portfolio assets of at least
$5,000,000,000.
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18.
“Permitted Lien” means
Liens permitted by Section 6.02.
“Person” means any
natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture,
association, company, unlimited liability company, partnership, limited
partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Pharma Pass SA
Contracts” means the two contracts between Pharma Pass SA and certain
third parties as more particularly described in Schedule 6.21 and any
similar contracts entered into from time to time by Pharma Pass SA in respect of
the business operations described in Schedule
6.21.
“Plan” means any
employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the
provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of
ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if
such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an
“employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“PPSA” means the Personal Property Security
Act (Ontario), including the regulations thereto, provided that, if
perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any
Lien created hereunder or under any other Loan Document on the Collateral is
governed by the personal property security legislation or other applicable
legislation with respect to personal property security in effect in a province
or other jurisdiction other than Ontario, “PPSA” means the Personal Property Security
Act or such other applicable legislation in effect from time to time in
such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such
perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
“Prime Rate” means the
greater of (a) the variable rate of interest per annum equal to the rate of
interest determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time as the prime
rate of the Administrative Agent for Canadian dollar loans made by the
Administrative Agent in Canada from time to time, being a variable per annum
reference rate of interest adjusted automatically upon change by the
Administrative Agent, calculated on the basis of a year of 365 days or 366 days
in the case of a leap year and (b) the sum of (i) the average rate per annum for
Canadian dollar bankers’ acceptances for BA Lenders having a term of 30 days
that appears on the Reuters Screen CDOR Page as of 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on
the date of determination, as reported by the Administrative Agent plus (ii) 1%
per annum.
“Proceeds of
Realization”, in respect of the Loan Guarantees and the Collateral
Documents or any portion thereof, means all amounts received by the
Administrative Agent and any other Finance Party in connection with: (i) any
realization thereof, whether occurring as a result of enforcement or otherwise;
(ii) any sale, expropriation, loss or damage or other disposition of the
Collateral or any portion thereof; and (iii) the dissolution, liquidation,
bankruptcy or winding-up of any Loan Party or any other distribution of its
assets to creditors.
“Puerto Rico
Properties” means the properties located at (i) Xxxxx Xxxx Xx 000,
Xxxxxxxxx 0.8, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx, 00000, Xxxxxx Xxxx, (xx)
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx #00, Xxxxxx Abajo Industrial Park, Carolina,
Puerto Rico, 00983, and (iii) #51 Xxxxxx xx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx xxx Xxx, Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx Xxxx 00000.
“Quebec Pension Plan”
means the pension benefit plan maintained by the Province of
Quebec.
“Register” has the
meaning set forth in Section 9.04.
19.
“Related Parties”
means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and associates, and
the directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of
such Person’s Affiliates and associates (the term “associate” having the meaning
ascribed thereto in the Canada
Business Corporations Act).
“Relevant
Jurisdictions” means, from time to time, (i) with respect to the Borrower
and each Guarantor, the province or territory in Canada or the relevant country
or political subdivision in any other country in which the Borrower or such
Guarantor has its chief executive office or chief place of business and any
province or territory in Canada or any country or relevant political subdivision
in any other country in which the Borrower or such Guarantor has, based on the
consolidated financial statements for the Borrower’s most recently completed
fiscal year, property, assets and undertaking having a book value in excess of
$25,000,000 or generates EBITDA for any annual period in excess of $25,000,000,
including for greater certainty as at the date hereof the jurisdictions set out
in Schedule
3.05 in respect of the Borrower and each Guarantor identified therein;
and (ii) with respect to any Person in respect of which Liens are to be granted
to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.15, each province, territory
or relevant political subdivision where such Liens are registered, filed or
recorded.
“Required Lenders”
means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and unused
Commitments representing not less than 51% of the sum of the total Revolving
Credit Exposures and unused Commitments at such time.
“Requirements of Health Care
Law” means with respect to any Person at any time all Requirements of Law
relating to health care, patient care, medical insurance, medical assistance
programs, drugs, pharmacies and health care professionals in any Relevant
Jurisdiction or any other jurisdiction in which such Person carries on business
or has property, assets or undertaking. Without limiting the
foregoing, Requirements of Health Care Law shall include:
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in
the United States, all (i) federal and state fraud and abuse laws and
regulations, including, without limitation, the federal patient referral
law, 42 U.S.C. §1395nn, commonly known as “Xxxxx II”, the federal
anti-kickback law, 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b, the federal civil monetary penalty
statute 42 U.S. §1320a-7a, federal laws regarding the submission of false
claims, false billing, false coding, and similar state laws and
regulations; (ii) federal and state laws applicable to reimbursements and
reassignment; (iii) the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations
thereto; (iv) federal statutes and regulations affecting the health
insurance program for the aged and disabled established by Title XVIII of
the Social Security
Act and any statutes succeeding thereto; (v) federal and state
statutes and regulations affecting the Tricare, CHAMPUS, Veterans, and
black lung disease programs and any other health care program financed
with United States government funds; (vi) all federal and state statutes
and regulations affecting the medical assistance program established by
Titles V, XIX, XX, and XXI of the Social Security Act and
any statutes succeeding thereto, and all state statutes and plans for
medical assistance enacted in connection with or related to the federal
statutes and regulations; and (vii) any other federal or state law or
regulation governing health care, applicable to drugs and pharmacies or
which regulate health care
professions;
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(b)
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in
Canada, all (i) provincial legislation and regulations applicable to
accountability and/or accessibility to health care; (ii) federal and
provincial legislation and regulations applicable to drugs and pharmacies;
(iii) provincial legislation and regulations which regulate and control
health professions; (iv) provincial legislation and regulations affecting
health insurance; (v) the Canada Health Act and
the regulations thereunder; (vi) the Personal Information
Protection and Electronic Documents Act and regulations thereunder;
(vii) provincial legislation and regulations applicable to the privacy of
health information and (viii) any other federal or provincial legislation
or regulations governing health care;
and
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(c)
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the
equivalent of (a) and (b) in any other Relevant Jurisdiction or other
jurisdiction where such Person has property or carries on
business.
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“Requirement of Law”
means, as to any Person, the certificate of incorporation, amalgamation or
continuance and by laws or other organizational or governing documents of such
Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an
arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable
to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or
any of its property is subject.
“Restricted Payment”
means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other
property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property),
including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase,
redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such
Equity Interests in the Borrower or any option, warrant or other right to
acquire any such Equity Interests in the Borrower.
“Revolving Credit
Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, without
duplication, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s
Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure and Swingline Exposure at such
time.
“Revolving Loan” means
a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.03.
“S&P” means
Standard & Poor’s.
“Secured Obligations”
means all Obligations, together with all (a) Banking Services Obligations and
(b) Swap Obligations owing to any Person that is a Finance Party or an Affiliate
thereof, or that was a Finance Party or an Affiliate thereof at the time the
relevant Swap Agreement was entered into; provided that the Finance Party party
thereto (other than JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch) shall have
delivered written notice to the Administrative Agent that such a transaction
constitutes a Secured Obligation entitled to the benefits of the Collateral
Documents.
“Securities Account”
has the meaning assigned to such term in the Securities Transfer Act, 2006
(Ontario) or Article 8 of the UCC, as applicable.
“Security Documents”
shall mean the security documents (as the same may be amended, modified,
supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time) which, in the reasonable
opinion of the Administrative Agent, are required to be entered into from time
to time by the Loan Parties in favour of the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Finance Parties or any Affiliate thereof in order to grant
directly or indirectly to the Administrative Agent a Lien on the Collateral as
continuing collateral security for the payment and performance of the Secured
Obligations, such security documents to be in form and substance satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent.
21.
“Significant
Subsidiary” means (a) each Subsidiary of the Borrower listed on Schedule 1.01 hereto,
(b) any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, whether existing as of the
Effective Date or formed or acquired thereafter, (i) the revenues of which, as
of end of any fiscal quarter, for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters
then ended, was or is reasonably projected to be equal to or greater than 5% of
the consolidated revenues of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period,
or (ii) the consolidated assets of which, as of end of any fiscal quarter, were
or are reasonably projected to be greater than 5% of the consolidated total
assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal
quarter, in each case as reflected on the most recent annual or quarterly
consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (c)
any Subsidiary of the Company that owns directly or indirectly, any equity
interests of any Subsidiary described in clause (a) or (b) above.
“Statutory Reserve
Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which
is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the
aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special,
emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the
Board to which the Administrative Agent or an Affiliate thereof is subject with
respect to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred
to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board). Such
reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation
D. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency
funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or
credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to
time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable
regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted
automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve
percentage.
“Steinbach Property”
means the property located at 000 XxxxXxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx X0X
0X0.
“Subordinated
Indebtedness” of a Person means any Indebtedness of such Person the
payment of which is subordinated to payment of the Secured Obligations to the
written satisfaction of the Administrative Agent.
“subsidiary” means,
with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited
liability company, unlimited liability company, partnership, limited
partnership, trust, 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,
unlimited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, trust,
association or other entity (a) of which securities or other ownership interests
representing more than 50% of the equity or 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, or (b) that is, as of
such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of
the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent; provided, however, that any
entity, the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent
merely due to the application of FIN46(R) of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board or any similar accounting principle shall not constitute a subsidiary of
the parent.
“Subsidiary” means any
subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Swap Agreement” means
any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative
transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference
to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or
securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic,
financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination
of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing
for payments only on account of services provided by current or former
directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or the
Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.
22.
“Swap Obligations” of
a Person means any and all obligations of such Person, whether absolute or
contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired
(including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions
therefor), under (a) any and all Swap Agreements, and (b) any and all
cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Swap
Agreement transaction.
“Swingline Exposure”
means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans
outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Lender at any
time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total Swingline
Exposure at such time.
“Swingline Lender”
means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, in its capacity as lender of
Swingline Loans hereunder.
“Swingline Loan” means
a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Taxes” means all
present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings,
assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority,
including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable
thereto.
“Total Debt to EBITDA
Ratio” means the ratio of Indebtedness of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis) to EBITDA of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis).
“Transactions” means
the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, the
other Loan Documents, the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof
and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder.
“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 LIBO Rate, Alternate Base Rate, CDOR Rate or Prime
Rate.
“UCC” means the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York
or any other state the laws of which are required to be applied in connection
with the issue of perfection of security interests.
“U.S. Base Rate” means
the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch as its base rate for United States dollar loans
made by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch in Canada from time to time;
each change in the U.S. Base Rate shall be effective from and including the date
such change is publicly announced as being effective.
“United States” and
“US” means the
United States of America.
“Usage” means, at any
time, the ratio of the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of the Lenders at
such time to the aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Commitments at such
time.
23.
“Usage Fee” means, for
any day, with respect to the facility fees payable hereunder (a) 0%, if Usage is
greater than or equal to 2/3, (b) 0.25%, if Usage is greater than or
equal to 1/3, but less than 2/3 and (c) 0.50%, if Usage is less than
1/3.
“wholly owned” means,
with respect to a Subsidiary of any Person, a Subsidiary of such Person, all of
the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) director’s qualifying
shares and (y) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by
Applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly owned
Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Withdrawal Liability”
means 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.
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SECTION
1.02
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Classification of
Loans and Borrowings.
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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 by Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar
Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving
Borrowing”).
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SECTION
1.03
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Terms
Generally.
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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, (e) 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,
and (f) the words “fiscal quarter”, “fiscal year” and “fiscal period” shall be
construed to refer to a fiscal quarter, a fiscal year and a fiscal period, in
each case, of the Borrower.
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SECTION
1.04
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Accounting Terms;
GAAP.
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Except as
otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial
nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to
time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the
Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect
of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application
thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent
notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any
provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is
given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then
such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and
applied immediately before such change shall have become effective
until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such
provision amended in accordance herewith.
24.
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SECTION
1.05
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Changes in Accounting
Principles.
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If any
changes in accounting principles, from those used in the preparation of the
financial statements of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries for the 2008 fiscal
year based on GAAP, occur by reason of any change in the rules, regulations,
pronouncements, opinions or other requirements of the Financial Accounting
Standards Board (or
any successor thereto or agency with similar function), or the adoption by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of the International Financial Reporting
Standards (“IFRS”), and such
change in accounting principles results in a change in the method or results of
calculation of financial covenants or the terms related thereto contained in
this Agreement, the Borrower shall, at its option, either (a) furnish to the
Administrative Agent, together with each delivery of the financial statements
required to be delivered hereby, a written reconciliation setting forth the
differences that would have resulted if such financial statements had been
prepared utilizing existing GAAP (in which case the method and calculation of
financial covenants and the terms related thereto hereunder shall continue to be
determined in accordance with existing GAAP) or (b) agree with the
Administrative Agent to amend such financial covenants or terms in such manner
as the Administrative Agent shall require in order to reflect fairly such
changes so that the criteria for evaluating the financial condition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be the same in commercial effect after, as
well as before, such changes are made (in which case the method and calculation
of financial covenants and the terms related thereto hereunder shall be
determined in the manner so agreed).
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SECTION
1.06
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Currency
Matters.
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Principal,
interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, and all other amounts payable under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to the Administrative Agent and the
other Finance Parties shall be payable in the currency in which such Obligations
are denominated. Unless stated otherwise, all calculations,
comparisons, measurements or determinations under this Agreement shall be made
in dollars. For the purpose of such calculations, comparisons,
measurements or determinations, amounts or proceeds denominated in other
currencies shall be converted to the Equivalent Amount of dollars on the date of
calculation, comparison, measurement or determination. In particular,
without limitation, for purposes of valuations or computations under Article II,
Article III, Article V, Article VI and Article VII and calculating Commitments
or Revolving Credit Exposure, unless expressly provided otherwise, where a
reference is made to a dollar amount, the amount is to be considered as the
amount in dollars and, therefore, each other currency shall be converted into
the Equivalent Amount thereof in dollars.
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SECTION
1.07
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Conflict.
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In the
event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement and the
provisions of any of the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Agreement
shall prevail.
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SECTION
1.08
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Successor
Legislation.
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Unless
otherwise specifically indicated herein or therein, any statute referred to in
this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall be deemed to include that
statute as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time, and any
successor legislation to the same general intent and effect.
25.
ARTICLE
II
The
Credits
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SECTION
2.01
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Commitments.
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Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make
Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period
in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (a) such Lender’s
Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Commitment or (b) the sum of
the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the total
Commitments. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow
Revolving Loans.
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SECTION
2.02
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Loans and
Borrowings.
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(a)
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Each
Revolving Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of
Revolving Loans made by the Lenders rateably in accordance with their
respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any
Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its
obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are
several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure
to make Loans as required.
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(b)
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Subject
to Section 2.14, (i) each Revolving Borrowing shall be comprised of ABR
Loans, Prime Rate Loans, BA Loans, BA Equivalent Loans, Eurodollar Loans
or the issuance of Letters of Credit as the Borrower may request in
accordance herewith. Each Swingline Loan shall be either a
Prime Rate Loan or an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may
make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or
Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of
such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such
Loan in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
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(c)
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At
the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Revolving
Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than
$5,000,000. At the time that each ABR Revolving Borrowing is
made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral
multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000; provided that an ABR
Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the
entire unused balance of the total Commitments or that is required to
finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section
2.06(e). At the commencement of each Interest Period for any BA
or BA Equivalent Loan, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that
is an integral multiple of C$1,000,000 and not less than
C$5,000,000. At the time that each Prime Rate Revolving
Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is
an integral multiple of C$1,000,000 and not less than C$5,000,000;
provided that a Prime Rate Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate
amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments
or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as
contemplated by Section 2.06(e). Each Swingline Loan shall be
in an amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than
$1,000,000. Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be
outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be
more than an aggregate total of twenty (20) Eurodollar Loans, BA Loans and
BA Equivalent Loans outstanding.
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26.
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(d)
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Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled
to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the
Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the
Maturity Date.
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(e)
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The
Borrower agrees to deliver in favour of each Lender such other agreements
and documentation as such Lender may reasonably require (not inconsistent
with this Agreement) in respect of such Lender’s requirements for the
acceptance of Bankers’ Acceptances or the issuance of BA Equivalent
Notes.
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SECTION
2.03
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Requests for Revolving
Borrowings.
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To
request a Revolving Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative
Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing,
not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, three Business Days before the
date of the proposed Borrowing, (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later
than 11:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario 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
2.06(e) may be given not later than 10:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, on the
date of the proposed Borrowing, (c) in the case of a Borrowing by way of BA Loan
or BA Equivalent Loan, not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, two
Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (d) in the case of a
Prime Rate Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, one
Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such
notice of a Prime Rate Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC
Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.06(e) may be given not later than
10:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario 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 the form attached as
Exhibit B and
signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing
Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section
2.02:
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(a)
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the
aggregate amount of the requested
Borrowing;
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(b)
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the
date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business
Day;
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(c)
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whether
such Borrowing is to be a Prime Rate Borrowing, an ABR Borrowing, a
Eurodollar Borrowing or a BA
Borrowing;
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(d)
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in
the case of a BA Borrowing or Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest
Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by
the definition of the term “Interest
Period”; and
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(e)
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the
location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be
disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section
2.07.
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If no
election as to the Type of Revolving Borrowing is specified, then the requested
Revolving Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period
is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing then
the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s
duration. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any
requested BA Revolving Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have
selected an Interest Period of thirty (30) days. 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.
27.
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SECTION
2.04
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Bankers’
Acceptances.
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(a)
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Determinations and
Timing. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of the
stamping fee and the discounted purchase price applicable to any BA Loan
or BA Equivalent Loan shall, in the absence of manifest error, be final,
conclusive and binding on the
Borrower.
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(b)
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Criteria for BAs and
BA Equivalent Notes. BAs and BA Equivalent Notes presented by the
Borrower for purchase by the Lenders pursuant to this
Agreement:
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(i)
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shall
be denominated in Canadian dollars;
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(ii)
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shall
not be less than C$5,000,000 and shall be in whole integral multiples of
C$1,000,000 in excess thereof;
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(iii)
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shall
be drawn or issued on a Business
Day;
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(iv)
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shall
have a term, subject to availability, of at least 30 days and not more
than 180 days excluding days of
grace;
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(v)
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shall
mature on a Business Day on or before the Maturity Date;
and
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(vi)
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shall
be in form and substance satisfactory to each Lender, acting in accordance
with then customary and accepted
practices.
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(c)
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Lenders Holding BAs
and BA Equivalent Notes. BAs and BA Equivalent Notes purchased by
the Lenders hereunder may be held by any Lender for its own account until
the maturity date of such BA or BA Equivalent Note or sold, rediscounted
or otherwise disposed by it at any time prior thereto, in such Lender’s
sole discretion.
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(d)
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Execution of BAs and
BA Equivalent Notes. A BA or BA Equivalent Note may be manually
signed by any duly authorized officer of the Borrower or the signature of
any duly authorized officer of the Borrower on a BA or BA Equivalent Note
may be mechanically reproduced in facsimile and BA or BA Equivalent Notes
bearing such facsimile signature shall be binding upon the Borrower as if
they had been manually signed by such officers. Notwithstanding
that any of the individuals whose manual or facsimile signature appears on
any BA or BA Equivalent Note as one of such officers may no longer hold
office at the date thereof or at the date of its acceptance or purchase
by, or issue to, any Lender hereunder or at any time thereafter, any BA or
BA Equivalent Note so signed shall be valid and binding upon the Borrower,
unless, in the case only of blank forms of BAs and BA Equivalent Notes
that have not been completed, issued, accepted or purchased hereunder, the
Borrower has given to the Lender in a timely manner written notice to the
contrary.
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28.
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(e)
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Calculations.
For the purposes of this Agreement, when calculations are made to
determine the outstanding amount, principal amount or unpaid principal
amount of any BA Loan or BA Equivalent Loan, the full Face Amount of the
BA or BA Equivalent Note related to such BA Loan or BA Equivalent Loan
shall be used without deduction or adjustment in respect of applicable
stamping fees or any other difference between such Face Amount and the
applicable discounted purchase price of such BA or BA
Equivalent Note.
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(f)
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Commitment to Purchase
Bankers’ Acceptances and BA Equivalent
Notes.
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(i)
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Each
BA Lender which is a bank listed in Schedule I of the Bank Act (Canada)
agrees to purchase those Bankers’ Acceptances which it has accepted, at a
discount from the face amount thereof calculated at the CDOR Rate for the
relevant period in effect on the issuance date
thereof.
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(ii)
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Each
BA Lender which is a bank listed in Schedule II or Schedule III of the
Bank Act (Canada)
agrees to purchase those Bankers’ Acceptances which it has accepted, at a
discount from the face amount thereof calculated using a rate not in
excess of the CDOR Rate for the relevant period in effect on the issuance
date thereof plus up to one-tenth of one percent
(0.10%).
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(iii)
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Each
Non-BA Lender agrees to purchase BA Equivalent Notes issued to it
hereunder at a discount from the face amount thereof calculated using a
rate not in excess of the CDOR Rate for the relevant period in effect on
the issuance date thereof plus up to one-tenth of one percent
(0.10%).
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(g)
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Special Provisions
Regarding Bankers’ Acceptances. The following provisions are
applicable to Bankers’ Acceptances issued by the Borrower and accepted by
any BA Lender hereunder:
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(i)
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Payment of Bankers’
Acceptances. The Borrower agrees to provide for each Bankers’
Acceptance by payment of the face amount thereof to the Administrative
Agent on behalf of the BA Lender on the maturity of the Bankers’
Acceptance or, prior to such maturity, on the Maturity Date; and the
Administrative Agent shall remit the said amount to such BA Lender and
such BA Lender shall in turn remit such amount to the holder of the
Bankers’ Acceptance. If the Borrower fails to provide for the
payment of the Bankers’ Acceptance accordingly, any amount not so paid
shall be immediately payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent
on behalf of the BA Lender together with interest on such amount
calculated daily and payable monthly at the rate and in the manner
applicable to Prime Rate Loans. The Borrower agrees not to
claim any days of grace for the payment at maturity of any Bankers’
Acceptance and agrees to indemnify and save harmless the BA Lender in
connection with all payments made by the BA Lender (or by the
Administrative Agent on its behalf) pursuant to Bankers’ Acceptances
accepted by the BA Lender, together with all reasonable costs and expenses
incurred by the BA Lender in this regard. The Borrower hereby
waives any defences to payment which might otherwise exist if for any
reason a Bankers’ Acceptance is held by the BA Lender for its own account
at maturity.
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29.
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(ii)
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Availability of
Bankers’ Acceptances. If at any time and from time to time the
Agent determines, acting reasonably, that there no longer exists a market
for Bankers’ Acceptances for the term requested by the Borrower, or at
all, the Administrative Agent shall so advise the Borrower, and in such
event the BA Lenders shall not be obliged to accept and the Borrower shall
not be entitled to issue Bankers’
Acceptances.
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(iii)
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Power of
Attorney. The Borrower hereby appoints each BA Lender as its true
and lawful attorney to complete and issue Bankers’ Acceptances on behalf
of the Borrower in accordance with written (including facsimile)
transmitted instructions provided by the Borrower to the Administrative
Agent on behalf of such BA Lender, and the Borrower hereby ratifies all
that its said attorney may do by virtue thereof. The Borrower
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and the BA
Lenders and their respective directors, officers and employees from and
against any charges, complaints, costs, damages, expenses, losses or
liabilities of any kind or nature which they may incur, sustain or suffer,
arising from or by reason of acting, or failing to act, as the case may
be, in reliance upon this power of attorney, except to the extent caused
by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the Administrative Agent
or the BA Lender or their respective directors, officers and
employees. The Borrower hereby agrees that each Bankers’
Acceptance completed and issued and accepted in accordance with this
section by a BA Lender on behalf of the Borrower is a valid, binding and
negotiable instrument of the Borrower as drawer and
endorser. The Borrower agrees that each BA Lender’s accounts
and records will constitute prima facie evidence of the execution and
delivery by the Borrower of Bankers’ Acceptances. This power of
attorney shall continue in force until written notice of revocation has
been served upon the Administrative Agent by the Borrower at the
Administrative Agent’s address set out in Section
9.01.
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(h)
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Special Provisions
Regarding BA Equivalent Notes. Each Non-BA Lender will not accept
Bankers’ Acceptances hereunder, and shall instead from time to time make
BA Equivalent Loans to the Borrower. Each BA Equivalent Loan
shall be evidenced by a non-interest bearing promissory note payable by
the Borrower in question to the Non-BA Lender substantially in the form of
Exhibit C
attached hereto, which will be purchased by the Non-BA
Lender. Each BA Equivalent Note shall be negotiable by the
Non-BA Lender without notice to or the consent of the Borrower, and the
holder thereof shall be entitled to enforce such BA Equivalent Note
against the Borrower free of any equities, defences or rights of set-off
that may exist between the Borrower and the Non-BA Lender. In this
Agreement, all references to a BA Equivalent Note shall mean the loan
evidenced thereby if required by the context; and all references to the
“issuance” of a BA Equivalent Note by a Non-BA Lender and similar
expressions shall mean the making of a BA Equivalent Loan by the Non-BA
Lender which is evidenced by a BA Equivalent Note. The
following provisions are applicable to each BA Equivalent Loan made by a
Non-BA Lender to the Borrower
hereunder:
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30.
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(i)
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Payment of BA
Equivalent Notes. The Borrower agrees to provide for each BA
Equivalent Note by payment of the face amount thereof to the
Administrative Agent on behalf of the Non-BA Lender on the maturity of the
BA Equivalent Note or, prior to such maturity, on the Maturity Date; and
the Administrative Agent shall remit the said amount to such Non-BA Lender
and such Non-BA Lender shall in turn remit such amount to the holder of
the BA Equivalent Note. If the Borrower fails to provide for the payment
of the BA Equivalent Note accordingly, any amount not so paid shall be
immediately payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent on behalf
of the Non-BA Lender together with interest on such amount calculated
daily and payable monthly at the rate and in the manner applicable to
Prime Rate Loans. The Borrower agrees not to claim any days of grace for
the payment at maturity of any BA Equivalent Note and agrees to indemnify
and save harmless the Non-BA Lender in connection with all payments made
by the Non-BA Lender (or by the Administrative Agent on its behalf)
pursuant to BA Equivalent Notes accepted by the Non-BA Lender, together
with all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Non-BA Lender in
this regard. The Borrower hereby waives any defences to payment
which might otherwise exist if for any reason a BA Equivalent Note is held
by the Non-BA Lender for its own account at
maturity.
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(ii)
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Availability of BA
Equivalent Notes. The Non-BA Lender shall have no obligation to
issue BA Equivalent Notes during any period in which the BA Lenders’
obligation to issue Bankers’ Acceptances is suspended pursuant to the
terms of this Agreement.
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(iii)
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Power of
Attorney. The Borrower hereby appoints the Non-BA Lender as its
true and lawful attorney to complete BA Equivalent Notes on behalf of the
Borrower in accordance with written (including facsimile) transmitted
instructions delivered by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, and
the Borrower hereby ratifies all that its said attorney may do by virtue
thereof. The Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the
Administrative Agent and the Non-BA Lender and their respective directors,
officers and employees from and against any charges, complaints, costs,
damages, expenses, losses or liabilities of any kind or nature which they
may incur, sustain or suffer, arising from or by reason of acting, or
failing to act, as the case may be, in reliance upon this power of
attorney except to the extent caused by the negligence or wilful
misconduct of the Administrative Agent or the Non-BA Lender or their
respective directors, officers and employees. The Borrower hereby agrees
that each BA Equivalent Note completed by the Non-BA Lender on behalf of
the Borrower is a valid, binding and negotiable instrument of the Borrower
as drawer and endorser. The Borrower agrees that the Non-BA
Lender’s accounts and records will constitute prima facie evidence of the
execution and delivery by the Borrower of BA Equivalent
Notes. This power of attorney shall continue in force until
written notice of revocation has been served upon the Agent on behalf of
the Non-BA Lender by the Borrower at the Administrative Agent’s address
provided in Section 9.01.
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31.
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(i)
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Liability of
Borrower. The Borrower shall be indebted upon the maturity thereof
to each Lender in an amount equivalent to the full undiscounted Face
Amount of each BA and BA Equivalent Note accepted and purchased by or
issued to such Lender and the Borrower’s obligations in that regard shall
be unconditional and irrevocable and shall be paid strictly in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including,
without limitation, the following:
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(i)
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any
lack of validity or enforceability of any BA or BA Equivalent Note
accepted by a Lender; or
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(ii)
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the
existence of any claim, set-off, defence or other right which the Borrower
may have at any time against the holder of a BA or BA Equivalent Note, the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or any other Person, whether in
connection with this Agreement or
otherwise.
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(j)
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Presigned
Drafts. To facilitate the acceptance by the BA Lenders of Bankers’
Acceptances as contemplated by this Agreement, the Borrower shall at the
request of the Administrative Agent (on behalf of any BA Lender) supply
the Administrative Agent for such BA Lenders with such number of BAs as
the Administrative Agent on behalf of the BA Lenders may from time to time
request, each executed by or on behalf of the Borrower. The
Administrative Agent and each BA Lender, to the extent either retain
possession thereof, shall exercise such care in the custody and
safekeeping of such BAs as it gives to similar property owned by
it.
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(k)
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Prepayments.
Subject to Section 2.04(l) and Article VII, no prepayment of any BA or BA
Equivalent Note shall be made by the Borrower prior to the maturity date
of such BA or BA Equivalent Note. Any amounts paid pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement towards the prepayment of amounts to become
due with respect to outstanding BAs and BA Equivalent Notes shall be
deposited into the Prepayment Account (as defined below). The
Administrative Agent shall apply any cash deposited in the Prepayment
Account allocable to amounts to become due in respect of any BA or BA
Equivalent Note on the last day of its respective Interest Period until
all amounts due in respect of outstanding BAs and BA Equivalent Loans have
been repaid or until all allocable cash on deposit has been
exhausted. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Prepayment
Account” shall mean the Canadian dollar account established by the
Borrower with the Administrative Agent and over which the Administrative
Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive
right of withdrawal for application in accordance with this
Section. The Administrative Agent will, at the request of the
Borrower, invest amounts on deposit in the applicable Prepayment Account
in short-term, cash equivalent investments selected by the Administrative
Agent in consultation with the Borrower that mature on or prior to the
last day of the applicable Interest Period of the BA or BA Equivalent Note
to be prepaid. Interest or profits, if any, on amounts in the
Prepayment Account shall be deposited in the Prepayment Account and
reinvested and disbursed as specified above. If the maturity of
the Obligations hereunder has been accelerated pursuant to Article VII,
the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, apply all amounts on
deposit in the Prepayment Account to satisfy any of the
Obligations. The Borrower shall pay all income tax, if any,
payable on any such interest or profits in the Prepayment
Account.
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(l)
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Cover for BA
Obligations on Default. If an Event of Default shall occur and be
continuing and not waived in writing pursuant to the terms hereof, on the
Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative
Agent demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this Section,
the Borrower shall provide Cover to the Administrative Agent, provided
that the obligation to provide such Cover 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 described in Section 7.01(i) or Section 7.01(j). The
Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including
the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such Cover. Other than
any interest or profits earned on the investment of the deposits
comprising Cover, which investments shall be made at the option and sole
discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and
expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or
profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in the relevant
account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the
Administrative Agent to reimburse the Lenders for BA Loans or BA
Equivalent Loans due or overdue for which they have not been reimbursed
and, if all BA Loans and BA Equivalent Loans have been satisfied and paid
in full and there are no outstanding BA Loans or BA Equivalent Loans, any
remaining Cover shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to satisfy
other Obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement for the benefit of
the Lenders. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount
of Cover hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default,
such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to
the Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have
been cured or waived in writing pursuant to the terms hereof or if no
Event of Default is then subsisting promptly following the maturity of the
related BA or BA Equivalent Note and satisfaction in full of the relevant
BA Loans and BA Equivalent Loans. The Borrower shall pay all
income tax, if any, payable on any interest or profits earned on the
investment of the deposits comprising
Cover.
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SECTION
2.05
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Swingline
Loans.
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(a)
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Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees
to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the
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 $25,000,000 or (ii) the sum of the
total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the total 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,
the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline
Loans.
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(b)
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To
request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative
Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by telecopy), not later than
12:00 noon, Toronto, Ontario time, on the day of a proposed Swingline
Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify
(i) the requested date (which shall be a Business Day), (ii) the amount of
the requested Swingline Loan and (iii) whether such Swingline Loan is to
be an ABR Borrowing or a Prime Rate Borrowing. The
Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such
notice received from the Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall
make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a credit to
the general deposit account of the 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 2.06(e), by remittance to the Issuing
Bank) by 3:00 p.m., Toronto, Ontario time, on the requested date of such
Swingline Loan.
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(c)
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The
Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent
not later than 10:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, on any Business Day
require the 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 Lenders
will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the
Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Lender,
specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such
Swingline Loan or Loans. Each 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 Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or
Loans. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation
to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph 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. Each Lender shall comply with its obligation under
this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the
same manner as provided in Section 2.07 with respect to Loans made by such
Lender (and Section 2.07 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment
obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly
pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the
Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the 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 the
Borrower (or other party on behalf of the 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
Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and
to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any
such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the
Administrative Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is
required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The
purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph
shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment
thereof.
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SECTION
2.06
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Letters of
Credit.
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(a)
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General. Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the
issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account, in a form reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, at any time
and from time to time during the Availability Period. 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 the Borrower to, or entered
into by the Borrower with, the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of
Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall
control.
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(b)
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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), the 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 (reasonably in advance of the requested date of
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) 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), the date
on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (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, the 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 the 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 $25,000,000 and (ii) the sum of the total
Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the total
Commitments.
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(c)
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Expiration
Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to
the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one (1) year after
the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any
renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension)
and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity
Date.
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(d)
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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
Lender, and each Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Bank, a
participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Applicable
Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter
of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the
foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay
to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Bank, such
Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing
Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in
paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to
be refunded to the 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.
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(e)
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Reimbursement. If
the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of
Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the
Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later
than 12:00 noon, Toronto, Ontario time, on the date that such LC
Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of such
LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, on such date,
or, if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such
time on such date, then not later than 12:00 noon, Toronto, Ontario time,
on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such
notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, on the day
of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that
the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to
such time on the day of receipt; provided that the Borrower may, subject
to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance
with Section 2.03 or Section 2.05 that such payment be financed with an
ABR Revolving Borrowing, Prime Rate Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan
in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s
obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the
resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing, Prime Rate Revolving Borrowing or
Swingline Loan. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when
due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the applicable
LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof
and such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly
following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the
Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due
from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.07 with
respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.07 shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the
Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so
received by it from the Lenders. Promptly following receipt by
the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this
paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the
Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to
this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the
Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by
a Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any
LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans, Prime Rate
Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not
constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to
reimburse such LC Disbursement.
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(f)
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Obligations
Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation 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
Borrower’s obligations hereunder. Neither the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders nor the Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties,
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 the
Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential
damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to
the extent permitted by Applicable Law) suffered by the 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 wilful misconduct on the
part of the Issuing Bank (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 and make payment upon such
documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of
any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make
payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance
with the terms of such Letter of
Credit.
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(g)
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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 the 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 the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Bank and
the Lenders with respect to any such LC
Disbursement.
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(h)
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Interim
Interest. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC
Disbursement, then, unless the 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 the
Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then
applicable to Prime Rate Revolving Loans in the event that the LC
Disbursement is made in Canadian dollars, and otherwise at the rate per
annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that, if the
Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to
paragraph (e) of this Section, then Section 2.13(g) 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 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.
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(i)
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Replacement of the
Issuing Bank. The Issuing Bank may be replaced at any
time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent,
the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. The
Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of
the Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become
effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account
of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12(b). From
and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor
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 to any previous Issuing
Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context
shall require. After the 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 replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of
Credit.
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(j)
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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, Lenders with LC Exposure representing
greater than 51% of the total LC Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash
collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an
account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative
Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to the
LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued 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 the Borrower described in clause
(h) or (i) of Article VII. Such deposit shall be held by the
Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The
Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including
the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other
than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which
investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the
Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, 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 Administrative 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 the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such
time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to
the consent of Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater
than 51% of the total LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the
Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as
a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the
extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within
three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or
waived.
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SECTION
2.07
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Funding of
Borrowings.
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(a)
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Each
Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed
date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00
noon, Toronto, Ontario time, to the account of the Administrative Agent
most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders;
provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section
2.05. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available
to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like
funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative
Agent in Toronto, Ontario and designated by the Borrower in the applicable
Borrowing Request; provided that ABR Revolving Loans or Prime Rate
Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as
provided in Section 2.06(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent
to the Issuing Bank.
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(b)
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Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to
the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make
available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made
such share available on such date in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement concerning funding by Lenders and may, in reliance upon
such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding
amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its
share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent,
then the applicable Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith
on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day
from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower
to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at a
rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with prevailing
banking industry practice on interbank compensation. If such
Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount
shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. If the
Lender does not do so forthwith, the Borrower shall pay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with
interest thereon at the interest rate applicable to the Borrowing in
question. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any
claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that has failed to make such
payment to the Administrative
Agent.
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SECTION
2.08
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Interest
Elections.
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(a)
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Each
Revolving Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the
applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of either a Eurodollar
Borrowing, a BA Borrowing or a BA Equivalent Loan, shall have an initial
Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing
Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such
Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the
case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, a BA Borrowing or a BA Equivalent Loan,
may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this
Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect
to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such
portion shall be allocated rateably 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.
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(b)
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To
make an election pursuant to this Section, the 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 the Borrower
were requesting a Revolving 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 in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the
Borrower.
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(c)
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Each
telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the
following information in compliance with Section
2.02:
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(i)
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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 clauses (iii)
and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting
Borrowing);
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(ii)
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the
effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election
Request, which shall be a Business
Day;
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(iii)
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whether
the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing, a Prime Rate Borrowing,
a BA Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
and
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(iv)
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if
the resulting Borrowing is either a Eurodollar Borrowing or a BA
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”.
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If any
such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not
specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected
an Interest Period of one (1) month’s duration. If any such Interest
Election Request requests a BA Borrowing but does not specify an Interest
Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of
thirty (30) days.
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(d)
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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.
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(e)
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If
the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with
respect to a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing 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. If the Borrower fails
to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Revolving
Borrowing by way of BAs or BA Equivalent Loans 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 a Prime Rate 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 the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is
continuing (i) no outstanding Revolving Borrowing may be converted to or
continued as either a Eurodollar Borrowing or BA Borrowing, (ii) unless
repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing
at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, and (iii) unless
repaid, each Borrowing by way of BAs or BA Equivalent Loans shall be
converted to a Prime Rate Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period
applicable thereto.
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SECTION
2.09
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Termination and
Reduction of Commitments.
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(a)
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Unless
previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity
Date.
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(b)
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The
Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the
Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments shall be
in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than
$5,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the
Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the
Loans in accordance with Section 2.11, the sum of the Revolving Credit
Exposures would exceed the total
Commitments.
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(c)
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The
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 the Borrower pursuant to this
Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the
Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is
conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which
case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the
Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such
condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the
Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the
Commitments shall be made rateably among the Lenders in accordance with
their respective Commitments.
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SECTION
2.10
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Repayment of Loans;
Evidence of Debt.
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(a)
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The
Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of
each Revolving Loan on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of
the termination of the Commitments, and (ii) to the Swingline Lender the
then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earliest of the
Maturity Date, the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is
the fifteenth or last day of a calendar month and is at least two Business
Days after such Swingline Loan is made and the date of the termination of
the Commitments; provided that on each date that a Revolving Borrowing is
made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then
outstanding.
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(b)
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Each
Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or
accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender
resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of
principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time
hereunder.
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(c)
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The
Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i)
the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the
Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or
interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the 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.
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(d)
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The
entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c)
of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts
of the obligations recorded therein; provided 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 obligation of the Borrower to
repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
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(e)
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Any
Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory
note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and
deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to the order of such
Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered
assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative
Agent. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note
and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment
pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes
in such form payable to the order of the payee named therein (or, if such
promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered
assigns).
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SECTION
2.11
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Prepayment of
Loans.
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(a)
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The
Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay
any Borrowing (other than Borrowings made by way of BAs, BA Equivalent
Loans or LIBOR ) in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in
accordance with paragraph (b) of this
Section.
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(b)
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The
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., Toronto,
Ontario time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in
the case of prepayment of an ABR Revolving Borrowing or a Prime Rate
Revolving Borrowing not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto, Ontario time, one
Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of
prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00 noon, Toronto,
Ontario time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall
be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal
amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that,
if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice
of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.09, then
such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is
revoked in accordance with Section 2.09. Promptly following
receipt of any such notice relating to a Revolving Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents
thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Revolving Borrowing
shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of
a Revolving Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section
2.02. Each prepayment of a Revolving Borrowing shall be applied
rateably to the Loans included in the prepaid
Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest
to the extent required by Section
2.13.
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42.
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SECTION
2.12
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Fees.
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(a)
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The
Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each
Lender a facility fee, which shall accrue at the sum of the Applicable
Rate plus the Usage Fee on the average daily amount of the Available
Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including
the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which such Commitment
terminates; provided, if such Lender continues to have any Revolving
Credit Exposure after its Commitment terminates, then such facility fee
shall continue to accrue on the daily amount of such Lender’s Revolving
Credit Exposure from and including the date on which its Commitment
terminates to but excluding the date on which such Lender ceases to have
any Revolving Credit Exposure. Accrued facility fees shall be
payable in arrears on the last Business Day of March, June, September and
December of each year and on the date on which the Commitments terminate,
commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof; provided
further that any facility fees accruing after the date on which the
Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. All facility
fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in
the case of a leap year) and shall be payable for the actual number of
days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last
day).
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(b)
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The
Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of
each Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in
Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate used to
determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Loans on the average
daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof
attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and
including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on
which such Lender’s Commitment terminates and the date on which such
Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank a
fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate of 0.125% 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 Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of
termination of the 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, payment, negotiation, renewal or extension of
any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings
thereunder. 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 Effective
Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which
the Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on
which the 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 participation fees and
fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366
days in the case of a leap year) and shall be payable for the actual
number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last
day).
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43.
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(c)
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The
Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account,
fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon
between the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent.
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(d)
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All
fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately
available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Bank, in
the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of facility
fees and participation fees, to the Finance Parties. Fees paid
shall not be refundable under any
circumstances.
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SECTION
2.13
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Interest.
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(a)
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The
Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each ABR Swingline Loan)
shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable
Rate.
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(b)
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The
Loans comprising each Prime Rate Borrowing (including each Prime Rate
Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Prime Rate plus the Applicable
Rate.
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(c)
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The
Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the
Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing
plus the Applicable Rate.
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(d)
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In
respect of each Bankers’ Acceptance, a stamping fee equal to the
Applicable Rate multiplied by the face amount of the Bankers’ Acceptance
with the product thereof further multiplied by the number of days to
maturity of the Bankers’ Acceptance and divided by 365, payable at the
time of acceptance (and for greater certainty, in addition to paying the
said stamping fee, the Borrower acknowledges that the proceeds it will
receive upon the issuance of such Bankers’ Acceptance will be less than
the face amount payable by it to the holder of such Bankers’ Acceptance on
the maturity thereof, as more particularly provided in Section
2.04);
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(e)
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In
respect of each BA Equivalent Note, a stamping fee equal to the Applicable
Rate multiplied by the face amount of the BA Equivalent Note with the
product thereof further multiplied by the number of days to maturity of
the BA Equivalent Note and divided by 365, payable at the time of
acceptance (and for greater certainty, in addition to paying the said
stamping fee, the Borrower acknowledges that the proceeds it will receive
upon the issuance of such BA Equivalent Note will be less than the face
amount payable by it to the holder of such BA Equivalent Note on the
maturity thereof, as more particularly provided in Section
2.04);
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44.
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(f)
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Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or
other amount payable by the 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, to the
fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, at a rate per annum equal to
(i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2% plus the rate
otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs
of this Section, (ii) in the case of any other amount payable in Canadian
dollars, 2% plus the rate applicable to Prime Rate Loans as provided in
paragraph (b) of this Section or (iii) in the case of any other amount, 2%
plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this
Section.
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(g)
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Accrued
interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment
Date for such Loan and upon termination of the Commitments; provided that
(i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (f) 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 or a Prime Rate
Revolving Loan prior to the end of the 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 Revolving 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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(h)
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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 at
times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the U.S. Base Rate and
interest computed by reference to the Prime 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, Prime Rate, CDOR Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate shall be
determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
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(i)
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For
purposes of disclosure pursuant to the Interest Act (Canada),
the annual rates of interest or fees to which the rates of interest or
fees provided in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (and stated
herein or therein, as applicable, to be computed on the basis of 360 days
or any other period of time less than a calendar year) are equivalent are
the rates so determined multiplied by the actual number of days in the
applicable calendar year and divided by 360 or such other period of time,
respectively.
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(j)
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If
any provision of this Agreement or of any of the other Loan Documents
would obligate any Loan Party to make any payment of interest or other
amount payable to the Lenders in an amount or calculated at a rate which
would be prohibited by law or would result in a receipt by the Finance
Parties of interest at a criminal rate (as such terms are construed under
the Criminal Code (Canada)) then, notwithstanding such provisions, such
amount or rate shall be deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive
effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as
would not be so prohibited by law or so result in a receipt by the Finance
Parties of interest at a criminal rate, such adjustment to be effected, to
the extent necessary, as follows: (1) firstly, by reducing the amount or
rate of interest required to be paid to the Finance Parties under this
Section 2.13, and (2) thereafter, by reducing any fees, commissions,
premiums and other amounts required to be paid to the Finance Parties
which would constitute “interest” for purposes of Section 347 of the Criminal Code
(Canada). Notwithstanding the foregoing, and after giving
effect to all adjustments contemplated thereby, if the Finance Parties
shall have received an amount in excess of the maximum permitted by that
section of the Criminal
Code (Canada), the Loan Parties shall be entitled, by notice in
writing to the Administrative Agent, to obtain reimbursement from the
Finance Parties in an amount equal to such excess and, pending such
reimbursement, such amount shall be deemed to be an amount payable by the
Finance Parties to the Borrowers. Any amount or rate of
interest referred to in this Section 2.13(j) shall be determined in
accordance with generally accepted actuarial practices and principles as
an effective annual rate of interest over the term that the applicable
Loan remains outstanding on the assumption that any charges, fees or
expenses that fall within the meaning of “interest” (as defined in the
Criminal Code
(Canada)) shall, if they relate to a specific period of time, be pro-rated
over that period of time and otherwise be pro-rated over the period from
the Effective Date to the Maturity Date and, in the event of a dispute, a
certificate of a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries appointed
by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive for the purposes of such
determination.
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45.
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SECTION
2.14
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Alternate Rate of
Interest.
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If the
Required Lenders determine that for any reason a market for Bankers’ Acceptances
does not exist at any time or the Lenders cannot for other reasons, after
reasonable efforts, readily sell Bankers’ Acceptances or perform their other
obligations under this Agreement with respect to Bankers’ Acceptances, the
Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each
Lender. Thereafter, the Borrower’s right to request the acceptance of
Bankers’ Acceptances shall be and remain suspended until the Required Lenders
determine and the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and each Lender
that the condition causing such determination no longer exists. If
the Required Lenders determine that for any reason adequate and reasonable means
do not exist for determining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any requested Interest
Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Loan, or that the Adjusted LIBO
Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar
Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding
such Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and
each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or
maintain Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent
(upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such
notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any
pending request for a borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurodollar Loans
or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request
for a borrowing of ABR Loans in the amount specified therein.
46.
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SECTION
2.15
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Increased
Costs.
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(a)
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If
any Change in Law shall:
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(i)
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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 or participated in by, any Lender or the Issuing Bank;
or
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(ii)
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subject
any Lender to any Tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this
Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit
or any Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to
such Lender in respect thereof, except for Indemnified Taxes or Other
Taxes covered by Section 2.18 and the imposition, or any change in the
rate, of any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender;
or
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(iii)
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impose
on any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other
condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Loans made by such
Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation
therein;
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and the
result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of
making or maintaining any 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 of maintaining
its obligation to participate in or to issue 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 upon request of
such Lender or the Issuing Bank the 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.
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(b)
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If
any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law affecting
such Lender or any lending office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding
company, if any, 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 the 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.
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(c)
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A
certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth 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 the Borrower and shall be conclusive
absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or
the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such
certificate within ten days after receipt
thereof.
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47.
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(d)
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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 the 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 270 days prior to the date that such Lender
or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the 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
therefore, unless the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or
reductions is retroactive, in which case the 270-day period referred to
above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect
thereof.
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SECTION
2.16
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Illegality.
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If any
Finance Party determines that any Applicable Law has made it unlawful, or that
any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Finance
Party or its applicable lending office to make or maintain any Loan (or to
maintain its obligation to make any Loan), or to participate in, issue or
maintain any Letter of Credit (or to maintain its obligation to participate in
or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to determine or charge interest rates
based upon any particular rate, then, on notice thereof by such Finance Party to
the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Finance
Party with respect to the activity that is unlawful shall be suspended until
such Finance Party notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the
circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon
receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Finance Party
(with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if conversion would avoid
the activity that is unlawful, convert any Loans, or take any necessary steps
with respect to any Letter of Credit in order to avoid the activity that is
unlawful. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall
also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted. Each
Finance Party agrees to designate a different lending office if such designation
will avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of
such Finance Party, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Finance
Party.
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SECTION
2.17
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Break Funding
Payments.
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The
Borrower shall have no right to prepay the amount of any Borrowing hereunder in
the form of a Bankers’ Acceptance, a BA Equivalent Loan or a Eurodollar
Loan. Subject to the foregoing, in the event of (a) the payment of
any principal of any Eurodollar Loan, BA Loan or BA Equivalent 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, BA Loan or
BA Equivalent Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar
Loan, BA Loan or BA Equivalent Loan on the date specified in any notice
delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked
under Section 2.11(b) and is revoked in accordance therewith), or (d) the
assignment of any Eurodollar Loan, BA Loan or BA Equivalent Loan other than on
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request
by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.20, then, in any such event, the Borrower
shall indemnify and compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense
attributable to such event and shall be obliged to comply with the provisions of
this Section. 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 LIBO 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. In the event of (a) the
payment of any Borrowing in the form of a Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent
Loan other than on the maturity date of such Bankers’ Acceptance or BA
Equivalent Loan (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the
conversion of any Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Loan other than on the
maturity date applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue
or prepay any Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Loan on the date specified in
any notice delivered pursuant hereto, or (d) the assignment of any Borrowing in
the form of a Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Loan other than on the
maturity date of such Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Loan as a result of a
request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.20, then, in any such event, the
Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent that amount equal to the face
amount of any and all outstanding Bankers’ Acceptances and the principal amount
of any and all outstanding BA Equivalent Loans (such payments to include,
without limitation, the amount or amounts required to pay (1) on maturity, the
undiscounted face amount of all outstanding Bankers’ Acceptances which the
Finance Parties are required to honour and (2) all unpaid stamping and
acceptance fees, if any, owed to the Finance Parties, such amounts (including
interest earned thereon) to be held by the Administrative Agent and to be
applied by the Administrative Agent to the Borrowers’ indebtedness in respect of
such Borrowings at the maturity or expiry date thereof. In the event
that the Borrower is required to reimburse the Administrative Agent or pay any
amount to the Administrative Agent on account of the indemnity contained in this
Section as a result of a request by the Borrower to prepay or repay the amount
of any Borrowing or otherwise, the Borrower shall be required to pay any and all
amounts owing to the Administrative Agent in accordance with this Section on
such terms and conditions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require. A
certificate of the Administrative Agent or any Lender setting forth any amount
or amounts that such Finance Party is entitled to receive pursuant to this
Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent
manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Finance Party the amount
shown as due on any such certificate within ten days after receipt
thereof.
48.
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SECTION
2.18
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Taxes.
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(a)
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If
the Borrower, any other Loan Party, the Administrative Agent, or any other
Finance Party is required by Applicable Law to deduct or pay any
Indemnified Taxes (including any Other Taxes) in respect of any payment by
or on account of any obligation of a Loan Party hereunder or under any
other Loan Document, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased by that
Loan Party when payable as necessary so that after making or allowing for
all required deductions and payments (including deductions and payments
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the
Administrative Agent or Finance Party, as the case may be, receives an
amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or
payments been required, (ii) the Loan Party shall make any such deductions
required to be made by it under Applicable Law and (iii) the Loan Party
shall timely pay the full amount required to be deducted to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable
Law.
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(b)
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Without
limiting the provisions of paragraph (a) above, the Borrower shall timely
pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance
with Applicable Law.
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(c)
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The
Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the
Issuing Bank, within ten days after written demand therefor, for the full
amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified
Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts
payable under this Section) 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 the Borrower
hereunder 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 amount
of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or the
Issuing Bank (in each case, with a copy to the Administrative Agent), 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.
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(d)
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As
soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes
by the Borrower or other Loan Party to a Governmental Authority, the
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 reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
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(e)
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Any
Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of
withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is
resident for tax purposes, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a
party, with respect to payments under this Agreement or under any other
Loan Document shall, at the request of the Borrower, deliver to the
Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times
prescribed by Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or
the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed
documentation prescribed by Applicable Law as will permit such payments to
be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In
addition, (a) any Lender, if requested by the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by
Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative
Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to withholding or
information reporting requirements, and (b) any Lender that ceases to be,
or to be deemed to be, resident in Canada for purposes of Part XIII of the
ITA or any successor provision thereto shall within five days thereof
notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in
writing.
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(f)
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If
the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion,
that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it
has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which a Loan Party
has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.18, or that,
because of the payment of such Taxes or Other Taxes, it has benefited from
a reduction in Excluded Taxes otherwise payable by it, it shall pay to the
Borrower or other Loan Party, as applicable, an amount equal to such
refund or reduction (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or
additional amounts paid, by the Borrower or Loan Party under this Section
2.18 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund
or reduction), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative
Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and without interest (other than
any net after-tax interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority
with respect to such refund). The Borrower or other Loan Party, as
applicable, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender,
agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower or other Loan Party
(plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant
Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender if the
Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund or
reduction to such Governmental Authority. This paragraph shall not be
construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make
available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes
which it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person, to
arrange its affairs in any particular manner or to claim any available
refund or reduction.
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50.
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SECTION
2.19
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Payments Generally;
Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of
Set-offs.
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(a)
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The
Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder
(whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC
Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.15, Section 2.17 or
Section 2.18, or otherwise) prior to 12:00 noon, Toronto, Ontario time, on
the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off 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 Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Royal
Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X0X 0X0, except
payments to be made directly to the Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender as
expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Section
2.15, Section 2.17, Section 2.18, and Section 9.03 shall be made directly
to the Persons entitled thereto. 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. For greater certainty, stamping fees in respect of
Bankers’ Acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes shall be received and
retained by the respective Lenders which issued or accepted such Bankers’
Acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes. If any payment hereunder shall be due
on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be
extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any
payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the
period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made
in dollars.
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(b)
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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, rateably 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, rateably among the parties entitled thereto in
accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements
then due to such parties.
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51.
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(c)
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If
any Lender, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or
otherwise, obtains any payment or other reduction that might result in
such Lender receiving payment or other reduction of a proportion of the
aggregate amount of its Revolving Loans and participations in LC
Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon greater
than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein, then the lender
receiving such payment or other reduction shall (a) notify the
Administration Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face
value) participations in the Revolving Loans and participations in LC
Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders or make such other
adjustments as shall be equitable so that the benefit of all such payments
shall be shared by the Lenders rateably in accordance with the aggregate
amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Revolving
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, (ii) the provisions of this
Section shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by any Loan
Party 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 the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which
the provisions of this Section shall apply) and (iii) the provisions of
this Section shall not be construed to apply to (w) any payment made while
no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing in respect of
obligations of the Borrower to such Lender that do not arise under or in
connection with the Loan Documents, (x) any payment made in respect of an
obligation that is secured by a Permitted Lien or that is otherwise
entitled to priority over the Borrower’s obligations under or in
connection with the Loan Documents, (y) any reduction arising from an
amount owing to a Loan Party upon the termination of derivatives entered
into between such Loan Party and such Lender, or (z) any payment to which
such Lender is entitled as a result of any form of credit protection
obtained by such Lender. The 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 the Borrower rights of set-off and
counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender
were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such
participation.
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(d)
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Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the 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 the
Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume
that the 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 the 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 a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in
accordance with prevailing banking industry practice on interbank
compensation.
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52.
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(e)
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If
any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it
pursuant to Section 2.05(c), Section 2.06(d), Section 2.06(e), Section
2.07(b), Section 2.19(d), or Section 9.03(c), then the Administrative
Agent may, in its discretion and notwithstanding any contrary provision
hereof, (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative
Agent for the account of such Lender and for the benefit of the
Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank to satisfy
such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied
obligations are fully paid, and/or (ii) hold any such amounts in a
segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future
funding obligations of such Lender under such Sections; in the case of
each of (i) and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the
Administrative Agent in its
discretion.
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SECTION
2.20
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Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of
Lenders.
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(a)
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If
any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or requires the
Borrower to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.18, 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 judgment of such Lender, such designation or
assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to
Section 2.15 or Section 2.18, as the case may be, in the future and (ii)
would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and
would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The
Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred
by any Lender in connection with any such designation or
assignment.
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(b)
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If
any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrower is
required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.18, or if
any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the 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
9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to
an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be
another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i)
the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the
Administrative Agent (and if a Commitment is being assigned, the Issuing
Bank), 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 and all other
amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such
outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the 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 2.15 or
payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.18, such assignment
will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. 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 the Borrower to require such assignment
and delegation cease to apply.
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53.
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SECTION
2.21
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Returned
Payments.
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If, after
receipt of any payment which is applied to the payment of all or any part of the
Obligations, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender is for any
reason compelled to surrender such payment or proceeds to any Person because
such payment or application of proceeds is invalidated, declared fraudulent, set
aside, determined to be void or voidable as a preference, impermissible setoff,
or a diversion of trust funds, or for any other reason, then the Obligations or
part thereof intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued and this
Agreement shall continue in full force as if such payment or proceeds had not
been received by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or such
Lender. The provisions of this Section 2.21 shall be and remain
effective notwithstanding any contrary action which may have been taken by the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in reliance upon such
payment or application of proceeds. The provisions of this Section
2.21 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
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SECTION
2.22
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Defaulting
Lenders.
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Notwithstanding
any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a
Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such
Lender is a Defaulting Lender:
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(a)
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fees
shall cease to accrue on the Available Revolving Commitment of such
Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section
2.12(a);
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(b)
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the
Commitment and Revolving Credit Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall
not be included in determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders
have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any
amendment or waiver pursuant to Section 9.02); provided that any waiver,
amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each
affected Lender which affects such Defaulting Lender differently than
other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting
Lender;
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(c)
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if
any Swingline Exposure or LC Exposure exists at the time a Lender becomes
a Defaulting Lender then: (i) all or any part of such Swingline Exposure
and LC Exposure shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders in
accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages but only to the
extent (x) the sum of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Revolving Credit
Exposures plus, without duplication, such Defaulting Lender’s Swingline
Exposure and LC Exposure, does not exceed the total of all non-Defaulting
Lenders’ Commitments and (y) the conditions set forth in Section 2.01 are
satisfied at such time; (ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i)
above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall
within one Business Day following notice by the Administrative Agent (x)
first, prepay such Swingline Exposure and (y) second, cash collateralize
such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure (after giving effect to any partial
reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in accordance with the
procedures set forth in Section 2.06(j) for so long as such LC Exposure is
outstanding; (iii) if the Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such
Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure pursuant to this Section 2.22(c), no
Borrower shall be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender
pursuant to Section 2.12(b) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC
Exposure during the period such Specified Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure
is cash collateralized; (iv) if the LC Exposure of the non-Defaulting
Lenders is reallocated pursuant to this Section 2.22(c)), then the fees
payable to the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.12(a) and Section 2.12(b)
shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders’
Applicable Percentages; (v) if any Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is
neither cash collateralized nor reallocated pursuant to this Section
2.22(c), then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing
Bank or any Lender hereunder, all facility fees that otherwise would have
been payable to such Defaulting Lender (solely with respect to the portion
of such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment that was utilized by such LC
Exposure) and letter of credit fees payable under Section 2.12(b) with
respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure shall be payable to the
Issuing Bank until such LC Exposure is cash collateralized and/or
reallocated; and (vi) the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
Lenders of any reallocation described in this Section 2.22(c);
and
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54.
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(d)
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so
long as any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Lender shall not
be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the Issuing Bank shall not be
required to issue, extend the expiry date of or increase the amount of any
Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure will be
100% covered by the Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash
collateral will be provided by the Borrowers in accordance with Section
2.22(c), and participating interests in any such newly issued or increased
Letter of Credit or newly made Swingline Loan shall be allocated among
non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.22(c) (i)
(and Defaulting Lenders shall not participate therein);
and
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(e)
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In
the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Issuing Bank
and the Swingline Lender each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has
adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting
Lender, then the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of the Lenders shall
be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Commitments and on
such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Loans of the other
Lenders (other than Swingline Loans) as the Administrative Agent shall
determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans in
accordance with its Applicable
Percentage.
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SECTION
2.23
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Expansion
Option.
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The
Borrower may from time to time elect to request that the Commitments be
increased in a minimum amount of $10,000,000 (unless otherwise agreed by the
Administrative Agent) so long as, after giving effect thereto and taking into
account any prior increase or increases to the Commitments effected pursuant to
this Section 2.23, the Commitments do not exceed $550,000,000. The
Borrower may arrange for any such increase to be provided by one or more Lenders
(each Lender so agreeing to an increase in its Commitment, an “Increasing Lender”),
or by one or more new banks, financial institutions or other entities acceptable
to the Administrative Agent (each such new bank, financial institution or other
entity, an “Augmenting
Lender”), to increase their existing Revolving Commitments, or extend new
Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, provided that (i) each Augmenting
Lender shall be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, (ii) (x) in
the case of an Increasing Lender, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and
such Increasing Lender shall execute an agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit D
hereto, and (y) in the case of an Augmenting Lender, the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and such Augmenting Lender shall execute an agreement
substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto, and
(iii) any Lender approached to so increase its Commitment may elect or decline,
in its sole discretion, to provide any such increase. Increases in Commitments
and new Commitments created pursuant to this Section 2.23 shall become effective
on the date agreed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the relevant
Increasing Lenders or Augmenting Lenders. The Administrative Agent
shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of the effective date of any increase
in the Commitments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no increase in the
Commitments (or in the Commitment of any Lender), shall become effective under
this paragraph unless, (i) on the proposed date of the effectiveness of such
increase, the conditions set forth in each paragraph of Section 4.02 shall be
satisfied or waived by the Required Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall
have received a certificate to that effect dated such date and executed by a
Financial Officer of the Borrower, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall have
received documents consistent with those delivered on the Effective Date as to
the corporate power and authority of the Borrower to borrow hereunder after
giving effect to such increase and (iii) the Administrative Agent shall have
received written opinions addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
and dated the effective date of such increase of counsel to the Loan Parties in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent. On the effective date of any increase in the Commitments, (i)
each relevant Increasing Lender and Augmenting Lender shall make available to
the Administrative Agent such amounts in immediately available funds as the
Administrative Agent shall determine, for the benefit of the other Lenders, as
being required in order to cause, after giving effect to such increase and the
use of such amounts to make payments to such other Lenders, each Lender’s
Applicable Percentage of each Class of outstanding Loans is equivalent to such
Lender’s Applicable Percentage the Commitments and (ii) the Borrower shall be
deemed to have repaid and reborrowed all outstanding Revolving Loans as of the
date of any increase in the Commitments (with such reborrowing to consist of the
Types of Revolving Loans, with related Interest Periods if applicable, specified
in a notice delivered by the Borrower in accordance with the requirements of
Section 2.03). The deemed payments made pursuant to clause (ii) of
the immediately preceding sentence shall be accompanied by payment of all
accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, in respect of each Eurodollar Loan,
BA Loan and BA Equivalent Loan, shall be subject to indemnification by the
Borrower pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.17 if the deemed payment occurs
other than on the last day of the related Interest Periods.
55.
ARTICLE
III
Representations and
Warranties
The
Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that:
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SECTION
3.01
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Organization;
Powers.
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Each of
the Loan Parties is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and
authority to carry on its business as now conducted and, except where the
failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in,
and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is
required.
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SECTION
3.02
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Authorization;
Enforceability.
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(a)
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The
Transactions are within the corporate powers of each of the Loan Parties
and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate and, if required,
stockholder action. Each of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents to which it is a party has been duly executed and delivered by
each Loan Party and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of
each Loan Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general
principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law.
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56.
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(b)
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The
choice of governing law provisions contained in this Agreement and each
other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is a party are enforceable in
the jurisdictions where such Loan Party is organized or incorporated or
any Collateral of such Loan Party is located. Any judgment
obtained in connection with any Loan Document in the jurisdiction of the
governing law of such Loan Document will be recognized and be enforceable
in the jurisdictions where such Loan Party is organized or any Collateral
is located.
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(c)
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The
Loan Documents to which each Loan Party is a party are in proper legal
form under the laws of the jurisdiction in which each such Loan Party is
organized or incorporated and existing (i) for the enforcement thereof
against each such Loan Party under the laws of each such jurisdiction and
(ii) in order to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority
or admissibility in evidence of such Loan Documents. It is not
necessary to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority or
admissibility in evidence of the Loan Documents to which any Loan Party is
a party that any such Loan Documents be filed, registered or recorded
with, or executed or notarized before, any court or other authority in the
jurisdiction in which any such Loan Party is organized or that any
registration charge or stamp or similar tax be paid on or in respect of
the applicable Loan Documents or any other document, except (i) for any
such filing, registration, recording, execution or notarization that is
referred to in Section 3.18 or is not required to be made until
enforcement of the applicable Loan Document or (ii) to the extent the
foregoing have been made or paid.
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SECTION
3.03
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Governmental
Approvals; No Conflicts.
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The
Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or
filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as
have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (b) will not
violate any Applicable Law or regulation or the articles, by-laws or other
organizational documents of the Borrower or any other Loan Party or any order of
any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under
any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any
other Loan Party or any of their respective assets, or give rise to a right
thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or any other Loan
Party, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any
asset of the Borrower or any other Loan Party (except for Liens created pursuant
to the Loan Documents).
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SECTION
3.04
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Financial Condition;
No Material Adverse Change.
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(a)
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The
Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance
sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows as of
and for the fiscal year ended 2008, reported on by Ernst & Young LLP,
independent public accountants, certified by its chief financial
officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all
material respects, the financial position and results of operations and
cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such
dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end
audit adjustments.
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57.
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(b)
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Since
December 31, 2008, there has been no material adverse change in (i) the
business, assets, operations, prospects or financial condition of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) the ability of the
Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or (iii) the rights of or benefits available to the Lenders under
this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
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SECTION
3.05
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Properties.
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(a)
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Each
of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties has good title to, or valid
leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to its
business, except for minor defects in title that do not interfere with its
ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such
properties for their intended
purposes.
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(b)
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Each
of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties owns, or is licensed to use,
all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other Intellectual
Property material to its business, and the use thereof by the Borrower and
the other Loan Parties does not infringe upon the rights of any other
Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the
aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
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(c)
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No
Loan Party owns any freehold interest in any real estate other than the
parcels which are described by their municipal addresses in Schedule
3.05.
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(d)
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No
Loan Party owns any leasehold interest in any real estate other than the
parcels which are described by their municipal addresses in Schedule
3.05.
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(e)
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Each
of the locations at which any Loan Party keeps any Collateral which is
tangible personal property with an aggregate value of greater than
$25,000,000 is set forth in Schedule
3.05. The location of each Loan Party (for the purposes of Section
7(3) of the Personal
Property Security Act (Ontario)) is set forth in Schedule
3.05.
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SECTION
3.06
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Litigation and
Environmental Matters.
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(a)
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There
are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or
Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the
Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an
adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably
be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material
Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters) or (ii) that involve
this Agreement or the Transactions.
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(b)
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Except
for the Disclosed Matters and except with respect to any other matters
that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrower nor any of
its Subsidiaries (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to
obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval
required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any
Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with
respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any
Environmental Liability.
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(c)
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All
facilities and property (including underlying groundwater) owned, leased,
used or operated by the Loan Parties have been, and continue to be, owned,
leased, used or operated by the Loan Parties in compliance with all
Environmental Laws in effect at the time and from time to time of such
ownership, leasing or usage, except where failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(d)
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There
are no pending or threatened (in
writing):
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(i)
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claims,
complaints, notices or requests for information received by Loan Parties
(or any one or more of them) with respect to any alleged violation of any
Environmental Law, except such as could not reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect, or
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(ii)
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complaints,
notices or inquiries to the Loan Parties (or any one or more of them)
regarding potential liability under any Environmental Law which liability
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect;
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(e)
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There
has been no escape, seepage, leakage, spillage, discharge, emission or
release of Hazardous Materials at, on, under or from any property now or
previously owned, leased, used or operated by the Loan Parties (or any one
or more of them) that, singly or in the aggregate, have, or could
reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(f)
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Each
of the Loan Parties has been issued and is in compliance with all
Environmental Permits, except where failure to do so could not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(g)
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No
conditions exist at, on or under any property now or previously owned,
leased, used or operated by the Loan Parties (or any one or more of them)
which, with the passage of time, or the giving of notice or both, would
give rise to liability under any Environmental Law in effect at the time,
which liability could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(h)
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No
Loan Party has within the immediately preceding three (3) years been
convicted of an offence for non-compliance with any Environmental Laws,
Environmental Permits or Environmental Orders or been fined or otherwise
sentenced or settled such prosecution short of
conviction.
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(i)
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Each
of the Loan Parties has in effect a management structure that permit it to
effectively manage environmental risk and respond in a timely manner in
compliance with the Environmental Laws, Environmental Orders and
Environmental Permits in the event of release of Hazardous Materials in,
on or under their property.
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(j)
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Since
the date of this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the
Disclosed Matters that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in,
or materially increased the likelihood of, a Material Adverse
Effect.
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SECTION
3.07
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Compliance with Laws
and Agreements.
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Each of
the Borrower and the other Loan Parties is in compliance with all laws,
regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its
property including Requirements of Health Care Law and all indentures,
agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except where
the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Default has
occurred and is continuing.
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SECTION
3.08
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Investment Company
Status.
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Neither
the Borrower nor any other Loan Party is an “investment company” as defined in,
or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of
1940.
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SECTION
3.09
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Taxes.
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Each of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax
returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid, reserved for or
caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (a) Taxes
that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which
the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books
adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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SECTION
3.10
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ERISA.
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No ERISA
Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together
with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to
occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations
under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most
recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than
$10,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of such Plan, and the present
value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on
the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements
reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $10,000,000 the fair market value
of the assets of all such underfunded Plans.
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SECTION
3.11
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Withholdings.
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The
Borrower and its Subsidiaries has withheld all employee withholdings and has
made all employer contributions to be withheld and made by it pursuant to
Applicable Law on account of Canadian Benefit Plans, Canadian Pension Plans,
employment insurance and employee income taxes, except for any such withholdings
and contributions in an aggregate amount less than $5,000,000.
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SECTION
3.12
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Canadian Pension Plan
and Benefit Plans.
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Schedule 3.12 lists
all Canadian Benefit Plans and Canadian Pension Plans currently maintained or
contributed or required to be contributed to by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries. No Canadian Pension Plan is a pension plan as that term
is defined in the Pension
Benefits Act (Ontario), provides defined benefit entitlements to its
beneficiaries, is unfunded, or funded through a letter of credit or similar
instrument. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have complied with and
performed all of their material obligations under and in respect of the Canadian
Benefit Plans and Canadian Pension Plans under the terms thereof, any funding
agreements and all Applicable Law (including any fiduciary, funding, investment
and administration obligations). All material employer and employee
payments, contributions or premiums to be remitted, paid to or in respect of
each Canadian Benefit Plan and Canadian Pension Plan have been paid in a timely
fashion in accordance with the terms thereof, any funding agreement and all
Applicable Law. There have been no material improper withdrawals or
applications of the assets of the Canadian Benefit Plans or Canadian Pension
Plans. No promises of benefit improvements under the Canadian Benefit
Plans or Canadian Pension Plans have been made except where such improvement
could not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. All material reports and disclosures relating to the Canadian
Pension Plans required by such plans and any Requirement of Law to be filed or
distributed have been filed or distributed. There has been no partial
termination of any Canadian Pension Plan and no facts or circumstances have
occurred or existed that could result or be reasonably anticipated to result in
the declaration of a partial termination of any Canadian Pension Plan under
Requirements of Law which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12, (a)
there are no outstanding disputes concerning the assets of the Canadian Benefit
Plans and Canadian Pension Plans and (b) all Canadian Benefit Plans
are fully insured.
60.
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SECTION
3.13
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Disclosure.
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The
Borrower has disclosed to the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate
or other restrictions to which it or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and all
other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. Neither the Information Memorandum nor any of the other
reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or
on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in
connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder (as
modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any
material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial
information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in
good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the
time.
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SECTION
3.14
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Material
Agreements.
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All
material agreements and contracts including Material Contracts to which the
Borrower and the other Loan Parties is a party or is bound as of the date of
this Agreement are listed on Schedule
3.14. Except as could not reasonably be expected to result in
a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party is in
default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations,
covenants or conditions contained in any material agreement to which it is a
party. To the extent requested by the Administrative Agent or any
Lender, all consents necessary to the granting of a security interest in the
Material Contracts and to the assignment of the Material Contracts upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default have been obtained. No Contracts have been
entered into by the Borrower or any other Loan Party (except Material Contracts
which are already covered by the immediately preceding sentence) which prohibit
in accordance with their respective terms the creation of a security interest in
the subject Contract, to the extent such Contract would, if terminated, either
on its own or together with all other such Contracts of the Borrower and the
other Loan Parties, result in the occurrence of a Material Adverse
Effect.
61.
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SECTION
3.15
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Solvency.
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